Archive
2023-10-02: “OpenAI’s ChatGPT Can Actually Make Workers Perform Worse” I’m pretty sure that the overall …
2023-10-02: “Opening remarks on “AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstanding Challenge” | by Emily M. Bender …
2023-10-02: “Making a Website is for Everyone - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” This.
2023-10-02: “The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)”
2023-10-02: “They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? | The New Yorker” Certainly starting to look like …
2023-09-30: What is it with 80s/90s movies presenting predatory sociopaths destroying people’s lives as …
2023-09-30: “‘I follow you for tech, not politics’ | Go Make Things” My friend, all tech is political.
2023-09-30: “table-saw Web Component—zachleat.com”
2023-09-30: “Adactio: Links—Just Another Music Monday - by Rusty Foster - Today in Tabs”
2023-09-29: “Compromised Microsoft Key: More Impactful Than We Thought” This includes managed Microsoft …
2023-09-29: “The Gravitational Pull Of Business As Usual – Paul Taylor”
2023-09-29: “Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup - Erin Kissane’s small internet website” Fucking hell.
2023-09-29: “Why We’ll Never Live in Space - Scientific American” I’ve always been a big fan of space …
2023-09-28: “Open Source does not win by being cheaper”
2023-09-28: “Google accidentally leaking Bard AI chats into public search results” Mass layoffs followed by …
2023-09-28: “NODE_ENV Considered Harmful” Not a huge fan of “considered harmful” these days but, in addition to …
2023-09-28: “We Don’t Need CEOs Anymore and AI Could Easily Replace Them” Can’t be any more dysfunctional …
2023-09-27: “Why multi-page apps? | Go Make Things”
2023-09-27: “Robots.txt - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” What he said. Robots.txt is a convention based on a social …
2023-09-27: So, Shopify is the only option I have for setting up pre-orders for the print edition of Out of the …
2023-09-27: Switching to career Plan N+1 (where N is wherever I was) means I need to rethink what I’m …
2023-09-27: “Failing Without Knowing Why: The Tragedy Of Performative Content - DaedTech”
2023-09-27: “Jim Nielsen’s Notes” Just say “No!” to A/B tests. This might be a trend.
2023-09-27: “Optimizing for Taste”
2023-09-27: “Summary of the 2023 WGA MBA” So, most of the details here are outside of my wheelhouse, but the …
2023-09-26: “Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can’t agree on Tailwind”
2023-09-26: “Introducing Railway V2” They say the day you delete all the Kubernetes code from your …
2023-09-26: “Software is What We Learned Along the Way - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-09-26: “13 super rad web dev tricks you don’t know about (but should) | Go Make Things”
2023-09-26: “Generative Artificial Intelligence is slowly entering children’s lives - AlgorithmWatch”
2023-09-26: “Enhance: SSR for Web Components”
2023-09-25: ‘The Illusion Of Developer “Productivity” Opens The Door To Snake Oil – Codemanship’s Blog’ …
2023-09-25: “The Beat is looking for a Managing Editor”
2023-09-25: “Elon Musk and the Infinite Rebuy - by Dave Karpf”
2023-09-25: “Weeknote: 25 September 2023” A long one this week. Mostly because I’m using the …
2023-09-25: “Build Great Software By Repeatedly Encountering It - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-09-25: “WordPress Kills The Blogger Star – Flameeyes’s Weblog”
2023-09-24: “The invisible problem – Scott Jenson” Text editing on mobile isn’t ok. It’s actually much worse …
2023-09-24: “Writing Is Thinking - by John Warner” Easily this week’s best read.
2023-09-23: “Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist” 😬️
2023-09-23: “Writers and talkers and leaders, oh my! | everything changes”
2023-09-23: “React is slow at its very core | Go Make Things” The golden rule of JavaScript: more abstractions …
2023-09-23: “How to escape CSS selectors in JavaScript | Stefan Judis Web Development”
2023-09-23: “Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models” Like I’ve been …
2023-09-23: ‘”AI”, and the trouble with inaccessible SaaS - localghost’
2023-09-23: “Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Polyfills gone rogue”
2023-09-22: “Google Books – search results confuse reviewers with authors – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2023-09-22: “Patterns for Reactivity with Modern Vanilla JavaScript | Frontend Masters”
2023-09-22: I see that AI boosters advocating we change copyright law, globally, in ways that contravene …
2023-09-22: “Adactio: Links—Statement on Generative AI | Ben Myers”
2023-09-22: “Statement on Generative AI | Ben Myers” Agree completely.
2023-09-22: “Building like it’s 1984: A comprehensive guide to creating intuitive context menus - Height” …
2023-09-22: “ChatGPT Caught Giving Horrible Advice to Cancer Patients” Like I’ve said in the past: this AI …
2023-09-21: “Don’t prematurely optimize for performance | Go Make Things”
2023-09-21: “Why I chose Codepen PRO over Copilot - CodePen Blog”
2023-09-21: “Why I chose Codepen Pro over Copilot” So, the standard advice in any creative industry on improving …
2023-09-21: “Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff hiring boomerang employees” I’ve been saying over the past year that …
2023-09-21: “Why not React? - DEV Community”
2023-09-21: “CSS Shorthand Syntax Considered an Anti-Pattern – CSS Wizardry – Web Performance Optimisation” This …
2023-09-21: “Accessibility is not binary | Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultant”
2023-09-21: “Writers: use the Spoken Content accessibility feature to have your Mac and iPad read words and help …
2023-09-21: “AI data training companies like Scale AI are hiring poets - Rest of World” Scabs.
2023-09-20: “Bullet Points: Oh-just-shut-up edition - by Dave Karpf”
2023-09-20: “Blocking AI Scraper Bots - Chris Coyier”
2023-09-20: “Adactio: Links—Get it shipped — building better relationships with Devs”
2023-09-20: “Get it shipped — building better relationships with Devs | by Ness Grixti | Sep, 2023 | Redesigning …
2023-09-20: “Impostor phenomenon’s origin story — Chocolate and Vodka” Interesting deep dive.
2023-09-20: “Microsoft AI researchers mistakenly leaked 38TB of company data” Reporting on all of Microsoft’s …
2023-09-19: “Adactio: Links—Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship”
2023-09-19: “Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship” I’ve wondered too about the field’s refusal to …
2023-09-19: “Browser Video Players Review”
2023-09-19: “A (more) Modern CSS Reset - Andy Bell”
2023-09-19: “Go Direct — Audacious” There should rarely be more than three people involved in delivering …
2023-09-19: “38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers | Wiz Blog” Over the past thirty …
2023-09-19: “WebKit Features in Safari 17.0 | WebKit” Looks like a solid release.
2023-09-19: “AI at the Crossroads – EduGeek Journal”
2023-09-18: So, Hveragerði is a quiet town and I live next door to the Geothermal Park. This means that if I …
2023-09-18: “The JS community on Twitter is dead.” Yup.
2023-09-18: “Sustainability and Tech and Us · Jens Oliver Meiert” What I find troubling is how in tech, we’re …
2023-09-18: “Which Kinds of Tests Should I Write? Revisited - The Code Whisperer”
2023-09-18: “Notes from “Weathering Software Winter” by Devine Lu Linvega - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-09-18: “The Rules of Margin Collapse” Honestly, margin collapse in CSS was probably a bad idea and because …
2023-09-17: My dad has a bit of a retro approach to listening to music.
2023-09-17: “Ableist interactions | hidde.blog” I agree with everything in this post but would like to emphasise …
2023-09-17: “Scope vs Shadow DOM” I have never personally needed shadow DOM. Every time I dig in to assess it, …
2023-09-16: Black and white photos from said bad weather photography walk.
2023-09-16: Went for a short bad weather photography walk
2023-09-16: “Book Review: Kill It With Fire – Manage Ageing Computer Systems by Marianne Bellotti – Terence …
2023-09-16: “David Golumbia, 1963–2023 – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain”
2023-09-16: “Adactio: Links—We’re still not innovating with AI-generated UI.”
2023-09-16: “We’re still not innovating with AI-generated UI.” I generally feel like companies with poor …
2023-09-16: “Fixing Search” However, browsers selling users to search engines to keep the web going is a bit …
2023-09-15: Found my dad’s old typewriter. Might be a bit of a project but it would be fun to get it into proper …
2023-09-14: ‘Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player …
2023-09-14: So, this is happening. I can already see that the final version needs to have a gloss, not matte, …
2023-09-14: “The Myth of Artificial Intelligence - The American Prospect”
2023-09-14: “Critical WebP bug: many apps, not just browsers, under threat” One of the issues with the …
2023-09-13: This book is required reading for everyone involved in looking at Generative AI for their business …
2023-09-13: After noodling around with mocha and deno, I’m pretty sure it’s possible to set up a …
2023-09-13: “The A.V. Club’s AI-Generated Articles Are Copying Directly From IMDb” This was utterly …
2023-09-13: Starlings relaxing after raiding my bird feeder. Blurry phone picture as they scarpered as soon as …
2023-09-13: “Bricolage | Some notes on Local-First Development” I think Local-First is going to be an essential …
2023-09-13: “The death of unity” Looting your customer base.
2023-09-12: Found out that my granddad owned a .22 pistol in the 60s which was honestly out of character Then my …
2023-09-12: “I think I kind of hate lazy loading – Terence Eden’s Blog” I ran into this quite a bit back when I …
2023-09-12: “Team size isn’t a measure of success - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2023-09-12: “Your feedback means more to small teams | daverupert.com”
2023-09-12: “On exponential growth of LLMs” LLMs aren’t growing exponentially. Even if they were …
2023-09-11: “Can Large Language Models Reason?” See Betteridge’s law On a dataset of …
2023-09-11: “If a hammer was like AI…”
2023-09-11: A new weeknote, where I talk about dev environments, cross origin isolation, Dario Argento, and Jack …
2023-09-11: “Ian Betteridge - No, the UK government did not back down on its plans to spy on encrypted messages”
2023-09-11: “TBM 242: The Simplicity Fetish - by John Cutler”
2023-09-10: “The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements” The problems have become …
2023-09-10: We’re pretty much caught up on the history of my amateur photography. Around 25 years of photos …
2023-09-10: Other than the ravens, 2023 was light on photography for me. The highlight was probably our trip to …
2023-09-10: And once in a blue moon you’d get a raven that’d just post for you. Pretty far away on the top of a …
2023-09-10: The thing about youths of any species is that they Do Not Sit Still. It’s a universal law. And my …
2023-09-10: The photographic highlight of 2023 so far was the raven parliament Raven youths congregate …
2023-09-10: “Advanced NLP with SpaCy | Hacker News” The world cannot migrate all its current NLP models for …
2023-09-10: “Pixels of the Week – September 10, 2023 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2023-09-10: “Design Under Pressure – Simply Secure”
2023-09-10: “Storing UTC is not a silver bullet | Jon Skeet’s coding blog”
2023-09-09: “On productivity metrics and management consultants – Surfing Complexity”
2023-09-09: Now that the starlings have discovered my bird feeder my balcony railing has become a bit of a …
2023-09-09: “OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work | Ars Technica” Yeah.
2023-09-09: The only real opportunity I got for photography in 2022 was a trip to the caves near Hella. They’re …
2023-09-09: Now we’re in the depressing part of my photographic history. Things got pretty rough after the …
2023-09-09: “Remembering Molly :: Aaron Gustafson”
2023-09-08: “Silicon Valley’s Slaughterhouse” This, in my mind, began tech’s age of empty innovation, …
2023-09-08: “Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers” I see that some of …
2023-09-08: I’m not pessimistic about technology. I’m disappointed and let down. The distinction is …
2023-09-08: This here is the last picture I took in 2021. It’s also my grandmother’s favourite because that’s …
2023-09-08: The place is also a stop for the raven population in the sout of Iceland. We don’t have that many of …
2023-09-08: Hveragerði itself can be pretty picturesque, though. There’s something photogenic in pretty much …
2023-09-08: So it’s not entirely surprising that I don’t have that many photographs to show from that year. Most …
2023-09-08: The view from my balcony of the industrial greenhouse next door. Nice folks Another turn in 2021: my …
2023-09-08: We’re up to 2021 in my photographic history. I had just found an apartment in a small but nice town …
2023-09-08: “Read terrible books, too - Austin Kleon” Terrible media is can be fearless and inventive despite …
2023-09-07: Where my mind is at regarding web dev. github.com/baldurbja… Going to see how well this works …
2023-09-07: “Why are we not still using tables-for-layout? – Rachel Andrew”
2023-09-07: “Remembering Molly, one of the greats - The History of the Web”
2023-09-07: “The room-temperature superconductor that wasn’t | Ars Technica” Oh, well.
2023-09-07: The last two photos I found from 2020 that I liked were these two photos of ravens flying over the …
2023-09-07: One of the projects I did in 2020 was to document my mother’s radio documentary on the discovery of …
2023-09-07: We’re up to 2020 in the history of my amateur photography and I’ll be honest: it was rough. Every …
2023-09-07: “Memories of Molly – Eric’s Archived Thoughts”
2023-09-07: “Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Goodbye Molly Holzschlag–a memoriam post”
2023-09-07: “Bogus CVE follow-ups | daniel.haxx.se”
2023-09-07: “CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs | daniel.haxx.se”
2023-09-06: Newsletter update “Fear Of Missing Out is lethal when somebody invents a footgun” …
2023-09-06: My last attempt at serious photography in Montréal was in the middle of the lockdown. I went around …
2023-09-06: After a year where my mother had had a serious health scare (now fine), racists locked up the …
2023-09-06: I visited Iceland that Christmas. Not just to celebrate the holiday but also to prepare my move back …
2023-09-06: We’re up to autumn 2019 in the history of my amateur photography and none of us had any idea of what …
2023-09-06: “How often do you get to rewrite and rethink?”
2023-09-06: “Rewrite & Rethink - Chris Coyier”
2023-09-06: “Tucson’s Molly Holzschlag, known as ‘the fairy godmother of the web,’ dead at 60 …
2023-09-05: Finally, I always enjoy pictures where people look more like abstract shadowy or silhouette-y …
2023-09-05: Double-decker buses always feel a bit out of place in Iceland, but apparently they’re used for …
2023-09-05: In the summer 2019, we went on a bit of a tour of the lighthouses of the Reykjanes peninsula.
2023-09-05: We’re into spring 2019 with this triptych of spring sports in Parc Jarry. These images don’t work …
2023-09-05: “Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops” the culture and the order imposed to …
2023-09-05: “cola: a text CRDT for real-time collaborative editing”
2023-09-05: “Out of the Software Crisis: Gardening - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” So far, I’ve really been enjoying these …
2023-09-05: “Chris’ Corner: Web Components Don’t Need You - CodePen Blog”
2023-09-05: Hopefully Tuesday will be less groggy and grumpy than Monday.
2023-09-04: “Nine Essential Information Architecture Practices | Jorge Arango”
2023-09-04: Edited my weeknote to be a little bit more coherent. Having a bit of a foggy Monday. …
2023-09-04: All seasons must end eventually and winter is no exception. Spring must arrive eventually. This is …
2023-09-04: Other than that, winter in Montréal is how you imagine winter in storybooks. That makes it pretty …
2023-09-04: We’re up to winter 2018/19. This is probably my mother’s favourite photo. Here, familiarity with a …
2023-09-04: “siderea | Software Development Worst Practices”
2023-09-04: “«When AI systems are used, they are usually used for surveillance» – Schweizer Monat”
2023-09-04: It’s striking how much harassment authors on social media get from anti-copyright blowhards and …
2023-09-03: “PATH” Explaining the PATH variable is a missing step from so many tutorials online.
2023-09-03: Finally, today’s photo history ends with a few pictures from autumn 2018/winter 2019 that only work …
2023-09-03: OTOH, whereas the previous photo worked pretty well in both monochrome and colour, these just plain …
2023-09-03: So, here’s a colour experiment from 2018. Same photo. Same processing. Only difference which …
2023-09-03: ‘“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’ 😁
2023-09-03: “Pixels of the Week – September 3, 2023 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2023-09-03: “Like The Social Dilemma Did, The AI Dilemma Seeks To Mislead You With Misinformation | Techdirt”
2023-09-03: “Generative AI closes off a better future - by Paris Marx”
2023-09-02: The trip to Iceland was educational in terms of photography. Took a lot of pictures. Tried a lot of …
2023-09-02: These pictures, taken in the ruins of an abandoned WW2 hospital in Hvalfjörður (and like many …
2023-09-02: We’re still in 2018 in my personal history of amateur photography and I’m about to try my hand at …
2023-09-01: “Why do companies become hostile to their customers? – On my Om” Software companies are particularly …
2023-09-01: “ChatGPT, Ethics & Careers in Computational Linguistics”
2023-09-01: I did learn though that some pictures just plain have to be in colour. This here is probably my …
2023-09-01: I’ve always favoured black and white, although I keep experimenting with colour. The issue here is …
2023-09-01: Early on I decided to focus on Parc Jarry. It was close to where I lived and I made documenting it …
2023-09-01: I also decided to be more proactive in going out and looking for things to photograph. It was one of …
2023-09-01: We’re up to 2018 and I was feeling limited by the phone camera for a simple reason: I’m just not a …
2023-09-01: “How to add syntax highlighting to code as a user types in realtime with vanilla JavaScript | Go …
2023-09-01: “A lot of stuff is just fine. - Chris Coyier” True. One major wrinkle, tho. Just how fine any given …
2023-09-01: “AI Startups Are Already Running Into Some Serious Problems”
2023-08-31: “siderea | I Blame the W3C’s HTML Standard for Ordered Lists”
2023-08-31: That thing where a community fork of a project, by most of the core contributors, makes you feel …
2023-08-31: I began to feel stifled by the iPhone’s camera and realised I really did enjoy photography so I …
2023-08-31: Then I moved to Montréal in 2016. In hindsight, this was a mistake, for reasons that have nothing to …
2023-08-31: The high point in my iPhone photography is probably the trip we took to the top of Snæfellsjökull. …
2023-08-31: We’re up to 2015 in my amateur photography and I’ve discovered that, in good light, iPhones had …
2023-08-31: “How often do you get to rewrite and rethink?” 😁
2023-08-31: “Book Notes: “Out of the Software Crisis” by Baldur Bjarnason - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” 😁
2023-08-31: “milen.me — Premature Optimization: Universally Misunderstood”
2023-08-31: “Money Is Pouring Into AI. Skeptics Say It’s a ‘Grift Shift.’” Tech is inflating a new financial …
2023-08-30: “You Are Not The Man In The Arena” Much like cryptocurrency, the AI conversation almost always …
2023-08-30: “Safari Un-Intelligent Tracking Prevention: Data loss by design”
2023-08-30: Experiment of the day: turns out deno run --allow-all npm:@11ty/eleventy works. At least for the …
2023-08-30: So, this looks like a very interesting module github.com/WebReflec…
2023-08-30: That feeling when best-laid plans turn out to be only middling well-laid and you need to turn a …
2023-08-30: Bath, UK, which is where I was living in 2015, is similarly picturesque. Hard to go wrong with these …
2023-08-30: The photos from the iPhone 6 are for the most part spur-of-the-moment snapshots. That’s freeing, but …
2023-08-30: We’re up to 2011 in my personal history of my amateur photography and I had given up on dedicated …
2023-08-30: This opinion, though unusually clearly stated here, is getting quite common and is why I’m writing …
2023-08-30: “Educational Sensational Inspirational Foundational”
2023-08-30: “Why are websites embarrassing?” I mean, fundamentally it’s because managers in charge of websites …
2023-08-29: I just published “That thing where you change your mind” For the past few weeks, I’ve …
2023-08-29: Fucking micro.blog dropped three whole photos from the cross-post. That’s after a fifteen minute lag …
2023-08-29: That thing where micro.blog just fucking refuses to publish a post unless you post another to flush …
2023-08-29: So, we’re up to 2010 and I’ve been asked by my friend, Tom Abba, to document the making of a project …
2023-08-29: “Falling For Oklch: A Love Story Of Color Spaces, Gamuts, And CSS — Smashing Magazine”
2023-08-29: “Cerebus: Misogyny and Madness – Literate Machine” It’s also thousands of pages of unbridled hate …
2023-08-28: That thing where micro.blog’s Mastodon poster posts entries out of order.
2023-08-28: Not that I wasn’t also taking landscapes like everybody else. You’re practically required by law to …
2023-08-28: Here we get to the problem. The pictures I personally liked the most were pictures everybody else …
2023-08-28: Then, late 2008, I go myself a Canon G9, a digital camera with a built-in zoom lens. It was …
2023-08-28: Until around 2008, I was mostly a DSLR photographer. My frustration with photography was mounting. I …
2023-08-28: “LLM Security”
2023-08-28: “The value-destroying potential of AI” 👇🏻 A lot of the people trying to deploy AI as a business …
2023-08-27: This one, from last year, is of a male blackbird in the same tree.
2023-08-27: It’s the time of year when the local starlings and blackbirds hoover up the berries of the rowan in …
2023-08-27: Most of the pictures I took during this period were of people—friends and family. The only ones I’m …
2023-08-27: I’ve always limited my spending on photography Spending creates obligations and those will …
2023-08-27: One of the early excuses to “camera” I got with my first DSLR was a free midday concert that …
2023-08-27: “iCloud sucks and it really shouldn’t” It really does and it really shouldn’t
2023-08-26: My sister sent me a few more pictures of her #cat to post for #caturday. She, very sensibly, isn’t …
2023-08-26: I’m posting pigeon photos because during that time most of my photos were of people, at events and …
2023-08-26: In 2006 I finally got myself a digital SLR, a low-end Canon 350D. Taking pictures in Bristol meant …
2023-08-26: “Visiting OpenAI – jill/txt” Seems like OpenAI has started a charm offensive. Wining and dining …
2023-08-26: “Pants on Fire – Pixel Envy” But Evans does not give nearly enough weight to how often big industry …
2023-08-25: My first attempt at digital photography involved fairly low-end cameras. Despite not being the …
2023-08-25: Continuing with my posting of photos from my archives. These two photos couple of notable failures …
2023-08-25: That thing where somebody breathlessly talks about a “great” AI feature being added to an app they …
2023-08-24: “GitHub - orlp/polymur-hash: The PolymurHash universal hash function.”
2023-08-24: Final photos of the day. These were taken at an outdoor commitment ceremony for a couple of my …
2023-08-24: For some reason, I really enjoy photos of mundane, day-to-day, stuff. These are probably from 2003, …
2023-08-24: I’ve always been fond of taking pictures in urban green spaces, even when there’s no “there” there. …
2023-08-24: I’ve been posting some of the older photos I’ve taken. This one is one of the last pictures I took …
2023-08-24: “Ugly Numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal that AI Demand is Already Shrinking” A huge amount …
2023-08-24: “The Rise and Fall of ChatGPT? - by Gary Marcus” In less than a year, ChatGPT has gone from being …
2023-08-23: “Pluralistic: Supervised AI isn’t (23 August 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow” …
2023-08-23: “Use web components for what they’re good at” This is a solid and practical overview of …
2023-08-23: “Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science” In this paper, we have …
2023-08-23: “Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science” Any factual AI system …
2023-08-23: “Pros and cons of using Shadow DOM and style encapsulation” I’ve generally found …
2023-08-23: This old photo was taken in Ashton Court in 2002 or 2003, I think? I was using the Werra camera made …
2023-08-23: This photo was taken in the old cemetery in Clifton (I forget the name, it’s the one belonging to …
2023-08-23: Continuing with the reposting of my old photos. These are all from 2000, still using the battered …
2023-08-23: Is it possible to hyperventilate for two weeks straight? Just ordered review copies of the books …
2023-08-23: “Worrying about the NPM ecosystem | Sam Bleckley”
2023-08-23: “How to protect yourself from npm – Timo Tijhof”
2023-08-23: “less code, more software: The principles of product development flow” I’ve enjoyed all of …
2023-08-23: “View Transitions Break Incremental Rendering — ericportis.com”
2023-08-22: “Reloading a Document (and Preserving Query String Parameters) Using Only HTML - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-08-22: “Progressively Enhanced Form Validation, Part 3: Validating a checkbox group – Cloud Four”
2023-08-22: “Please size your inline SVGs :: Aaron Gustafson”
2023-08-21: “The modern era of research-backed software delivery” Essentially, making projects …
2023-08-21: “Lightweight software delivery methods” Following the example set at Honda, the …
2023-08-21: “Early software delivery models” Though not the intention… This phrase is …
2023-08-21: “A brief history of software delivery” These three essays provide a good overview of the …
2023-08-21: “Mail, run. — Ethan Marcotte”
2023-08-21: ‘“We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’
2023-08-20: Took this one using a Carl Zeiss Jena Werra about twenty years ago in Ashton Court, Bristol, IIRC.
2023-08-20: “Granularity walkers for textual descriptions”
2023-08-20: “Dialogue Is Still Really Hard to Hear – Pixel Envy” In my experience, there is generally a clear …
2023-08-19: “The New Gatekeepers: How Disney, Amazon, and Netflix Will Take Over Media” A report by …
2023-08-19: “Netflix and other streamers wield too much power over labor. Use antitrust law to break them up” …
2023-08-19: “Netflix and other streamers wield too much power over labor. Use antitrust law to break them up” …
2023-08-19: “Death Spiral of Hollywood Monopolies - by Alena Smith” Without regulation of these monopolies, …
2023-08-19: “Make Hollywood Great Again - BIG by Matt Stoller” The best way to understand what’s happening to …
2023-08-19: “Artificial Intelligence Lawsuit: AI-Generated Art Not Copyrightable – The Hollywood Reporter” This …
2023-08-18: “Short session expiration does not help security”
2023-08-18: Interesting looking clouds over Hellisheiði.
2023-08-18: “85. Timnit Gebru Looks at Corporate AI and Sees a Lot of Bad Science - Initiative for Digital …
2023-08-18: “Can’t lose what you never had: Claims about digital ownership and creation in the age of generative …
2023-08-18: “No, streaming is not more expensive than cable TV” This comparison was always bogus, not just …
2023-08-17: “Microsoft pulls AI-written article telling tourists to visit the Ottawa Food Bank - The Verge”
2023-08-17: “aria-haspopup and screen readers - Manuel Matuzović”
2023-08-17: I would love to read a financially-literate article that digs into how much of the streamer …
2023-08-17: “EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes” Now that they know that I could be dead …
2023-08-17: “New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl” The problem with …
2023-08-17: ‘The “Hero’s Journey” Is Nonsense - Tales of Times Forgotten’ The “Hero’s Journey” …
2023-08-16: “Why the Hollywood strike matters to all of us | Cognoscenti”
2023-08-16: “You Deserve a Tech Union is here! — Ethan Marcotte”
2023-08-16: “Don’t Throw “Consulting Services” Onto Your Website - DaedTech”
2023-08-16: “Accessibility is a part of inclusive design and disability rights) · Eric Eggert”
2023-08-16: “The Imminent Enshittification of the Internet” Generative models are an existential threat to …
2023-08-16: “Don’t expect quick fixes in ‘red-teaming’ of AI models. Security was an …
2023-08-16: “Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI - The Verge” I …
2023-08-16: “WordPress 6.3; breaking decades of CSS!” This issues I’ve highlighted are a product of seemingly …
2023-08-15: “ChatGPT answers more than half of software engineering questions incorrectly” That 40% didn’t spot …
2023-08-15: “/bɑs ˈtjɛ̃ no ˈse ʁɑ/ (hadess) | News: New responsibilities” Relevant to what I wrote the other day …
2023-08-15: I just published “You can’t debate bullshit” where I vent some of my frustrations with …
2023-08-15: “Unraveling the Digital Markets Act” Those defending Facebook should reevaluate their stance …
2023-08-15: “What exactly are the economics of AI? - by Gary Marcus” just because something is powered by AI …
2023-08-15: “It’s pretty rude of OpenAI to make their use of your content opt-out | hidde.blog”
2023-08-14: “There’s Meaning in the Ordering of the Web’s Tech Stack - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-08-14: “The bad year | Go Make Things” I relate so much to this. Been a shitty year on the whole. Hopefully …
2023-08-14: There’s an Icelandic phrase I’ve found to be extremely useful lately: “Þetta endar …
2023-08-14: “Heading off confusion: When do headings fail WCAG? - TPGi”
2023-08-13: What possesses programmers to deliberately try to make OSS LLM systems for generating whole fiction …
2023-08-13: “No regrets: Gender-affirming chest surgery in adults has long-term satisfaction | Ars Technica” …
2023-08-13: “AddyOsmani.com - Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand topics better.”
2023-08-13: “What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud?” Like I’ve been saying for months, the functionality …
2023-08-13: “These Women Warned Of AI’s Dangers And Risks Long Before ChatGPT – Rolling Stone”
2023-08-13: “ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day”
2023-08-12: “Not so private room: Zoom’s AI privacy fiasco exposes how vulnerable we are to Big Tech’s …
2023-08-12: I don’t think it’s possible for anybody who has read Ursula Franklin’s The Real World of Technology …
2023-08-12: “AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble” The similarities have been obvious for months now. …
2023-08-12: “Unions strike to save the world from bad TV and movies | New Scientist”
2023-08-12: “Zoom AI Backlash: TOS Update Says No Customer Content Used in Training - Variety” Must have found …
2023-08-11: Is it no longer possible to change the crop of image uploads in the micro.blog iOS app? Feels like …
2023-08-11: There are those who take photographs arranged beforehand and those who go out to discover the image …
2023-08-11: I just published “Authorship” This is a bit of a self-indulgent post where I’m …
2023-08-11: “AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype - Scientific American”
2023-08-11: “LoFi software and inverting our relationship to The Cloud – chadkohalyk.com”
2023-08-11: “Negative Space - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At” I strongly relate to what Ed is saying …
2023-08-11: “Fantasy Meets Reality – cabel.com”
2023-08-11: “As HashiCorp adopts the BSL, an era of open-source software might be ending” Relevant to what I …
2023-08-10: “Adactio: Journal—Automation” The problem I see with using LLMs for large-scale automation is that …
2023-08-10: “Progressively Enhanced HTML Accordion — Adrian Roselli”
2023-08-10: “Amazon removes books ‘generated by AI’ for sale under author’s name | Books | The Guardian” The …
2023-08-09: “Forgive The Writers, For We Are So Tired – Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds”
2023-08-09: “Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out | …
2023-08-09: “Scientists discover new ecosystem underneath hydrothermal vents” This is very cool.
2023-08-08: “What helps people get comfortable on the command line?”
2023-08-08: “How to piss off your entire audience in one simple step” This. Also, because tech cos broke the …
2023-08-08: “Maðurinn sem fór í leyfisleysi í Surtsey kærður til lögreglu” Do not fucking set foot on Surtsey …
2023-08-08: “Stop using Brave Browser - by Corbin Davenport” Another reason to stop using Brave is one you can …
2023-08-07: “I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming …
2023-08-07: “Zoom’s Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out”
2023-08-06: “Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence” While the human brain may have been the inspiration …
2023-08-06: “Degenerative AI in education | code acts in education” Resignation to AI as an inevitable feature …
2023-08-06: “Cleaning up a baby peacock sullied by a non-information spill | by Emily M. Bender | Aug, 2023 | …
2023-08-05: “Patreon issues are causing paused payouts and canceled subscriptions - The Verge” We’re seeing an …
2023-08-05: “Adactio: Links—Just normal web things.”
2023-08-05: “Just normal web things.”
2023-08-04: “Energy makes time | everything changes”
2023-08-04: ‘“AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers – and Isn’t Intelligent’ In their joint statement, US …
2023-08-04: “Non-Thoughts on the Open Source Initiative”
2023-08-04: “AddyOsmani.com - The value of a prototype is in the insight it imparts, not the code.”
2023-08-03: [“The Age Of Mediocrity - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed …
2023-08-03: ‘“If It Sounds Like Sci-Fi, It Probably Is” - Linguistics professor Emily M. Bender separates …
2023-08-03: “Five Things: August 3, 2023 — As in guillotine…”
2023-08-03: Almost got annoyed into a writing a blog post on some AI bullshit, but the feeling thankfully went …
2023-08-03: “Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security | Ars Technica” I’m …
2023-08-03: Always a bit annoying how consistently some tech types degrade themselves by insisting that language …
2023-08-03: “Movie extras worry they’ll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans : NPR”
2023-08-03: “‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models | Artificial …
2023-08-02: “Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For” Basically, the …
2023-08-02: “Why women were overrepresented in tech layoffs.” I know of at least one woman who was laid off …
2023-08-02: My 89 year old grandmother went to see the Barbie movie and heartily approved of it. Apparently it …
2023-08-02: “Tech experts are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This …
2023-08-02: “Knowledge Laundering - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-08-02: “Adactio: Links—Splitting the Web”
2023-08-02: “Splitting the Web”
2023-08-02: “Legal Subreddit Bans All Ex-Twitter Links Due To Safety Risk | Techdirt” This is going to happen a …
2023-08-02: “A New Attack Impacts ChatGPT—and No One Knows How to Stop It | WIRED”
2023-08-01: “Other People’s Busted Software is an Opportunity - Chris Coyier”
2023-08-01: Trying out Manjaro with Gnome instead of the usual Ubuntu. Immediately ran into wifi driver issues, …
2023-08-01: Look, heaven knows we need a counterweight against the fishing industry mafia here in Iceland so I …
2023-08-01: “Word Count 54: SAG-AFTRA has entered the game — Chocolate and Vodka” Again, if actors can’t earn a …
2023-07-31: “The Future of the Web is VNC – Terence Eden’s Blog” Google desperately needs to be broken up. …
2023-07-31: Was wondering why I felt wonky today. Then I went to check out loftgaedi.is and saw that sulphuric …
2023-07-31: “Remote Synthesis | Is Jamstack Officially Finished?”
2023-07-31: Seeing flaws in your work is an advantage, because it means you learned something from making said …
2023-07-30: ‘Eschatology › The “Promise” of “Easier” Programming’ It’s like saying we won’t need writing and …
2023-07-30: “Worldcoin: a solution in search of its problem”
2023-07-30: Me: constantly dissatisfied with everything I write, to the point of living with a constant …
2023-07-30: ‘“Ensuring Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI”: What those seven companies avoided committing to | by …
2023-07-30: “Pull Requests are cake or puppies - Textual”
2023-07-30: “Cis woman shares relentless transphobic attacks on her gender”
2023-07-29: Artificial Intelligence.
2023-07-29: “Shakespeare Serif – an experimental font based on the First Folio – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2023-07-29: ‘“AI” content and user centered design’ There are benefits to one-click-content-creation for …
2023-07-29: “Axess Lab | Toggles suck!”
2023-07-29: “Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t - Erin Kissane’s small internet website”
2023-07-29: “The ChatGPT revolution is another tech fantasy”
2023-07-28: “Techdirt’s down to zero results on Bing; meanwhile, Bing shows 1,760 for Lucire”
2023-07-28: “The size of the World Wide Web” I know it’s only one metric, but it sure does look like Bing is …
2023-07-27: “Weizenbaum examines computers and society - The Tech” I think the computer has from the beginning …
2023-07-27: “Nobody cares about your blog.”
2023-07-27: As if I was sad enough already about her death. From six years ago. “Sinead O’Connor is donating …
2023-07-26: “The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor” Really hoping that this research on …
2023-07-26: Fucking Taylorism. Still the tech industry’s default mode of management. Anyway, this is …
2023-07-26: “The boom times are over.” Amy Hoy is right, as usual.
2023-07-26: “Eleventy and CloudCannon: New Best Friends—zachleat.com” Feels like a good fit for both Eleventy …
2023-07-26: “Does writing really have to be so solitary? — Chocolate and Vodka” I’ve struggled with …
2023-07-26: “AI Does Not Help Programmers” What use do I have for a sloppy assistant? I can be sloppy just by …
2023-07-25: “Blockquotes in Screen Readers — Adrian Roselli”
2023-07-25: “Vision for W3C” Our vision is for a World Wide Web that is more inclusive, and more …
2023-07-25: That thing where you find an interesting blog that doesn’t have an RSS feed… “Too …
2023-07-25: “Formative posts – Eric Bailey” Seriously good reading list.
2023-07-25: “The Power of Being New: A Proven Recipe for High Impact | Hazel Weakly”
2023-07-24: Disinterest. Fucking hell is this shit tedious.
2023-07-24: “Writing Tools” One of my favourite books on writing.
2023-07-24: “Oppenheimer and AI — Emily F. Gorcenski” Rather, it’s the wholesale death of culture, the mass …
2023-07-23: “Antitrust Guidelines and Overthrowing a Corrupt Priesthood”
2023-07-22: The tourist urge towards self-destruction continues. A group of 60 tried to disregard warnings and …
2023-07-22: “Stop treating all of your content as if it were news – Rachel Andrew” This! x1000 this!
2023-07-22: “The affordance loop - Erin Kissane’s small internet website”
2023-07-21: If an app manages to look okay on every platform, but is actually so full of annoying UX bugs and …
2023-07-20: “Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced” I remain …
2023-07-20: “Business Model Fueling Silicon Valley Tech Companies May Be Illegal” This is what many of us in …
2023-07-20: “Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles - The New York Times” These companies …
2023-07-19: “siderea | How Professional Ethics Work” If I didn’t have a profession with an ethical code …
2023-07-19: “The Hereditarian Hypothesis and Scientific Racism - Kevin Bird” However, the …
2023-07-18: “Chris’ Corner: More Like CSBest - CodePen Blog”
2023-07-18: “AddyOsmani.com - Software engineering: problem-solving and critical-thinking”
2023-07-15: “The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training”
2023-07-13: “Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: ‘These are the people who could actually pause AI if they wanted to’” …
2023-07-13: “Adactio: Links—Pulling my site from Google over AI training – Tracy Durnell”
2023-07-13: “Pulling my site from Google over AI training – Tracy Durnell” Definitely going to have a closer …
2023-07-13: ‘New Low in the Accessibility “Industry:” Overlay Company Sues Globally-Recognized Accessibility …
2023-07-12: ‘How to Identify “Truthy” Tech Trends’
2023-07-12: “Stop Being Fancy - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-07-11: “Adactio: Journal—Permission” We can rescind our invitation to Google.
2023-07-10: “The Wizard House” Either it’s all of us or it’s none of us, because if we leave the …
2023-07-10: “Nowhere to retvrn | Red Pepper” The idea that women had no business outside the home not only …
2023-07-08: “How to report better on artificial intelligence - Columbia Journalism Review”
2023-07-08: “The new font-face syntax”
2023-07-07: “Adactio: Links—Legibility”
2023-07-07: “RFC 9413: Maintaining Robust Protocols”
2023-07-06: So NImona is a lot of fun. Different from the graphic novel in structure but in a way that works.
2023-07-06: Sure sounds like Mozilla is planning on pushing ahead with “AI” garbage in MDN once the …
2023-07-06: “Can We Query the Root: The complexities of containment, overflow, and” What I’ve …
2023-07-06: “Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift” This. Absolutely this.
2023-07-06: “Language-Level Toll Roads - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” I really disagree with this framing. The KV …
2023-07-06: “Deno 1.35: A fast and convenient way to build web servers” I really enjoy working with Deno. …
2023-07-06: “Talking about a ‘schism’ is ahistorical | by Emily M. Bender | Jul, 2023 | Medium”
2023-07-05: “How elite schools like Stanford became fixated on the AI apocalypse: A billionaire-backed …
2023-07-05: “A Deep Dive Into SVG Path Commands”
2023-07-05: “Tiffin Tom: Fish, chips and a side of identity theft” This is an amazing story about …
2023-07-05: ‘Adactio: Articles—“Web3” and “AI”’
2023-07-04: So, earlier today I published “The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models …
2023-07-04: “Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI” 😬
2023-07-04: “the article element and screen readers - Manuel Matuzović”
2023-07-04: “Word Count 53: The state of AI and the Goodreads fiasco”
2023-07-01: “Gulls choose what to eat by watching humans, study suggests | Science | The Guardian”
2023-07-01: “MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information · Issue #9208 · mdn/yari · …
2023-06-30: “On Hate Scaling Laws For Data-Swamps” Highly recommended. This paper looks at the effects of scale …
2023-06-30: “That old WIRED ideology - by Dave Karpf” If you’re too young to remember just how awful Wired used …
2023-06-30: “Bullet Points: the SSC lives, VC financial logic kills everything it touches, and the difference …
2023-06-30: “The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem”
2023-06-30: “Out and Proud for the Miners” Great interview.
2023-06-30: “Authors Sue OpenAI Claiming Mass Copyright Infringement of Novels – The Hollywood Reporter” …
2023-06-29: “ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces class action lawsuit over data to train AI - The Washington Post”
2023-06-29: Always bear in mind that most tech companies have lost between 10-20% of their staff. Moderation …
2023-06-29: “Next-gen content farms are using AI-generated text to spin up junk websites | MIT Technology …
2023-06-28: “The Perils of ‘Innovator’ Mindset” Confident idiots who think regulation is for …
2023-06-28: “2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated From a Barn in Massachusetts” …
2023-06-28: “Adactio: Links—Why I moved on from Figma – No Handoff”
2023-06-28: “Why I moved on from Figma – No Handoff” What I do instead is work directly on …
2023-06-28: “The AI is eating itself - by Casey Newton - Platformer”
2023-06-27: I see that a bunch of ostensibly business-minded people either have immediately forgotten about all …
2023-06-27: Just got a weird phone call from somebody pretending to be from the FTC and trying to keep me on the …
2023-06-27: “AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born - The Verge” I have mixed feelings …
2023-06-26: “How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)”
2023-06-26: “Ecological doom-loops: Why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected” …
2023-06-25: “XML is the future” About developer hype culture. Or the pop culture as Alan Kay used to …
2023-06-25: “Arnold’s Docuseries: A Case Study in Online Content Pollution – On my Om” The new stuff on …
2023-06-23: “How AI can distort human beliefs. Models can convey biases and false information to …
2023-06-23: “Inside the AI Factory: the humans that make tech seem human - The Verge”
2023-06-23: ‘Get a clue, says panel about buzzy AI tech: it’s being “deployed as surveillance”‘
2023-06-22: “Adobe Stock creators aren’t happy with Firefly, the company’s ‘commercially …
2023-06-22: “Amazon’s allegedly “dangerous and illegal” warehouses spur Senate probe | Ars Technica”
2023-06-22: “The Best Time to Regulate A.I. Is Today – Pixel Envy” Give existing regulators extra …
2023-06-22: “In new AI hype frenzy, tech is applying the label to everything now” But they also …
2023-06-22: “AI Expert Says ChatGPT Is Way Stupider Than People Realize”
2023-06-21: “Announcing my new book, You Deserve a Tech Union. — Ethan Marcotte”
2023-06-21: “Daring Fireball: DPReview Found a Buyer: Gear Patrol” There’s something fundamentally wrong with a …
2023-06-21: “Cascade Layers are useless* - Manuel Matuzović” Layers have only been out for a short while but …
2023-06-20: “You Can Have It All – Cloud Four” The web today is an amazingly capable platform let down by …
2023-06-20: “The Next Phase of Eleventy: Return of the Side Project” Big fan of Eleventy, used it …
2023-06-20: “How to Prepare for the Deluge of Generative AI on Social Media”
2023-06-20: “The Dot-com surge - The History of the Web” Those are the glory days that today’s tech industry is …
2023-06-20: “The cavalry have arrived. But not for long. – Hi, I’m Heather Burns”
2023-06-20: Hashing
2023-06-20: “Exclusive: OpenAI Lobbied E.U. to Water Down AI Regulation | Time” I had been wondering …
2023-06-19: “Button types” I really like this idea. Declarative button actions would make many web …
2023-06-19: Today’s post, “A prayer wheel for capitalism”, should lose me a few newsletter …
2023-06-19: “The New CSS · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer”
2023-06-19: “Google doesn’t want its employees using Bard code • The Register” Who’s willing to bet that …
2023-06-18: “🤦🏽♂️ No, GPT4 can’t ace MIT” Most “AI” research is bad science whose only “value” comes from …
2023-06-18: “The Elements of AI Ethics”
2023-06-17: “If You Have an Enemy, Then Buy Them a Car: Gig Workers vs. Multinational Corporations in India”
2023-06-17: “AI Hype-Driven Development - Parallels in History. Recurring Patterns from Simulmatics to the …
2023-06-17: “I Am a Careless Person and AI Is Smarter. A Self Fulfilling Prophecy” I was struck by …
2023-06-17: “Probable events poison reality - by Rob Horning”
2023-06-17: Warner Bros included a deepfake of George Reeves as Superman in the new Flash movie? That can’t be …
2023-06-17: It’s kind of weird to see frequent “the camera didn’t destroy painting; AI art won’t destroy art” …
2023-06-17: Happy independence, Iceland! youtu.be/7IwuFU4aw…
2023-06-16: Just a reminder that we’re solidly in bubble territory now, which means that you need to be …
2023-06-16: “The customers might be human, but the audience is Google” Looks like most of Google’s …
2023-06-15: “How CRDTs make multiplayer text editing part of Zed’s DNA” Even long edit …
2023-06-15: “The gotchas of CSS Nesting | Kilian Valkhof” Sometimes it feels like I’m the only web …
2023-06-14: “The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget” Indeed, the …
2023-06-14: “Good work is not enough — aows” We do not become what we are today overnight; …
2023-06-14: “My thoughts on Apple Vision Pro” Thus, I would implore developers to charge separately …
2023-06-13: “Positioning anchored popovers | hidde.blog”
2023-06-13: “Adactio: Journal—Days of style and standards”
2023-06-13: “Minute Rice, Minute Text, Minute Websites - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” The difference is …
2023-06-13: “margin-trim as a best practice? - Chris Coyier”
2023-06-13: “Did GPT-4 Hire And Then Lie To a Task Rabbit Worker to Solve a CAPTCHA?” Note that the …
2023-06-12: “Plagiarism Engine: Google’s Content-Swiping AI Could Break the Internet | Tom’s …
2023-06-12: “What’s the game?” Where I ponder a bit about WTF I’m doing.
2023-06-12: “GPT on the platform: Data, actions, and outcomes - Meta Stack Exchange”
2023-06-12: “Ghost in the Cloud | Issue 28 | n+1” AGI and the singularity is such a fucking …
2023-06-11: “Dashboard is reborn in macOS Sonoma. Apple: bring back these lost Mac features too” …
2023-06-11: “Is GitHub Copilot Any Good? — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho” basically everything it …
2023-06-10: “LLMs are good at playing you - lcamtuf’s thing”
2023-06-10: “As Smoke Fills the Sky, Google’s New AI Gives Wildly Inaccurate Info on Air …
2023-06-10: “Iceland passes historic conversion therapy ban and yes, it’s trans-inclusive” Some good …
2023-06-10: It’s disconcerting how many people assume current tech can be scaled exponentially over the …
2023-06-10: “Modern CSS For Dynamic Component-Based Architecture | Modern CSS Solutions”
2023-06-10: “Cascade Layers | 12 Days of Web”
2023-06-09: “Today’s AI is unreasonable - Anil Dash” Good post. Tactfully elides the fact that …
2023-06-09: “ChatGPT Goes to Court. The fault lies not in our machines, but… | by Jeff Jarvis | Whither …
2023-06-09: “On Jackpot Technologies, or, what Apple’s new headset is actually for“ A grim …
2023-06-09: “Vertical rhythm using CSS lh and rlh units | pawelgrzybek.com” TIL that this exists.
2023-06-09: “No, ‘AI’ Will Not Fix Accessibility — Adrian Roselli”
2023-06-09: “AlphaDev uncovered new sorting algorithms that led to improvements in the LLVM” As …
2023-06-09: “Assume the Position—A Labelling Story - TPGi”
2023-06-09: “Using linear() for better animation”
2023-06-08: “Deepfake Porn Victims Are Seeking Federal Protections Through Legislation | Teen Vogue” …
2023-06-07: “History revealed – Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall’s blog”
2023-06-07: “Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta” I know it’s popular to only acknowledge …
2023-06-07: “Introducing Jetpack AI Assistant in WordPress.com” Do you think this will: Level up …
2023-06-07: “Modern CSS in Real Life - Chris Coyier”
2023-06-07: “FBI warns of increasing use of AI-generated deepfakes in sextortion schemes | Ars …
2023-06-07: “TV’s Streaming Model Is Broken. It’s Also Not Going Away.”
2023-06-06: ‘Google’s Top Result for “Johannes Vermeer” Is an AI-Generated Version of …
2023-06-05: “AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That’s a problem.” AI chatbots have a …
2023-06-05: “Microsoft 365, including Outlook and Word, goes offline for thousands” “Why do we …
2023-06-05: “Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad …
2023-06-05: “Dear Stack Overflow, Inc.” Specifically, moderators are no longer allowed to remove …
2023-06-05: “Tech Elite’s AI Ideologies Have Racist Foundations, Say AI Ethicists”
2023-06-04: “Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values - by John Warner”
2023-06-04: There’s a good chance that in a year or two we’ll see a spike in hard to replicate bugs, where …
2023-06-04: “Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain”
2023-06-04: “Maps To The “Gold”” The current state of the art’s been creeping up …
2023-06-04: “Ayyyyyy Eyeeeee. The lie that raced around the world… | by Cory Doctorow | Jun, 2023 | …
2023-06-04: “Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good” This is what I use most …
2023-06-02: “How the media is covering ChatGPT - Columbia Journalism Review”
2023-06-02: Incredibly disappointing to see a bunch of smart poeple do a “nonono I don’t actually agree with the …
2023-06-02: “Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-06-02: “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow”
2023-06-02: That article about an “AI” drone killing its operator in a simulation is a complete fabrication. …
2023-06-01: “I can just suck up all of the data in the world to build my model and not pay anybody anything” …
2023-06-01: “On Understanding Power and Technology” The current “existential threat” framing is …
2023-06-01: “Lessons from Soviet Russia on deploying small nuclear generators | daverupert.com”
2023-06-01: We’re going to need to come up with AI bubble coping strategies. The epic “AI voice” is taking over …
2023-05-31: “What is the real point of all these letters warning about AI?” Quotes some smart …
2023-05-31: “Biden’s former tech adviser on what Washington is missing about AI - The Washington …
2023-05-31: “Against Predictive Optimization”
2023-05-31: “‘This robot causes harm’: National Eating Disorders Association’s new chatbot advises people …
2023-05-31: “Yes, you should be worried about AI – but Matrix analogies hide a more insidious …
2023-05-31: It’s heartening that I’m starting to get anti-AI SEO hustle emails 😄
2023-05-30: One thing’s for sure. As long as the primary focus of AI discourse is either AGI nonsense or similar …
2023-05-30: Oh, ffs! I come back to work after a bank holiday weekend and see that the AI industry is ramping up …
2023-05-29: this is our second blast of abusive traffic from an AWS customer today apparently from an AI company …
2023-05-29: “AI statement” From Clarkesworld We believe that governments should be seeking advice …
2023-05-28: “Excluding GPLed code from training data sets and only training on permissive licenses is …
2023-05-28: I know Harlan Ellison is a bit of controversial figure (i.e. a dick) but on this he wasn’t …
2023-05-28: I wish I was more optimistic about large language models, but everything I’m seeing at the …
2023-05-28: “Chile’s Atacama Desert has become a fast fashion dumping ground”
2023-05-28: “How Congress Fell for OpenAI and Sam Altman’s AI Magic Tricks”
2023-05-28: “Workers Are Terrified About AI, So What Can They Do About It?”
2023-05-28: “Brown M&Ms | blarg” Canary questions.
2023-05-27: “Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People” What it really is is a form of …
2023-05-27: “Opinion: AI tools like ChatGPT are built on mass copyright infringement - The Globe and …
2023-05-27: “Absentee Capitalism - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At” Executive excitement …
2023-05-27: “The Next Larger Context. “Always design a thing by considering… | by Camille Fournier | May, …
2023-05-26: “Optimum tic-tac-toe” > Something to keep in mind the next time someone tries to …
2023-05-26: “Link Preload as Image - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-05-26: “AI and book bans are pretty existential in terms of the threat they represent to …
2023-05-26: “Where does my computer get the time from?”
2023-05-26: It strikes me that ChatGPT-style fine-tuning is in effect specifically optimising for The Barnum or …
2023-05-26: “Why we’re bad at CSS” I like this. Personally, tho, I think it’s less that the …
2023-05-25: “Markdown images are an anti-pattern” HTML image markup is also easier to remember, IMO.
2023-05-25: “Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control”
2023-05-25: “Five Things: May 25, 2023”
2023-05-25: “Thought experiment in the National Library of Thailand | by Emily M. Bender” The only …
2023-05-25: “Tina Turner remembered by Mad Max director George Miller: ‘She was the opposite of a diva’ | …
2023-05-24: Wrote a short blog post explaining why I felt the need to make needtoknow.fyi “‘Generative AI: …
2023-05-24: “New EPIC Report Sheds Light on Generative A.I. Harms” Had a quick read through this …
2023-05-24: “Generative AI: What You Need To Know” gives you an overview of the main topics in …
2023-05-24: I’ve rejigged “Generative AI: What You Need To Know” to work as a free resource. …
2023-05-24: “Webinar: Alex North in conversation. Join us at 19:00 BST on Thursday 8 June for a …
2023-05-24: I wonder how many people realise that the theme of Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Electric …
2023-05-23: “What Will Transformers Transform?” If you are interacting with the output of a GPT …
2023-05-23: “What Will Transformers Transform?” GPT-n cannot reason, and it has no model of the …
2023-05-23: “Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already And stop confusing performance with competence” No, …
2023-05-23: “Review by glecharles - The Intelligence Illusion | The StoryGraph” Whether …
2023-05-23: “TV writer David Simon weighs in on the Writers Guild of America strike : NPR” If …
2023-05-23: “A Well Known URL For Your Personal Avatar - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” Any reason why this …
2023-05-23: If you have to complain about EU behaviour, complain about the drive to break End-to-End encryption …
2023-05-23: Predictably the tech industry is reacting with outrage at the EU deciding that the US is …
2023-05-22: Remember back when tech bubbles were lightweight fluff like “NoSQL means you don’t need …
2023-05-22: Apparently “I let ChatGPT control my life for X days/hours” has become a genre of Youtube videos. 🤨
2023-05-22: I decided I didn’t like the original title for this week’s newsletter entry, so I …
2023-05-22: In addition to being potentially vulnerable to black-hat keyword manipulation and plundering the …
2023-05-22: Watch for bait-and-switch. Intentionally or not, some leader-level positions with purportedly large …
2023-05-22: “The Hawthorne Effect or Observer Bias in User Research” Rather than mitigating it, IME most rely on …
2023-05-22: “The Interpretive Dance”
2023-05-22: They should not call themselves “I” and they should not refer to themselves and humans as “we.” …
2023-05-22: “Resisting AI: A Review”
2023-05-22: ‘There was all sorts of toxic behaviour’: Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and …
2023-05-21: “The Senate’s hearing on AI regulation was dangerously friendly” A number of experts …
2023-05-21: “The Urgency of Moving from Bias to Power”
2023-05-21: An important thing to note is that whenever an AI vendor says that “we don’t understand …
2023-05-21: “Why Timnit Gebru Isn’t Waiting for Big Tech to Fix AI’s Problems“
2023-05-21: Is there another micro.blog client that has a usable sharing widget? Because if I can’t find a …
2023-05-21: Well, this sucks. Micro.blog’s new iOS client is a complete downgrade on the iPad. Scaled up phone …
2023-05-21: That thing when romance author Twitter shows a deeper and more technical understanding of language …
2023-05-21: So is there a greater bullshit phrase than “latent spaces” as used by AI fans?
2023-05-20: Worrying in public seems to be the theme of the day for me. Just published “Writing when tech …
2023-05-20: “Data Statements: From Technical Concept to Community Practice - ACM Journal on Responsible …
2023-05-20: “Pluralistic: Venture predation”
2023-05-19: “Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold” …
2023-05-19: “It continues… – Neil Clarke” Every paying outlet—even many that only ‘pay’ in attention—is going to …
2023-05-19: “The Fanfic Sex Trope That Caught a Plundering AI Red-Handed” If, like me, you get the login wall, …
2023-05-19: “Debt Collectors Want To Use AI Chatbots To Hustle People For Money” So, this sort of stuff is …
2023-05-18: Just been collecting some of what people have said about my two books and I’m honestly …
2023-05-18: So, I managed somehow, in some way without realising, to close all tabs in iPad Safari. Again. And I …
2023-05-18: “The web’s most important decision - The History of the Web”
2023-05-18: “This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale - WIRED” Generative AI is amazing for fraud. It’s quickly …
2023-05-18: “Respeecher’s CEO on working on Star Wars, Book of Boba Fett Luke, & more” Human voice gives …
2023-05-18: I don’t think people appreciate just how much work people do to accomplish some of the more …
2023-05-17: The Intelligence Illusion is full of practical down-to-earth advice based on plenty of research …
2023-05-17: I just published “The truth about the EU AI Act and foundation models, or why you should not rely on …
2023-05-17: “Adactio: Journal—Nailspotting” 🙂
2023-05-17: “Adactio: Links—The Industrial Hammer Complex”
2023-05-17: “The Industrial Hammer Complex”
2023-05-17: “Patience is its own reward — Chocolate and Vodka”
2023-05-17: Even if AGI weren’t science fiction, the first successful one would be less “skynet destroys us all” …
2023-05-17: “Texas A&M Professor Wrongly Accuses Class of Cheating With ChatGPT – Rolling Stone”
2023-05-17: “Model Card Regulatory Check” This Space matches information in model cards to proposed regulatory …
2023-05-17: “Ethics & Society at Hugging Face - a Hugging Face Space by society-ethics”
2023-05-17: “Model Card Regulatory Check - OECD.AI” So Hugging Face and its ethics team is doing an amazing job …
2023-05-16: “On cats – Going Medieval” medieval people fucking loved cats.
2023-05-16: “ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft.” If the tech industry wanted to …
2023-05-16: I’m going to have to write a blog post on what the current version of the EU AI Act actually …
2023-05-16: “Indirect Prompt Injection via YouTube Transcripts”
2023-05-16: “Indirect Prompt Injection via YouTube Transcripts · Embrace The Red” 🤨
2023-05-16: “I just did a test to apply as a front end developer – and things aren’t going well - Christian …
2023-05-16: I expected VC types and hangers-on to uncritically accept lies about the EU AI Act. That’s normal …
2023-05-15: “Ireland’s privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher”
2023-05-15: “Algorithms’ Transparency Problem is Everyone’s Problem”
2023-05-15: Tech punditry “EU AI Act means that OSS language models don’t get safe harbour protections! Model …
2023-05-15: Looks like the tech industry and media is having an apopleptic fit about the proposed EU AI act. …
2023-05-15: So far, generative AI is a one hit wonder among consumers. The only service with uptake is ChatGPT. …
2023-05-15: I just published “Google Bard is a glorious reinvention of black-hat SEO spam and …
2023-05-15: “Adactio: Links—Google’s AI Hype Circle”
2023-05-15: “Google’s AI Hype Circle” Medium-free link to Doctorow’s post.
2023-05-14: “The Slow Death of Hollywood” From 2019, but useful background to the current situation.
2023-05-14: “The Algorithm is a Lie” But when it comes to picking and choosing what TV shows and …
2023-05-14: “Can a Writers Strike Save Hollywood from Monopoly?”
2023-05-14: “Google’s AI Hype Circle” The entire case for “AI” as a disruptive tool worth trillions …
2023-05-14: “How Iceland sold the same Green Electricity twice - Industry Decarbonization Newsletter”
2023-05-14: “Google Bard hits over 180 countries and territories—none are in the EU - Ars Technica” …
2023-05-14: “On browser compatibility and support baselines · molily” My fear is that Google’s Baseline …
2023-05-14: “AI and Data Scraping on the Archive - Archive of Our Own” We’d like to share what …
2023-05-13: “GitHub and OpenAI fail to wriggle out of Copilot lawsuit • The Register” This one is likely to have …
2023-05-13: “Amazon Is Still Running an Injury Mill for Workers”
2023-05-12: TIL that the screenplay for Honey I Shrunk the Kids was written by horror legends Brian Yuzna and …
2023-05-12: I just published “‘What next?’ he asks with trepidation” where I have a low-key anxiety …
2023-05-12: “The Computers Are Coming For The Wrong Jobs”
2023-05-12: ‘Google Neural Net “AI” Is About To Destroy Half The Independent Web – Ian Welsh’ But in the larger …
2023-05-12: “Humans and algorithms work together — so study them together”
2023-05-12: “ChatGPT is powered by these contractors making $15 an hour. Two OpenAI contractors spoke to …
2023-05-12: “The downside of AI: Former Google scientist Timnit Gebru warns of the technology’s built-in …
2023-05-12: “Google wants to take over the web” The threat here isn’t sci-fi fantasies of …
2023-05-12: “Cats Migrated to Europe 7,000 Years Earlier Than Once Thought”
2023-05-12: “Five Things: May 11, 2023 — As in guillotine…”
2023-05-12: “Data Statements: From Technical Concept to Community Practice - ACM Journal on Responsible …
2023-05-12: “Fake Pictures of People of Color Won’t Fix AI Bias - WIRED” “Despite being designed to empower and …
2023-05-12: “Understanding ChatGPT: A Triumph of Rhetoric” Second, we need to stop thinking of ChatGPT as …
2023-05-12: “On the Impossible Safety of Large AI Models” Apparently, the writers of this paper—working for …
2023-05-12: “Data Harm Record – Data Justice Lab”
2023-05-11: “EU lawmakers back transparency and safety rules for generative AI - TechCrunch” This is pretty …
2023-05-11: “A quote from PaLM 2 Technical Report (PDF)” That PaLM 2 models are smaller than PaLM 1 tracks with …
2023-05-11: “’We Shouldn’t Regulate AI Until We See Meaningful Harm’: Microsoft Economist to …
2023-05-10: “Baseline” Looks like a genuinely useful addition to web dev documentation.
2023-05-10: “I unintentionally created a biased AI algorithm 25 years ago – tech companies are still …
2023-05-10: “Pluralistic: Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms”
2023-05-10: “On Generative AI and Satisficing - by Dave Karpf” There is not $100 billion+ of revenues to be …
2023-05-10: “Artificial Intelligence: Pearson takes legal action over use of its content to train AI - Evening …
2023-05-10: “MEPs to vote on proposed ban on ‘Big Brother’ AI facial recognition on streets”
2023-05-10: “Writers On Set - Not a Blog”
2023-05-09: All of this research and writing has gone into a book, on the risks of using generative AI at work: …
2023-05-09: The latest link post that gathers up the links I posted last week is here: “Poisonings, …
2023-05-09: I put together an overview of all of my writing on AI here: “My writing on AI; the story so …
2023-05-09: “The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes”
2023-05-09: “Word Count 47: Why we should all care about the WGA writer’s strike — Chocolate and Vodka”
2023-05-09: I wonder how long it’ll take for fans of AI art to discover that it both has a specific aesthetic …
2023-05-08: “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are - Naomi Klein” Because what we are …
2023-05-07: Always fun to see AI art enthusiasts siding with fascists in denouncing abstract artists like …
2023-05-07: “‘I didn’t see him show up’: Ex-Googlers blast ‘AI godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton’s silence on …
2023-05-07: “Patterns, Prophets and Priests For a good chunk of the past 10 or 12 years, it’s felt to me like …
2023-05-06: “The World Wide Web became available to the broader public 30 years ago : NPR”
2023-05-05: “Meredith Whittaker: Consciousness isn’t AI risk—it’s the corporations”
2023-05-05: “AI is already writing books, websites and online recipes - The Washington Post”
2023-05-05: The last one is “AI code copilots are backwards-facing tools in a novelty-seeking …
2023-05-05: The second is about how incredibly common pseudo-science and snake oil is in AI research. …
2023-05-05: I’ve been publishing extracts from The Intelligence Illusion as essays. The first and most …
2023-05-05: I just published “AI code copilots are backwards-facing tools in a novelty-seeking …
2023-05-05: “Scary ‘Emergent’ AI Abilities Are Just a ‘Mirage’ Produced by Researchers, …
2023-05-04: “The UX Research Reckoning is Here”
2023-05-04: “Google shared AI knowledge with the world — until ChatGPT caught up” When he uses …
2023-05-04: “Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?”
2023-05-04: “GitHub Copilot AI pair programmer: Asset or Liability?” Copilot can become an asset …
2023-05-04: “We Have No Moat And neither does OpenAI” This is an interesting document, ostensibly a …
2023-05-04: Here’s a ‘fun’ statistic. Microsoft says that among Copilot users: 40% of the …
2023-05-04: “Mojo may be the biggest programming advance in decades”
2023-05-04: “fast.ai - Mojo may be the biggest programming language advance in decades” Mostly vapour at the …
2023-05-04: “Updog” I was writing for me, all along.
2023-05-03: “The other side of egoism” Mandy Brown is easily one of my favourite writers on the web …
2023-05-03: “Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript” Between training …
2023-05-03: “Web3’s fake version of Web history - by Dave Karpf”
2023-05-03: “Poisoning Language Models During Instruction Tuning” So, large AI models are a security …
2023-05-03: This essay I wrote back in February remains relevant: “Generative AI is the tech …
2023-05-03: Finally got around to watching this video where Adam Conover interviews Emily Bender and Timnit …
2023-05-03: ‘And my reaction to such claims is like my reaction to crypto: what are they smoking? Or is it …
2023-05-03: I just published “Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil” It’s important to be …
2023-05-03: “Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars – Eric Bailey”
2023-05-02: In case you missed it, I have a book out that’s a critical analysis of language and diffusion …
2023-05-02: Too many AI pundits, pro or con, are either misogynistic dudes who really want AGI to happen, or …
2023-05-02: “Artificial General Intelligence and the bird brains of Silicon Valley” 4700 words on the biggest …
2023-05-02: “150 African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize at Landmark Nairobi …
2023-05-02: “Give it the Craigslist test - Erica Heinz”
2023-05-02: “‘It’s the opposite of art’: why illustrators are furious about AI”
2023-05-02: I just published “Artificial General Intelligence and the bird brains of Silicon Valley” 4700 words …
2023-05-02: “A Short History of Eugenics: From Plato to Nick Bostrom - Truthdig”
2023-05-02: “The Luring Test: AI and the engineering of consumer trust” Given these many concerns …
2023-05-02: I just published “Artificial General Intelligence and the bird brains of Silicon Valley” …
2023-05-02: I haven’t read the “AI does mind-reading! Hyperventilate!” survey. But it should be noted that …
2023-05-01: “Users demand X! Any business that doesn’t do X will fail!” “Do you have …
2023-05-01: “Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?” This is an interesting …
2023-05-01: “AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms”
2023-05-01: “Rise of the Newsbots: AI-Generated News Websites Proliferating Online”
2023-05-01: “Circles and Momentum” This is an improvement over other models. Still the wrong metaphor. Tech only …
2023-05-01: “Blue skies over Mastodon”
2023-05-01: If you want to make a grown Icelandic socialist cry, this’d do it Maístjarnan, “The May Star”. …
2023-05-01: Obligatory, international workers day post youtu.be/UztKxSsEE…
2023-04-30: “A research team airs the messy truth about AI in medicine” In some instances, an AI could lead to …
2023-04-30: Common types of “AI beats humans at X” studies “We compared ChatGPT to a bunch of reddit trolls!” …
2023-04-30: “Avoiding the Rewrite Trap. A common challenge for engineering… - by Camille Fournier - Apr, 2023 - …
2023-04-30: “Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back”
2023-04-30: “Deno KV - Simon Willison’s TILs” This looks really interesting. Looks like you could use the open …
2023-04-29: “Stanford Professor: Mass Tech Layoffs Caused by ‘Social Contagion’”
2023-04-29: It’s becoming quite clear that many—if not most—people working in AI believe that language models …
2023-04-29: “AI in News Reporting: A Test Is Coming for Journalism Ethics - Bloomberg” The signal-to-noise ratio …
2023-04-29: “MEPs seal the deal on Artificial Intelligence Act”
2023-04-29: “EU proposes new copyright rules for generative AI - Reuters” Companies deploying generative AI …
2023-04-28: “The Intelligence Illusion: A practical guide to the business risks of Generative AI” …
2023-04-28: “A Photographer Tried to Get His Photos Removed from an AI Dataset. He Got an Invoice Instead.”
2023-04-28: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Amazon Q1 2023 Financials” And why is it legal for Amazon to be the prime …
2023-04-28: “The Cliffs Notes paradox” I didn’t realise people genuinely thought summaries led to actual …
2023-04-28: Looks like generative AI is going to show us what sort of economic value mediocrity and arrested …
2023-04-28: “Using crypto for crime is not a bug — it’s an industry feature - Financial Times”
2023-04-28: “AI translation jeopardizes Afghan asylum claims - Rest of World”
2023-04-27: “Five Things: April 27, 2023 — As in guillotine…”
2023-04-27: ‘False Alarm: How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students “High Risk”’
2023-04-27: Fjandinn.
2023-04-27: “Too Big to Challenge?. I find it deeply disturbing that the… - by danah boyd - Apr, 2023 - Medium”
2023-04-27: ‘“A Critical Division of Starfleet Intelligence”: Section 31 and the Normalization of the Security …
2023-04-27: “Does OAuth2 have a usability problem? (yes!)”
2023-04-26: “Quantifying ChatGPT’s gender bias” We found that both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are strongly biased on one …
2023-04-26: “‘As an AI language model’: the phrase that shows how AI is polluting the web - The Verge”
2023-04-26: “Forums will be destroyed by Blogs,” they said. “Forums are doomed.” “Blogs will be destroyed by …
2023-04-25: “FTC Chair Khan and Officials from DOJ, CFPB and EEOC Release Joint Statement on AI” …
2023-04-25: “An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic” Why should these companies sit idly by …
2023-04-25: “Noncompliance by default with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR/RGPD) · Issue #303 · …
2023-04-25: “Silence Isn’t Consent”
2023-04-24: “Snapchat sees spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the ‘My AI’ feature, calling for its …
2023-04-24: It’s kind of worrying to see how many software developers are convinced that emergent …
2023-04-23: “The Dark Side of the Mac App Store: How Scam Apps and Shady Developers Are Preying on …
2023-04-23: “Deno vs. Node: No One is Ready for the Move” I actually prefer Deno these days, much nicer …
2023-04-22: “A quote from Dan Sheehan”
2023-04-22: “Parrots taught to video call each other become less lonely, finds research - Animal behaviour - The …
2023-04-21: “Adactio: Journal—Read-only web apps”
2023-04-21: That AI is providing some companies with rhetorical cover for doing layoffs that they were planning …
2023-04-20: “Schumacher family planning legal action over AI ‘interview’ with F1 great” What the …
2023-04-20: ‘Discord’s New “AI” Chatbot Is a Useless, Miserable Nightmare’
2023-04-20: “Evaluating Verifiability in Generative Search Engines” On average, a mere 51.5% of …
2023-04-20: “From Bitter Ground” My friend, Tom Abba, has released a narrative experience that weaves together a …
2023-04-19: “OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it” These methods, and the sheer size of the data …
2023-04-19: “GayIceland sits down with Álfur Birkir, chairperson of Iceland’s National Queer Organization …
2023-04-19: “See the websites that make AI bots like ChatGPT sound so smart - Washington Post” This kind of …
2023-04-19: “Is Critical Thinking the Most Important Skill for Software Engineers? - The Pragmatic Engineer”
2023-04-19: “Google’s Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say” One former employee …
2023-04-19: I’ve put together a web page for my soon-to-be-released book on the business risks of language …
2023-04-19: “Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-04-19: “Google CEO peddles #AIhype on CBS 60 minutes - by Emily M. Bender”
2023-04-19: “The Calm Web: A Solution to Our Scary and Divisive Online World - Calibre”
2023-04-19: “Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems - The New York Times” If you had any …
2023-04-19: “Google calls for relaxing of Australia’s copyright laws so AI can mine websites for information” …
2023-04-19: “AI Users Are Neither AI Nor Users - by Debbie Levitt - Apr, 2023 - R Before D” These are not …
2023-04-19: “Sorry AI, but User Research is More Than Just Predictive Text” Feedback would be generic at best, …
2023-04-18: “Competition authorities need to move fast and break up AI” Without the robust …
2023-04-18: “Google CEO peddles #AIhype on CBS 60 minutes - by Emily M. Bender” if you create ignorance about …
2023-04-18: “Stop Treating AI Models Like People”
2023-04-18: I hesitate to link to debunks, because all too often it doesn’t do much more than help spread the …
2023-04-17: “A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America” This sounds like a not good …
2023-04-17: “AIs can write for us but will we actually want them to? - Bryan Braun - Frontend Developer” Algogen …
2023-04-16: “The cloudy layers of modern-day programming”
2023-04-16: “It takes a body to understand the world – why ChatGPT and other language AIs don’t know what …
2023-04-16: “Efficiency trades off against resiliency - Made of Bugs”
2023-04-16: “Everybody Lies. Your Users Too. - UX Collective”
2023-04-15: “AI-Generated Images from AI-Generated Prompts — Adrian Roselli” “Anyone suggesting ChatGPT, Bard, …
2023-04-15: “Building LLM applications for production”
2023-04-15: “Building LLM applications for production” Given how fast things are moving, isn’t anybody …
2023-04-15: “New prompt injection attack on ChatGPT web version. Markdown images can steal your chat data”
2023-04-15: “Prompt injection attack on ChatGPT steals chat data - System Weakness” 🤨
2023-04-14: “Poking around OpenAI. - Irrational Exuberance”
2023-04-14: This is what I’ve been working on for the past few months. My new ebook, The Intelligence …
2023-04-14: “The Great Flowering: Why OpenAI is the new AWS and the New Kingmakers still matter” This is why it …
2023-04-14: “I Think I Found a Privacy Exploit in ChatGPT - Development tutorials for modern web development” …
2023-04-14: “Italy’s new rules for ChatGPT could become a template for the rest of the EU” For the tech …
2023-04-14: “General Purpose AI Poses Serious Risks, Should Not Be Excluded From the EU’s AI Act - Policy …
2023-04-12: “Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI” This 1997 …
2023-04-12: “Federal privacy watchdog probing OpenAI, ChatGPT following complaint - CBC News” I’d missed this …
2023-04-12: “Faster Horses” Speed was never the issue with horses. People bought cars so they wouldn’t have to …
2023-04-12: “Linda Gottfredson - Southern Poverty Law Center” This is the author of the definition of …
2023-04-11: “‘I didn’t give permission’: Do AI’s backers care about data law breaches? - Artificial intelligence …
2023-04-10: “‘It’s called stealing’: new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein” Lichtenstein and …
2023-04-09: “The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be At Risk of Going Under” Stability AI raised $100 …
2023-04-09: “Pixels of the Week – April 10 , 2023 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2023-04-09: “Tech Companies Are Ruining Their Apps, Websites, Internet” These companies don’t make good software …
2023-04-08: I ran into this blog post the other day and enjoyed it enormously. “Worldwide Story …
2023-04-08: “I tried out SyntheticUsers, so you don’t have to” Niloufar Salehi, who is way more generous …
2023-04-06: OpenAI: we were literally training the model with customer data techcrunch.com/2023/03/0… AI …
2023-04-06: “I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients” If my patient …
2023-04-06: The tech sphere at the start of every new innovation seems to utterly forget that laws exist. Then …
2023-04-05: “A quote from Jim Fan” This theorises that Midjourney is collecting user data to fine tune its …
2023-04-05: “Blinded by Analogies - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing” The use of wishful comparisons, where …
2023-04-05: “April 4 - by Rob Horning - Internal exile”
2023-04-05: “Socialtrait App” Good lord. This nonsense is a thing. FFS.
2023-04-05: “Synthetic Users: user research without the headaches” Y’all do realise this is a really bad idea, …
2023-04-05: “Midjourney CEO Says ‘Political Satire In China Is Pretty Not Okay,’ But Apparently Silencing Satire …
2023-04-04: “Copyright lawsuits pose a serious threat to generative AI” Between the lawsuits, EU regulators, and …
2023-04-04: “Closed AI Models Make Bad Baselines”
2023-04-04: “Closed AI Models Make Bad Baselines - Hacking semantics”
2023-04-04: “Italy’s ChatGPT ban attracts EU privacy regulators - Reuters” I told you so.
2023-04-03: “Merchant: How AI doomsday hype helps sell ChatGPT - Los Angeles Times” Scaring off customers isn’t …
2023-04-03: “More Everything With AI - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-04-03: “The Most Dangerous Codec in the World: Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities in H.264 Decoders” …
2023-04-02: “AI as centralizing and distancing technology” This touches on one of my concerns with how Microsoft …
2023-04-01: “※ ChatGPT Survey: Performance on NLP datasets” Related to what I noted recently about these large …
2023-04-01: “SoK: On the Impossible Security of Very Large Foundation Models” I’ve only had a quick read of this …
2023-04-01: ‘Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter’
2023-03-31: “The web we broke. — Ethan Marcotte”
2023-03-31: “AI is going to make teaching worse, but not in the way everyone thinks - Charles Kenneth Roberts”
2023-03-31: “Buzzfeed Has Begun Publishing Articles Generated by A.I. — Pixel Envy” Predictably, the articles …
2023-03-31: “The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot” I can spot at least four …
2023-03-30: “Manton Reece - Introducing Micro.blog podcast transcripts” One of the good things to come out of …
2023-03-30: “The problem with artificial intelligence? It’s not artificial or intelligent” The ultimate risk of …
2023-03-30: “Neither artificial, nor intelligent - hidde.blog”
2023-03-30: “AI and the American Smile: How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression” …
2023-03-30: “Policy makers: Please don’t fall for the distractions of #AIhype - by Emily M. Bender - Mar, 2023 - …
2023-03-28: “Code, not Chat, in Generative AI” I think the seeming effectiveness of AI-assisted coding is …
2023-03-28: “Types in JavaScript With Zod and JSDoc - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” Definitely an approach I’d like to try …
2023-03-28: “JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser” Now all we need are module workers in …
2023-03-28: “Defaulting on Single Page Applications (SPA)—zachleat.com”
2023-03-27: “Ship Small, Ship Fast”
2023-03-26: You see a fashion co revealing their racism and ignorance. I see a multinational attempting a …
2023-03-25: “Content negotiation considered harmful - snarfed.org”
2023-03-25: “The Online Photographer: How Is TOP Doing? (Blog Note)” Looks like all of the old photography …
2023-03-24: “Peerless Whisper – Eric’s Archived Thoughts” Transcription and captioning is exactly the sort of …
2023-03-24: “The machines won’t save your design system” We have too much confidence in our ability …
2023-03-24: “Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations - Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions - The …
2023-03-24: It’s in the nature of social media discourse to diverge into extremes. So, it shouldn’t have …
2023-03-23: “The venture capitalist’s dilemma: The embarrassing investor meltdown surrounding …
2023-03-23: “Disruption Killed Innovation”
2023-03-23: “Privacy Violations Shutdown OpenAI ChatGPT and Beg Investigation” Almost as if centralising an …
2023-03-23: “AI Takes Over Because of Human Hype, Not Machine Intelligence - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-03-23: “Here are more details on Ubisoft’s Ghostwriter AI tool from GDC 2023”
2023-03-23: “OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models”
2023-03-22: “The Uncanny Valley” People are justifiably frustrated at the fact that the world’s …
2023-03-22: “ChatGPT-4 produces more misinformation than predecessor - NewsGuard” This shouldn’t come as a …
2023-03-22: “Adactio: Journal—Disclosure” Not disclosing that something is AI-generated is so obviously …
2023-03-22: “Adobe made an AI image generator” That this is trained only on images they explicitly have the …
2023-03-22: “DPReview.com to close” The site will be available in read-only mode for a limited period …
2023-03-22: “Don’t trust AI to talk accurately about itself: Bard wasn’t trained on Gmail”
2023-03-22: “The problem with Don Norman’s new book”
2023-03-21: “Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought - Bitestring’s Blog”
2023-03-21: “Chatbots, deepfakes, and voice clones: AI deception for sale” From the US FTC. Also …
2023-03-21: “You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype” On criti-hype and how …
2023-03-21: “Great, Dating Apps Are Getting More Hellish Thanks to AI Chatbots” Tech is digging up its “all …
2023-03-20: A worrying aspect of the wholesale adoption of LLMs in all of our productivity and coding tools is …
2023-03-20: “On Generative AI, phantom citations, and social calluses” The Generative AI age is …
2023-03-20: “ChatGPT in Colombian Courts” The short answer is that they used ChatGPT as if it was …
2023-03-20: “The Nightmare of AI-Powered Gmail Has Arrived” Are you excited for your co-workers to …
2023-03-19: We’ve had over thirty years of experience in assessing the credibility of online source. Dismissing …
2023-03-19: we need to we regulate these devices not based on what they are called or what cases they operate …
2023-03-19: “No Doctor Required: Autonomy, Anomalies, and Magic Puddings – Lauren Oakden-Rayner” By calling the …
2023-03-19: “This Week in AI Doublespeak - by Gary Marcus”
2023-03-19: AI “art” is like moving into a house, painting the living room, and declaring that you built the …
2023-03-19: I’m not against using generative AI tools but, AFAICT there are very few trustworthy actors in the …
2023-03-19: “‘ChatGPT said I did not exist’: how artists and writers are fighting back against AI - Artificial …
2023-03-18: “Google won’t honor medical leave during its layoffs, outraging employees” She was let go by Google …
2023-03-18: “Why open data is critical during review: An example - Steve Haroz’s blog” But OpenAI …
2023-03-18: “What do tools like ChatGPT mean for Math and CS Education?” Nothing could be farther from how a …
2023-03-17: “Epic’s overhaul of a flawed algorithm shows why AI oversight is a life-or-death issue” …
2023-03-17: “Against Predictive Optimization: On the Legitimacy of Decision-Making Algorithms that …
2023-03-17: “Tooled. — Ethan Marcotte” But I’ll just note that labor economics has an old, old term for …
2023-03-17: “OpenAI’s GPT-4 Is Closed Source and Shrouded in Secrecy”
2023-03-17: “Social sponges: Gendered brain development comes from society, not biology”
2023-03-16: “Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial …
2023-03-16: “The stupidity of AI” The belief in this kind of AI as actually knowledgeable or meaningful is …
2023-03-16: JFC, it’s like the past few years’ discussions on bias in training data and issues with shortcut …
2023-03-15: “Modern Font Stacks”
2023-03-14: “How to tell if AI threatens YOUR job” I’ve come to a pretty grim, if obvious, realization: the …
2023-03-14: Remember when we had the ostensibly reasonable side of the tech influencer sphere saying that web3 …
2023-03-14: “Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams” Building an ethics and responsibility team …
2023-03-13: “The climate cost of the AI revolution • Wim Vanderbauwhede” From this it is clear that large-scale …
2023-03-13: “All data is health data. – Hi, I’m Heather Burns” It is merely contextual. So you need to …
2023-03-13: “Don’t ask an AI for plant advice • Tradescantia Hub” Using AI for specialist problems (which is …
2023-03-13: “TBM 205: “Process” vs. Systems & Habits - by John Cutler”
2023-03-13: “It Took Me Nearly 40 Years To Stop Resenting Ke Huy Quan - Decider” This is so touching.
2023-03-13: “Craft vs Industry: Separating Concerns - hello, yes. I’m Thomas Michael Semmler: CSS …
2023-03-12: Lovely to see AI critics split into adversarial factions over Liliputian which-end-of-the-egg …
2023-03-12: “Vanderbilt Apologizes for ChatGPT-Generated Email” Like I’ve said before, the technical term for …
2023-03-12: “Influencer Parents and Their Children Are Rethinking Growing Up On Social Media - Teen Vogue”
2023-03-10: “Startup Winter is Coming - Stacking the Bricks” A few years’ old but very accurate.
2023-03-10: “The long shadow of GPT - by Gary Marcus” I’ve tried hard in my research to be even-handed—try to …
2023-03-09: “The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence” The “AI” industry runs on the backs of these …
2023-03-09: “Artists can now opt out of generative AI. It’s not enough.” the problems that generative AI …
2023-03-09: “Can ChatGPT—and its successors—go from cool to tool? - Freedom to Tinker” Where somebody tries to …
2023-03-08: “’Horribly Unethical’: Startup Experimented on Suicidal Teens on Social Media With …
2023-03-08: “Disability, Bias, and AI :: Aaron Gustafson”
2023-03-08: “Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Business Data to ChatGPT” I’m guessing that the reason why OpenAI …
2023-03-07: “Large Language Models and software as a medical device - MedRegs”
2023-03-07: “More than you’ve asked for: A Comprehensive Analysis of Novel Prompt Injection Threats to …
2023-03-07: “I tested how well ChatGPT can pull data out of messy PDFs” Bullshitting, misgendering, …
2023-03-07: “Briefly, my concern with ChatGPT - by Daniel Zollinger”
2023-03-06: “Kodsnack discussion with Tim Urban and Torill Kornfeldt” A really interesting …
2023-03-06: “Diffusion Art or Digital Forgery? Investigating Data Replication in Diffusion Models” This is …
2023-03-06: “New data: what consumers really think about generative AI” People who used Chat GPT find the …
2023-03-06: “Why chatbots fail. The novelty of AI does not make up for… - by Skyler Schain - Mar, 2023 - UX …
2023-03-06: “Lethal words – Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall’s blog”
2023-03-06: “Open source is good for AI but, is AI good for open source? - BCS”
2023-03-05: “Is it time to hit the pause button on AI?” TBH, if the US DoJ or Attorney General said that AI …
2023-03-04: “A Silicon Valley Love Triangle: Hiring Algorithms, Pseudo-Science, and the Quest for …
2023-03-04: “Is remote work in your future? Here’s why more women say yes”
2023-03-04: “Immaterial Sensations - blarg”
2023-03-04: “Historical pragmatism and the internet - James W. Carey, 2005” We are now living with the …
2023-03-04: “On technological optimism and technological pragmatism” Always post a link when somebody points out …
2023-03-03: “A fake news frenzy: why ChatGPT could be disastrous for truth in journalism”
2023-03-03: “Those Meddling Kids! The Reverse Scooby-Doo Theory of Tech Innovation Comes with the Excuses …
2023-03-03: “The Fallacy of AI Functionality” Sounds like policy people have been paying attention to papers …
2023-03-03: “Keep your AI claims in check - Federal Trade Commission” People are starting to notice that AI …
2023-03-03: “WAI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search” I have no use for an …
2023-03-03: “It’s Scary Easy to Use ChatGPT to Write Phishing Emails - CNET”
2023-03-03: “Shadow Gristle – Dimitri Glazkov”
2023-03-02: “The Great Replacement (Not That One, the Real One)” This society made of of fleshy …
2023-03-02: “Can publishing survive the oncoming AI storm?” Publishing outlets are going to be drowned in …
2023-03-02: “You can just put a folder of files on the internet if you want to. - Chris Coyier” This.
2023-03-02: “The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era - The Spicy Web” Yeah.
2023-03-01: “Linguist Emily M. Bender on How an AI Chatbot Is Not a Human” Read this.
2023-03-01: “Web Interface Guidelines” Generally good points.
2023-03-01: “Indirect Prompt Injection on Bing Chat” It genuinely feels like Bing Chat is the result of a series …
2023-03-01: “Draft2Digital killed my account – angelahighland.info” Eek.
2023-02-28: “Pagi on the App Store” As I’ve been saying, app stores are unsuitable for serious …
2023-02-28: “New AI-generated RadioGPT can broadcast voice, DJ music and find local news stories” The issue, as …
2023-02-28: “World Building With GPT” A little bit 😳 at the cost. I keep forgetting just how expensive this …
2023-02-28: “Apple’s machines are learning more intelligently than Bard and Bing - Macworld” Apple’s …
2023-02-27: “End Users Over All Else, Even In Our Tools - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-02-26: “Agile Leadership. How I’ve Wasted 3 Years of My PM Career 😟”
2023-02-26: “How much of AI’s recent success is due to the Forer Effect? – Terence Eden’s Blog” I hadn’t made …
2023-02-25: “Place your bets - Charlie’s Diary” This is what I’ve been saying all along 🙂
2023-02-24: “The AI Crowd Is Mad” I don’t want to say that these qualities can’t or …
2023-02-24: “People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why”
2023-02-24: ‘Don’t believe ChatGPT - we do NOT offer a “phone lookup” service’ I don’t think …
2023-02-24: “An update on Robust Client-Side JavaScript · molily”
2023-02-23: I can’t imagine being 18, wondering if there will be any way to get a job in the arts when every …
2023-02-23: “How Shadow DOM and accessibility are in conflict”
2023-02-23: “Chrome’s Headless mode gets an upgrade: introducing --headless=new - Chrome Developers” I’m hoping …
2023-02-22: Boostered! 💉
2023-02-21: “GPT is an unreliable information store - by Noble Ackerson” Ok so obviously it got one fact half …
2023-02-21: ‘This AI chatbot “Sidney” is misbehaving - Nov 23 2022 Microsoft community thread’ It …
2023-02-21: “A Concerning Trend – Neil Clarke” I’ve reached out to several editors and the situation I’m …
2023-02-21: “A Concerning Trend – Neil Clarke” A Sci-Fi/Fantasy short story publisher had to close submissions …
2023-02-20: So many of the AI-related business decisions I’m seeing companies make these days give off such a …
2023-02-20: Do people have opinions on djot? It’s made by John MacFarlane of panddoc fame as an effort to …
2023-02-20: “Notetaking, Tagged Templates, and How Deno is a Clear Improvement Over Node” Project update, a …
2023-02-20: “Shakespeare’s Missing Smile – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2023-02-20: “Vibe Driven Development”
2023-02-19: It’s well established that open offices are really bad for productivity It was extremely popular …
2023-02-19: I just published a new newsletter: “Notetaking, Tagged Templates, and How Deno is a Clear …
2023-02-19: “Can We Trust Search Engines with Generative AI? A Closer Look at Bing’s Accuracy for News Queries”
2023-02-19: “Can We Trust Search Engines with Generative AI? A Closer Look at Bing’s Accuracy for News Querie” …
2023-02-18: “Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing” Exacerbated by how text …
2023-02-18: “How Not to Test GPT-3” “GPT-3 has almost certainly read about this experiment again and again and …
2023-02-17: “Defending against AI Lobbyists - Schneier on Security”
2023-02-17: And now it’s not posting anything at all. I’ll bet it’ll just suddenly publish a …
2023-02-17: micro.blog is having that almost daily thing where it just won’t publish a post, no matter how …
2023-02-17: “Experimental conditional tagged templates for generating HTML strings” This is all …
2023-02-17: “ChatGPT is such a mess of academic dishonesty that it isn’t even necessary to prove its products …
2023-02-17: “Collections: On ChatGPT” “But calling this a hallucination is already ascribing mind-like …
2023-02-17: “Collections: On ChatGPT” “ChatGPT does not understand the logical correlations of these words or …
2023-02-17: “Collections: On ChatGPT – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry” “boosters of this technology …
2023-02-17: “Collections: On ChatGPT – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry” Absolutely nails the description of …
2023-02-17: “SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 110-111)” “This includes supporting modules in Workers, adding …
2023-02-17: “Safari 16.4 Beta Release Notes - Apple Developer Documentation” Guessing most people will talk …
2023-02-16: “Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT” Well, this is an interesting …
2023-02-16: “Announcing Squire 2.0—Fastmail releases next generation of open-source rich text editor” Looks …
2023-02-15: Last couple of times I had this strong a sense of “wow, people are really buying into the hype with …
2023-02-15: “Tech Was Supposed to Make Cars Safer. It Didn’t Deliver.”
2023-02-15: ‘Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”’ “A search engine that summarizes results is …
2023-02-15: “I agree with Blake Stacey”
2023-02-14: I know I’ve said several times that the hype for AI is going to be deafening over the next …
2023-02-14: “It’s not aliens. It’ll probably never be aliens. So stop. Please just stop. - Ars Technica”
2023-02-14: “Declarative Shadow DOM - WebKit” I know knocking WebKit is always fashionable, but lately it’s been …
2023-02-13: “Video Game Voice Actors Doxed and Harassed in Targeted AI Voice Attack” The more this happens, the …
2023-02-13: Some thoughts on how to make a book, three months after I made one So, on Friday I wrote up a few …
2023-02-13: “<3 Deno”
2023-02-13: “Machine learning offers a fantastically powerful toolkit for building complex systems quickly. This …
2023-02-12: “Inside the Heart of ChatGPT’s Darkness” “OpenAI’s current guardrails are only skin deep; some …
2023-02-12: “Automated testing won’t solve web accessibility · Eric Eggert”
2023-02-12: “The Limits of ‘Computational Photography’ - PetaPixel” So, because tech is a pop …
2023-02-11: Whenever you see an AI/ML paper making extraordinary claims remember that the field has a …
2023-02-11: “Some thoughts on how to make a book, three months after I made one – Baldur Bjarnason” Wrote this …
2023-02-10: “Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article”
2023-02-10: “Should Schools Tackle Andrew Tate Head On? - Novara Media”
2023-02-10: “The worst part is that the people who give so much over to automation may have no idea that …
2023-02-10: “The dangers of autocomplete: Why we should resist AI’s attempts to eliminate friction …
2023-02-10: For those committed to ignoring history: “the brain works just like this new tech” is a …
2023-02-10: My CSS wishlist is simply to have more time to be able to do things properly. Also my JS, HTML, and …
2023-02-10: “Why I’m not the biggest fan of Single Page Applications - Manuel Matuzović”
2023-02-10: “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web - The New Yorker” “What use is there in having something that …
2023-02-10: “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web - The New Yorker” “Generally speaking, though, I’d say that …
2023-02-10: “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web - The New Yorker” “When we’re dealing with sequences of words, …
2023-02-09: So, somebody in Canada hit one of my blog posts with a 1.5 million requests using a script of some …
2023-02-09: “Automating podcast transcripts on my Mac with OpenAI Whisper – Six Colors” Making audio transcripts …
2023-02-09: “Oops! How Google bombed, while doing pretty much exactly the same thing as Microsoft did, with …
2023-02-09: “Weeknotes: A bunch of things I learned this week, plus datasette-explain”
2023-02-09: That 90s Show feels like one of those show-within-a-show bad sitcoms that’s included in a middling …
2023-02-08: “ChatGPT: Is its use of people’s data even legal?” I’m not the only one to doubt the legality …
2023-02-08: “Nintendo to increase wages 10% despite lowered forecast” A few days ago I posted a link to a 13 …
2023-02-08: Unofficial theme song for my current writing project: www.youtube.com/watch
2023-02-08: “MotherDuck: Big Data is Dead” “The cost of keeping data around is higher than just the cost to …
2023-02-08: “‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI” The …
2023-02-07: “Applications of Gall’s Law”
2023-02-07: I like how Google decided to take an already controversial tech and use it to go all in on exactly …
2023-02-06: “We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.” “For these players, the seductive …
2023-02-06: “Stable Attribution” This is an interesting experiment in trying to find the original images that …
2023-02-05: “The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted” Always post links that reference Akerlof.
2023-02-04: “OpenAI’s Whisper is another case study in Colonisation”
2023-02-04: “Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint - Copyright Lately” This is in the US, in addition to …
2023-02-03: “4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech” AFAICT, this is exactly …
2023-02-03: “ChatGPT writes performance feedback” Eeek.
2023-02-03: “You wise up. – Hi, I’m Heather Burns” “Much chatter amongst the chatterati, then, with …
2023-02-03: “Introducing the Slickest Con Artist of All Time”
2023-02-03: “SOLVED! The Case of the Bing Ban Theory - daverupert.com” Bing was marking a bunch of normal blogs …
2023-02-03: “Bradley Robb - WTF is ChatGPT - a No BS Breakdown”
2023-02-03: “Five Things: February 2, 2023 — As in guillotine…”
2023-02-03: “Against risk-based authentication (or, why I wouldn’t trust Google Cloud)” Add to that the …
2023-02-03: “How AI is stealing your art” Even if you think generative AI is the bee’s knees, this is exactly …
2023-02-02: “A patchwork dodo is not a dodo”
2023-02-02: “Netlify Acquires Gatsby, Its Struggling Jamstack Competitor - The New Stack” The only thing I’ll …
2023-02-02: “Gaslighting and reality in AI - by Gary Marcus”
2023-02-02: “Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm – Eric Bailey”
2023-02-01: “Geeking with Greg: Layoffs and tech layoffs” From 14 years ago and still true.
2023-01-31: ‘“Everyone Used to Be a Designer”’
2023-01-31: “An AI app walks into a writers room - Charlie’s Diary”
2023-01-30: “Revised Issues Paper on Intellectual Property Policy and Artificial Intelligence” This …
2023-01-30: “Copyright and Artificial Creation: Does EU Copyright Law Protect AI-Assisted Output?” …
2023-01-30: ‘Qualification of AI creations as “works” under EU copyright law: AI-assisted …
2023-01-30: “No, large language models aren’t like disabled people (and it’s problematic to argue that they are) …
2023-01-30: “Reading code is a different experience to writing code”
2023-01-29: “Leakage and the Reproducibility Crisis in ML-based Science”
2023-01-29: “OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete - Semafor” Not sure what to …
2023-01-29: “My perspective on ChatGPT (and creativity and teaching) – Learning and Technology”
2023-01-28: Seeing people adoringly praise AI art on social media is like having that “so, wait, you actually …
2023-01-28: “AI-generated code helps me learn and makes experimenting faster” If you’re going to use Copilot, …
2023-01-28: “Tolerance for boredom - A Working Library”
2023-01-28: “To help you best, I’d need to know you” AI business models are going to collide so hard with …
2023-01-28: “The contagious visual blandness of Netflix”
2023-01-27: “Monetizing uninformation: a prediction” “Flood the zone with bullshit (or …
2023-01-27: “Use the dialog element (reasonably) - scottohara.me”
2023-01-27: “ChatGPT Cites Economics Papers That Do Not Exist – Economist Writing Every Day” Here’s a bunch of …
2023-01-26: “Deno 1.30: Built-in Node modules” I’ve been using Deno quite a bit for a side project and it’s …
2023-01-25: “Software and its Discontents, Part 2: An Explosion of Complexity - Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog” …
2023-01-25: “Software and its Discontents, January 2023, Part 1 - Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog”
2023-01-25: “The Best Time to Own a Domain Was 20 Years Ago; The Second Best Time Is Today - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-01-24: “As ComiXology fades, the industry reacts – and wonders what’s next” An overview of what’s …
2023-01-24: “A Short, Totally Unofficial, History of Port Numbers in Web Development - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-01-24: “Why Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata refuses to lay off staff - Polygon” From 2013. But still good …
2023-01-24: “Maybe the Book Doesn’t Need to Be “Disrupted” in the First Place?” “But the fact …
2023-01-22: “SEO Spammers Are Absolutely Thrilled Google Isn’t Cracking Down on CNET’s AI-Generated …
2023-01-22: “What Companies Still Get Wrong About Layoffs”
2023-01-21: “Enshittification truly is how platforms die. That’s fine, actually.”
2023-01-21: “10x Devs Don’t Exist, But 10x Organisations Do” Yesterday’s newsletter. About how the …
2023-01-20: “Technology: What about “Log in with Twitter”? – Adam Chandler’s Blog”
2023-01-20: “Inside the Comixology bloodbath” This’ll either de facto kill off the product category or, if it …
2023-01-20: “UK’s Online Safety Bill Gets Ridiculous: Includes Jail Time For Tech CEOs - Techdirt”
2023-01-19: “AI and Political Lobbying - Schneier on Security”
2023-01-19: “Updates on my Bing ban - daverupert.com”
2023-01-19: “The Anti-Capitalist Web - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-01-19: “24 Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI - by Gary Marcus”
2023-01-19: “A quote from Justin Etheredge”
2023-01-19: “20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer - Simple Thread” Good advice.
2023-01-18: “The Art of Knowing When to Quit - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-01-18: “On women who talk, and also write books – Going Medieval”
2023-01-18: “Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content” There …
2023-01-18: “CNET’s AI-Written Articles Are Riddled With Errors” The web’s signal-to-noise ratio is going …
2023-01-17: “Patrick / articles / (Almost) everything about storing data on the web”
2023-01-17: “My talk on CSS runtime performance - Read the Tea Leaves” Highly recommended if you ever work in …
2023-01-17: “Meaning vs process – The Bottom Line Bulletin”
2023-01-17: “Principles over Process - Silicon Valley Product Group : Silicon Valley Product Group”
2023-01-17: “We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here’s what happened”
2023-01-17: “Resilience and Waste in Software Teams – Jessitron”
2023-01-16: “Can dogs smell time?”
2023-01-15: “Exploring the implications and existential terror of AI’s impact on creative industries - Revert to …
2023-01-15: “Producing HTML using string templates has always been the wrong solution”
2023-01-15: “I’m Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing)”
2023-01-14: “State of the World 2023: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky” ‘Big Tech, in financial and technical …
2023-01-14: “Agile vs. Waterfall (And Other Obfuscation) – Charles Lambdin”
2023-01-14: “A Writer Used AI To Plagiarize Me. Now What?” The stochastic parrot strikes again.
2023-01-14: “Life, the UXverse and Everything. So Long UX, and Thanks for All the… - by Lisa Angela - Jan, 2023 …
2023-01-13: ‘“Beyond Command and Control” (Book Review) – As I learn …’
2023-01-12: “JavaScript, Community—zachleat.com”
2023-01-12: “Silicon Valley’s Loophole Arbitrage on Display Yet Again with OpenAI – The Trichordist”
2023-01-10: There’s a kind of post I encounter quite a bit on Twitter that falls squarely under …
2023-01-08: “The Power of Indulging Your Weird, Offbeat Obsessions - by Clive Thompson - Jan, 2023 - Medium” How …
2023-01-07: ‘Ten Years Since NYT’s “Snow Fall” - Chris Coyier’
2023-01-05: “The App Store does not protect consumers”
2023-01-04: “State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? – NTDEV” This is one …
2023-01-03: Taking ten days off over the holidays only made me more aware of just how tired I am 😬
2023-01-03: “Adactio: Links—We Live In The Age of The Bullshitter ❧ Current Affairs”
2023-01-03: “We Live In The Age of The Bullshitter ❧ Current Affairs” “A liar knows what they are saying is …
2023-01-03: “Reentry - A Working Library”
2023-01-02: “Why Not Mars (Idle Words)” There’s a reason why everybody is linking to this.
2023-01-01: “I am not a supplier”
2022-12-31: “Is ChatGPT Really a “Code Red” for Google Search?”
2022-12-29: Grant me the confidence of the “thought leader” who has absolute conviction in their predictions, …
2022-12-29: “TBM 56/52: The NPS Effect - by John Cutler”
2022-12-26: “What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-4”
2022-12-26: You should not take a stroll on Iceland’s beach of death. It’s a lethal hazard even in still …
2022-12-22: “Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of …
2022-12-22: ‘Moving Fast and Breaking Things’ ‘They always believe that they alone are worthy. They never have …
2022-12-20: “Why I’m Not Losing Sleep Over AI – Rhetorical Thinking”
2022-12-20: “The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023 - Infrequently Noted”
2022-12-19: “Gamification gone wrong: stop the streaks - by Ben Davies-Romano - Dec, 2022 - UX Collective”
2022-12-18: “All-knowing machines are a fantasy - Emily M. Bender and Chriag Shah » IAI TV”
2022-12-16: “ChatGPT hype in the Washington Post” The hype train is barrelling forward at max speed.
2022-12-16: “Stability AI plans to let artists opt out of Stable Diffusion 3 image training - Ars Technica” This …
2022-12-15: “Select The Right Tool For The Job - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-12-15: “Pulling on the corkscrew of life: Why my cats are lyonized (and you may be too)”
2022-12-14: “Space debris expert: Orbits will be lost—and people will die—later this decade - Ars Technica”
2022-12-14: “Code brushes for GitHub Copilot - Christian Heilmann” This is a much more interesting direction …
2022-12-13: “The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consent - MIT Technology Review”
2022-12-11: “An Update On My Thoughts on AI-Generated Art - Whatever” Given how little money there is in most of …
2022-12-10: “AI’s Jurassic Park moment” “It is no exaggeration to say that systems like …
2022-12-09: “Horribly low pay is pushing out my fellow authors – and yes, that really does matter - Joanne …
2022-12-08: “Your platform is not an ecosystem — Crooked Timber”
2022-12-07: Wild how regulatory actions are shaping up. On the one hand people are debating whether the very …
2022-12-07: “Freaking Out About ChatGPT—Part I”
2022-12-07: “I’m Never Assigning an Essay Again. And you shouldn’t either.”
2022-12-07: “Twitter turns its back on open-source development - ZDNET” This is going to happen a lot more as …
2022-12-05: “How come GPT can seem so brilliant one minute and so breathtakingly dumb the next?”
2022-12-02: ‘“The politest possible version of blood libel” – Bigmouth Strikes Again’
2022-12-02: “How to Start a Fire - The Forum - Ben Miller”
2022-12-01: “83% of Developers Suffer from Burnout - 01” There’s something seriously wrong with this industry.
2022-12-01: “The current and future state of AI/ML is shockingly demoralizing with little hope of redemption : …
2022-12-01: “Reading Notes, November 2022 - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-12-01: “Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law - …
2022-11-30: This is kinda cool. “FFMPEG.WASM”
2022-11-30: “It’s Time For ‘Maximum Viable Product’ - by Clive Thompson - Debugger” Feature creep is also one of …
2022-11-29: “Why Big Teams Keep Getting Bigger – Paul Taylor” “I have literally seen Brook’s law happen in real …
2022-11-29: “Shadow DOM and accessibility: the trouble with ARIA - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-11-29: “Slip Through Your Fingers: Thoughts on Andor” This.
2022-11-28: ‘“Thinking in Systems” (Book Review) – As I learn …’
2022-11-28: ‘How to split JavaScript strings into sentences, words or graphemes with …
2022-11-24: “My old Richter scale for system outages, revisited (Interconnected)”
2022-11-23: “LGBTQ+ Icelanders face ‘dehumanising’ new form of abuse – barking”
2022-11-23: “The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture”
2022-11-22: “Adactio: Links—Word Persons and Web Persons · roytang.net”
2022-11-22: “Word Persons and Web Persons”
2022-11-22: So, I published this yesterday: “Programming is a Pop Culture” …
2022-11-21: “A quick hypothetical situation, or, your crash introduction to the real world – Hi, I’m …
2022-11-21: “Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects” Interesting analysis. Honestly, …
2022-11-20: “Don’t specialize, hybridize — Stephan Ango”
2022-11-19: “GitHub Copilot Isn’t Worth the Risk” What she said
2022-11-19: “Web technology optimism hour”
2022-11-18: “WTF is a Framework?” Where I have a go at coming up with a constructive definition of …
2022-11-17: Starting to get distinct “Wired in the early 2000s” vibes from The Verge. (This is not a …
2022-11-16: “Constant churn in a software development team, both among the programmers and designers, is …
2022-11-15: “Inclusion doesn’t come for free with open source software by Amy Hupe, content designer.”
2022-11-15: “Obscure Things Power the Imagination - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-11-14: “Adactio: Links—Jack Rusher ☞ Classic HCI demos”
2022-11-12: “Defensive CSS” Not dug into this but seems useful in concept.
2022-11-12: “Introducing iA Presenter, the story-based presentation app” UI designs from iA are consistently …
2022-11-10: “Browsers, JSON, and FormData - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” FormData is great.
2022-11-10: “Don’t build Cities of Nowhere – Dan Slimmon” Posting this almost entirely for the Le Corbusier …
2022-11-09: “Don’t work with psychopaths. Unless you are a trained therapist. - by Livia Labate - Medium”
2022-11-09: “Dialogs, modality and popovers seem similar. How are they different? - hidde.blog”
2022-11-09: “Mastodon is just blogs” Blogs remain the reference point for federated social media.
2022-11-09: “Position Statement for the 2022 W3C TAG Election – Lea Verou” One of the smartest people in web …
2022-11-09: “What Does The Back/Forward Cache Mean For Site Speed? - DebugBear” From an end user perspective …
2022-11-07: “Adactio: Journal—Negativity bias” View Transition API shipping for both SPAs and MPAs would be a …
2022-11-07: “Is Open Graph Protocol dead? – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2022-11-05: “Adactio: Journal—Time for transitions” I’m a bit conflicted about this. I share his excitement but …
2022-11-04: “Removing the camera overlay icon on images in Microsoft Edge - Christian Heilmann” I absolutely …
2022-11-03: “Privacy as Product”
2022-11-03: “Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill; or, welcome to hell – Hi, I’m …
2022-11-02: When it comes to all trends digital, I’m less interested in questions like “is it legal?” or “is it …
2022-11-02: “Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model” The AI …
2022-11-01: “Why Musicians & Other Creative Professionals Will Soon Get Their Revenge on the Old Guard” …
2022-11-01: “Don’t remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place”
2022-10-31: “Website Fidelity: Browser Perspective - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-10-30: One day I’ll post my blogroll—the blogs I follow regularly—but cleaning up my feed list is a bit of …
2022-10-30: “Blogroll - Max Böck” These are all very good blogs to follow.
2022-10-29: “Getting started with Mastodon”
2022-10-28: “Accessibility in the Fediverse (and Mastodon) · Eric Eggert”
2022-10-28: “Underjord - Complex Systems All The Way Down”
2022-10-28: “Optimize For Nothing - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-10-28: It would be a fulltime job to maintain a blog that does nothing but correct DHH’s misconceptions and …
2022-10-28: “Adobe steals your color”
2022-10-27: “Why does my office smell of sulphur?” Turns around. Sees the open window facing the geothermal park …
2022-10-27: “Scroll to Text Fragments - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” One of my fav new additions to the web stack. Two …
2022-10-27: “Adactio: Links—Programming Portals”
2022-10-27: “Programming Portals” These ideas would not be out of place in the original Smalltalk systems which …
2022-10-27: “The shorter the feedback loop, the better” Excellent point. This applies to product design and …
2022-10-26: “A beginner’s guide to Chrome tracing - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-10-26: “OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog”
2022-10-26: “How to balance software architecture goals with limited resources”
2022-10-26: “What if the team assumes my functional JavaScript is slow?”
2022-10-25: ‘What “Work” Looks Like - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’
2022-10-25: “WebKit Features in Safari 16.1 - WebKit”
2022-10-24: “Why ‘dark mode’ causes more accessibility issues than it solves - by H Locke - Medium”
2022-10-24: “Strategic and necessary”
2022-10-23: “Style performance and concurrent rendering - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-10-22: “The Shared Element Transition API is FLIPping Cool - Chris Coyier” If there’s one proposal that I …
2022-10-21: “Let’s talk about web components - Brad Frost”
2022-10-21: “The cost of convenience — surma.dev”
2022-10-21: “Seeing vs. Using - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-10-20: “Why We’re Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS - Brad Frost”
2022-10-20: “ConwaysLaw” “Pretty much all the practitioners I favor in Software Architecture are deeply …
2022-10-20: “Bad UX Might Have Just Ruined My Girlfriend’s Career - Simple Thread”
2022-10-20: “We’re drowning - snarfed.org”
2022-10-20: “Adactio: Journal—JavaScript” Against profligate client-side JS.
2022-10-20: “Transferable skills - Chris Coyier”
2022-10-20: “Ro Salarian: iraprince: weird little brain tweak/reframing that…” Good explanation of what …
2022-10-19: That thing where a web app or service doesn’t allow Icelandic characters in names or …
2022-10-18: “Why Rust” I need to find a good excuse to learn Rust.
2022-10-18: “Think About Minsky for a Moment - by Stephanie Kelton”
2022-10-18: “The Proprietary Syndication Formats - Chris Coyier”
2022-10-18: “Monarch”
2022-10-17: “Three baffling claims about AI and machine learning in four days, statistical errors in top …
2022-10-14: “André Staltz - The Myth of Mass Collaboration”
2022-10-14: “Streaming services lost the plot - Jeff Geerling”
2022-10-14: ‘No one is “non-technical” - A Working Library’
2022-10-14: “Upgrading colors to HD on the web – Bram.us”
2022-10-13: “Two JavaScripts”
2022-10-13: “Adactio: Links—Progressively enhance for a more resilient web :: jjenzz”
2022-10-13: “Progressively enhance for a more resilient web :: jjenzz”
2022-10-13: “Adactio: Links—The Web’s Next Transition - Epic Web Dev by Kent C. Dodds”
2022-10-13: “The Web’s Next Transition - Epic Web Dev by Kent C. Dodds”
2022-10-12: “Adactio: Journal—Knowing”
2022-10-12: “Pluralistic: 11 Oct 2022 Trusting (machine learning) trust; The housing market turns (more) toxic – …
2022-10-12: “TBM 46/52: (F)acts, (A)ssumptions, (B)eliefs”
2022-10-12: “Everything in its write place: Cloud storage abstraction with Object Store - Dropbox” An …
2022-10-12: “Wired.com: 20 years later - Stopdesign” One thing I love about RSS feeds is when a blog comes to …
2022-10-11: “Stripe is Paypal circa 2010”
2022-10-10: “Pluralistic: 09 Oct 2022 $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck – …
2022-10-10: It’s really annoying when web.dev writes about tech that’s Chrome-only and not on a path towards …
2022-10-10: “Novelty fallacy: why new isn’t always better - Ness Labs”
2022-10-09: “Works as currently designed”
2022-10-09: “Take a Break You Idiot”
2022-10-08: “Why Streaming Doesn’t Pay”
2022-10-08: “Understanding Your System Beats Recruiting People Every Time – Paul Taylor”
2022-10-08: That thing where a blog you followed fifteen years ago, and whose feed is still in your feed reader …
2022-10-08: “5:00am is the enemy” Sleep deprivation is not a sustainable strategy. And one rule of thumb that …
2022-10-08: “Michael Tsai - Blog - iOS Action Discoverability” iOS usability is horrendous. It’s essentially …
2022-10-08: “Adding Components to Eleventy with WebC—zachleat.com” Interesting. Not sure if I would use it but, …
2022-10-07: Always interesting to see somebody evangelise the four day work week who you know for a fact expects …
2022-10-07: “Unless you’re in the mafia, your company isn’t your family - Christian Heilmann”
2022-10-05: “Descriptive engineering: not just for post-mortems – Dan Slimmon”
2022-10-05: That thing where you think all of the “State of..” surveys are quite misguided but feel obligated to …
2022-10-02: Hveragerði in a nutshell
2022-10-01: “Reading Notes, September 2022 - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-10-01: “The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website”
2022-09-30: “Five Types of Links - Jorge Arango”
2022-09-30: “Few People Get Promoted For Asking Difficult Questions – Paul Taylor”
2022-09-29: “Debut - Sonic Symbolism • Mailchimp Presents” Gonna have to give this a listen. Björk digs into …
2022-09-29: “The Quietus - Features - Anniversary - Into The Pre-Gap: Forty Years Of The CD”
2022-09-28: “Ships have feelings - A Working Library”
2022-09-28: “Let Go of the Learning Baggage - Farnam Street”
2022-09-28: Why are designers obsessed with hiding stuff on web pages? Scrolling works! Just let me scroll the …
2022-09-27: “Introducing workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime” While their recent “our CEO …
2022-09-27: Current operating theory: if your app truly needs to be offline-first then you should go all the way …
2022-09-27: “Outdated vs. Complete”
2022-09-26: “Marco’s Rule (Expanded) — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho”
2022-09-25: “ImperialViolet - Passkeys” How to implement passkey support from scratch. Looking forward to this …
2022-09-25: “The Patchability of the Open Web”
2022-09-24: “Stable Diffusion Based Image Compression” Interesting application of ML-generative art. Trying to …
2022-09-23: “The sum of all knowledge - Christian Heilmann”
2022-09-23: “The New Sport of Misrepresenting AI Criticism”
2022-09-22: Nice autumn day.
2022-09-22: A rule of thumb of mine that’s absolute certainly completely unfair, but has served me over …
2022-09-22: “Introducing LiteFS · Fly” This looks interesting
2022-09-22: “Moving With Prototypes - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-09-22: “Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 154 - WebKit” “Enabled Scroll To Text Fragment by …
2022-09-21: “You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list - Ctrl blog”
2022-09-21: “Consenting to decisions - A Working Library”
2022-09-20: “Doubt explanations - Derek Sivers” “Stop asking people for explanations, and ignore the ones …
2022-09-20: “Trajectory - by Dorian Taylor - The Making of Making Sense”
2022-09-20: “Opinion - We warned Google that people might believe AI was sentient. Now it’s happening. - The …
2022-09-19: “Thoughts on Print Equation Layout” Linked to this earlier but it deserves another push: on maths …
2022-09-19: “Accidental Dismissal of Overlays: A Common Mobile Usability Problem”
2022-09-19: “Playacting genius: the performative logic of reasoning from first principles – Baldur Bjarnason” I …
2022-09-19: “Form, function, and the giant gulf between drawing a picture and understanding the world”
2022-09-18: “squoze - family of fast, reversible unicode hashes”
2022-09-18: “Font Family and supports - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-09-18: “Thoughts on Print Equation Layout” Interesting essay that’s ostensibly about maths layout on the …
2022-09-18: “Doing the Work. How to Write When You Suck - by Cory Doctorow - Sep, 2022 - Medium”
2022-09-17: A loooot of people are confusing “reasons from first principles” with “fast …
2022-09-16: ‘Spotting Misinformation in “Studies Have Shown” – Chelsea Troy’
2022-09-16: “If A Third Of What We Do Is Waste – Why Can’t We See It? – Paul Taylor” If a post in my feed cites …
2022-09-16: “Performance is the Moat » Mike Industries”
2022-09-16: “Against Superficial Simplicity - Jorge Arango”
2022-09-16: “Replit - History++ - A Better Way to Do Versioning” Interesting experiment. It seems to use OTs, …
2022-09-15: “A new collaboration with Adobe” So, let’s hope that as far as you’re …
2022-09-15: “Comments - Did GoogleAI Just Snooker One of Silicon Valley’s Sharpest Minds?”
2022-09-14: “We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business – Eye on Design” This was more …
2022-09-13: “Always time for the important things in life – Burningbird”
2022-09-13: The responses on Twitter to The Verge’s redesign are like from a parallel universe. The tech …
2022-09-13: I see that The Verge has decided it doesn’t like having readers. Chaotic and unreadable front …
2022-09-12: “The details and summary elements, again - scottohara.me”
2022-09-12: “Take Care of Your Blog”
2022-09-11: “Quality Is Systemic - Jacob Kaplan-Moss” Comes with the obligatory Deming citation
2022-09-11: “Adactio: Links—Giving your future self a little credit with progressive enhancement - Blog - Pixo - …
2022-09-11: “Giving your future self a little credit with progressive enhancement - Blog - Pixo - Apps, …
2022-09-09: A common factor in most of the so-called “zero configuration” and “easy to …
2022-09-09: “The self-fulfilling prophecy of React - Josh Collinsworth blog” “React keeps getting …
2022-09-09: “Paged.js — Paged Break, the long overdue update” This has worked well for PDF generation for me in …
2022-09-08: “Lightning CSS” I have no idea what this library is like but I’m enjoying this aesthetic
2022-09-08: “Adactio: Links—What it’s like working with an editor”
2022-09-08: “What it’s like working with an editor”
2022-09-06: “Why your website should work without Javascript. - endtimes.dev”
2022-09-06: “Meet Understanding Privacy, A New Smashing Book By Heather Burns — Smashing Magazine”
2022-09-06: “Why Are We Adding Another Modal?: The ripple effects of including software developers in product …
2022-09-06: “Generating an EPUB File in the Browser” I got something like this working in 2015 for a project. …
2022-09-05: ‘“Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc” – Terence Eden’s Blog’
2022-09-05: It’s shaping up to be the warmest day of the year here in Hveragerði, Iceland. The thermometer …
2022-09-05: “The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse” This was as depressing a …
2022-09-05: Browsing my morning feeds and between statements along the lines of “language models are …
2022-09-05: “After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has …
2022-09-04: “You Paid for Your Tech but You Don’t Really Own It – Review Geek” “A Large Part of the Problem is …
2022-09-03: “Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven - Richard Marmorstein”
2022-09-03: “Lessons learned from the Wayback Machine – Burningbird”
2022-09-03: “Statement on Stable Diffusion” Some of the things you seem to be able to generate when running on …
2022-09-03: “Spreading the Disease and Selling the Cure – Krebs on Security” “The sad truth is that most booter …
2022-09-02: “Cloudflare protests over Kiwi Farms customer - Protocol”
2022-09-02: “Intent to Prototype: OriginPrivateFileSystem” When Firefox ships this we’ll have a full set. I’ve …
2022-09-02: “The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make - BBC Future” I’m a bit obsessed with lost tech …
2022-09-02: “Meet the CSS highlight pseudos - delan azabani”
2022-09-02: “Five Things: September 1, 2022”
2022-09-02: “The Money Is In All The Wrong Places - Defector” Nobody ever seems to believe me when I tell them …
2022-09-02: “Validating HTML - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-09-01: “American Publishing is Rooted in Theft - by Anne Trubek”
2022-09-01: “Why Is A British Baroness Drafting California Censorship Laws? - Techdirt” This is not good.
2022-08-31: “The End of Professional Photography”
2022-08-31: “Adactio: Links—Folk Interfaces”
2022-08-31: “Folk Interfaces”
2022-08-31: “Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image …
2022-08-30: Techies continue to be unable distinguish between a bundle of garbage code and a sentient mind. A …
2022-08-30: “Forget Crypto, Blockchain, NFTs, and web3: The Next Phase of the Web is defined by AI Generation - …
2022-08-29: “Landing Page - Alpha” This looks promising. I loved my alphasmart back in the day.
2022-08-28: “Pixels of the Week – August 28, 2022 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2022-08-28: “Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers - The Old New Thing”
2022-08-27: “How to Avoid Misplacing Things - Jorge Arango”
2022-08-27: “What happened when we disabled Google AMP at Tribune Publishing? Shockingly little. So you should …
2022-08-25: The fact that most software developers seem to not only think that death marches are inevitable but …
2022-08-25: “Why your website should be under 14kB in size - endtimes.dev”
2022-08-25: “Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter’s Legal Argument, While Pretending …
2022-08-24: “Adactio: Journal—Work ethics” Also, just noodling around is work as well. It creates the space …
2022-08-24: “Adactio: Journal—Work ethics” Also, sometimes just noodling around is work. It creates the space …
2022-08-22: Have an offline-first thingamabob I’m working on (so client-rendered out of necessity) and …
2022-08-21: “The Tools Don’t Matter: Why are product managers so obsessed with tools?”
2022-08-19: “‘I got really grounded and loved it’: how grief, going home and gabber built Björk’s new album - …
2022-08-19: “All communication is lossy - A Working Library”
2022-08-19: “The web is a harsh manager - daverupert.com” “I’d argue for a “CSS Engineer” title, someone who …
2022-08-19: “Does Bionic Reading actually work? We timed over 2,000 readers and the results might surprise you” …
2022-08-18: So, what are the odds that node vs deno vs bun is going to play out along the old “familiarity …
2022-08-18: “Files That Change Together Should Stick Together”
2022-08-18: I’m guessing that if the health effects of leaded petrol were just being discovered today, our …
2022-08-17: Perennially relevant to software dev: ‘I’m so totally impressed at this Way New …
2022-08-17: “Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends – Stratechery by Ben Thompson” Lot of poorly founded …
2022-08-16: “Rust in Perspective — linusw”
2022-08-16: “Hacking the terrorist timepiece - Interaction Magic”
2022-08-16: “Daring Fireball: The Fit and Finish of the All-New System Settings on MacOS 13” Appreciate Apple …
2022-08-16: “A Well-Known Links Resource - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-08-15: “Big Changes Ahead for Deno” Not quite sure what I think about this.
2022-08-15: I’m trying to figure out whether markdown or HTML should be the primary notes format for …
2022-08-14: “The open source paradox - ”
2022-08-14: According to the authorities 17 people needed assistance from rescue squads yesterday at the …
2022-08-14: “10 Observations on Tragedy in a Digital Age - by Ted Gioia” “the tragic protagonists of our own …
2022-08-13: 18 people needed assistance from rescue teams at the eruption site yesterday according to the …
2022-08-13: “Things You Can And Can’t Do - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-08-13: “Breaking apart the monolith · GitHub” Interesting outline of the problem. It kind of glosses over …
2022-08-13: That thing where you read an ‘influencer’ see the exact same situation as you, outline exactly the …
2022-08-12: “Litestream backups for Datasette Cloud (and weeknotes)”
2022-08-11: “Adactio: Journal—Democratising dev” People keep assuming there is no middle ground between no …
2022-08-11: “Let websites framebust out of native apps - Holovaty.com” We need this.
2022-08-10: According to officials almost 2000 tourists disregarded the safety closure of the eruption site over …
2022-08-10: Maybe what’s needed for websites and web apps is a kind of Prepper Web Dev? Code that assumes …
2022-08-10: Browsing through social media today and I see that it’s still the norm in tech to think that …
2022-08-06: That thing where you find an article that’s interesting. A decent read certainly. But it has a …
2022-08-05: “Adactio: Links—Douglas Engelbart - Hidden Heroes”
2022-08-05: “Douglas Engelbart - Hidden Heroes” Back when I was teaching interactive media I used to make …
2022-08-04: So, the fact that tour guides have been taking tourists by the thousands on a 17km hike, over …
2022-08-04: “The anomaly of cheap complexity”
2022-08-04: “s12e44: Yet Another DALL·E-related Reckon”
2022-08-02: Iceland living: overall quite nice. Closer to family: overall good. Manageable subarctic heatwaves. …
2022-08-02: I’ve said this before, but it’s kind of interesting how common it is for US-based ‘influencers’ on …
2022-08-02: “Navigate, don’t search - thesephist.com”
2022-08-01: “Just hit publish - Marco Heine - Freelance Web Developer”
2022-08-01: Typescript is quite useful most of the time I still regularly run into the situation where the types …
2022-08-01: “Open-Source Security: How Digital Infrastructure Is Built on a House of Cards - Lawfare”
2022-07-31: “Reading Notes, July 2022 - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” Bunch of good links in this one.
2022-07-31: “The future needs files – Scott Jenson”
2022-07-31: “The cost of opinion – Dimitri Glazkov”
2022-07-31: “When Leaders Talk About Innovation, Always Be Sceptical – Paul Taylor”
2022-07-30: “What is Refactoring? - The Code Whisperer”
2022-07-29: “On disavowing sexual assault – Going Medieval” In the context of recent statements by those making …
2022-07-28: Back when I was working in the publishing crowdfunding scene, I was trying to explain what it was to …
2022-07-28: “GitHub - cloudflare/svg-hush”
2022-07-27: “SQLite Internals: Pages & B-trees · Fly”
2022-07-27: The web I experience as a user is a slog. But browsers are fast JS engines themselves are high …
2022-07-26: “The (Mostly) Complete Unicode Spiral – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2022-07-25: TIL: const response = new Response(readableStream); const blob = await response.body(); …will …
2022-07-24: “TBM 31/52: Those Pesky Question-Askers - by John Cutler”
2022-07-23: “Potential fabrication in research images threatens key theory of Alzheimer’s disease - Science - …
2022-07-22: “Fixing the UK’s Online Safety Bill, part 0: no, it’s not fixable. – Hi, I’m Heather Burns”
2022-07-22: “Four Comments on Netflix’s _Persuasion_”
2022-07-21: “Adactio: Journal—Subscribing to newsletters” This. Every major newsletter platform automatically …
2022-07-20: “Finding Stuff to Write About - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-07-20: “Soft Deletion Probably Isn’t Worth It — brandur.org”
2022-07-18: “A practical guide to changing code so you can understand it: Automated refactoring tools basics”
2022-07-18: “Peering into the accessibility of Dark Mode - by Dora Cee - UX Collective” “Whether you use Light …
2022-07-17: “Not Too Late”
2022-07-16: What does “vanilla JS” mean to people? Does it mean JS with no dependencies (write everything …
2022-07-16: “Help Me Help You: A Guide to Asking for Help - Kitty Giraudel”
2022-07-16: It’s kind of remarkable how lower my computing requirements are now that I don’t use Slack. Memory …
2022-07-15: Kind of impressive how useful it is, when you’re working on something complex, to regularly …
2022-07-15: “The New Numbers on Music Consumption Are Very Ugly”
2022-07-15: “Giving a Shit as a Service - Allen Pike”
2022-07-15: “Perceived affordances and the functionality mismatch - Tink - Léonie Watson”
2022-07-15: “Colors don’t solve problems”
2022-07-15: “The week the open web won – Hi, I’m Heather Burns”
2022-07-14: “What is the best way to mark up an exclusive button group? – Lea Verou”
2022-07-13: “Distraction-free writing environment” is not something an app can deliver. Everything in a writing …
2022-07-13: “The CSS behind Figma - Ahmad Shadeed” Lot’s of interesting tactics there.
2022-07-12: Idle thought of the day: if you assume that environmental crises, political instability, and …
2022-07-12: “Activation - macwright.com”
2022-07-12: “In Praise of Shadows” Essay on photography in a weirdo format. If you’re like me and the title …
2022-07-11: Life’s too short to debate the absurd opinions of web dev influencers on social media.
2022-07-11: “Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill; or, welcome to hell” Got to hope …
2022-07-11: “Good Managers Write Good - Stay SaaSy”
2022-07-10: “The Fediverse can be pretty toxic”
2022-07-10: “Maintaining Software Correctness”
2022-07-10: “My Office Space - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-07-08: “New Covid subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are the most contagious yet – and driving Australia’s third …
2022-07-08: “It’s Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari) Still Break Accessibility via Display Properties — …
2022-07-07: “How to to Clean Our Indoor Air Properly Against COVID-19 - Time”
2022-07-06: ‘“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results — rendering them useless.’ This is not …
2022-07-05: “Cory Doctorow: The Swerve – Locus Online”
2022-07-05: “I don’t care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps” Published this yesterday. We …
2022-07-04: MBAs and wage stagnation - Going to business school makes you a dick - by Cory Doctorow - Jun, 2022 …
2022-07-02: “Software Over Time - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-06-30: “The time horizon outlook: an alternative to technical debt – Dan Slimmon”
2022-06-29: “Color.js Released • Chris Lilley”
2022-06-29: “Releasing Color.js: A library that takes color seriously – Lea Verou”
2022-06-29: “Complexity”
2022-06-29: “Pluralistic: 28 Jun 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow” On the deterioration of web …
2022-06-28: “One Foot Tsunami: The Wonk-Eyed Bonus Pig Shall Not Be Forgotten”
2022-06-27: “SPAs: theory versus practice - Read the Tea Leaves” Nolan consistently writes blog posts that I …
2022-06-27: “How we built a $1M ARR open source SaaS - Plausible Analytics”
2022-06-27: “DOC — The vanishing designer”
2022-06-26: Random COVID-fogged thought of the day: machine learning-based generative art (like that of DALL-E …
2022-06-25: “Random notes around service workers development and testing · mmazzarolo.com”
2022-06-25: “When You Should Prefer Map Over Object In JavaScript”
2022-06-25: ‘Part 2 of 2, of “In defense of blocks for local scopes”’
2022-06-24: “I’m not saying that all those ‘underground fringes’ that Anderson celebrated have …
2022-06-23: “GitHub Copilot and open source laundering” “leveraging this platform for this move is a deep …
2022-06-23: “Adactio: Articles—In And Out Of Style”
2022-06-23: “Style scoping versus shadow DOM: which is fastest? - Read the Tea Leaves” Love these sort of …
2022-06-23: “Achievement Unlocked: Intent to Mathify”
2022-06-23: “Doing Well - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-06-22: Fuck. I’ve finally caught covid after avoiding it for over two years. Picked it up from my dad who …
2022-06-22: “Text-overflow: ellipsis considered harmful · Eric Eggert” Like all “considered harmful” essays, it …
2022-06-22: “What will a Chromium-only Web look like?” Paints a pretty dire picture.
2022-06-20: “FIDO passkeys are an existential threat to fintech startups” This is your regular reminder that US …
2022-06-19: Every time I see somebody use the word “seminal” unironically in a blog post or article I flashback …
2022-06-17: “The cost of convenience — surma.dev”
2022-06-17: Hæ hó jibbíjei og jíbbíjei, það er kominn sautjándi júní youtu.be/ZVHVZMYWC…
2022-06-17: “Pop-ups are dead, long live pop-ups: or, the bait-and-switch hidden in today’s cookie announcement …
2022-06-16: “Not cancelled – Bigmouth Strikes Again”
2022-06-16: “How to make absolutely any app look like a macOS app — Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team …
2022-06-16: “Goodbye Ed-tech, and Good Riddance”
2022-06-15: “Dialogs and shadow DOM: can we make it accessible? - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-06-15: “Reading the news is the new smoking - by Adam Mastroianni” One day I’ll manage to quit reading the …
2022-06-12: “What does it mean when an AI fails?”
2022-06-10: “The collapse of complex software - Read the Tea Leaves” Must read blog post of the week.
2022-06-10: “The Spam Has Arrived - Miriam Eric Suzanne” Tackbacks, pingbacks, webmentions—they all seem to …
2022-06-09: “RFC 9205 - Building Protocols with HTTP”
2022-06-09: “Why Ventura System Settings is bad, Part 2”
2022-06-08: Every time I take another look at Shared Element Transitions the more convinced I get that …
2022-06-08: People who spread Wired Mag’s ‘scary accurate predictions’ from 1997 are giving …
2022-06-08: “Why Ventura System Settings is bad” macOS used to have a substantial UX advantage over other OSes. …
2022-06-08: “Alrighty Then — Pixel Envy” “They lack the visual clarity and integrity of great Mac software.”
2022-06-07: “A New Definition of HTTP”
2022-06-05: “Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly - by Adam Mastroianni” Not convinced by the cited causes but …
2022-06-04: “How much research is just enough research? How much is too much?”
2022-06-03: Yesterday I published “On online collaboration and our obligations as makers of …
2022-06-02: “The tech tool carousel - Andy Bell”
2022-06-01: “Keyboard-Only Scrolling Areas — Adrian Roselli”
2022-05-31: “Adactio: Journal—Re-evaluating technology”
2022-05-29: Midnight sun
2022-05-28: “Reading Notes, May 2022 - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-05-28: “You should be reading academic computer science papers - Stack Overflow Blog”
2022-05-28: “Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable · Caffeinspiration”
2022-05-27: “The Case for Design Engineers - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-05-27: “Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits - Ken Kantzer’s Blog”
2022-05-26: “Smaller is better (The rise, fall, and rise of flat file software) - Wilcosky”
2022-05-26: “More thoughts on SPAs - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-05-24: “My Stance on Toxicity About Programming Languages - Xe”
2022-05-24: I’ve never understood the view I sometimes hear from Americans that increased customer rights and …
2022-05-23: “Ghost 5.0” What are people’s impressions of Ghost these days? I seem to recall …
2022-05-22: “The balance has shifted away from SPAs - Read the Tea Leaves” What can I say except that I totally, …
2022-05-22: ‘”Disregard the Words” - Internet Blue’
2022-05-21: “Experimental: components - Playwright” Looks useful. Thought quite weird that it does not seem to …
2022-05-21: “The startup slump may be a blessing in disguise” Gonna see a lot of acquihires or crypto pivots in …
2022-05-21: “Deep Dive into Text Wrapping and Word Breaking / Coder’s Block”
2022-05-20: “A Return to Analog — The Focus Course”
2022-05-19: “Glitch acquired by cloud service provider Fastly” I have confessed to an anti-Glitch …
2022-05-19: “Readability: The Optimal Line Length – Articles – Baymard Institute”
2022-05-18: “Hog Bay Software – Bike: Tool for thought” I’d definitely try this out if I were still a macOS …
2022-05-17: “The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility: should I use pixels or rems?”
2022-05-17: So, turns out Joe Lycett and Bill Bailey were in my neck of woods (I live in Hveragerði) this …
2022-05-17: Yesterday, I published “The different kinds of notes” Which would be the post where I …
2022-05-17: “More common accessibility issues that you can fix today”
2022-05-16: “The Blanc Media 8-Week Work Cycle with Sabbaticals — The Focus Course” I know of a few companies …
2022-05-16: “GitHub - yisibl/resvg-js: A high-performance SVG renderer and toolkit, powered by Rust based resvg …
2022-05-14: “Angelheaded Hipsters Burning for the Ancient Heavenly Connection” On Twitter.
2022-05-13: It’s beginning to look a bit like spring around here.
2022-05-13: “Test in many browsers - hidde.blog” I’ve been using Playwright to test in multiple browser engines …
2022-05-12: “Adactio: Links—The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website”
2022-05-12: “The CADT Model” “Let’s call it the “Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers” …
2022-05-12: “The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website” I have some thoughts on this.
2022-05-10: “The Case Against Collaboration – Paul Taylor”
2022-05-10: I’m beginning to think that complex note-taking systems that supposedly make you smarter …
2022-05-10: ‘A simple string of “and”s seems to crash Google Docs pages - Engadget’
2022-05-10: “Questions for a new technology. - Kellan Elliott-McCrea”
2022-05-10: “A Management Maturity Model for Performance - Infrequently Noted”
2022-05-08: “Reflections on software performance - Made of Bugs”
2022-05-08: “Xilem: an architecture for UI in Rust - Raph Levien’s blog”
2022-05-07: Posted this yesterday: “What I learned about markdown from interviewing a bunch of …
2022-05-07: “Pinboard vs. Raindrop: Two bookmark apps enter… – Dorothea Salo”
2022-05-04: “In Defence of the Single Page Application” Actual LOL.
2022-05-04: “JavaScript Containers” A year old but gives a bit of insight into what Deno is trying …
2022-05-04: “Contextual Spacing For Intrinsic Web Design - Modern CSS Solutions”
2022-05-04: “Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign - Wildbit” Acquisitions are always worrying.
2022-05-04: “You Don’t Need A UI Framework — Smashing Magazine”
2022-05-03: ‘About using “the platform”’ Google’s rhetoric has created the misconception that …
2022-05-03: “Web Scraping via Javascript Runtime Heap Snapshots - Adrian Cooney’s Blog” Just… wow.
2022-05-01: “Hard to work with. - Irrational Exuberance” Not entirely sure I know what to think about this. Some …
2022-04-29: “Chromium Blog: Chrome 102” AccessHandle, an API for faster file- and worker-based persistence is …
2022-04-28: “Exploring the SameSite cookie attribute for preventing CSRF”
2022-04-28: “Adactio: Journal—Suspicion” Jeremy goes over some of the responses to his post on web dev trust.
2022-04-28: “Trusting Browsers - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” A response to Jeremy Keith’s post on the lack of trust …
2022-04-27: “Adactio: Journal—Trust” This trust dynamic, where devs mistrust built-in browser features (which …
2022-04-27: “Forget Passwords! - by Dorian Taylor”
2022-04-26: There are few things about modern productivity that I dislike more than the Google Docs model of …
2022-04-26: “Michael Tsai - Blog - App Store Removing Old Apps That Still Work” An overview of Apple’s latest …
2022-04-25: “Progressively Enhanced Builds - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-04-25: “Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer” It depends, basically.
2022-04-23: “Progressive Enhancement and HTML Forms: use FormData – Bram.us”
2022-04-22: “Age of Invention: Myth-busting Innovation Prizes”
2022-04-21: “Brief Note on Buttons, Enter, and Space — Adrian Roselli”
2022-04-20: “You Don’t Hate Mocks; You Hate Side-Effects - The Code Whisperer”
2022-04-20: “The Front-End Developer’s Guide to the Terminal”
2022-04-20: “Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically – Eric Bailey” Not really convinced but the argument …
2022-04-20: “Ordering CSS Declarations - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-04-19: ‘“Best Practice” is not a reason to do something – Chelsea Troy’
2022-04-19: “Principles for hiring engineers with Jacob Kaplan-Moss (The Changelog #479) -> Changelog” The …
2022-04-19: “Annual Performance Reviews Ruin Everything - by Elizabeth Ayer - Apr, 2022 - Medium”
2022-04-16: “My Cease & Desist from AudioEye — Adrian Roselli” Intimidating accessibility professionals …
2022-04-16: “Daring Fireball: 30 Years of BBEdit Not Sucking” Great app. Great documentation which has some of …
2022-04-15: “How we lost 54k GitHub stars – HTTPie blog”
2022-04-15: “Adactio: Journal—Declarative design”
2022-04-15: “Why We Need to Start Seeing the Classical World in Color”
2022-04-14: “Errors are constructed, not discovered”
2022-04-13: “DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content” One day I’ll read a deep analysis of the social, …
2022-04-13: So that’s two blogs so far today that I’ve found to be very intereseting but will probably never …
2022-04-13: “Using the platform by Elise Hein”
2022-04-13: “How good code dies - nilsnh.no”
2022-04-13: “The Wrong Abstraction — Sandi Metz” “duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction”
2022-04-13: “Write Libraries, Not Frameworks - Brandon’s Website” “Frameworks’ key trait is that …
2022-04-13: “Innovating beyond libraries and frameworks - nilsnh.no” A lot of libraries and frameworks are …
2022-04-13: “BBEdit at 30 – Six Colors” Amazing app. One of the many apps I miss from being a mac user. (I won’t …
2022-04-13: “A list of new(ish) command line tools”
2022-04-12: “The startup employee grinder”
2022-04-12: “Is my advice too mercenary?” “I think many people, especially those newer to the working world, …
2022-04-12: “Meta Problems and Where to Find Them – Accidentally in Code”
2022-04-11: “To make something simple, make it predictable - by A Vora”
2022-04-09: “The struggle of using native emoji on the web - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-04-08: “Why Literate Programming Might Help You Write Better Code – The New Stack”
2022-04-07: Funny how everywhere I turn online, I read articles telling me that I’m not a designer or not a …
2022-04-05: “Why Netflix Should Sell Ads – Stratechery by Ben Thompson” Counterpoint: Netflix’s unique content …
2022-04-05: “The Squeaky Blog - Why we don’t use a staging environment” I know of a few that do this. With …
2022-04-05: “Exit Interviews Are a Trap - Jacob Kaplan-Moss” Good advice.
2022-04-04: “There’s no way to report spam on Google Drive – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2022-04-03: “Which Kinds of Tests Should I Write? - The Code Whisperer”
2022-04-02: “Time lies - Technovia” The “good old times” were almost universally awful.
2022-03-31: “Making the world’s fastest website, and other mistakes - DEV Community”
2022-03-31: “Reading Notes, March 2022 - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-03-31: “My guiding principles after 20 years of programming - by Alex Ewerlöf - Medium”
2022-03-31: “Adactio: Links—Carousels: No one likes you - Joni Halabi”
2022-03-31: “Carousels: No one likes you - Joni Halabi”
2022-03-31: “Semverflation: a new software metric proposal—zachleat.com” I like it.
2022-03-30: “Architecture Decision Records help you, your team, and future teams”
2022-03-28: “Understanding Layout Algorithms” This is a really, really good explanation of CSS’s fundamental …
2022-03-28: “Adactio: Links—Artifice and Intelligence”
2022-03-28: “Artifice and Intelligence”
2022-03-28: “Weeknotes: datasette-auth0”
2022-03-28: That thing where services position themselves as NFT/crypto adjacent without actually shipping a …
2022-03-27: “Do you want me to leave the Apple ecosystem?”
2022-03-27: “Streaming TV services: stop being as awful as the tech you replaced - Stuff” Why are these apps so …
2022-03-25: “Conference talk: WordPress’s role in a changing web + my retirement from open source – Hi, I’m …
2022-03-25: “Russian plugin, go fuck yourself – Hi, I’m Heather Burns” Think this is the third of Heather Burns’ …
2022-03-24: “Using bound functions to unit test EcmaScript Modules – Aral Balkan”
2022-03-24: “How Eugenics Shaped Statistics - Nautilus - Science Connected”
2022-03-24: “On Rigor, White Supremacy, and Occam’s Razor - avdi.codes”
2022-03-24: “On Racialized Tech Organizations and Complaint: A Goodbye to Google - by Alex Hanna - Feb, 2022 - …
2022-03-22: Really tired of micro.blog’s repeated cross-posting failures. That’s literally …
2022-03-22: Occasionally I’m tempted to set up a newsletter called “Don’t Read This” …
2022-03-22: “Okta hack puts thousands of businesses on high alert - The Verge” Okta owns Auth0, so quite a few …
2022-03-21: “Fyrstu heiðlóurnar komnar til landsins” Very important news.
2022-03-20: “That’s 6 search results for 6 screens, interrupted by an impossible amount of distractions, …
2022-03-20: “His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent.” This an amazing heartfelt story about a …
2022-03-19: “Yes, the UK is trying to Brexit the Internet – Hi, I’m Heather Burns” What Heather said.
2022-03-18: “Why I Prefer Makefiles Over package.json Scripts for Node.js Projects” I’ve started doing this as …
2022-03-18: “Packages with high download numbers that nobody wanted to install - Stefan Judis Web Development” …
2022-03-18: “Is Digital Bureaucracy Making Us Less Productive? – Paul Taylor”
2022-03-18: “A quick take on three pretty terrifying changes to the Online Safety Bill – Hi, I’m Heather Burns” …
2022-03-17: “How to do what’s right without starting World War III - A conversation with historian …
2022-03-17: “A case for CSS-Like Languages”
2022-03-17: “SpeedCurve - Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?”
2022-03-16: “The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway - ALEXSKRA” This outfit seems to be taking over …
2022-03-16: Is it just me or have Google’s results for non-English searches declined even further? A good …
2022-03-15: “Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?” Most products don’t actually work well, esp. …
2022-03-14: “Sooner, Not Faster: Revisited (and Intensified)”
2022-03-11: It’s a bit funny to me how the XML ecosystem, so loathed by web devs at the time, offered a lot of …
2022-03-11: “Make it boring”
2022-03-09: “WebGPU — All of the cores, none of the canvas — surma.dev” Interesting in a “read again in a couple …
2022-03-09: “Hope for the Future”
2022-03-08: Typos typos typos everywhere. Ugh. Need more coffee.
2022-03-08: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Mac Software Stagnation” This gathers some of the recent discussion on Mac …
2022-03-08: “A sysadmin’s rant about feed readers and crawlers” Unfortunately tyhis, isn’t new. I remember …
2022-03-07: “JavaScript naming conflicts: How existing code can force proposed features to be renamed” JS’s …
2022-03-07: “Adactio: Journal—A bug with progressive web apps on iOS” This is exactly the sort of bug that makes …
2022-03-04: “Disambiguation - A Working Library”
2022-03-04: “Half-assed Mac Apps - tyler.io”
2022-03-02: “Towards a Unified Theory of Web Performance - Infrequently Noted”
2022-03-02: “Write plain text files - Derek Sivers”
2022-03-02: “The Parthenon Sculptures • Robin Rendle”
2022-02-25: “Why Do You Take Notes? - Jorge Arango”
2022-02-24: “Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team” I mean, it’s worth …
2022-02-23: “Solutions That Create Problems” “I am sick and tired of so many people giving Web3 the benefit of …
2022-02-23: “Bypassing Apple’s AirTag Security - Schneier on Security” A stalker’s delight.
2022-02-23: “The web is overrun and pop-up blockers haven’t worked in years”
2022-02-23: “SPAs were a mistake - Go Make Things” This. Except I’d go further and say that Youtube’s SPA PiP …
2022-02-23: “Understanding CSRF Attacks - Zell Liew” TIL about login CSRF attacks.
2022-02-22: Apropos of nothing, I wonder if there is a correlation between having an evangelical style of …
2022-02-22: “The first week for Amazon’s new Comixology storefront and app wasn’t pretty” Between …
2022-02-22: “Misidentifying talent”
2022-02-20: “Why I removed my articles from Medium - by Stéphanie Walter - Feb, 2022 - Medium” TIL that Google …
2022-02-20: “Programming things that have gotten easier”
2022-02-20: “There is no character limit for “alt text”: Myth Debunked! · Eric Eggert”
2022-02-20: “Apple needs to start helping developers and not allow scammers to thrive - Revert to Saved: A blog …
2022-02-20: “Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, and HTTP”
2022-02-19: “Thoughts On Markdown — Smashing Magazine” We’re due for a critical appraisal of the use of markdown …
2022-02-17: So, is micro.blog cross-posting broken again or…?
2022-02-17: I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: the various State of * surveys are web dev …
2022-02-16: “Adactio: Links—Canned web development — Jeremy Wagner”
2022-02-16: “Canned web development — Jeremy Wagner”
2022-02-15: “The File System Access API with Origin Private File System - WebKit” I’m really excited about this …
2022-02-15: “Using SQLite and Datasette with Fly Volumes”
2022-02-14: “Canned web development — Jeremy Wagner”
2022-02-14: “Adactio: Links—gilest.org: What using RSS feeds feels like”
2022-02-14: “gilest.org: What using RSS feeds feels like” This. Reading through my feed reader in the morning, …
2022-02-13: “Pixels of the Week – February 13 , 2022 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer”
2022-02-13: “Settings are not a design failure” I will add, though, that settings are almost always a code …
2022-02-13: “Framing accessibility in broader terms”
2022-02-12: “Hello, CSS Cascade Layers - Ahmad Shadeed” This is going to be a big part of CSS practice in a …
2022-02-12: “Your CSS reset needs text-size-adjust (probably) - Kilian Valkhof”
2022-02-11: “ThinkingLabs:: Thierry de Pauw - Accidental Architects - how HR designs software systems”
2022-02-10: “Wherein nobody’s boosted, and nobody believes that Long COVID exists” “Nobody seems to be …
2022-02-10: “Manton Reece - Moving away from App Store-focused development” Apple has mismanaged their app …
2022-02-09: “Add Responsive-Friendly Enhancements to details with details-utils—zachleat.com”
2022-02-09: “Automate Mindfully - Jorge Arango”
2022-02-08: So, that’s maybe 40cm of snow, I’m guessing, piled up in front of my door? ⛄️
2022-02-08: “Dialog element - Can I use… Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc” AFAICT, dialog is happening …
2022-02-08: “The web is a miracle” What Ben said.
2022-02-08: “Introducing the Dialog Element - WebKit” It’s starting to look like we might actually be able to …
2022-02-07: “Using Google Fonts Breaches GDPR” Looks like using free services from major ad companies has become …
2022-02-06: “Are we live? - scottohara.me”
2022-02-06: “Considering dynamic search results and content - scottohara.me”
2022-02-05: “You Can’t Handle OKRs. When Can You Use Them and Actually… - by Christina Wodtke - Feb, 2022 - …
2022-02-03: “No Accessibility Without Disabilities · Eric Eggert”
2022-02-02: “Five years of quitting Twitter - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-02-02: “Oh Hello Ana - TIL: A situation where the doesn’t fully appear in Safari.” Bookmarking this …
2022-02-01: “Memberships Work — by Craig Mod”
2022-02-01: “How to keep up with web development without falling into despair” I wrote a bit …
2022-02-01: “54 years ago, a computer programmer fixed a massive bug — and created an existential crisis”
2022-02-01: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Lock-in and Multi-Cloud”
2022-01-30: I can’t recall the last time somebody fell as much in my regard as the basecamp management has over …
2022-01-30: “Request bodies in GET requests” Always post links that cite “death of the author” in a standards …
2022-01-29: Icelandic fact of the day: “Guð launar fyrir hrafninn” is an Icelandic idiom dating back …
2022-01-29: “Caching Header Best Practices – Simon Hearne” Super useful reference that you should bookmark
2022-01-27: “Making the web better. With blocks!” “People like it and it makes sense.” …
2022-01-27: “A launch.json setting for end-to-end web development - Christian Heilmann” This looks pretty …
2022-01-26: “Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism” This was a much much more …
2022-01-26: “The five Levels of Hype”
2022-01-26: “GitHub - skymethod/denoflare: Develop, test, and deploy Cloudflare Workers with Deno” Interesting …
2022-01-26: “Working with web performance budgets”
2022-01-26: “Pulp Futures - by Anne Trubek - Notes from a Small Press”
2022-01-26: “Google Ends Security Updates for Its Pixel 3 Line Just Three Years After Launch — Pixel Envy” I’m …
2022-01-26: “Improve equity in software by not negotiating salaries”
2022-01-25: So, eggjs looks like a really sensible and pragmatic node server framework built on Koa. Looks …
2022-01-24: “An Introduction To CSS Cascade Layers — Smashing Magazine” Probably the most important addition to …
2022-01-23: So this video is much better than it has any right to be. Long because it actually covers the …
2022-01-23: AFAICT, Iceland is the only country in the European Economic Area that doesn’t have Apple TV + or …
2022-01-23: Building tools for thought that record ideas in the same form and shape as they are in your head is …
2022-01-22: “CSS-only External Link Favicons—zachleat.com”
2022-01-22: “CoinDesk: conflicts of interest make journalists more independent, apparently – Attack of the 50 …
2022-01-20: “NFTs means the future value of art is zero – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2022-01-20: “That’s Not What They Are Hearing” Whenever I’ve said “I’m worried about X” to a manager what I’ve …
2022-01-20: “Stop paying tech debts, start maintaining code” Changing the name of something businesses are …
2022-01-19: “A Deep CSS Dive Into Radial And Conic Gradients — Smashing Magazine” Huge fan of conic gradients. …
2022-01-19: “Sampling bias, FDR, and The State of JS” This blog post is much too kind to surveys …
2022-01-18: What on earth possessed the ChromeOS team to think that audio focus was a good idea? Not being able …
2022-01-18: “The Great Hiring Debacle Continues - Think Different”
2022-01-18: “Adactio: Journal—Installing progressive web apps”
2022-01-18: This is amazing. Eleventy provides a set of free API services you can use. And you can even …
2022-01-18: “Complexity Debt - Stay SaaSy”
2022-01-17: “Adactio: Links—The computer built to last 50 years - ploum.net”
2022-01-17: “The computer built to last 50 years - ploum.net”
2022-01-16: I have to confess that I may be stalking the local raven population. I count three in the …
2022-01-16: “It’s not still the early days”
2022-01-16: “Elided Branches: Structural Lessons in Engineering Management”
2022-01-14: “Adactio: Journal—Partnering with Google on web.dev”
2022-01-13: “Web3: A Map in Search of Territory”
2022-01-13: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Catching Native Apps”
2022-01-12: Reiterating a thought I had the other day: most of us know devs who creep us out to the point where …
2022-01-12: “Why Are Hyperlinks Blue”
2022-01-11: “A semblance of understanding - macwright.com”
2022-01-11: “Don’t Fight the Cascade, Control It! - CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks”
2022-01-11: “Five Things: January 6, 2022 — As in guillotine…”
2022-01-11: “George Pérez opens up about his fans, his legendary career, and his terminal illness - GamesRadar+” …
2022-01-10: “You Are Not Your User - Even When You Make Employees Dash — Users Know”
2022-01-09: “Adactio: Links—Ban embed codes”
2022-01-09: “Ban embed codes”
2022-01-09: “Modularity and Performance - The Code Whisperer”
2022-01-08: Debating and analysing the tech behind web3 is like arguing about what OS Enron used for their …
2022-01-07: “In praise of slowness – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2022-01-07: A common thing coders do when they want to delve into serious topics is to make shit up based on …
2022-01-06: Here’s an example of how CaptureOne gets much better black and white photos out of Fuji raws. …
2022-01-06: “Working Backwards: Why the Best Product Teams Use This Method”
2022-01-05: “Memory leaks: the forgotten side of web performance - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-01-05: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Search Engines and SEO Spam” Geeks finally start to notice Google’s quality …
2022-01-04: “Keeping up-to-date with web development” I’m guessing a lot of people are doing their web dev …
2022-01-04: “Superheroes create cultural acceptance for popular oligarchy (Interconnected)” The only thing …
2022-01-04: “Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Don’t Look Up” “Don’t judge the movie as a movie. Judge it as a …
2022-01-04: “The web doesn’t have version numbers”
2022-01-04: “Viral software deadlines”
2022-01-04: “On a long bet – A Whole Lotta Nothing”
2022-01-03: “Adactio: Links—Metaphors We Web By: Paper and Place”
2022-01-03: “Metaphors We Web By”
2022-01-03: “Adactio: Links—Start at the beginning: the importance of learning the basics - localghost”
2022-01-03: “Start at the beginning: the importance of learning the basics - localghost”
2022-01-03: This is the third post I’ve written on micro.blog that hasn’t yet appeared anywhere. …
2022-01-03: I’m starting to hesitate to post via micro.blog because the publishing delays and the …
2022-01-03: “Nobody reads blogs anymore” = “I don’t read blogs anymore”. One data …
2022-01-02: “Is the Human Impulse to Tell Stories Dangerous? - The New York Times” If you can get past the …
2022-01-02: Accidentally open a new window in iOS Safari. Spend 30m trying to figure out how to close the …
2022-01-02: “Wesley Aptekar-Cassels - web3 is Centralized”
2022-01-01: It’s a constant disappointment for me to see people working on writing, “thought processing” …
2021-12-31: “Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to… — programming is terrible”
2021-12-31: “The Gift of It’s Your Problem Now - apenwarr”
2021-12-30: So, micro.blog just gives up on the whole posting thing sometimes, huh? You had one job, etc. etc.
2021-12-30: One defining part of tech discourse (esp. crypto/web3) is the assumption that US needs and problems …
2021-12-30: “Draggabilly”
2021-12-30: “CSS in 2022 – Bram.us” So exciting 😁. CSS is easily my favourite part of the web stack.
2021-12-30: “CSS and Momentum • Robin Rendle”
2021-12-30: “Reading Notes, December 2021 - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-12-30: “A/A Testing: How I increased conversions 300% by doing absolutely nothing”
2021-12-29: “NetNewsWire - On Not Being the Free Alternative”
2021-12-29: “Add a Service Worker to Your Site - CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks”
2021-12-28: Given how fast framework complexity has escalated in the past couple of years, it feels like …
2021-12-28: Definitely having a ‘nothing fucking works’ day.
2021-12-28: ‘A Response To “Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web?“’ “The javascript ecosystem is …
2021-12-28: Having another one of those days where micro.blog just won’t do the posting thing
2021-12-28: Recent photos from around town
2021-12-28: One of the neighbourhood’s ravens was doing their rounds earlier today
2021-12-28: “Michael Tsai - Blog - iOS 15 Autocorrect” Apple’s software development continues its steady …
2021-12-27: It’s looking likely that a lot of otherwise staid tech cos will cash in on web3 over the next …
2021-12-26: “The human toll of log4j maintenance - DEV Community”
2021-12-26: “Crisis or Not? - Think Different”
2021-12-25: “Care for the Text - CSS-Tricks”
2021-12-24: “(mac)OStalgia – Hello. I’m Michael.” A bit of Mac Classic nostalgia.
2021-12-23: “The Pipeline To Your Corporate Soul - by Alan Cooper - Dec, 2021 - Medium”
2021-12-23: Hate it when a type + autocorrect results in you writing the opposite of what you meant. 😝
2021-12-23: “The data model behind Notion’s flexibility”
2021-12-23: “False narratives - A Working Library”
2021-12-23: “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States - A Working Library”
2021-12-23: “Apple + NeXT, 25 years ago today”
2021-12-22: I don’t know who needs to hear this but in case it’s one of you: trauma and developing …
2021-12-21: Much of what gets posted online in web dev communities (esp. Twitter) is really bad advice being …
2021-12-21: “The Sexism of CSS • Robin Rendle”
2021-12-20: “Product Ops Overview - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-12-20: “NFTs, or The Readymade Reversed” [PDF] “Duchamp used the category of art to …
2021-12-20: “Brian Eno on NFTs & Automatism” “The idea that Ayn Rand, that …
2021-12-19: “Pixels of the Week – December 19, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2021-12-19: “Floating UI - Positioning for tooltips, popovers, dropdowns, and more” This is the new version …
2021-12-19: “The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real - Office for Science and Society - McGill …
2021-12-19: Convinced that Anil Dash’s “web3 is horrible-bad but too big to fail” spiel is a …
2021-12-17: “Introducing fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps - Read the Tea Leaves”
2021-12-17: One thing I just don’t get about the revisionist history of the web that’s so en vogue at the …
2021-12-16: “Tailwind and the Femininity of CSS” “The important bit is that they hinder deep …
2021-12-16: “Remove Trackers - CSS-Tricks”
2021-12-16: “Thoughts on skin tone and text descriptions - Tink - Léonie Watson”
2021-12-16: “Sustaining Maintaining - daverupert.com”
2021-12-15: Yesterday I wrote about how I’ve been using index cards to figure out what to design next when …
2021-12-14: I just published “Working Spaces: Using Cards to Make Cards” as a part of The Making of …
2021-12-14: When discussing funding, sustainability, and relationships with corporate sponsors, the distinction …
2021-12-14: “On Design Thinking - Issue 35 - n+1”
2021-12-14: “Embrace the Platform - CSS-Tricks” Agree with this all. However, I have my doubts about web dev …
2021-12-12: Experimenting a bit in creating pictures using a combination of Wombo Dream, Daz3D, Geometrize, SVG …
2021-12-12: “Adactio: Journal—More writing on web.dev”
2021-12-12: ‘”Open Source” is Broken - Xe’ Not wrong.
2021-12-11: “How do you decide which browsers to support and which features to use? - Go Make Things”
2021-12-10: Now that excessive SPAness is heading towards being somewhat disreputable, it feels a bit like CRDT …
2021-12-09: “Avoiding Internet Centralization” By the ever-thoughtful Mark Nottingham.
2021-12-08: “Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Component libraries, accessibility and transparency”
2021-12-08: “Test Your Product on a Crappy Laptop - CSS-Tricks”
2021-12-07: So, is Google Sheets the most absolutely horrible UX that Google makes (mystery meat buttons, …
2021-12-07: “China’s queer internet is being erased - Rest of World”
2021-12-07: “Linking Manifesto – Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking”
2021-12-07: “The Case Against Crypto - Pervasive Media Studio”
2021-12-06: One thing I wonder about is why people who obsess about note-taking and research apps seem to care …
2021-12-06: “Understanding why our build got 15x slower with Webpack 5 - Tines Engineering”
2021-12-06: “One weird trick to improve your website’s performance - Read the Tea Leaves” Good commentary on …
2021-12-04: ‘Book Notes: “An Essay on Typography” by Eric Gill - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’ Eric Gill is the perfect …
2021-12-03: I just published “HTML Sketches: Whither Cards?” on The Making of Colophon Cards site. …
2021-12-03: You know Christmas is approaching once your neighbour puts Christmas decorations on his tractor.
2021-12-02: It’s impressive just how much worse word processing is today than it used to be even just a …
2021-12-02: micro.blog’s cross-posting seems to be misbehaving again.
2021-12-02: D*h is racking up the logical fallacies in his blog posts of late, isn’t he? This time it’s the good …
2021-12-02: I’m suddenly struck by the idea that all Microsoft’s ultra-modernistic Metro UI needed …
2021-12-02: “Firefox’s Optimized Zip Format: Reading Zip Files Really Quickly - Perf and other stuff” This …
2021-12-01: So, in case you missed it, I announced this on Monday: www.colophon.cards It’s a prototyping …
2021-12-01: “Webrise”
2021-11-30: “Towards a research community for better thinking tools - thesephist.com”
2021-11-30: “Twitter Is The Worst Reader”
2021-11-30: “Wildfires are erasing Western forests. Climate change is making it permanent. - Grist”
2021-11-29: “Software development pushes us to get better as people – Jessitron” “There is an alignment between …
2021-11-28: Another autumn photo from a few weeks ago
2021-11-28: Don’t know what I think about this one, honestly. I both like it and don’t
2021-11-28: Reworking a couple of earlier photos from here in Hveragerði.
2021-11-28: Reworking a couple of earlier photos from here in Hveragerði.
2021-11-28: “Over 40” I’m 43 and my career prospects seem roughly the same as they were five years ago. As in, …
2021-11-28: “Reading citations is easier than most people think” It’s also kind of fun.
2021-11-26: “Complexity is killing software developers - InfoWorld” Related to my Software Crisis 2.0 essay. Dev …
2021-11-26: “Adactio: Links—The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger”
2021-11-26: “The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger”
2021-11-25: “And now it’s… Springtime For Crypto – Terence Eden’s Blog” Like Terence points out, money transfers …
2021-11-25: “Modern CSS Reset / Global Styles” A good ‘you don’t need to make the same decisions but you do need …
2021-11-24: “Modern CSS in a Nutshell - Cloud Four” IMO, common CSS processors and build tools are a big part of …
2021-11-23: Is cross-posting broken? My micro.blog posts haven’t been posting anywhere else.
2021-11-23: “How to detect Emojis in JavaScript strings - Stefan Judis Web Development” TIL about unicode …
2021-11-23: Having both arts & humanities education and a coding career is having to constantly witness how …
2021-11-20: “Introducing Buy now, pay later in Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Tech Community” Here I’ve been talking …
2021-11-19: ‘Get Ready for the “Kessler Syndrome” to Wreck Outer Space - by Clive Thompson’ The odds of the …
2021-11-19: “We’re turning off AMP pages at Search Engine Land”
2021-11-19: “Amazon’s Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data - WIRED” This is exactly the sort of …
2021-11-18: “S’Notes – Lucy Bellwood”
2021-11-18: “Exploiting CSP in Webkit to Break Authentication & Authorization” In every project I’ve worked …
2021-11-18: “Cloudflare Pages Goes Full Stack” I know that the punditry keeps saying that Cloudflare is …
2021-11-17: It seems to be the norm for smart people to utterly lack self-awareness, esp. if they are young. …
2021-11-17: “Sticky CSS Grid Items - Melanie Richards”
2021-11-17: “Using Position Sticky With CSS Grid - Ahmad Shadeed”
2021-11-17: “Adactio: Journal—Tracking”
2021-11-17: “Line length revisited: following the research - CSS-Tricks” The flaw in the original research is …
2021-11-16: “wrangler 2.0 — a new developer experience for Cloudflare Workers” They did the right thing and …
2021-11-16: “I will pay you cash to delete your npm module” That’s one way to address the problem.
2021-11-16: “Thinking of uses for BlockChains – Terence Eden’s Blog” Kevin Kelly is wrong so often that you …
2021-11-16: “The Software Slip — Pixel Envy” All software dev is broken, but Apple’s seem especially broken.
2021-11-16: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Apple Software Quality in 2021”
2021-11-16: “Don’t soften feedback. - Lara Hogan”
2021-11-16: “Individuals matter” Like I’ve been saying for a while, the reason why most modern software is …
2021-11-16: “Your CSS is an interface – Eric Bailey”
2021-11-15: “If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter - Macworld” The …
2021-11-15: “A random man walks into my office and asks if I’m single… - Stephanie Stimac’s …
2021-11-13: “Apple, Its Control Over the iPhone, and The Internet — MatthewBall.vc”
2021-11-12: “Tale of the Tape: Highlight.js vs Shiki - Begin” The only thing I’d add is that you should also go …
2021-11-11: “View-Source” The irony of the view-source drama is that the fearmongers are siccing …
2021-11-11: The fear-mongering over Chrome updating an enterprise policy feature to let device admins block …
2021-11-11: “Notes on Web3” If anything, Robin is being too generous towards Web3.
2021-11-10: “Adactio: Articles—The State Of The Web” Gonna link to this again ‘cause it’s so good.
2021-11-10: Web dev communities seem to be one part “X is bad UX, unusable on mobile, inaccessible, and an …
2021-11-10: “Microsoft and the Metaverse – Stratechery by Ben Thompson” An interesting insight into the mind of …
2021-11-10: “System76: A Case Study on How Not To Collaborate With Upstream – Chris’s Design & …
2021-11-10: “Restyling apps at scale – Space and Meaning” The tragedy of Gnome over the past fifteen years or so …
2021-11-09: “Adactio: Journal—Inertia” Been thinking a lot about evaluating tech because I have a new project …
2021-11-09: “Culturally transmitted skills and values”
2021-11-08: “Why you should prioritise quality over speed in design systems by Amy Hupe, content designer.”
2021-11-08: “Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies” Interesting. Another entry in the …
2021-11-07: “Fire-breathing requirements. The mythical design tool. - by Alan Cooper - Nov, 2021 - Medium”
2021-11-07: “Web Development Best Practices: What The Data Tells Us” These are always interesting although many …
2021-11-07: “Let’s talk about AMP - by Barry Adams - SEO for Google News” “Google penalised these …
2021-11-07: “AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-led Initiatives – WP Tavern” “I think it’s …
2021-11-05: “Adactio: Journal—Memories of Ajax”
2021-11-05: “Malware found in coa and rc, two npm packages with 23M weekly downloads - The Record by Recorded …
2021-11-05: “Adactio: Journal—Writing on web.dev”
2021-11-05: “Breaking down Apollo Federation’s anti-FOSS corporate gaslighting”
2021-11-04: Web dev has a host of ‘lost arts’: previously well-documented practices that have since …
2021-11-03: “macOS 12 Monterey and User Interface Inconsistencies – Corbin’s Treehouse” Something has gone …
2021-11-03: “Adactio: Articles—The State Of The Web” “When I talk to people about using the web—especially on …
2021-11-03: “s3-credentials: a tool for creating credentials for S3 buckets”
2021-11-02: A heuristic for whether to pay attention to the opinions of a pundit As a rule of thumb, I tend to distrust the opinions of pundits who are all in on cryptocoins and …
2021-11-02: “World Wide Words: Sphexish”
2021-11-02: “Name, labels, ARIA, what to do? - scottohara.me”
2021-11-02: “Some Older Macs Reportedly Bricked After Installing macOS Monterey - MacRumors” Something has gone …
2021-11-02: “DNSServiceNATPortMappingCreate was quietly killed in macOS Monterey” “But the worst part …
2021-11-02: The character miscounting bugs on micro.blog are honestly infuriating. Esp. since they are often …
2021-11-02: “Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? (“Transitional Apps”) - CSS-Tricks” Chris makes …
2021-11-02: “Buttons vs. Links - CSS-Tricks”
2021-10-29: “Introducing the layer based SVG engine” Nikolas Zimmermann goes over the work …
2021-10-29: “TBM 44/52: Three Teams (Boring, Chaotic, Buffered) - by John Cutler - The Beautiful Mess”
2021-10-29: “Process People - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-10-29: “The Inner Osborne Effect”
2021-10-28: “Users > developers - Go Make Things”
2021-10-28: “When you’re a manager, your behavior is under a microscope - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-10-28: “Having an open dialog - scottohara.me” “I’m just going to say right now that the dialog element …
2021-10-27: “Quickie: The Latest Technology - Think Different” “I am struck by so many hiring companies …
2021-10-27: “Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers - Stack Overflow …
2021-10-27: “Auto Dark Theme - Chrome Developers” Feels like a bad idea, badly done.
2021-10-27: “How to hold employees accountable without micromanaging them - Know Your Team - Blog”
2021-10-26: “A Deep Dive Into object-fit And background-size In CSS — Smashing Magazine”
2021-10-26: “The Greatest CSS Tricks Vol. I eBook (PDF and EPUB) - CSS-Tricks” 😁
2021-10-26: Unpopular opinion: an OSS project that is constantly getting feature changes and additions is de …
2021-10-25: It’s weird that the Github Readme retelling of the story of why the lucky stiff omits any mention of …
2021-10-25: “A Note to Self on Churn - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” “Humans get good at what they practice. Doesn’t …
2021-10-25: “Notes: Hammock Driven Development by Rich Hickey - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” “A classic. I’ve listened …
2021-10-25: “talk-transcripts/HammockDrivenDev-mostly-text.md at master · matthiasn/talk-transcripts · GitHub” …
2021-10-25: As an industry, we’re bad at the whole package: HTML, JS, CSS, accessibility, security. Only …
2021-10-25: The difference in how web devs treat CSS and JS CSS: write broken code that looks ugly because they …
2021-10-25: “How to do Discovery and Delivery at the same time … with Pivot Triggers” Interesting idea.
2021-10-25: Decidedly uncomfortable about how pervasive singularity-style progress myths seem to be among …
2021-10-25: “Better Footnotes in WordPress JetPack – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2021-10-25: “Switch Role Support - Adrian Roselli”
2021-10-24: “Develop Mastery by Revisiting the Basics - Jorge Arango” This doesn’t apply to just apps. If you …
2021-10-23: “Can I include a tag to a tag? Based on HTML Spec WHATWG” Useful more often than you’d think.
2021-10-22: “Pair programming sucks - Go Make Things” Don’t know which bucket I’d fall into as I’ve never …
2021-10-22: “Laurie Anderson’s 5 questions - Austin Kleon”
2021-10-22: “On Using Custom Properties – Bram.us”
2021-10-22: “(the return of) Tables, Tequila and Beer – HTML Accessibility”
2021-10-21: “Decoupling HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in design systems - Go Make Things”
2021-10-21: Been doing a bit of research in various JS/web dev online communities and, wow, there’s a lot …
2021-10-21: “You should be ready, willing, and able to read the source code of your dependencies -> …
2021-10-21: “Let’s Talk about Native HTML Tabs - daverupert.com” Interesting proposal. Could work.
2021-10-21: “Willingness to look stupid” This is really good advice.
2021-10-20: “CSS { In Real Life } - Evaluating Clever CSS Solutions” I’m not the only one worried about the …
2021-10-19: I wrote a short blog post on reading for skills development: you need to change how you read and …
2021-10-19: “How I Structure My CSS (for Now) · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer” Is ITCSS the most …
2021-10-18: “Fix web accessibility systematically · Eric Eggert”
2021-10-18: “Learning to build conviction - benkuhn.net”
2021-10-17: I guess winter has arrived.
2021-10-17: “Blaming Screen Readers 🚩×5 - Adrian Roselli”
2021-10-17: “Joyce and Walky! » The baby can hear stuff now”
2021-10-17: “Software developers have stopped caring about reliability” This x1000. There’s been a shift in …
2021-10-16: Remember this Chrome headless bug that I’ve been obsessing about? Turns out that this is a …
2021-10-16: “Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity”
2021-10-15: “Custom properties with defaults: 3+1 strategies – Lea Verou” I don’t mind the verbose solution, …
2021-10-15: “Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer – Attack & Defense” …
2021-10-15: “The dark side of Eureka: Artificially induced Aha moments make facts feel true - ScienceDirect”
2021-10-14: “Was it easier to build websites a decade ago? - Go Make Things” Absolutely agree with this. The …
2021-10-14: “Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2021-10-14: So, it looks like the kerning/spacing problems I saw in the PDF output of puppeteer/headless chrome …
2021-10-14: “CSS is Going Gosh-Darned Hog Wild, I Tell Ya What - CSS-Tricks” CSS is easily my favourite part of …
2021-10-14: “Appwalls and their apps are destructive to the open web. - Airbag Industries”
2021-10-13: So, it turns out that the typographic quality of Chrome’s PDF output varies quite a bit OS to OS. …
2021-10-12: As always, I am a goddamn bug magnet. Not only have I run into a known Chrome bug in my PDF testing …
2021-10-12: “Discovery - Feedback - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-10-12: “About TypeScript Hype. Are you happy about TS? Good, really…” TS is a very useful JS superset. Its …
2021-10-11: Working on a series of reviews of various free/OSS tools for generating print-ready PDFs from HTML …
2021-10-11: “Heading off confusion: When do headings fail WCAG? - TPGi”
2021-10-10: People with smarphones: use all sorts of fancy software and machine learning to fake a shallow DoF. …
2021-10-10: Also met one of the friendly neighbourhood cats
2021-10-10: Walk around the neighbourhood 3: not the only person on an autumn walk
2021-10-10: Walk around the neighbourhood 2
2021-10-10: Walk around the neighbourhood 1
2021-10-09: “Google’s apps to embrace iOS on iOS – Six Colors” About time.
2021-10-08: “Service worker strategies - Go Make Things”
2021-10-08: “Comparing Google Analytics and Plausible Numbers - CSS-Tricks” As with all statistics and metrics, …
2021-10-08: “Windows 11’s Start Menu ～ take” Curious to see all of this nostalgia for the Windows 10 start …
2021-10-08: “Buttons vs. Links · Eric Eggert”
2021-10-07: “Transitional Apps with Rich Harris” “The secret sauce in transitional web apps is progressive …
2021-10-07: “Safe DOM manipulation with the Sanitizer API” IMO, this would be the most important addition to web …
2021-10-07: “A practical example of flat file storage” There’s a ‘magic’ trick that lets you use flat file …
2021-10-07: “How to blog - macwright.com”
2021-10-07: “Writing for distributed teams · Vicki Boykis”
2021-10-06: “Did iOS 15 kill Google AMP?”
2021-10-06: Do those who make mobile sites with React truly believe that it works on low end phones? I’ve …
2021-10-05: “Footnotes now supported in Markdown fields - GitHub Changelog” 🙂
2021-10-05: Idly pondering whether refocusing on serverside dev over the front end might be a good move, …
2021-10-05: Interesting thoughts from Dorian Taylor on sheering/pace layers in software dev. …
2021-10-05: Unpopular opinion: “clever tricks” have no place in code that needs to be maintained by humans.
2021-10-05: “Designing Low Upkeep Software” How do I make software that’s cheap and easy to maintain? This is a …
2021-10-05: “Conditional Border Radius In CSS – Bram.us” This is very clever. But it’s also the sort of thing …
2021-10-02: “Using the platform” Interesting. Disagree with the caveat that CSS can’t go buildless. Had an …
2021-10-02: “No, We Won’t Have a Video Call for That! - xahteiwi.eu”
2021-10-01: So Free Guy’s actually a decent movie, huh?
2021-09-30: If you ever wondered what would be the simplest way to serialise a form… well here you go. …
2021-09-30: “Everyone Should Read ‘Teaching Machines’ - Just Visiting”
2021-09-29: “Adactio: Links—Get Lost on the Web – Dan Q”
2021-09-29: “Get Lost on the Web – Dan Q”
2021-09-29: “New Azure Active Directory password brute-forcing flaw has no fix - Ars Technica” Azure has been …
2021-09-29: “Climate Change Is the New Dot-Com Bubble - WIRED” I’m guessing that the trust many younger devs …
2021-09-28: TIL that you can use pretty much any arbitrary programming language for recipe execution in GNU …
2021-09-28: “GitHub - cloudflare/miniflare: 🔥 Fully-local simulator for Cloudflare Workers” Keeping an eye on …
2021-09-28: “I Guess People Really Hate AMP — Pixel Envy” When your fancy HTML superset is so disliked that …
2021-09-27: Pondering more about going ‘buildless’ with front end development (or achieving …
2021-09-27: I’ve been experimenting with ways to do frontend unit testing without building, node, or npm. …
2021-09-27: “What to Make of Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi Giant and Dirty Old Man? ‹ Literary Hub” Asimov and Heinlein, …
2021-09-27: Web 3.0 is shaping up to be the same sort of self-serving VC grift that dominated Web 2.0. The last …
2021-09-26: “SaaS margins are terrible.” Alternate theory: companies that get into the habit of losing money …
2021-09-26: “Cooperative Overlap” We do this here in Iceland as well.
2021-09-26: “Beware False Negatives - Adrian Roselli”
2021-09-26: “Designing the Smallest Possible Thing - Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)”
2021-09-25: “In Iceland’s election, political stability again at stake - Reuters” Voter attendance so far …
2021-09-25: Voted💪🏻
2021-09-25: “Quickie: The Software Industry - Think Different”
2021-09-25: “British indie STRANGEHAVEN optioned by IDW Entertainment - The Beat” I interviewed Gary Spencer …
2021-09-25: On the EU USB-C mandate: It has built-in future-proofing: no mandate for wireless chargers which is …
2021-09-24: I really wish OSS communities would stop defaulting to Discord or Slack. Your software isn’t a …
2021-09-24: “Russell T Davies to return as Doctor Who showrunner - Doctor Who” 🙏🏻
2021-09-24: “Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite Effectiveness” Interesting results. Java, so …
2021-09-24: “Bringing instant page-loads to the browser through speculative prerendering”
2021-09-24: “Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever” We’ve needed better …
2021-09-24: “Not Releasing Late on Fridays, a Matter of Courtesy · Jens Oliver Meiert”
2021-09-21: You’ll know that Windows finally cares about UX when it starts to hide the cursor when …
2021-09-21: “Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST?” Decent overview from the GraphQL perspective. It seems …
2021-09-20: “Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work - Scott Berkun” The default management style for most modern …
2021-09-20: In case any of you have ideas or helpful suggestions: I’ve been putting together a library for …
2021-09-18: For some reason tourists think that the burning hot lava is just decorative. Decent chance we’ll see …
2021-09-17: “The Long Tail - Bristol & Bath Creative R&D” “between 2005 and 2013 the number of writers …
2021-09-16: “Eurogamer Closes Its Forums And Moves Its Readers To Discord” “Please Stop Closing Forums And …
2021-09-16: “The Future of CSS: Cascade Layers (CSS layer) – Bram.us” This looks really useful. Could also go a …
2021-09-16: “Grainy Gradients - CSS-Tricks” Remember tho, that SVG filters and complex SVGs in HTML are buggy as …
2021-09-16: “Reducing The Need For Pseudo-Elements — Smashing Magazine”
2021-09-16: “Reducing The Need For Pseudo-Elements — Smashing Magazine”
2021-09-16: “Monotype Announces the Acquisition of Iconic Type Foundry Hoefler&Co. - Monotype” This seems to …
2021-09-16: “In Quest of Search” “On why I think adding a new HTML sectioning element for search is a good …
2021-09-15: “Should we make deprecation more prescriptive?” Just don’t deprecate APIs that have cross-platform …
2021-09-15: “An Idea from Computer Science That Can Change Your Life – Jorge Arango”
2021-09-14: For a moment there, I was filled with an overwhelming nostalgia for writing with WordPerfect on DOS. …
2021-09-14: “Aggregators aren’t open-ended - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious”
2021-09-14: “I Didn’t Come Here to Make Enemies – Lucy Bellwood”
2021-09-14: “Hacking CloudKit - How I accidentally deleted your Apple Shortcuts - Detectify Labs” Whoops.
2021-09-14: “MailChimp: an inequitous acquisition” Kinda glad I’m not a MailChimp user, tbh.
2021-09-13: “Touch the keys”
2021-09-13: “Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS” “All of a sudden, things started making so much more sense. …
2021-09-13: “Adactio: Journal—Stakeholders of styling”
2021-09-13: “How to write about web performance - Read the Tea Leaves”
2021-09-12: “Learning and Being Wrong - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-09-12: “Assume that both are true - Seth’s Blog”
2021-09-11: Reviewing some of the work that came out of W3C Publishing WG: web publications, lightweight …
2021-09-11: Did web packaging ever get any adoption outside of Google? github.com/WICG/webp… My …
2021-09-11: “Just ask”
2021-09-11: “I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine” There must be some …
2021-09-11: “Counterfeit Capitalism: Why a Monopolized Economy Leads to Inflation and Shortages - by Matt …
2021-09-10: Experimenting a bit with PDF-generation using latex/xetex via pandoc. Kind of digging it, tbh. …
2021-09-10: “Enough With Must-Have Features - Itamar Gilad Product Management”
2021-09-09: “Vanilla JS is a web performance decision - Go Make Things” “If you actually care about your users, …
2021-09-09: “Ship / Show / Ask” Interesting pattern for handling git pull requests.
2021-09-09: “Don’t attach tooltips to document.body - CSS-Tricks”
2021-09-09: “Enterprise UX: essential resources to design complex data tables by Stéphanie Walter - UX …
2021-09-09: “Don’t attach tooltips to document.body - Atif Afzal”
2021-09-09: “Oddkin - A Working Library”
2021-09-08: “Breaking projects into smaller parts - Go Make Things”
2021-09-08: “Adactio: Links—404PageFound – Active Vintage Websites, Old Webpages, and Web 1.0”
2021-09-08: “404PageFound – Active Vintage Websites, Old Webpages, and Web 1.0”
2021-09-07: “Adactio: Links—Using the platform”
2021-09-07: “Using the platform”
2021-09-06: “Replacing broken avatar images with background SVG Emoji – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2021-09-05: “Online Trolls Also Jerks in Real Life: Aarhus University Study”
2021-09-04: “Review Notes: Shape Up. These notes are based off of the v 1.7… - by John Cutler - Medium” …
2021-09-04: “A link (Phil Gyford’s website)”
2021-09-04: E.W.Dijkstra: The strengths of the academic enterprise “The second reason is that what society …
2021-09-04: “Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls”
2021-09-04: “Notes for an annotation SDK – Jon Udell”
2021-09-04: “Adactio: Links—A/A Testing: How I increased conversions 300% by doing absolutely nothing”
2021-09-04: “A/A Testing: How I increased conversions 300% by doing absolutely nothing”
2021-09-02: “Some simple advice for Apple and app developers: It’s not about you”
2021-09-02: “GitHub Copilot – Productivity Boon or Considered Harmful?” “What I’ve noticed is that the …
2021-09-01: “We get what the business model wants - Seth’s Blog” Truth in the title. The rest is …
2021-08-31: “technology was going to change everything” “We experience technology moving through its …
2021-08-31: “Tolkien and Amazon’s Fight for a Franchise - by Tim Carmody - Amazon Chronicles”
2021-08-31: “How Weak Analogies About Software Can Lead Us Astray – Rich Mironov’s Product Bytes”
2021-08-30: The fact that my dad (an organisational psychologist) used to test his management training workshops …
2021-08-30: “Frank Oz on life as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Yoda: ‘I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney …
2021-08-28: ‘“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure - Ars Technica’
2021-08-28: “Developers Should Abandon Agile”
2021-08-28: “Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion - Simple Thread”
2021-08-28: “My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry – Mike’s …
2021-08-27: “Some reasons to measure”
2021-08-27: “Jimmy Wales on Constraints for Bad Behavior – Jorge Arango” “if you design for the worst people, …
2021-08-27: “The Rise Of User-Hostile Software - Den Delimarsky” This is directly relevant to what I was writing …
2021-08-27: “Why are hyperlinks blue?”
2021-08-26: “Start small - Go Make Things” This! Not just for those who are learning. Always start small. Even …
2021-08-26: “My love-hate affair with technology - Read the Tea Leaves”
2021-08-26: “Software Crisis 2.0 – Baldur Bjarnason” I decided to dump everything I’ve learned that’s relevant …
2021-08-26: “Wax On, Wax Off. There’s Value In Simple Exercises. – Codemanship’s Blog”
2021-08-25: “The Cognitive Costs of Bad UX – Jorge Arango”
2021-08-25: “Robin Rendle › Newsletters”
2021-08-23: I may have finished writing almost 9000 words on software project failure to publish later this …
2021-08-23: The next article link I clicked in my feed reader did exactly this, to an uncanny degree. Good job …
2021-08-22: It feels like every time I come across an interesting-looking series on Netflix made by Netflix, the …
2021-08-19: “Focus groups are worthless.. Now, I’ll tell you how I really feel - by Erika Hall - Mule Design …
2021-08-19: Every time micro.blog gets the character count wrong on a post and cross-posts a truncated version …
2021-08-19: “Is Safari the new Internet Explorer?” They detail how the biggest Safari issues are a result of …
2021-08-18: Is there something in the employee handbook at Google that mandates that they be condescending and …
2021-08-18: Got a booster shot Monday. Icelandic authorities feel there’s preliminary data indicating that …
2021-08-18: “Release it and it will sell without any effort”
2021-08-13: This post is an experiment. I had a go at revisiting an almost decade old blog post on the nature of …
2021-08-13: Six years ago I wrote this… “The web has covered the basics — that’s why it’ll get …
2021-08-13: “How Not To Be A Jerk • Robin Rendle”
2021-08-12: That feeling when your best received work in a long while is a screenshot of something you made ten …
2021-08-12: Looking back at old designs for my weblog, I kind of miss the simpler, more book-like designs I was …
2021-08-12: Only just now realised that my flickr feed from about 15 years ago is still online …
2021-08-11: “Adactio: Journal—Resigning from the AMP advisory committee” “Whenever a representative from Google …
2021-08-11: “Stress systems. — Ethan Marcotte” “You don’t start by fixing the system. You start by relieving …
2021-08-10: “Stay alert” “If alert is fair game for removal, then so is every API we add to the platform if the …
2021-08-10: “CSS Transforms tutorial”
2021-08-10: “Cool URIs and Image Hotlinking - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-08-10: “Notes on the Perfidy of Dashboards – charity.wtf”
2021-08-10: “Google vs. the web - Go Make Things” Chromers are so argumentative and condescending that they …
2021-08-09: Odds are that updating an established app, site, or service just to keep its look …
2021-08-09: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Apps Getting Worse” This is happening more than it used to. (Possibly because …
2021-08-07: Most of those who are writing about the web and media these days haven’t read Amusing Ourselves to …
2021-08-07: “Chrome is Not the Standard · Chris Krycho”
2021-08-07: “Browsers and Representation - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-08-06: “Apple’s photo scanning and our state of forced collective paranoia (Interconnected)”
2021-08-06: One recurring issue that keeps popping up in the years I’ve been on the web, acerbated by social …
2021-08-05: “See Xena stars Lucy Lawless, Renee O’Connor reunion on My Life Is Murder” Lucy Lawless and …
2021-08-05: “About Web Components. It was the year 1998 when W3C proposed… - by Andrea Giammarchi - Aug, 2021 - …
2021-08-04: “Handling properties in custom element upgrades - Read the Tea Leaves”
2021-08-04: “Adactio: Journal—A Few Notes on A Few Notes on The Culture”
2021-08-04: ‘Deming: “Cease Dependence on Inspection” - Think Different’
2021-08-04: “Exploring the SameSite cookie attribute for preventing CSRF” In every project where I’ve set the …
2021-08-03: I keep wondering how big the ‘hidden’ podcasting ecosystem is; the podcasts not listed …
2021-08-03: “How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs — Smashing Magazine”
2021-08-03: “Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources”
2021-08-03: “Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine”
2021-08-03: “Better coordination, or better software? – Jessitron”
2021-08-03: “Adactio: Journal—Facebook Container for Firefox”
2021-08-02: Genuinely think that whoever okayed this change in behaviour should be fired. And then whoever hired …
2021-08-02: “Why it’s okay for web components to use frameworks - Read the Tea Leaves”
2021-08-01: The whole “automation increases employment in the long run” example of ATMs not reducing teller jobs …
2021-08-01: “Pixels of the Week – August 1, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2021-08-01: “On data rights, immigration, privilege, power, and the shit life throws at you – Hi, I’m Heather …
2021-08-01: The more I hear from musicians who have essentially quit the business because of how little it pays …
2021-08-01: “Tension in Chrome and Safari’s Dominance — Pixel Envy”
2021-07-31: Another SVG experiment.
2021-07-31: “Survivorship bias”
2021-07-31: “Aligning a Button Label Vertically - Ahmad Shadeed” Neat solution for a common problem.
2021-07-31: “From Iceland — Food Of Iceland: Landi” Turns out you can now buy landi (Icelandic moonshine) …
2021-07-31: ‘The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation” – Chelsea Troy’
2021-07-31: “Too Smart” “The big blowups in any field aren’t typically caused by a lack of smarts. The …
2021-07-30: “Adactio: Journal—Reader” Opening up my feed reader app in the morning feels the same as opening the …
2021-07-30: “Nobody gives a hoot about groupthink – Baldur Bjarnason” Where I write about the two bad software …
2021-07-30: “On Permalinks and Paradigms… – plasticbag.org”
2021-07-30: “Safari isn’t protecting the web, it’s killing it - HTTP Toolkit” This is a great post. …
2021-07-29: “What the team lacked was the psychological safety to go and do product discovery. The mere act of …
2021-07-29: “Kent Beck’s Paint Drip People - Think Different”
2021-07-29: “The Baked Data architectural pattern”
2021-07-28: Tried to watch the Icelandic Netflix series Katla out of national loyalty and hate it after the …
2021-07-28: “Don’t listen to Le Corbusier—or Jakob Nielsen” “This is what psychology and …
2021-07-28: “Kevin Smith Masters of the Universe Backlash: Tells Fans Grow Up” This actually makes me want to …
2021-07-28: “Measuring Inner-Loop Agility – Codemanship’s Blog”
2021-07-28: “One-offs and low-expectations with Safari - daverupert.com” Here’s an example of somebody who …
2021-07-28: “I often get the impression that software vendors, in general, imagine that it is inherently good …
2021-07-28: Kremlinology and the motivational fallacy when blogging about Apple. “For developers, Apple’s Safari is crap and outdated – Perry Sun - Blog” The reason for Apple’s …
2021-07-26: “Rationality Is Not A Way Out Of Group Action Problems like Climate Change and Covid – Ian Welsh”
2021-07-26: If you were curious about what Icelanders were doing during the quarantine year, births increased by …
2021-07-26: I think this one works better in black and white.
2021-07-25: “Hacking is the opposite of marketing - macwright.com”
2021-07-24: Just finished re-reading Alan Moore’s entire Supreme run, for the first time in twenty years. …
2021-07-23: “Sylvie Was Right To Do What She Did On ‘Loki’”
2021-07-23: Looks like 90% of all tech writing today is either hagiography (VCs and CEOs as saints spouting …
2021-07-23: I’ll stop worrying about COVID only if research confirms that breakthrough infections of those who …
2021-07-23: “Twitter locked my account (again) for an obvious joke”
2021-07-23: “The problem here then is that the reconstructions systematically whitened the emperors (through, I …
2021-07-22: “Meeting the User – Jorge Arango”
2021-07-22: “The Dirty Secret About AI”
2021-07-22: One clear example of how tech is built on cargo culting are the various estimated read time widgets. …
2021-07-22: “Lost Business - Think Different” I’ve seen this in action way too often.
2021-07-22: “PresentationDomainDataLayering” “The reduced scope of attention reason is sufficient on its own.” …
2021-07-21: “The stockmarket is a machine for creating cults (Interconnected)”
2021-07-21: “Delegate Outcomes, Not Methods - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-07-21: “Async functions & microtasks”
2021-07-21: “Adactio: Journal—Hope” “For each year back in time, the probability of a link still working …
2021-07-21: “Make Failure A (Safe) Option - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-07-21: “The accessibility stalemate - Christian Heilmann”
2021-07-21: “A natural shadow with SVG filters - Stefan Judis Web Development” Aside from the Safari bugs, last …
2021-07-20: ‘Inner-Loop Agility (or “Why Your Agile Transformation Failed”) – Codemanship’s Blog’ “A very …
2021-07-20: “Things I Learned Reading Webkit’s UA Stylesheet” Namespace scoping in CSS is one of the reasons why …
2021-07-20: “The Handshake of Generations”
2021-07-20: “BBEdit 14.0 arrives with Notes and LSP support – Six Colors”
2021-07-20: People see that we keep using ill-fitting paradigms to think about web development and web authoring …
2021-07-19: Been digging through a few boxes of comics I haven’t touched in 20 years and found these two. …
2021-07-19: “Marvel, DC Offer ‘Shut Up Money’ As Comic Creators Go Public – The Hollywood Reporter” US superhero …
2021-07-19: “Toxic Positivity & The Decline of UX - by UX Uncensored - Medium”
2021-07-19: “Pixels of the Week – July 18, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2021-07-17: “Underjord - Trust in Software, an All Time Low” Software quality in general seems to be …
2021-07-16: “Accessibility of the section element - scottohara.me” ‘Semantically, the section specifies an …
2021-07-16: “Hobson’s Browser - Infrequently Noted”
2021-07-16: “How many happy users did your product have this month? - Christian Heilmann”
2021-07-16: “Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part III: Bigotry and Diversity at Rome – A …
2021-07-15: “America’s Abstract Freedom”
2021-07-15: “A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed – Eric Bailey”
2021-07-14: “Stop the Medium”
2021-07-14: “The rise of JavaScript compilers and micro-libraries - Go Make Things”
2021-07-14: “Tip: not everyone has macOS to hide those ugly scrollbars”
2021-07-14: “A privacy war is raging inside the W3C” 😕 Parts of the W3C have been dysfunctional (and coopted by …
2021-07-14: Pretty much, yeah. www.youtube.com/watch
2021-07-13: “D.C. Circuit overturns FDA ban on shock device for disabled students - Reuters” The US keeps …
2021-07-13: “Scroll Snap Challenges - Adrian Roselli”
2021-07-12: “Redesign: Content Migration ･ Robin Rendle” One problem with being an early adopter of projects …
2021-07-12: “How Intel Financialized and Lost Leadership in Semiconductor Fabrication - naked capitalism”
2021-07-11: I see the Personal Knowledge Management industry (what used to be called ‘notes’) is …
2021-07-11: “Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda”
2021-07-11: “Decentralization and the templated society”
2021-07-10: “Discovery vs. Design - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-07-10: “The infinite scroll - Columbia Journalism Review”
2021-07-10: “The Infinite Ugly Scroll — Pixel Envy” Googlers keep talking about how the content web is …
2021-07-09: “NDA Expired – let’s spill the beans on a weird startup – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2021-07-09: “Probably Are Gonna Need It: Application Security Edition - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-07-08: “’We Make Mistakes’: Twitter’s Embrace of the Extreme Far Right - Southern Poverty …
2021-07-08: “Self-driving cars, self-driving bullets: Why even Elon Musk has been forced to admit that …
2021-07-08: “Michael Tsai - Blog - GitHub Copilot and Copyright”
2021-07-08: “Breaking: GitHub’s Copilot Is Generating Functional API Keys”
2021-07-08: “1998: Open Season with Mozilla, W3C’s DOM, and WaSP – Web Development History”
2021-07-07: “npm audit: Broken by Design” Every node project I’ve worked on since npm audit …
2021-07-07: “Trusted Types - mid 2021 report - Google Docs”
2021-07-07: I wrote a thing on how our reading of techno-utopianists and techno-pessimists is coloured by our …
2021-07-07: “The Mindset That Kills Product Thinking – Help your organization focus on successful outcomes”
2021-07-07: “Reactions to Amazon’s Purchase of MGM — Pixel Envy”
2021-07-07: “Yale Law Journal - Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”
2021-07-06: Am I right in thinking that the main precedent letting companies like GitHub claim that their …
2021-07-06: “Techno-Feudalism Is Taking Over by Yanis Varoufakis - Project Syndicate”
2021-07-06: “Tabs in HTML?”
2021-07-05: “Fail whale. Fail Captain Ahab. Fail Ishmael. Fail the Pequod and her whole damn crew! Oh, just …
2021-07-05: “Health Check – Lucy Bellwood”
2021-07-04: “Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL’d software?”
2021-07-04: “CA habitat restoration used beavers to restore Placer - The Sacramento Bee”
2021-07-04: “export default thing is different to export { thing as default } - JakeArchibald.com”
2021-07-04: “The Decision Diamond: a simple and effective prioritisation technique - Joe Leech”
2021-07-04: “6 Ways to Reduce Cognitive Demand When Designing UX - by Alexander Rådahl - May, 2021 - UX Planet”
2021-07-04: “Pixels of the Week – July 4, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2021-07-03: “What if infosecbikini is a CIA psyop? Also, Github Copilot is just 21st century enclosure of …
2021-07-03: “The amorality of Web 2.0 - ROUGH TYPE” This 2005 blog post by Nicholas Carr looks pretty prescient …
2021-07-03: “Jaron Lanier Interview on What Went Wrong With the Internet” “The truth is that we totally have …
2021-07-03: “Bruce Lawson’s personal site : prefers-reduced-motion and browser defaults”
2021-07-03: “My theory on why advertising is so terrible – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2021-07-03: “Remote Work Is Always Efficient But Efficient Isn’t Always Effective – Paul Taylor”
2021-07-03: “Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to… — programming is terrible”
2021-07-03: “Back to the Bad Old Days of the Web – Jorge Arango” Google is as bad a steward of the web as …
2021-07-03: “Long passwords don’t cause denial of service when using proper hash functions”
2021-07-03: “The hidden costs of software inventory” “Controlling software inventory is a business opportunity, …
2021-07-03: “Reinventing the Fiery Wheel – Running In Production With Scissors”
2021-07-02: “Iceland fishing company goes ‘guerilla’ on journalists who uncovered alleged corruption - Committee …
2021-07-02: One reason why I bounce off a lot of projects and services are poor docs. The most common culprit is …
2021-07-02: GitHub Copilot adds several new wrinkles to the question whether you should open source code and put …
2021-07-02: “YAGNI exceptions - lukeplant.me.uk”
2021-07-02: “PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its”
2021-07-02: “App Platform on Digital Ocean - CSS-Tricks” I tested this at my last job with the intent to turn it …
2021-07-02: “Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media” This would explain why creating an in-group …
2021-07-02: “Stop Using ‘Pop-up’ - Adrian Roselli”
2021-07-01: “Cybersecurity Workers Flood Twitter With Bikini Pics to Protest Harassment”
2021-07-01: “Books Are Cheap” Anne Trubek observes that book prices have failed to keep up with …
2021-07-01: “Manton Reece - Open-sourcing the Micro.blog apps”
2021-07-01: “I once said that if Twitter was real life our bodies would always be slowly shrinking, and …
2021-07-01: ‘Michael Tsai - Blog - Remixing Old Tracks in Spatial Audio Is “Sacrilegious”’
2021-07-01: “The unseen benefits of accessibility - Christian Heilmann”
2021-07-01: “Towards richer colors on the Web - Darker Ink”
2021-07-01: “The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic”
2021-06-30: That most of everything is crap usually isn’t a problem for machine learning. You use them to …
2021-06-30: “Adactio: Journal—Safari 15”
2021-06-30: “Deciding Between Cloud-based & Local Apps – Jorge Arango”
2021-06-30: “Research recitation - GitHub Docs” Here’s a hugely biased paper from GitHub handwaving around the …
2021-06-29: IME, whenever you seem somebody pride themselves on social media for being a hyper-rational …
2021-06-29: “Adactio: Journal—ReCoil” “The whole thing smells of grift”
2021-06-29: Web devs writing typescript: “we need to use Proxies so we can transparently map all the objects to …
2021-06-28: “The open source space (maybe?) works if you build developer-facing utilities, but it has …
2021-06-28: Found this in a box. AFAICT this should be Alan Moore’s complete run on Supreme.
2021-06-28: Y’know Google, pretty sure some sort of automatic check could have told you that you …
2021-06-28: “Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife” I will always post a link to this classic …
2021-06-28: “Why I chose to leave my successful UX career: Building the wrong thing faster doesn’t …
2021-06-28: “You can’t capture the nuance of my form fields” Custom form controls are rarely a good idea.
2021-06-28: “Bitcoin myths: immutability, decentralisation, and the cult of “21 million” – Attack of the 50 Foot …
2021-06-26: Occasionally, I’m reminded of the American couple I met back in 2002 who were so appalled by …
2021-06-26: “Whatever Happened to UI Affordances? – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2021-06-25: “Using CSS to Enforce Accessibility - Adrian Roselli”
2021-06-25: “Robin Rendle ･ The web is too damn complex”
2021-06-24: One of the most offputting things about TailwindCSS is the aggressive ‘“Best practices” don’t …
2021-06-24: “Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising - Schneier on Security” Interesting report from the …
2021-06-23: “All kinds of online marketplaces are creaking under scams (Interconnected)”
2021-06-22: “The full stack developer myth - Go Make Things”
2021-06-21: —Reads a dev.to post about the evolution of Web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 which states outright that the …
2021-06-21: “#162: Minimum Viable Self - Kneeling Bus”
2021-06-21: “Amazon’s Staggering HR Failures - Amazon Chronicles” “This is all awfully close to The Way Things …
2021-06-21: “The perfect link - The A11Y Collective”
2021-06-21: “Just link!”
2021-06-21: “mnot’s blog: How the Next Layer of the Internet is Going to be Standardised”
2021-06-20: “How to Draw a Wireframe (Even if You Can’t Draw)”
2021-06-20: “Pixels of the Week – June 20, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2021-06-20: “To Learn a New UX Skill, Read an Old Book”
2021-06-20: “UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right?”
2021-06-20: “Don’t Feed the Thought Leaders - Earthly Blog”
2021-06-20: “Robin Rendle ･ The web is too damn complex”
2021-06-19: “We’re often told that we live in the greatest era of technological progress in history. But …
2021-06-18: “Leveraging System Fonts on the Web - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-06-18: Any time I see somebody use the word ‘rational’ to describe themselves in a social media …
2021-06-18: “The COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Is Short on Evidence and Long on Guesswork”
2021-06-18: “Safari 15 and Chickenshit Minimalism — Pixel Envy”
2021-06-18: “The Power of Inversion 🔃 - Refactoring”
2021-06-17: Whenever you read reviews of any kind of Icelandic content (TV, movies, novels) you need to dial it …
2021-06-17: Gleðilega þjóðhátíð! Happy Independence Day! (In Iceland.)
2021-06-16: I don’t know which is worse, the idea that the Chrome team thinks that nobody wants to use …
2021-06-16: “Why America Overrates Scientific Research - The Atlantic”
2021-06-15: “content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance”
2021-06-15: “New aspect-ratio CSS property supported in Chromium, Safari Technology Preview, and Firefox …
2021-06-15: “The MBA Pathology - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-06-15: “Abstraction and Implementation – Jorge Arango”
2021-06-15: “Maurice Parker - Zavala 1.0 released” “It is free and Open Source and will be forever, so you have …
2021-06-15: “Kirkville - How the Audio Industry is Deceiving Consumers with High-Resolution Audio”
2021-06-15: “Kirkville - Why Hi-Res Lossless Music from Apple Music Won’t Sound Different when Played on Macs …
2021-06-15: “CSS Frameworks, hype and dogmatism - Piccalilli” I’m actually in favour of frameworks under some …
2021-06-13: “Fuck Glory – Startups are One Long Con - Stacking the Bricks”
2021-06-12: “The Digital Garden — Pixel Envy”
2021-06-12: “Hey, so, I Think I Fucking Hate the Internet — No Octothorpe”
2021-06-12: “Elevated Stupidity Is the Evolution of the Hot Take Economy at Its Worst”
2021-06-12: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Fanhouse vs. Apple” “Fanhouse’s presumably largest competitor, Patreon, gets …
2021-06-11: “Best method for dark-mode friendly SVG in HTML” “You should always specify either role=img (static …
2021-06-10: “The rise of community-owned monopolies” “how did software collapse become normal? I believe that …
2021-06-10: “The dependency hubs in Open Source software” “there is no practical difference between Microsoft …
2021-06-10: “It’s time to ditch Chrome - WIRED UK” Apple vs Google is one of the few times where I use the …
2021-06-10: “The CSPO Pathology - Silicon Valley Product Group” “These people are confusing the rituals of a …
2021-06-10: “The CSPO Pathology - Silicon Valley Product Group” “What I want to address specifically is why our …
2021-06-09: “Is beef bad for the environment? 🐄 💨 - Justin Mares” The short answer is yes, but pretty much only …
2021-06-09: “An Unbelievable Demo”
2021-06-09: “Adactio: Journal—Deceptive dark patterns”
2021-06-09: “Adactio: Links—Real-world CSS vs. CSS-in-JS performance comparison - Tomas Pustelnik’s personal …
2021-06-09: “Real-world CSS vs. CSS-in-JS performance comparison - Tomas Pustelnik’s personal website” …
2021-06-09: “Robin Rendle ･ Everything that books ought to be” A hardback book’s primary purpose is to be …
2021-06-09: ‘Reasons why bugs might feel “impossible”’
2021-06-09: “Adactio: Links—Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript”
2021-06-09: “Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript” This is a good idea and timely. I’m curious to see what …
2021-06-08: “The mobile web is the web - Go Make Things”
2021-06-08: “Fixing a design flaw that’s also an industry standard - Lynn Fisher”
2021-06-07: “CSS Houdini - Vincent De Oliveira”
2021-06-07: I’m starting to kinda like the super-minimalistic epub reader that’s built into Dropbox.
2021-06-07: “Ancestors and Descendants – Eric’s Archived Thoughts” For some reason I swiped right past this the …
2021-06-07: “Adactio: Links—The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML - localghost”
2021-06-07: “The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML - localghost”
2021-06-07: “No thanks to the App Store - Riccardo Mori”
2021-06-07: “The Entire Amount of Commerce – tyler.io”
2021-06-07: “An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding - by Camille Fournier - Jun, 2021 …
2021-06-07: “Hixie’s Natural Log: Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG” HTML5 …
2021-06-05: “Lux Year 4: Doubling Down”
2021-06-05: “Adactio: Links—Two articles on SPA or SPA-like sites vs alternatives — Piper Haywood”
2021-06-05: “Two articles on SPA or SPA-like sites vs alternatives — Piper Haywood”
2021-06-04: “Age of Invention: Why Didn’t the Ottomans Print More? - Age of Invention, by Anton Howes”
2021-06-04: “Non-uniform memory access - Wikipedia” Have any of the tech sites covered the possibility of Apple …
2021-06-03: “For Apple to continue to deny these is dishonest, factually wrong, and extremely insulting — not …
2021-06-03: “Gaining a Competitive Advantage with a Solid Experience Vision” “Competitive parity ultimately …
2021-06-03: “I helped pioneer UX design. What I see today horrifies me” “What got lost along the way was a view …
2021-06-03: “The take-away here is when anyone starts talking about various testing categories, dig deeper on …
2021-06-03: “On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing” “Similarly their notion of integration test …
2021-06-03: “On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing” “it’s not clear what people see as the …
2021-06-03: “TBM 23/52: The Mediocrity Trap - The Beautiful Mess”
2021-06-03: “1997: The Year of DHTML – Web Development History” I remember being very excited about this. Which …
2021-06-03: “Trying Your Best is really bad advice (and strategy) - Zell Liew”
2021-06-02: “The hidden world of aria-hidden – HTML Accessibility”
2021-06-02: “Tech interviews are stupid - Go Make Things”
2021-06-02: “Embracing Design Constraints - Adrian Roselli”
2021-06-02: “Reflections on HTML - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-06-01: “How to Write Creative Fiction: Umberto Eco’s Four Rules”
2021-06-01: ‘What are “unusual characters” – Terence Eden’s Blog’
2021-06-01: “Identity and ideas - Seth’s Blog”
2021-06-01: “Islands of Data - BitWorking” “The depressing part is that in every single one of those …
2021-06-01: “Thoughts for the Aging Web Developer · Jens Oliver Meiert”
2021-06-01: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Testing in the Twenties” Full of good advice.
2021-06-01: “For a better web, let developers learn - Mike Carter”
2021-06-01: “For a better web, let developers learn - Mike Carter”
2021-06-01: “Adactio: Links—Priorities”
2021-06-01: “Priorities”
2021-05-31: Whenever I see “full stack developer” I read it as “developer who writes JS components that render …
2021-05-31: The worrying React hegemony (I wrote the following as a Twitter/Mastodon thread. Reposted here for posterity. Lightly edited and …
2021-05-31: “The Perils of Rehydration: Understanding how Gatsby/Next manage server-side rendering and …
2021-05-31: “Amazon Prime Is an Economy-Distorting Lie - BIG by Matt Stoller” “Prime, in other words, is …
2021-05-30: Is it just me or have Google’s search results been extra-useless lately? Keeps ignoring the most …
2021-05-29: Seeing web devs start to hype up canvas-rendering as the future of all web apps makes me want to …
2021-05-29: “FANDOM FLAMES: Why women-centered media gets left behind - The Beat”
2021-05-28: “Inclusive Design Principles”
2021-05-28: “I Think You Can Do Better - Viget” “Toxic You Suck Culture has been replaced with a pernicious …
2021-05-28: “How Finance Sharks Destroy Industries: Chicago Tribune Edition - Ian Welsh”
2021-05-27: “The return of fancy tools - macwright.com” Looks like I timed my recent focus on simple tools …
2021-05-27: “A high-resilience org chart – Jessitron”
2021-05-26: I’ve finally uploaded the next episode in the podcast series I and @tomabba recorded last …
2021-05-26: “Surviving IDEO” “But you can’t spell culture without the word cult.” This applies to so so many …
2021-05-26: “CSS Container Queries For Designers - Ahmad Shadeed” Container queries have the potential to …
2021-05-26: “Adactio: Links—No, Utility Classes Aren’t the Same As Inline Styles - frontstuff” “Anyway, if you …
2021-05-25: As an Icelander it’s always been a bit weird to see foreigners extol the virtue of skyr and see it …
2021-05-25: Terrifying realisation: there are a ton of developers out there who think you can’t use an …
2021-05-25: “Pathological culture - Chris Swan’s Weblog”
2021-05-25: “How organisations are changing.. The next “next” generation - by swardley - May, 2021 - Medium”
2021-05-23: Here’s a minimal Makefile for transforming JS with esbuild js_files := $(shell find src -name …
2021-05-23: “The High Bar of Expectations Can Crush Our Creativity - zen habits zen habits”
2021-05-23: “GitHub OCTO - Flat Data” This is clever.
2021-05-22: “Subtext: markup for note-taking - Subconscious”
2021-05-22: Is micro.blog cross-posting down? None of the usual tricks to bump it into cross-posting when its …
2021-05-22: I’m hesitant to express my opinions about web development when I’m reliably employed… …
2021-05-21: I kinda get the feeling sometimes that a lot of people aren’t aware that you can use nunjucks or …
2021-05-21: “Annoy a medievalist Bingo – Going Medieval” “on average modern workers work far more than workers …
2021-05-21: “svg-loader: A Different Way to Work With External SVG - CSS-Tricks” This article claims that …
2021-05-21: I see Basecamp is celebrating their sudden influx of white supremacist customers. (Ultra-nationalist …
2021-05-21: “Classes vs. prototypal inheritance in vanilla JS - Go Make Things” Good overview. I’d only add that …
2021-05-21: The saddest thing about the Basecamp drama is how common it is. Bosses at an SMB mismanage their way …
2021-05-20: “Google revives RSS - TechCrunch” RSS never died and now, in the pop culture that is software, it …
2021-05-20: “Review: Panic’s Nova 2021 – a VS Code and Sublime Text beater? – Ben Frain” The one thing I truly …
2021-05-20: “Age of Invention: Did the Ottomans Ban Print? - Age of Invention, by Anton Howes”
2021-05-19: I don’t know whether JS build configs have just gotten incredibly complicated or whether …
2021-05-19: “Accessibility is hard. It’s also your job. - Go Make Things”
2021-05-19: “Robin Rendle ･ The Cage”
2021-05-18: “The most important thing I learned in art college - by Andrew Coyle - NextUX - Medium”
2021-05-18: “Designing Between the Lines - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-05-17: “No Utopias: Gerard O’Neill, Gundam, and the Illusion of Space Colonization – ZIMMERIT – Anime - …
2021-05-17: “Pixels of the Week – May 16, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2021-05-16: “Adactio: Journal—The cage”
2021-05-15: The OSS bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was – Baldur Bjarnason “The biggest problem—and …
2021-05-15: “Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work - Scott Berkun”
2021-05-15: “Auto-Generated Social Media Images - CSS-Tricks”
2021-05-15: “Doc Searls Weblog · How the cookie poisoned the Web”
2021-05-14: “The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill - WIRED”
2021-05-14: “The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth - Aeon Essays”
2021-05-14: Was there a rule about posting big blog posts on Fridays? Or was that just about shipping software? …
2021-05-14: “Praise is different from positive feedback (positive feedback is better) - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-05-14: “Michael Tsai - Blog - What It Was Like to Sell Apps Online in 2003”
2021-05-14: “The Testament of a Furniture Dealer” “Development is not always the same thing as progress. It is …
2021-05-14: “Lessons from IKEA - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-05-13: “HTML5 canvas sub DOM” Canvas can be accessible. But accessibility needs a DOM somewhere and Google …
2021-05-13: “Making Your RSS Feeds Automatically Discoverable - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-05-13: “The Lost Designer - Scott Berkun”
2021-05-13: “5 steps to faster web fonts /// Iain Bean”
2021-05-12: The past year was the first year in my life where I didn’t get a cold, the flu, or some other …
2021-05-12: “Bruce Lawson’s personal site : CSS Zen Garden turns 18” CSS Zen Garden was a revelation.
2021-05-12: “Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?” This doesn’t surprise me. The …
2021-05-11: “Stop Obsessing Over Development Velocity, Focus on This Instead - Itamar Gilad Product Management”
2021-05-11: “The Thunderbolt/USB-C ports on M1 Macs don’t work – Ben Frain” Compatibility issues with enclosures
2021-05-11: “Why OpenDoc failed, and then failed 3 more times? - Instadeq Blog”
2021-05-11: “The Mass Email Mistake - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-05-11: “The Mortifying Ordeal of Pairing All Day”
2021-05-11: “Work Won’t Love You Back - A Working Library”
2021-05-11: “JWT should not be your default for sessions” “Adopting complex systems before the simple option is …
2021-05-11: “Panic Blog » The Future of Code Editor” “we’re discontinuing Code Editor as it doesn’t generate …
2021-05-10: “Diving Deep on S3 Consistency”
2021-05-10: “Design for reading: tips for optimizing content for Reader modes and reading apps”
2021-05-09: “Solve The Problem You’ve Got, Not The One You Want” ‘I strongly encourage developers to solve the …
2021-05-09: “The economics of JavaScript web apps - Mike Carter” Been saying this for a while but tech, …
2021-05-09: “Newfound brain structure explains why some birds are so smart—and maybe even self-aware - Science - …
2021-05-08: “Sexism, Racism, Toxic Positivity, and TailwindCSS” “The criticisms aren’t …
2021-05-08: “Criticism pushes the web forward”
2021-05-08: “inessential: What It Was Like to Sell Apps Online in 2003” I haven’t bought software in a physical …
2021-05-07: “A useful fiction - A Working Library”
2021-05-07: “Understanding Architectural Scale: Tabletops and landscapes - by Sarah R. Barrett - Known Item - …
2021-05-07: “Feedback is a Mirror – Rands in Repose”
2021-05-07: “Why You Should Have Few Meetings 🔋 - Refactoring”
2021-05-06: “Why we hate specifications. Written specifications (user stories or… - by Thorbjørn Sigberg - …
2021-05-06: “Stop wasting time on the backlog! - by Thorbjørn Sigberg - Medium”
2021-05-06: “Mac-Like – Worms and Viruses” The excellent ‘Mac-like’ third party apps are the only reason why I …
2021-05-05: “How to Stop Getting Defensive - Psychology Today UK”
2021-05-05: “The Limitations of Economies of Scale” (PDF) Scale often increases costs but because it also moves …
2021-05-05: “On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules” A classic 25 year old paper.
2021-05-05: “Unicode symbol as text or emoji · mts.io”
2021-05-04: “The State of CSS Cross-Browser Development - Ahmad Shadeed”
2021-05-04: “Efficiency is the Enemy”
2021-05-04: “Shadow DOM and Its Effect on the Unofficial Styling API - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-05-04: “Web History, Chapter 8: CSS - CSS-Tricks”
2021-05-04: “🚨 How Basecamp blew up - Platformer” Wow.
2021-05-03: Idle thought: most Open Source Software, certainly most OSS on npm, shouldn’t be OSS but should …
2021-05-02: “GitHub - justjavac/proxy-www: 学会 Proxy 就可以为所欲为吗？对，学会 Proxy 就可以为所欲为！” This is clever.
2021-05-01: I wonder how many devs who have an atavistic rejection of using eval realise that innerHTML is even …
2021-05-01: Knowledge work requires trust. Basecamp’s new policies was management declaring that staff had …
2021-04-30: “Molly Sanden – Húsavík (live at the Oscars)” I completely unironically love both this song and the …
2021-04-30: “The True Meaning of Technical Debt 💸 - Refactoring”
2021-04-30: “The social contract of open source”
2021-04-29: “Fusion on Apple Silicon: Progress Update - VMware Fusion Blog - VMware Blogs” Virtualisation on the …
2021-04-29: “New WebKit Features in Safari 14.1 - WebKit”
2021-04-29: “How to Create Actions for Selected Text With the Selection API” Caveat: shadow DOM and selection …
2021-04-29: ‘Your Team is Not “Them” - CSS-Tricks’ Good advice.
2021-04-29: “Two charms”
2021-04-28: 136 things every web developer should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or …
2021-04-28: 136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude …
2021-04-28: “A Complete Guide to Custom Properties - CSS-Tricks”
2021-04-28: “🚨 What really happened at Basecamp - Platformer”
2021-04-27: “Custom Elements Without JavaScript? - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” I’ve done this quite a bit in the past. …
2021-04-27: “iOS 14.5 brings the new Safari 14.1 to PWAs and the Web Platform － firt.dev”
2021-04-27: “shape-outside - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets - MDN” TIL that shape-outside has decent support in …
2021-04-27: “Exploring color-contrast() for the First Time - CSS-Tricks” This would be really useful.
2021-04-27: “All the Futures that Will Not Happen - Ian Welsh”
2021-04-27: “The Rise of The Four Day Work Week – Paul Taylor” Many managers would become more opposed to a four …
2021-04-27: “HTML Sanitizer API” This is a great idea. Hope it gets implemented. Kind of wonder why Chromers …
2021-04-26: “Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster”
2021-04-26: “The True Meaning of Technical Debt 💸 - Refactoring” “Ward describes debt as the natural result of …
2021-04-26: I wonder if JSX fans would’ve used E4X? If we as a community had been more open to the …
2021-04-26: Compared to Canadian and British banks, Icelandic online banking is far better in every way. Which …
2021-04-26: “Crypto miners are killing free CI” Cryptocurrency is an industry of parasites and con artists.
2021-04-26: “Adactio: Links—A quick look at privacy-focused analytics for small sites”
2021-04-26: “A quick look at privacy-focused analytics for small sites”
2021-04-26: “Design Affordance Controls”
2021-04-24: “Computers and Creativity”
2021-04-24: “Legacy without nostalgia”
2021-04-23: “A Recording of John Seddon’s Book Tour Finale - Vanguard”
2021-04-23: “Getting started with CSS Custom Properties - Tutorial - Piccalilli” Another platform feature I use …
2021-04-23: “Three Feedback Models - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-04-23: “Custom events in vanilla JS - Go Make Things” Pretty much every project I work on uses Custom …
2021-04-23: “A Guide to Understanding What Makes a Typeface Accessible - by Gareth Ford Williams - The …
2021-04-23: “On women having sex with themselves – Going Medieval” History.
2021-04-23: “Breaking down barriers using the DataTransfer API”
2021-04-22: “Marvel movies have a weird relationship with kissing and romance - Polygon”
2021-04-22: I’m available for work – Baldur Bjarnason Please share if you can 🙂 Also, feedback on the site’s new …
2021-04-22: “Backdoored developer tool that stole credentials escaped notice for 3 months - Ars Technica” This …
2021-04-22: “Still Hoping for Better Native Page Transitions - CSS-Tricks” We’ve been wanting native page …
2021-04-21: “Adactio: Journal—Get the FLoC out”
2021-04-21: “No Wrong Notes · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer”
2021-04-21: “Say Hello To CSS Container Queries” This will be huge.
2021-04-20: Am I right in thinking that by switching to the M1 in the iPad Pro, Apple is giving themselves the …
2021-04-20: I know the stuffy geek crowd will make fun of the colour iMacs but being able to buy a bright yellow …
2021-04-20: On standard themes for web components and the failure that is the Shadow DOM Earlier I linked to this project: GitHub - castastrophe/wc-theming-standards: A naming standards …
2021-04-20: “Adactio: Journal—The State of the Web — the links”
2021-04-20: “Adactio: Links—Home · castastrophe/wc-theming-standards Wiki”
2021-04-20: “GitHub - castastrophe/wc-theming-standards: A naming standards repository for using Custom …
2021-04-20: “Why Do We Do That? - Ian Welsh”
2021-04-20: “The Fundamental Purpose of Middle Management: Context Down, Information Up - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-04-19: I had completely forgotten about this little project I put together 8 years ago with my sister (who …
2021-04-19: “AI datasets are filled with errors. It’s warping what we know about AI - MIT Technology …
2021-04-19: “Building a Magical 3D button with HTML and CSS” This one’s a lot of fun.
2021-04-19: “Heroics – Lucy Bellwood” “The people I admire are mostly moving in spirals, guided by curiosity, …
2021-04-19: “How (Not) To Change Someone’s Mind – Paul Taylor”
2021-04-19: “Pixels of the Week – April 18, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2021-04-18: “F*ck you, pay designers. There is this weird thing with design… - by Dennis Hambeukers - Design …
2021-04-18: I see Anglophones are misrepresenting Denmark’s AstraZeneca decision again. Oh, well.
2021-04-18: “Adactio: Links—trapped in the technologist factory”
2021-04-17: “Platform News: Using :focus-visible” I might be the only one on the planet who actually likes …
2021-04-17: “Are You Stuck On Vision, Strategy, or Tactics? - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-04-17: “Creating an Editable Textarea That Supports Syntax-Highlighted Code - CSS-Tricks” This was way …
2021-04-17: “Oblivious - Think Different”
2021-04-16: We’re in a world where monolithic SPAs are ‘traditional’ and binding JS to …
2021-04-16: “Am I FLoCed?” “Google is testing FLoC on Chrome users worldwide. Find out if you’re one of …
2021-04-16: “‘Agility Theatre’ Keeps Us Entertained While Our Business Burns – Codemanship’s Blog” The …
2021-04-16: “Websites are not living rooms and other lessons for information architecture - by Sarah R. Barrett …
2021-04-16: “Remotion: A framework for making videos in React - LogRocket Blog” Here’s an interesting idea. It …
2021-04-16: “Working around the viewport-based fluid typography bug in Safari”
2021-04-16: “2021 is the year of modern JavaScript - Go Make Things” Looks useful and interesting.
2021-04-16: “Users of the iOS Discord App Will Be Unable to Access NSFW Channels — Pixel Envy” The problem with …
2021-04-16: “CSS { In Real Life } - Development Budgets”
2021-04-16: “How to fight back against Google FLoC - Plausible Analytics” I hadn’t realised just how goddamn …
2021-04-15: “Distributed Persistent Rendering (DPR) · Discussion #549 · jamstack/jamstack.org · GitHub” Has the …
2021-04-15: “Get Faster Builds for Large Sites on Netlify: On-demand Builders” The snarky response here would be …
2021-04-15: “How to Sign Users In with IndieAuth • Aaron Parecki” I really like IndieAuth as a tech (basically a …
2021-04-15: “TBM 15/52: Stop Hiring Things to Do Too Many Jobs - The Beautiful Mess” This is excellent advice …
2021-04-15: “Robin Rendle ･ How To Be Hopeless” Every Brit I know seems to think that the result of the Brexit …
2021-04-15: “The Trouble With Objects – Codemanship’s Blog” “Millions of people around the world read OO …
2021-04-15: “Declarative Shadow DOM” This could work. Now you just need to fix selection APIs and make it work …
2021-04-14: “The Layers of the Web - Jeremy Keith - YouTube” This is really good
2021-04-14: “CSS is a Strongly Typed Language - CSS-Tricks”
2021-04-14: “Practical accessibility, part 2: Name (almost) everything - Filament Group, Inc.”
2021-04-14: “Coasean Inversion - The Making of Making Sense”
2021-04-14: ‘”It’s Not Cancel Culture — It’s A Platform Failure.” - Galaxy Brain’ …
2021-04-13: “Ketting 7 released” “A generic HATEOAS client for Javascript” Ketting is one of the more …
2021-04-12: Found this gem in a book box I hadn’t opened in over twenty years.
2021-04-12: “Desperate investors, neoliberalism and Keynes: how to increase returns – Attack of the 50 Foot …
2021-04-12: “Pixels of the Week – April 11, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2021-04-12: ‘ongoing by Tim Bray · The Sacred “Back” Button’
2021-04-12: “5 ways to prevent code injection in JavaScript and Node.js”
2021-04-12: “This is probably the biggest indictment of modern web design…when you take the web back to …
2021-04-11: ‘JS classes are not “just syntactic sugar” - by Andrea Giammarchi - Apr, 2021 - Medium’
2021-04-11: “Maestro Syndrome - Sam Bleckley”
2021-04-11: “The Creator Economy Needs Fatter Tails - Strange Loop Canon”
2021-04-10: “Why Keyboard Shortcuts don’t work on non-US Layouts and how Devs could fix it · tkainrad” I …
2021-04-09: “The Trouble With Easy Criticism by Ritesh Babu” “Why can’t we criticize creators, and the works of …
2021-04-09: “Adactio: Journal—The state of UX”
2021-04-08: Geek culture is being against digital scarcity when you want somebody’s work for free and for …
2021-04-08: “Embrace the Grind - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-04-08: “CSS Is, In Fact, Awesome - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” CSS is my favourite part of the web stack. Web devs …
2021-04-08: “inessential: The lack of a price tag seems almost criminal” “I should explain: the app is better — …
2021-04-07: “Adactio: Journal—Of the web” Right chuffed to read this. 😁 Love Jeremy Keith’s writing as well 🙂
2021-04-06: “pencil and paper thinking - daniel g. siegel” Always link to posts that quote Alan Kay.
2021-04-06: “Sortable Table Columns - Adrian Roselli”
2021-04-06: “8 lessons I learned from spending 4 years writing one course — Learn JavaScript - Zell Liew”
2021-04-05: “The window.matchMedia API — Sebastian De Deyne” TIL
2021-04-03: “Go is a great programming language”
2021-04-03: “Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool – A Collection of …
2021-04-03: “Accessible front-end components: claims vs reality”
2021-04-01: “Validation is a mirage” “If you want to see if something works, make it. The whole thing. The …
2021-04-01: “No fooling - Seth’s Blog”
2021-04-01: “Adactio: Links—Design as (un)ethical illusion”
2021-03-31: “You Can’t Trust Amazon When It Feels Threatened - Last Week in AWS” “While mistakes can …
2021-03-31: Which type of novelty-seeking web developer are you? www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/whic… Not …
2021-03-31: “Design as (un)ethical illusion”
2021-03-31: “Management of the Absurd - Scott Berkun” One of my favourite books on management.
2021-03-31: “Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases - Made of Bugs”
2021-03-31: “Daði Freyr (Daði & Gagnamagnið) – 10 Years (Official Video) - YouTube” 😄
2021-03-30: “The Vast Confusion Of Implicit Assumptions Like Wages And Productivity - Ian Welsh”
2021-03-30: Most Organisations Misunderstand Their Own Culture This image, from Imagine That Things Can Be Different which in turn got it from the book …
2021-03-30: “Dendron - Dendron” A VScode-oriented take on the, now crowded, hypertext-y note-taking genre.
2021-03-29: ‘Thelma Grétars on Instagram: “Pepper challenge with awesome people and freezing cold -12 degrees!’ …
2021-03-29: “A B2B Product Management Story: on discovering problems that customers actually care about …
2021-03-29: “SVG Generators — Smashing Magazine”
2021-03-29: “Pixels of the Week – March 28, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2021-03-29: “Under-Engineered Select Menus - Adrian Roselli”
2021-03-28: “Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million …
2021-03-28: “Discovery - Excuses - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-03-27: “Poker, blacksmithery, and other activities that teach a way to see the world (Interconnected)”
2021-03-27: “Cloud study” Aside from the atrocious UI which is a constant across all of these platforms, what …
2021-03-26: “Five Things: March 25, 2021”
2021-03-26: “Adactio: Links—Web Development History”
2021-03-26: “Web Development History – Internet history for developers and the technically curious”
2021-03-26: “Not Just a New Feature; a New Compact – Jorge Arango” “The upshot is that adding a new ‘feature’ …
2021-03-26: “More on Penguin Random House distributing Marvel Comics - The Beat” This is, no joke, a major …
2021-03-26: This is a clever trick. tantek.com/2021/084/…
2021-03-26: “Au revoir, mon AMPmour? — Ethan Marcotte”
2021-03-25: “Get better at programming by learning how things work”
2021-03-25: “Not all design opinions are created equal – The Haystack”
2021-03-24: “Substack’s UI and 1Password just cost me $2,023 - Timmy O’Mahony” The names of the …
2021-03-24: “Adactio: Journal—Service worker weirdness in Chrome Ran into this exact same thing the other day …
2021-03-23: 10 years ago this one-liner would have blown my mind Object.fromEntries(new URLSearchParams(new …
2021-03-23: “CSS Is, In Fact, Awesome - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” CSS is my favourite part of the web dev stack.
2021-03-23: “A Complete Guide To Accessible Front-End Components — Smashing Magazine” Looks like a page I’ll be …
2021-03-23: “Robin Rendle ･ Every website is a gift”
2021-03-21: “Highlighting columns in HTML tables - Manuel Matuzović”
2021-03-21: “Many subtle channels”
2021-03-20: “Dropping Support For IE11 Is Progressive Enhancement · The Ethically-Trained Programmer”
2021-03-20: “Why We Need To Learn To Unlearn – Paul Taylor”
2021-03-20: “Surfacing Required Knowledge” “You are dependent on a living experience embodied by your team, and …
2021-03-20: “Avoiding Bad Decisions”
2021-03-19: Interesting times. www.facebook.com/watch/
2021-03-19: This continues to be the month where everything happens www.ruv.is/frett/202…
2021-03-19: “Closing on outside click - Kitty Giraudel”
2021-03-19: “prefers-reduced-motion: Taking a no-motion-first approach to animations”
2021-03-18: “HEAD - A free guide to elements Exhaustive and useful
2021-03-18: “Good, Better, Best: Untangling The Complex World Of Accessible Patterns — Smashing Magazine”
2021-03-18: “Closing web browser windows doesn’t close connections” Huh.
2021-03-18: “Design with Strategic Intent – Jorge Arango”
2021-03-18: “Accessible Text Labels For All”
2021-03-18: “Withered or seasoned?”
2021-03-18: “Here’s why Substack’s scam worked so well - The Hypothesis” This feels less surprising …
2021-03-17: “The return of fancy tools - macwright.com”
2021-03-17: “The Importance of Learning CSS”
2021-03-15: “Managing attention with stacks – Dan Slimmon”
2021-03-14: “Mental Leaps — More, Faster, Better, Happier, and Innovative (2nd Edition) - by Erik Schön - Mar, …
2021-03-14: “The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It? – O’Reilly” I might quibble with the details of this but …
2021-03-14: “Large projects have virtually no chance of coming in on time, on budget, and within scope.” This …
2021-03-13: “On the IA-Chess Analogy – Jorge Arango”
2021-03-13: “The Collusion of Mediocrity – background – Paul Levy”
2021-03-13: “Low Priority Issues + Time = Relationship Killer - Stay SaaSy” “A common and tragic pattern exists …
2021-03-13: “Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil” Don’t wait to implement pagination. You’re going …
2021-03-13: On the relativity of great product development strategies This here piece is a good overview of what are current best practices in product development. “What …
2021-03-13: “Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses”
2021-03-13: “Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses”
2021-03-13: “The One Where I Don’t Want To Talk About Substack Just As Much As You Do, And Yet” “This is …
2021-03-12: So, what do you do when somebody writing about product development or management refers to Google or …
2021-03-12: “Use transparent borders and outlines to assist with high contrast mode - Quick Tip - Piccalilli” …
2021-03-12: “Vendor by default - macwright.com” I’ve done this occasionally in a project. It works better than …
2021-03-11: “Fluid typography with CSS clamp - Tutorial - Piccalilli”
2021-03-11: “Adactio: Links—A Short History of Bi-Directional Links”
2021-03-11: “A Short History of Bi-Directional Links”
2021-03-10: “Defending Personas. If you love a design tool, set it free - by Alan Cooper - Mar, 2021 - Medium” …
2021-03-10: “Disabled buttons don’t have to suck - by Justine Win - Mar, 2021 - Justine Win Stories”
2021-03-09: “Adactio: Links—Skipping skip links ⚒ Nerd”
2021-03-09: “Skipping skip links ⚒ Nerd”
2021-03-09: ‘“Why Did You Leave Your Last Job?” - Jacob Kaplan-Moss’
2021-03-08: System fonts don’t have to be ugly, but web fonts aren’t as bad as you think either “System fonts don’t have to be ugly /// Iain Bean” I like this overview of system fonts you can use. …
2021-03-08: “Should I use functional or object-oriented programming? – Chelsea Troy” Know the pros and cons to …
2021-03-07: “UI Design Testing Tools I Use All The Time — Smashing Magazine”
2021-03-07: “Dabble – the future of novel writing? – David Hewson”
2021-03-07: “Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife” There has been a noticable rise in …
2021-03-06: “Chrome’s IndexedDB— from best in class to the slowest - by David Fahlander - Mar, 2021 - Medium”
2021-03-05: “On the myth of short life expectancy, and COVID complacency – Going Medieval”
2021-03-05: “Daring Fireball: Google’s Search Results Have Gotten Worse” Substantially worse in many cases.
2021-03-04: “To make money in FOSS, build a business first”
2021-03-03: “How to Keep a Long-term Focus – Jorge Arango”
2021-03-03: “Around Paying for (and Charging for) Content - The Making of Making Sense”
2021-03-03: “Forget SOLID. Say Hello To SHOC Principles for Modular Design. – Codemanship’s Blog”
2021-03-02: “Looking Closely is Everything — by Craig Mod”
2021-03-02: “Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed” “Speeding up often results in poor decisions that create future …
2021-03-02: “Bundling for the Web” Goes into way more depth on current state of bundling from a browser …
2021-03-02: “How many people subscribed to your RSS feed?” Including subscriber count this way has been a …
2021-03-02: “How I set up Glyphhanger on macOS for optimizing and converting font files for the Web”
2021-03-01: “Why I close PRs (OSS project maintainer notes) - Jeff Geerling” The comment thread on this post is …
2021-02-28: “A Vision for Software Development: It’s All About Teams – Codemanship’s Blog” “It’s just a …
2021-02-27: “Effective Organizations Value Autonomy - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-02-26: “TBM 8/52: Avoid Mono-Process (But Embrace Shared Language) - The Beautiful Mess”
2021-02-26: “How to Approach a New Codebase - Amber Wilson”
2021-02-26: “Against Performative Positivity”
2021-02-25: ‘Wisdom From the Forums: “The Gap Between Expectations and Reality” - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’
2021-02-25: “The Beauty Of Tiny Enhancements In CSS”
2021-02-25: “The Online Photographer: The Catastrophic Crash of the Camera Market”
2021-02-25: “Material Design Text Fields Are Badly Designed — Smashing Magazine” I have to use a lot of Google …
2021-02-25: “The mortality of software – Six Colors”
2021-02-24: “Opinion - Britney Spears and I Learned the Same Lesson About Fame - The New York Times”
2021-02-24: “Introducing State Partitioning - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog” I would love to see …
2021-02-24: “technology is not neutral - daniel g. siegel”
2021-02-24: Collaborating with robots “Nothing is real vs everything is real (Interconnected)” “M