... works as a web developer in Hveragerði, Iceland, and writes about the web, digital publishing, and web/product development
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“Graph: Growing number of threats leveraging Microsoft API | Symantec Enterprise Blogs”
As I’ve said a number of times: there is one constant—a fixed point in technology—that you can rely on always being true and that’s the fact that Microsoft is the absolute worst at security
There is an upside to how dysfunctional Google has become in it’s post-layoff all-in-on-Ai era. For every spam website that rises to the top of their badly maintained search engine a dozen pirated movies and TV series that are otherwise unavailable in Iceland get hosted on Youtube
About half of the new weirdness we’re all encountering in our software services (like GitHub Actions) is because the co in question laid off a bunch of their staff a year ago and are now dysfuctional
The other half is because they took much of the remaining staff and put them on “AI”
It’s telling so many in tech think the only reason for being against something like cryptocoins or “AI” is that it overhyped and won’t fulfil its promise, leading to companies failing…
When the strongest reason to be against them is that promise itself is genuinely horrifying and destructive
Today is International Worker’s Day, known as Labour Day in most countries. The date was originally chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate the strike that ended in the Haymarket Massacre
It’s a day for, among other things, solidarity with protests
“Custom Element Naming | BitWorking”
I didn’t have an opinion on this but I’m seeing his point.
How many companies adopted MongoDB because “it’s the future!” and are now stuck with it until insolvency or the heat-death of the universe, whichever comes first?
Be careful about making technical decisions based on bubble logic
Remember, pretty much all of tech is either a monopoly or oligopoly. That’s how they get away with bad management, bad products, and anti-competitive behaviour
Like I’ve been saying for a while, like a broken record—that makes sense to people again, right, with the resurgence of vinyl, or is modern vinyl too durable to scratch and skip?—the tech management and exec class is manifestly bad at their job
“How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? | by Anna Andersen”
Glad somebody wrote about this because it’s an objectively hilarious UX case study
(And they just announced that eleven people managed to get the requisite number of endorsements in time)
“Ex-Amazon Was Told to Ignore Law to Develop AI Faster: Lawsuit”
I’m not surprised.
The more you polish, the less you see
Please stop using generated art for thumbnails and illustrations for videos and blog posts that aren’t generated themselves. It gives people the impression that the post is spammy bullshit. Starting to see people dismiss links out of hand just because of the preview thumbnail on social media
Fun how context is important for making sense of language. Like the phrase “they live in the valley, on the Kópavogur side, in one of the Vestmannaeyja houses” (“þau búa í dalnum, Kópavogsmegin, í einu af Vestmannaeyjahúsunum”) immediately pinpoints a location if you know the context
“Why Would I Buy This Useless, Evil Thing? - Aftermath”
This x1000. Just… why?
Google laid off their python lang team. This is a bad idea:
Right now his research organization is only allowed to work on AI.
FFS
One of the worst things that can happen to a new idea for reforming software development is to have DHH swoop in with a half-assed shitty implementation of it, poisoning the idea for a generation of devs