“Pre-order the hard-cover print edition of Out of the Software Crisis“
So, this is a thing that’s happening. Simultaneously very stressed and very excited about it 🙂️
(Ended up having to use Shopify and Paypal for this. Unfortunately had no other option.)
That Ive/Altman “AI phone” thing is going to reach Segway levels of hype isn’t it?
Ugh.
‘The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon Over an Economy-Wide “Hidden Tax”’
“Google accidentally leaking Bard AI chats into public search results”
Mass layoffs followed by deathmarch development of trendy new features leads to mistakes. Odds are that we’re going to see more like this.
Not a huge fan of “considered harmful” these days but, in addition to the points in the post, using env variables is also a great way of making otherwise platform-agnostic JS completely dependent on node.
“We Don’t Need CEOs Anymore and AI Could Easily Replace Them”
Can’t be any more dysfunctional than the executives we have.
“Robots.txt - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
What he said. Robots.txt is a convention based on a social contract and the industry has demonstrated that it doesn’t believe in social contracts.
So, Shopify is the only option I have for setting up pre-orders for the print edition of Out of the Software Crisis as it’s the only thing on the intersection of “services that support Iceland” and “services the book printer integrates with”
But boy is it an awful service.
Switching to career Plan N+1 (where N is wherever I was) means I need to rethink what I’m doing both on my blog/newsletter and social media. And come up with an actual plan
Probably means I’m in for a rough few months (😬️), but I do have a clear idea of what I want to try so 💪🏻️
“Failing Without Knowing Why: The Tragedy Of Performative Content - DaedTech”
Just say “No!” to A/B tests.
This might be a trend.
So, most of the details here are outside of my wheelhouse, but the “AI” clauses seem like a sensible compromise, for the most part
“Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can’t agree on Tailwind”
They say the day you delete all the Kubernetes code from your codebase is the day you truly start living
The few experiences I’ve had with Kubernetes have all been nightmares.
“Software is What We Learned Along the Way - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
“13 super rad web dev tricks you don’t know about (but should) | Go Make Things”
“Generative Artificial Intelligence is slowly entering children’s lives - AlgorithmWatch”
‘The Illusion Of Developer “Productivity” Opens The Door To Snake Oil – Codemanship’s Blog’
Agree completely.
A long one this week. Mostly because I’m using the journal format to work through a few thoughts on work-related setbacks.