A Year Of Vibes | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/22/a-year-of-vibes/
A personal recap of 2025 and a year of a new style of engineering.
How I use AI agents to write code
https://nolanlawson.com/2025/12/22/how-i-use-ai-agents-to-write-code/
Yes, this is the umpteenth article about AI and coding that you've seen this year. Welcome to 2025. Some people really find LLMs distasteful, and if that's you, then I would recommend that you skip this post. I've heard all the arguments, and I'm not convinced anymore. I used to be a fairly hard-line anti-AI…
Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems | Lobsters
https://lobste.rs/s/ammoxm/yep_passkeys_still_have_problems
132 comments
good discussion of the state of passkeys as of 2025-12
PWA install experience is top-notch (on desktop) | grooovinger
https://grooovinger.com/notes/pwa-install-experience-is-top-notch
…when using Chromium-browsers…on Mac OS.
Also on Brave - it's really pretty good and I could / should distribute apps likes this (Fizzy / Basecamp advertising this feature so it's growing)
Litestream VFS · The Fly Blog
https://fly.io/blog/litestream-vfs/
Query your SQLite database any time, anywhere
Read Something Wonderful - Finite and Infinite Games
https://readsomethingwonderful.com/
Great source of interesting things to read.
I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/#atom-entries
I wrote about JustHTML yesterday—Emil Stenström’s project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testing library. Last …
JustHTML is a fascinating example of vibe engineering in action
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/justhtml/
I recently came across JustHTML, a new Python library for parsing HTML released by Emil Stenström. It’s a very interesting piece of software, both as a useful library and as …
A11y bookmarklets | A11y Tools
https://a11y-tools.com/bookmarklets/#one-click-decrapulator
Useful tools bookarklets for cleaning up / understanding html
HTML De-crapulator
https://a11y-tools.com/markup-de-crapulator/
useful for cleaning up html to understand it more easily e.g. if it has a lot of markup like tailwind in it
Patterns.dev
https://www.patterns.dev/
Learn JavaScript design and performance patterns for building more powerful web applications.
Web Platform Status
https://webstatus.dev/?q=baseline_date%3A2025-01-01..2025-12-31
Features and availability in browsers by date range
Baseline timeline - CSS calendar
https://rviscomi.github.io/timebase/
Timeline of web features and browser support
‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’ | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/09/food-fossil-fuel-production-5bn-environmental-damage-an-hour-un-geo-report-
UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
🧶✏️👩🏽💻 The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)
https://newpublic.substack.com/p/the-handmade-internet-is-making-a
The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites
Discovering the indieweb with calm tech
https://alexsci.com/blog/calm-tech-discover/
Blog Quest and StreetPass help you discover the independent web
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot