“The Commit that Updated a Thousand Demos—zachleat.com”
This feels like an elegant way of solving a lot of problems without tying yourself to a proprietary API.
“The Anti-Workforce - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At”
Those in control do not understand or participate in the process of what makes them rich, and the result is a deeply broken and inefficient workforce driven by top-level incompetence and greed.
“Google Should Fire Sundar Pichai”
Fire him today and replace him with someone else. If you make $280 million a year and you have to let high performers go because you were so bad at business, you should be fired because you are bad at your job
An old post, but still relevant.
“Businesses don’t hire designers for their good work | Koos Looijesteijn”
The good thing about bad companies releasing interesting stuff with an open license, like fonts, is you can use it without directly supporting them.
And this is a really interesting idea.
Matt tries to explain to us how “we’re running Tumblr on a bare-bones team and cancelling every effort at improvement” is actually good news for a service in terminal decline.
“‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Shelved by Warner Bros, Taking $30M Tax Writeoff – Deadline”
Sure looks like the studios are just plain bad at their jobs. I mean, if you can’t sell a well-rated mid budget Looney Toons movie maybe you shouldn’t be running a studio
This male blackbird is the main customer of my bird feeder. The starlings come and go, but this guy comes regularly.
But every time, he first perches on the balcony chair and surveils the surroundings for a good five minutes before moving over to the feeder to eat.
Blue Lagoon closes for a week
They should have closed days ago. Even though it isn’t certain there will be an eruption, the earthquakes are close and big enough to the Lagoon to be potentially dangerous
“AI pivots” at software companies usually mean that they’ve lost interest in fixing existing issues with their products and they are now instead all-in on completely new products that come with a fresh batch of unknown problems and issues
I need to set aside some time to go over this.
“Omegle, the Site That Paired Strangers for Video Chats, Is Dead”
“Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform - The GitHub Blog”
I guess this means existing bugs in the regular GitHub platform (and there are plenty) will never be fixed. And new non-AI features will be pushed way down the priority list
So, I wrote a bit of a rant on Mastodon and it was long enough to warrant compiling and editing into a blog post.
“Web developers: remarkably untalented and careless?”
“How do build tools break backwards compatibility? | Go Make Things”
“A fountain of fakes – Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall’s blog”
“An Intermittent Platform Bug – Chris Coyier”
These kinds of bugs are essentially impossible for a web dev to deal with.
“Cruise Self-Driving Cars Struggled to Recognize Children”
Who’s willing to bet against me that problems like these are endemic in the self-driving industry but hidden by the companies?
“A new Eleventy mascot from David Neal! — Eleventy”
I like this one. A much more defined character.
Honestly, I’m personally more of a “commit histories should be true and accurate, even if it’s messy and makes us all look like fools” kind of person, but I understand why many people disagree.
“Chatbots May ‘Hallucinate’ More Often Than Many Realize”
When summarizing facts, ChatGPT technology makes things up about 3 percent of the time, according to research from a new start-up.
This is while summarising, which even savvy users assume is broadly accurate
And I’m glad to see that there isn’t a browser in existence that I can’t lock up completely just by bookmarking open tabs.