David Bushell, a web designer and developer, writes about front-end design, tooling, GitHub, and his stance on AI.
HN commenters like the site's playful, personal design and its 1950s aesthetic, and discuss his AI policy in threads on AI use.
> Yes, and those are interesting topics to discuss. "AI is useless and I refuse to use it and hate you if you do" isn't...
Did you read Mr. Bushell's policy [0], which is linked to by TFA? Here's a very relevant pair of sentences from the document:
Whilst I abstain from AI usage, I will continue to work with clients and colleagues who choose to use AI themselves. Where necessary I will integrate AI output given by others on the agreement that I am not held accountable for the combined work.
And from the "Ensloppification" article [1], also linked by TFA:
I’d say [Declan] Chidlow verges towards AI apologism in places but overall writes a rational piece. [2] My key takeaway is to avoid hostility towards individuals†. I don’t believe I’ve ever crossed that line, except the time I attacked you [3] for ruining the web.
† I reserve the right to “punch up” and call individuals like Sam Altman a grifter in clown’s garb.
Based on this information, it doesn't seem that Mr. Bushell will hate anyone for using "AI" tools... unless they're CEO pushers.
Or are you talking in generalities? If you are, then I find the unending stream of hype articles from folks using this quarter's hottest tool to be extremely disinteresting. It's important for folks who object to the LLM hype train to publish and publicize articles as a counterpoint to the prevailing discussion.
As an aside, the LLM hype reminds me of the hype for Kubernetes (which I was personally enmeshed in for a great…
This is actually a clever way to distinguish if the browser supports XSLT or not. Actual content is XHTML in https://xslt.rip/index.xsl
The author is frontend designer and has a nice website, too: https://dbushell.com/
I like the personal, individual style of both pages.
This is linked to in the rant that's submitted to HN. It does a much better job explaining the situation.
https://dbushell.com/2023/08/16/wordpress-6-3-breaking-decades-of-css/
I like the design of https://dbushell.com/blog/
Though mainly I just like the general 50s aesthetics of it, rather than specific UI elements.
Yeah, scroll fade might be useful sometimes but most of the time it's just annoying.
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/
> https://dbushell.com
Heh, I honestly thought the domain name stood for "D-Bus Hell" and not their own name.