“Features lost across versions of macOS - TidBITS Talk”
I mean, they aren’t wrong. The list is kind of long and depressing.
My guess is the duration of the AI Bubble in any given industry is going to be proportional to how intensely its execs hate labour. The bigger the dislike for the “entitled” employees (who do all the genuine value creation), the longer they’ll be chasing the idea that “AI” can replace workers
“A generation of design leaders grapples with their future”
Between “let’s get rid of all the designers and replace them with AI!” and “let’s get rid of all of all the junior web devs and replace them with AI!” I’m guessing that, as bad as software quality has been in recent years, much worse is to come
“Gender Bias in Tech: 73% of Women Report Experiencing Discrimination | HackerNoon”
None of this surprises me, unfortunately.
Web dev: constantly figuring out new ways for people to experience the joy and perfection that is “this is best experienced in…”
Kudos to the original pioneers: Netscape and IE. Other innovators: yarn vs npm, Early iPhone era Safari. Modern Chrome
And now packages registries with JSR. Wonderful
Starlings dropping by for a visit
Putting together the blog post collection has meant trying to find old links in the Wayback Machine
One was this one by the legendary Kathy Sierra in 2004. It’s both inspiring and depressing, because we all know what happened in the intervening two decades
Tech talking about anti-trust regulation conveniently ignores the AT&T and IBM consent decrees (and related actions). Those directly and indirectly lead to some of the biggest economy-growing, market-making innovations in modern history
Because apparently regulations never work
“Thoughts on embedding alternative text metadata into images – Eric Bailey”
“Artists Sell Themselves So Cheap”
Artists don’t sell themselves cheap. If you as a rich publisher/producer/studio got creative work cheaply, you took advantage of someone.
As I was going through my archives to find essays to include in the collection, I came across this piece I wrote just over a year ago:
“Generative AI is the tech industry’s Hail Mary pass”
And, in hindsight, it certainly looks like I nailed it perfectly. Unfortunately 😑
As an experiment, I’ve been putting together a collection of the least bad of my online writing over the years. Much of the older stuff was just outright bad, but despite that the oldest piece in the collection dates all the way to 2000
Still putting the finishing touches on it but soon 🤞
If I hadn’t spotted the starlings raiding the bird feed yesterday, I’d know that they’d been there from the bird poop.
Me checking the weekly email from plausible analytics:
“Oh, that seems unusually low—wait! Is that a ´k´at the end of the number?”
Usually when I get that kind of traffic, I also get a bunch of emails telling me in vivid detail just how wrong I am 😄 but this time bupkiss
Is somebody keeping a list of all of the Youtubers who have “retired” or dialled down over the past few months? Feels like it’s heading into “needs a spreadsheet” territory as a trend.
These two neighbours of mine, siblings, were out playing in the sun today.
“Microsoft says Kremlin-backed hackers accessed its source and internal systems | Ars Technica”
Whatever else you can say about Microsoft, at least they’re consistent. They have always been and will always be, the absolute worst at software security.
In other words, however bad the problems are that AI is creating for English-language material, they are probably worse in languages found less commonly online
Mental health walk 💪🏻
Going through old photos from my iPhone era (the gap between my Canon era and my Fuji era) for Reasons and I’m finding that I prefer the rendering of the iPhone 6 plus to my current phone, the 13
The photos from the 13 constantly feel bland, oversharp, and generic
My sister has sent me another batch of photos of her cat, Kolka, being very relaxed. Hard to imagine that this cat was semi-feral and hid from all people when she first arrived
#caturday
