“Scrollbars are becoming a problem”
The current state of scrollbars is, on the face of it, objective evidence that the people who run tech do not give a single solitary fuck about usability or UX
The single most impactful thing you can do is use your devices for longer. (I upgrade my devices rougly every 5 years, which I suspect is uncommon)
“Fast(er) JavaScript on WebAssembly: Portable Baseline Interpreter and Future Plans”
This is interesting.
“AI’s Electricity Use Is Spiking So Fast It’ll Soon Use as Much Power as an Entire Country”
Between this and crypto, the tech industry’s innovations seem to be doing a good job of nullifying whatever progress we make on the climate crisis.
The first snows have hit my area of Iceland. Both of the main roads are closed (or about to be).
They should be open again later today but it’s still annoying how early it’s happening this year.
Wow.
“16 things you believe about software: A retrospective on the Searls-Briggs Type Indicator®”
“Google Insiders Question Usefulness of Bard AI Chatbot - Bloomberg”
“Adobe previews AI upscaling to make blurry videos and GIFs look fresh - The Verge”
That everybody seems to have decided that it’s fine to add tons of fake detail into realistic images boggles the mind.
“Using Web Components on My Icon Galleries Websites - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
“Ian Betteridge - Publishers need to wake up to the truth about Google traffic”
Hard to see how this isn’t a mass extinction event for web media.
“Tech Leaders Are Obsessing Over the Obscure Theory E/acc. Here’s Why”
😬
“Word Count 60: Writerly practice, US author income survey — Chocolate and Vodka”
“Adactio: Journal—Making the Patterns Day website”
I didn’t use any build tools. There was no pipeline. There is no node_modules folder filling up my hard drive. Nothing was automated.
IMO, this is the baseline. Start from here, then add simple tools incrementally.
“Adactio: Links—Did technology kill the craftsman? - The Progress Network”
Here I thought the biggest news of the day here in Iceland would be bad weather
It’s notable that he doesn’t believe he did anything wrong. So his judgement is, and has always been, extremely poor
“AI hype is built on high test scores. Those tests are flawed.”
“1491342 - Atomics.wait(sb, 0, 0, delay) might fail unpredictably on notify(sb, 0) - chromium”
“Ian Betteridge - GitHub Copilot costs more per user than it charges”
People generally don’t realise just how expensive this shit is.
“AGI Researchers Stop Quoting White Supremacists Challenge (Impossible)”
That the AGI crowd keeps citing white supremacists absolutely does tell us something about them.