Baldur Bjarnason

Wed, 29 May 2024 15:07:26 +0000

Thu, 23 May 2024 15:09:49 +0000

“Update on the Layer Based SVG Engine (LBSE) in WebKit”

This is looking really promising.

Thu, 23 May 2024 15:02:23 +0000

Anybody who thought that OpenAI and Sam Altman were trustworthy before the recent drama has already demonstrated a pretty darn high tolerance for bullshit and shenanigans. A CEO positioning a voice chatbot as a celebrity soundalike without permission isn’t even going to blip on their ethical radar

Thu, 23 May 2024 10:07:15 +0000

“Half-ass it | everything changes”

This is excellent advice.

Thu, 23 May 2024 10:06:01 +0000

“Boring is good”

I don’t think it’s that much of a coincidence that I read this in NetNewsWire.

Thu, 23 May 2024 09:31:46 +0000

Ran across this on social media

I just used ChatGPT to generate a 300 character regex for me, saved me an hour.

TBH if you aren’t using it that seems like a skill issue.

And it’s a perfect example of what I mean when I say that “AI” tools are a fundamentally conservative force

Thu, 23 May 2024 09:11:01 +0000

“I Need Your Help to Make 11ty Fully Independent and Sustainable in 2024—zachleat.com”

Wed, 22 May 2024 15:20:24 +0000

“ongoing by Tim Bray · The Colors of Racism”

Trollope’s writings and opinions were strikingly self-inconsistent

Inconsistency is one of the core characteristics of a reactionary and Trollope is pretty much the dictionary definition of a reactionary

Wed, 22 May 2024 15:15:40 +0000

“The most harmful belief I had as a beginner photographer — aows”

Speaking of mental models that hold back your learning.

Wed, 22 May 2024 15:13:07 +0000

“Forget Subtext – People Don’t Even Get Surtext – Terence Eden’s Blog”

In my experience, reactionaries generally do not even do a surface reading of texts

Wed, 22 May 2024 15:09:48 +0000

“Manton Reece - Yesterday’s AI thoughts”

Two things worry me about this post:

Explicitly taking the side of a company and CEO that many have good reason to distrust is not “balanced”
The replies would seem to indicate that micro.blog is becoming a one-sided pro-AI echo chamber

Wed, 22 May 2024 15:02:45 +0000

“My own little patch”

It feels like things have descended in to a complete shitshow1 and are only getting worse.

Wed, 22 May 2024 10:00:16 +0000

“WebAssembly: A promising technology that is quietly being enshitified”

So we have this WASI thing that is only version 0.2, and that is already way more complex than the alternative solutions. Is there any way that it will succeed?

Tue, 21 May 2024 17:57:37 +0000

We really don’t make enough of the fact that you don’t need JS to make a nice website. Just HTML and CSS

And, whatever most programmers say about HTML and CSS, they absolutely are much more accessible to learn than JS ever has been or will be

Tue, 21 May 2024 11:56:49 +0000

Steve Jobs second tenure at Apple was 1997-2011: 14 years

Tim Cook’s run it for 13, 2011-2024

Since Jobs’ health steadily declined from 2006, requiring Cook to step in regularly, I think it’s safe to say that modern Apple is now more of a Tim Cook organisation than it is a Steve Jobs one

Tue, 21 May 2024 09:47:31 +0000

“Apple Annie’s Weblog · Working for a Living When Your Living isn’t Working, Part IV”

The other three entries in this series are worth your while as well.

Tue, 21 May 2024 09:08:11 +0000

It’s almost as if Sam Altman has a history of disregarding consent.

Mon, 20 May 2024 16:05:23 +0000

That feeling when you forget to update the timestamp for a blog post, which means that micro.blog in it’s infinite fucking wisdom is going to post it to Bluesky with an old timestamp meaning it won’t appear in anybody’s streams.

(Does anybody at micro.blog even test things?)

Mon, 20 May 2024 15:17:32 +0000

“Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages | Scientific Reports”

These results provide a novel framework for understanding programming aptitude, suggesting that the importance of numeracy may be overestimated in modern programming education environments.

Ya think?

Mon, 20 May 2024 09:59:51 +0000

“Updating from macOS Ventura to Sonoma silently enables iCloud Keychain”

Mon, 20 May 2024 09:38:06 +0000

“Complicated Sticks. – Faster and Worse”

The more complex the product, the more potential it has to have potential.

Mon, 20 May 2024 09:26:04 +0000

“Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers • The Register”

Like I said when the layoffs where first announced, you’re going to see random shit go wrong because these cos now have a bunch of systems nobody in-house understands any more. This is what happens with mass layoffs

Sun, 19 May 2024 14:12:21 +0000

That feeling when somebody asks a question on a private mailing list (one that’s usually chock-full of nonsense and logic-free hype) that isn’t just a concrete answerable question, but also one you could help answer, but the person asking is a Grad A asshole so…. y’know… not gonna

Sun, 19 May 2024 11:01:04 +0000

“Some of my Eleventy Filters · Chris Burnell”

Sun, 19 May 2024 10:54:45 +0000

“Apple Annie’s Weblog · A Community of Concerns”