“Is software getting worse? - Stack Overflow”
The rare “yes” answer.
“Adactio: Journal—Books I read in 2023”
The Intelligence Illusion by Baldur Bjarnason. Refreshingly level-headed and practical.
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Don’t make me come over there and explain yet again that the “Jólabókaflóð” is not a tradition like people make it out to be
It’s not even a fucking tradition. It’s just the sales phenomenon where books make great gifts so publishers release a lot of them around Christmas
“Google Search Overwhelmed By Massive Spam Attack”
They say “days” here because this is in addition to the ongoing spam problem that has been escalating in search all year
Also, non-English local search has been utter garbage filled with spam for a few years now
Purely anecdata at this point but I’m hearing from a couple of different source that book sales here in Iceland have been pretty good this Christmas—better than in recent years.
Did the traditional Icelandic Christmas thing of visiting the graves of relatives. The cemeteries here are suitably gothic with a bunch of of ravens hanging around
“Untangling Threads - Erin Kissane’s small internet website”
Finally got around to reading this. It’s really good.
For the holiday #caturday I managed to take a few photos of Kolka, my sister’s cat, in person. 🙂
“Michael Tsai - Blog - iOS 17 Autocorrect”
People are saying that autocorrect improves after a few weeks but Icelandic autocorrect is now weirder than it was before.
“‘Where Do You Get Your Ideas?’ AI and the Creative Industries – Oisín McGann”
I can’t think of a better metaphor for this whole thing than using overwhelming financial power to claim ownership of someone else’s voice and then using that to make more money.
“Artificial intelligence can find your location, alarming privacy experts : NPR”
The headline says it all, really. Mergers are almost always an incredibly bad idea for the companies involved. The merged entity is less valuable and less profitable.
Do I understand it correctly that Zack Snyder’s has somehow managed to, essentially, do a boring remake of Battle Beyond the Stars?
“Deep Cloning Objects in JavaScript, the Modern Way”
Love structuredClone. Probably overuse it TBH 😄
If this would help us drop 100k rich text editing widgets then I hope every browser gets on board ASAP
At first glance it looks good. This, transitions, and the navigation API would cover a good portion of the biggest pain points in web dev today
Wow has this year been shit.
“They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like - Aftermath”
There’s an entire portion of the population that takes overt pleasure in the over-smoothed, perverts that prefer all media to be fast, high frame rate, and scrubbed squeaky clean.
“They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like - Aftermath”
But the modern application of much of AI is precisely about taking labor out of the equation. Why transfer a tape correctly when we can just have a computer guess badly instead?
“Enough of the homogenous and soulless content all around the internet | Zell Liew”
Me, I’m exceedingly bad at the soulless hustle ‘content’. Even when I try to do something straightforward with broad appeal, I always end up with something idiosyncratic and weird 😅
“Child sex abuse images found in dataset training image generators, report says | Ars Technica”
There’s almost certainly much more of that material in the dataset.
“How Marketing Changed OOP In JavaScript — Smashing Magazine”
IMO, the primary reasons to use classes in JS are if you’re writing TypeScript, making custom elements, or are forced to use a dependency built on them. JS classes aren’t a particularly good abstraction.
“Duane Puryear and the Quilt Panel — The Dallas Way”
He would have been 59 yesterday
“Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real”