“Twitter turns its back on open-source development - ZDNET”
This is going to happen a lot more as tech cos cut back. A lot of OSS exists only as an external result of internal investment.
“How come GPT can seem so brilliant one minute and so breathtakingly dumb the next?”
‘“The politest possible version of blood libel” – Bigmouth Strikes Again’
“83% of Developers Suffer from Burnout - 01”
There’s something seriously wrong with this industry.
This is kinda cool.
“It’s Time For ‘Maximum Viable Product’ - by Clive Thompson - Debugger”
Feature creep is also one of the biggest threats to code quality and software stability in general.
“Why Big Teams Keep Getting Bigger – Paul Taylor”
“I have literally seen Brook’s law happen in real time”
“Shadow DOM and accessibility: the trouble with ARIA - Read the Tea Leaves”
“Slip Through Your Fingers: Thoughts on Andor”
This.
‘How to split JavaScript strings into sentences, words or graphemes with “Intl.Segmenter”‘
More and more running into the situation where it’s only Firefox that doesn’t support the stuff that’d directly help my work
“My old Richter scale for system outages, revisited (Interconnected)”
“LGBTQ+ Icelanders face ‘dehumanising’ new form of abuse – barking”
“The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture”
So, I published this yesterday:
“Programming is a Pop Culture”
“Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects”
Interesting analysis. Honestly, we could to with more and harsher criticism of this space. But this is a start.
“GitHub Copilot Isn’t Worth the Risk”
What she said