When did Firefox make bookmarking all tabs in a window so involved? I swear there used to be a “bookmark all open tabs” menu entry at some point.
This week’s notes are a bit more grumpy than usual, but not too grumpy I think? Sort of mid-grumpy. Like walking halfway to grumpy, stopping, and decide “yeah, this is just grumpy enough.”
“Ian Betteridge - On Steven Sinofsky’s post on regulating AI”
Sinofsky was, IIRC, the dude that tried to argue at one point that the regulatory action against AT&T’s monopoly (and their eventual force break-up) had been bad for the tech industry.
I’m a big movie buff, always have been, but I generally avoid going to the cinema after COVID hit
Looking at the box office performance of most new films in recent years, I’m guessing that I’m not the only one
“The next frontier in IP parasites: codec royalties on content. – Rocknerd”
Software patents, generative models, crypto, the “gig economy”. Tech is for looting the rest of society.
Every time the US has one of it’s rare genuine union action, it immediately becomes obvious that US execs don’t know the first thing about negotiation and even less about collective bargaining
“No, Okta, senior management, not an errant employee, caused you to get hacked | Ars Technica”
Still working on the pitch page for the course and still trying to figure out how best to convey what it’s about.
“Uncluttered Test-Driven Web Dev With Import Maps (Upcoming Course)”
This is the latest pass. Any feedback is appreciated.
“Web browsers kind of suck | Go Make Things”
This. If I didn’t have bills to pay I’d start brushing off all of my browser UI ideas and have a go at prototyping them, just for fun.
“When not to use a subdomain – Chris Coyier”
Accurate.
“Naming things needn’t be hard - Classnames”
Bookmarking for future reference.
This week’s links and notes are so late they’re almost next week’s
What the fuck? All of a sudden all of my GitHub repositories return a 404!
Before, when I stumbled on a web dev blog post that spent hundreds of words saying nothing: “Wow, somebody’s huffed a little bit too much LinkedIn.”
Today, if I run into a blog post like that: “Wow, somebody’s letting their chatbot handle too much of their writing.”
Looking good. 😄
“Ecosystem rot | Go Make Things”
This. Especially the last paragraph.
“Audio Hijack adds automatic transcription – Six Colors”
Automatic transcription remains the least risky use of generative models.
“How I’m using the fragments of social media now - Andy Bell”
Today’s mood www.youtube.com/watch
An incredibly useful blog post that explains so so many of the things about git that are confusing (which is all of it, really?)
“Silicon Valley is the Church of Moore’s Law — Crooked Timber”
Moore’s Law only seems special because it’s the era we’ve been living through.
Dave Karpf is always excellent.
People think lights and crews are cheating? Because there’s VFX in places, editing, color-timing? Of course there is? This is a commercial video. It’s not a benchmark of what you, a total novice, can shoot in your backyard.