‘Michael Tsai - Blog - Remixing Old Tracks in Spatial Audio Is “Sacrilegious”’
“The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic”
That most of everything is crap usually isn’t a problem for machine learning. You use them to modify works (photography), or in non-critical contexts (phone auto-completes), or as checks (grammarly).
GitHub Copilot is unique in that it risks creating a bad code feedback loop
“Research recitation - GitHub Docs”
Here’s a hugely biased paper from GitHub handwaving around the fact that Copilot is indeed a stochastic parrot
IME, whenever you seem somebody pride themselves on social media for being a hyper-rational independent thinker, odds are they also believe in UFOs and a random assortment of weird conspiracy theories. 🤷🏻♂️
“The whole thing smells of grift”
Web devs writing typescript: “we need to use Proxies so we can transparently map all the objects to immutable values. It’ll be a lot of work but a bit of over-engineering never hurt anybody!”
Devs writing CSS: “why use variables or names? Just use literal values everywhere!”
One for the “sustainability of open source” files.
Found this in a box. AFAICT this should be Alan Moore’s complete run on Supreme.
Y’know Google, pretty sure some sort of automatic check could have told you that you didn’t need to send me a super-cryptic, super-scary sounding email telling me to log in to read this information.
“Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife”
I will always post a link to this classic whenever I come across it in one of my feeds
“Why I chose to leave my successful UX career: Building the wrong thing faster doesn’t help.”
This is tech: almost all of it is building the wrong thing. Almost every attempt at improvement is building the wrong thing faster or less buggy.
“You can’t capture the nuance of my form fields”
Custom form controls are rarely a good idea.
Occasionally, I’m reminded of the American couple I met back in 2002 who were so appalled by George W. Bush’s cronyism and extreme right wing politics that they decided to emigrate to Italy.
They worked in tech, natch.
“Whatever Happened to UI Affordances? – Terence Eden’s Blog”
One of the most offputting things about TailwindCSS is the aggressive ‘“Best practices” don’t actually work’ on the front page. When those best practices have worked quite well for you in the past, a statement like that implies that your work isn’t important enough to matter.
“Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising - Schneier on Security”
Interesting report from the Norwegians.