I decided to stop noodling around and just publishing this:
Trying a new thing.
“Introducing Mozilla’s AI Guide, the developers onboarding ramp to AI”
Is it just me or has the vibe lately from Mozilla been “I don’t care what the question is, the answer is always AI”?
“How Netlify rebranded their app in just 6 weeks”
I wonder what the ROI is of massive rebrands like this (logo, colours, apps, marketing, websites, etc.)?
I have my doubts about these sorts of projects. Most of them look like executive ego-stroking.
“Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework | jakelazaroff.com”
And yet people keep using these tools.
Just had to deal with an “AI” customer service chatbot for the first time
The software industry honestly deserves to burn to the ground for thinking for even a seconds that this miserable, condescending, “aw shucks” experience is acceptable customer support
Just fuck right off
“On the deck-chairs of HTTP/2 — Varnish version trunk documentation”
“Who can you trust with your online business? – Cloud Four”
Managers and owners preferring bad advice that’s “standard” over good advice backed by research and experience has been a constant in my career in web dev.
“Wait, is cloud bad? - by Forrest Brazeal - Good Tech Things”
Anytime you hear an appeal to nostalgia, your instinct should be to distrust it. I was around for some of the good old days and I can assure you they were terrible
“Microincentives and Enshittification – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
I just did a short rewrite of the landing page for the upcoming test-driven web development course. Trying to make the value proposition clearer. 🙂️
This is happening today in Iceland
“Monopoly Power Is the Elephant in the Room in the AI Debate”
“JavaScript Is Enabled by Default in Web Browsers - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
Browsers don’t turn off Javascript by default. And you don’t have to either.
“1Password discloses security incident linked to Okta breach”
‘Put everything into the cloud’ they said.
‘It’ll be both cost-effective and more secure’ they said.
🤦🏻♂️
“This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI”
Unlike Glaze, their earlier effort which made it harder to generative models to learn a visual style, this is an actual attack which aims to poison the model and make it less effective.
Moving very slowly through the kitchen so as to not spook the blackbird feeding on the balcony.
“Notes, Links, and Weeknotes (23 October 2023)”
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/week…
Where I write about the high opportunity cost of writing critically about “AI” as well as links and a few other things.
I’ve just published “How do you even web dev without node? A quick introduction to test-driven web development using just the browser”
Code coverage and import maps, combined with mocha’s old-style HTML test runner, is a potent combo.
Honestly, whenever I use SASS I end up regretting it because of some subtle incompatibility with standard CSS. Like this: