Josh Collinsworth

@collinsworth.dev

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Designer/frontend dev; writer; maker of https://quina.app and https://playhondo.com; CSS enthusiast; notorious React critic; dad (jokes|bod)?; Nintendo fan; musician; progressive. Opinions my own (if that). Currently @ Deno. https://joshcollinsworth.com

Do we throw away our children’s scribbles because they suck? No, we post them on the fridge proudly, because that’s their shitty drawing, that’s their attempt at expressing themselves in this tumultuous world. These cringeworthy words are my cringeworthy words. Your awkward electronic music in Garageband is yours. The quality is not the point. The effort is the point. The effort to achieve some level of quality, some level of resonance in someone else’s heart and mind — that is what’s so embarrassingly, wonderfully, woefully human. In our limited time alive, we’re all just fallible, feeling beings, reaching out into the void to put our palm print on the cave wall, in hopes that some one else will see it. And isn’t that the real point of it all?
A fully rounded button with the text "GitHub" and the GitHub logo inside. Behind it is a lighting effect, created by a glowing div behind the button. The div is *supposed* to match the shape of the button, but instead, you see the corners rendered behind the button, jutting out awkwardly from the button's curves as though the whole element's box is selected and highlighted.
7. The most experienced people in your organization are being buried. We call it the senior engineer tax. AI-generated code presents a specific and under-appreciated challenge for reviewers. It is often superficially convincing: idiomatic, well-named, stylistically consistent with the surrounding codebase. It looks like code written by someone who knows what they are doing. The structural and logical failures, when they exist, are beneath the surface. Catching them requires a reviewer to read carefully, reason about intent, and reconstruct the problem the code was meant to solve, rather than scanning for obvious errors. That is slow, expensive cognitive work, and the data reflects it. Median time to first PR review is up 156.6%. Average time spent in code review is up 199.6%. Median time in review is up 441.5%. The engineers with the deepest knowledge of the system are spending their most valuable hours unraveling plausible-looking code that should never have reached them in the state it did.
AI summary: while both are globally iconic forces capable of belting out a legendary roar, Idina Menzel and the Loch Ness Monster are definitively different entities.
I asked Gemini how many J's are in Joshua. It confidently replied: There are 2 J's in the name Joshua (one uppercase "J" and one lowercase "j").J - o - s - j - u - a
The exact question and response from before with no further elaboration or content; just a mostly blank screen with a prompt at the bottom to "ask anything."
A Google search, asking "how many R's are in the word 'cookie'?" The response is: "There is exactly 1 'r' in the word 'cookie' (c-o-o-k-i-e)". (The "k" in the hyphenated spelling is in bold.)
A good architect’s most important skill isn’t designing systems. It’s knowing which systems not to build. It’s pushing back on complexity. It’s asking “why?” five times until the actual requirement emerges from the aspirational nonsense. It’s telling the CTO that their conference-inspired idea is a terrible fit for the team they actually have. Claude will never do this. It’s trained to be helpful. Helpful means agreeable. Agreeable means you get an attaboy and a Jenga tower that passes for architecture.
The unsubscribe page for Audeze. It's an extremely simple black and white page, with the logo at the top, and a brief confirmation text—all dwarfed by the *enormous* unsubscribe button, which is nearly 2,000 pixels wide.
The famous Normal Rockwell "speech" painting, where a man who resembles Abraham Lincoln appears standing in a gathering of people and delivering an unknown important message.
I'm not familiar with the type of thing I'm seeing
Two nearly identical rectangles with thin light gray borders on a white background, both part of a form. The first, slightly wider and left-aligned, says "$57.00"; the, not as wide and center-aligned, says "56.00"
Does anybody else pack underwear for a trip like they're planning on shitting themselves twice for every day they're gone?
A NY Times notification: "Why go back to the moon? For the attorneys of NASA's Artemis II mission scheduled to launch Wednesday, the answer is simple."
The original image of a very unhappy looking sick insect, framed in a 2000s era motivational poster design. The caption on the motivational poster says "stick with it!"
The game over screen, showing the previous high score and the seed ZLKXP63M
Playing a hand in Balatro against the ante 15 small blind. My entire hand is kings, with various enhancements. For jokers, I have two Triboulets, with Blueprint and Brainstorm each copying one, along with Socks & Buskin and Hanging Chad. All together, every played king gives 2x mult 8–16 times. I play a five of a kind hand with kings. Because I also have the Observatory voucher and two Planet X cards in my inventory, at the end an additional 1.5x is added twice, resulting in a total hand value of 2.041e22, or about 20 sextillion.
My top 9 games, in no particular order: Balatro, Hollow Knight, Hades, Mario Odyssey, Celeste, Super Metroid, Braid, Bioshock, and Bastion.
The bottom line selected, but the selection box appears to be lower than the text
The box art for a game called Colony Wars, unfortunately cropped to cut off the last letter of each word, making it instead appear to say "Colon War"
A post on Bluesky by 404 Media headlined "With Ring, American consumers built a surveillance dragnet." Immediately below is the Effin' Birds post saying "Well, that was a fucking waste of resources."
A Bluesky post by @picklebee.bsky.social, saying "JK Rowling's team invited Jeffrey Epstein to the deathly hallows play into a Harry Potter dinner," with justice.gov links to the corresponding communications. A reply by another user responds "In 2018. Long after plausible deniability was possible." A third user adds "Yep. He had to have known she was an unrepentant transphobe by then."
"introducing Gemini for Home" pop-up, offering only two options: Not now, or Get started.
A popup in Gmail, with the heading "Draft emails confidently with Gemini." There's a little more info, and then two options: "Continue" and "Try it now"
A breaking news alert from the NY Times, saying that Donald Trump admitted to Norway's Prime Minister that "one reason he's pushing to acquire Greenland is because he didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize."
The mustached Onion cartoon artist, Stan Kelly, who regularly appears to offer commentary on his own drawings
The Shield of the Trinity diagram, which traditionally shows the three identities of God and how they interrelate. (None of the three is the other, but all of the three are God.) However, in this reimagining, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have been replaced by the KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut logos, respectively, with an image of a Kentaco Hut building in the middle. So KFC is not Taco Bell or Pizza Hut, but each of them is Kentaco Hut.
My Nintendo Year in Review. My most played games in order: Balatro; Zelda: Breath of the Wild Switch 2 Edition; and Silksong.
Sometimes, to raise our children we have to bury our fathers multiple times. And here I will finally begin to answer your question: How do you lovingly care for an aging parent who treated you like shit? And look, I’ll be straight up and tell you that I had no idea where this was going when I started, but it revealed itself. You loving care for an aging parent by protecting his grandchildren from his sins. You lovingly care for an aging parent by making sure that the way they treated you stops with you. You lovingly care for an aging parent by learning how to love others, and by letting them love you. You lovingly care for an aging parent by digging multiple graves, the first one for their sins, and the second one for their body. As my therapist likes to remind me, my father hurt me because most likely someone hurt him. And while that doesn’t make it ok, it does contain the key on how to stop a cycle that doubtlessly has been running full steam in my family for generations.
The current state of the Christmas tree in my living room. It has been put up, but abandoned in the earliest steps of decoration, with a single ornament hanging from one branch, and a string of lights haphazardly looped around the very top of the tree once or twice and then left to dangle off the side, with the rest of the tree completely bare.
The cover of the children's potty training book "Toilet Time for Boys"
It's cool how the govt told us raising the minimum wage would make a burger be $20 and now a burger is $20. but min wage is the same
The first post in this thread, by Ana Rodrigues, followed by the "view full thread" link, obscuring the conversation, up until Jo Franchetti's post mentioning white power (via inadvertent typo)
The icons for Figma (an F icon), Affinity (A), RightFont (R), and TypeScript (TS).
A Google search result, for the term "WP Engine layoffs." The AI overview begins, "WP Engine had not announced recent layoffs, but its parent company, Automattic..."
The Aksarben/Elmwood Park area of Omaha shown on a map, as described; the shape of the neighborhood mimics the shape of the state of Nebraska, flipped upside-down.
A white garage door with an 8×4 grid of decorative rectangles engraved in the front. One rectangle in each row is painted in, using a bluish color, skipping columns in an ascending pattern, so that a total of four of the rectangles are painted in, diagonally from bottom left to top right, skipping every other column. Crucially, this creates an uneven distribution, as there would need to be an odd number of columns for this pattern to fit in correctly. So instead, the far left column is just oddly empty, as the pattern lopsidedly covers the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth columns.
A compatibility table from CanIUse.com, showing the CSS property "animation-timeline: view()." Highlighted are the Safari and Safari on iOS compatibility tables, which abruptly jump from 18.6 to 26.0, making it look like there's a huge unaccounted-for gap of seven versions.
Screenshot showing a CSS rule targeting the h1 element. It sets the font-size property to a value of 4rem, which Safari flags using the yellow warning icon, saying "Unsupported property value"
A heading with a lengthy CSS selector seems to be causing overflow, making some of the background dark and the rest white
Photo taken from my car, of the back of a silver Toyota SUV in front of me in traffic. In stickers of individual letters that resemble Wheel of Fortune tiles, the message "Jesus My Boss" is spelled out on the back windshield.
Google AI Overview, quoted as follows: For maximum nesting depth, Google's PageSpeed Insights (via Lighthouse) recommends keeping the DOM tree's maximum depth at 32 nodes or fewer. Exceeding this limit can cause performance issues by slowing down page rendering, increasing memory usage, and degrading user experience. The DOM (Document Object Model) is a tree-like representation of your web page's HTML structure. Excessive nesting increases the complexity of this tree, forcing the browser to work harder and longer to compute the layout and style of nodes.
A massive nested tree of div and span elements, around 40 in all, along with occasional other style tags and SVGs. The entire nested structure exists, apparently just for the text from the image above.
Another aborted AI Overview search result, simply saying "To hide the native controls of an HTML5 `", with no content following; only a large, empty space.
A Google search: "should html video element have alt?" The AI Overview answer appears to be botched somehow, reading simply "The HTML `", followed by a large empty space with nothing in it.
Screenshot of a CSS selector. The code is as follows: [aria-disabled="true" i], [disabled] { cursor: not-allowed; }
A vertical column with two links: "Open and account" and "Customize accounts." Each link is left-aligned with the "Accounts" heading above, and other UI elements below. However, when you hover over one of the links, the content shifts to the right, and a rounded button background appears by quickly growing out of the middle of the button area. So in effect, the text link morphs into a rounded button on hover.
The "SILENCE" meme, featuring a robed figure with a raised hand, in this case saying "SILENCE, data-driven decision maker, a vibes guy is talking"
Comparison of a page loading before and after adding one GoFundMe widget to the page. The number of requests goes from 12 to 64; transferred data goes from around 0.5 MB to 2.1MB; resources goes from 642kb to 5.8MB; and the finish time goes from 0.18 seconds to 1.14 seconds.
The official Bun account, posting on X. The post is an obviously AI-generated image in the style of a wartime propaganda poster. A large Bun mascot flies in the air holding an American flag (with the wrong number of both stars and stripes, but still obviously the US flag), as three small soldier buns holding rifles charge forward, their faces looking slightly shocked or surprised for uncertain reasons. Above, in the sky, are what seem to be intended to be bomber plane buns. The poster is captioned "DOWNLOAD BUN TODAY" (oddly in two fonts).
A form asking "When was your child's last dental exam?" followed by an empty text field for a date. After the empty date field is a note saying, "If your child has not had a dental exam, please enter 01/01/1900."
The "Get in, loser, we're going shopping" meme from Mean Girls, but it says "Get in, loser, we're going losing"
Screenshot of a GitHub diff line count, showing 70,944 lines added, in blue, and 27,340 lines removed, in red.
Meme: the Fox News chyron showing "Zohran Mamdani's socialist promises," with the text altered to say "prosecute people who play audio on their devices in public"
An email from Google, with the heading: "We’ve made it easier for Gemini to interact with your device" The body continues: "We’re updating how Gemini interacts with some of the apps on your Android device. Gemini will soon be able to help you use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off."
Doctor Manhattan, from Watchmen, on the surface of another planet. In the first panel, he says, "It is 1990. A republican president is starting a war in the middle east." In the second panel, he says, "It is 2003. A republican president is starting a war in the middle east." And in the third panel, he says, "It is 2025. A republican president is starting a war in the middle east."