SlopStop is Kagi’s community-driven feature for reporting low-quality, mass‑generated AI content (“AI slop”) found in web, image and video search results.

I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla

Hot take: the killer feature of htmx which transforms it from a nice lil’ opinionated DSL for HTML-based reactivity to a powerhouse full-stack framework with which you can build ambitious, even experimental application architectures is this: Extensions.

“I think there’s a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit. It’s basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world’s first trillionaires. I think they’re selling a bag of vapour,”’ said Vince Gilligan

This sort of flew right by me, but I’m very excited about this release of htmx because it adds support for parsing Declarative Shadow DOM. Now you can server-render web components & layouts in their full glory and use them in your pages and fragments! 🥳

Somebody shared this image on Bluesky (I'd link to their post but it's not available to public access).

In the continuing saga of us wanting the best web components DX ever without going all-in on a “prebundled” base class, here’s another exciting development!

As you know, here at That HTML Blog we're all about layering on lightweight and “vanilla-adjacent” tools to projects after you've fully outgrown native web APIs (and got sick of writing a ton of boilerplate 😏).

This is putting a BIG smile on my face today. 🤣

The same tired, clichéd arguments keep coming up over and over again why we should all welcome our new robot overlords, so I'm here to knock 'em all down and push back systematically…but most importantly, make the case for the #ProCraft Movement and how vital it is that we preserve and champion the historical & emotional components of Human Creativity.

This man has no self-awareness at all. No sense of shame. 🙃

A wonderfully-written sentiment from my favorite indie browser. 🥰

And this is why "AI" as a marketing term has proven to be so completely absurd. 😂

I’ve talked in length about the ethical quandaries surrounding generative AI, from the industrial-scale theft of intellectual property to the ways it harms both the natural as well as digital environments due to its extractive nature. But I also want to talk about the aesthetics of the slop output we have to contend with now on a regular basis, and I don’t just mean the political side of it—I and many others have been sounding the alarm that genAI lines right up with aesthetics of fascism . Rather, I want to explore the relationship between the slop machines and true art forms, and why we just aren’t seeing anything meaningful and lasting being produced using these problematic technologies.

Saw this on Hacker News, and…um, wow.

Cool interview of @mb21@hachyderm.io about his Mastro framework. Lots to like about this.

The CEO of Amazon Web Services also said cutting junior staff for AI could wreck future talent pipelines.

So cool! As soon as I can get my hands on this, I'll be publishing a review on The Internet Review . Very excited about this concept!

In this episode, I have a lively chat with Cory Dransfeldt about getting started as a web developer making band websites and his recent work on design systems, his passion for supporting creators and the preservation of craft, the ai.robots.txt open source project, what the GitHub CEO said ( note : we recorded this episode before he announced he was stepping down), releasing a music app for Navidrome, machines coming for our tattoos (!), and a whole lot more.

Over the past few years I’ve said on many occasions that signals, a reactive primitive popularized by many JavaScript frameworks and libraries (and most easy to pick up using the implementation by the Preact folks), makes it much easier to add declarative binding to your HTML using basic vanilla DOM techniques + signal effects.

Ever since the momentous release of Tailwind CSS version 4 at the start of this year (January 2025), I have been telling people that the CSS Framework Wars™ are finally over. CSS won! And amazingly, so did Tailwind. Plot twist!

So I thought it would be fun to revisit the Invoker Commands API (MDN) which is available in Chromium-based browsers and hopefully coming soon to Safari and Firefox (both are currently in testing).

Somehow we went from a network of millions posting on thousands of Web sites to a network of billions posting on…one of a half-dozen Web sites completely controlled by megacorps . And it's not just on the posting side…we don't even want to read, listen to, or watch thousands of possible network destinations either. We are expected to accept that all information will soon be mediated through the latest release of the MegaPlexaChatPilotify 5000 app.

In this episode I talk about the shocking decline in AI safety, why AI is becoming a religion and that shouldn’t surprise us, software developer reluctance and growing impatience in using these tools, and the LMDs of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Oh yes, we’re going there!

Fellow netizens, the moment you've all been waiting for: the inaugural episode of Jared White's new podcast Vibe Coded! Magic escalators & floating men? Bots blocked bad by big business? 100 books read a day? All that and a whole lot more…most def you're not gonna want to miss this!