In our new relationship, software isn’t just set up to surveil us to report on us; it’s also set up to be able to do our work
“How France’s Film Industry Works”
Not linking to this for the explanation but out of my surprise that educated USians don’t know how filmmaking works throughout most of Europe.
“Stripping the web of its humanity”
A world where everyone uses an app like this is a death spiral to an information desert.
“The LLM search engine | Links | hidde.blog”
Who’s going to make the input these tools grab in order to generate their output?
“The Tremendous Yet Troubled State of Gaming in 2024 — MatthewBall.co”
A long but interesting overview of the economics of modern gaming. Useful if, like me, you aren’t familiar.
“The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024 - Infrequently Noted”
The performance budget for the JS-Heavy sites is 😮. I get nervous when a dep adds 20K (minified, uncompressed) and people are out there shovelling megabytes of JS over to the client.
Hardware keyboard + iPad autocorrect + micro.blog native app is a bad combination. It randomly inserts words and word fragments after the caret 😑
“Google spent billions of dollars to lay people off - The Verge”
Layoffs are incredibly expensive and leave the organisation in worse shape thane shape afterwards. They are almost always a very bad idea and should be reserved for situations of imminent insolvency.
“The Feature Trap: Why Feature Centricity Is Harming Your Product — Smashing Magazine”
“A highly configurable switch component using modern CSS techniques - Piccalilli”
This is what happened to Icelandic. You end up having to search the known good sites one at a time
This is the third major security incident at OpenAI.
“Serious New Warning As Google AI Targets Billions Of Private Messages”
The AI Bubble is anti-privacy, anti-labour, anti-quality, and in an all-out war against anything resembling a creative practice. This is who you’re siding with when you’re using these tools.
Essentially, this is a “using an LLM for this use case was an unmitigated disaster even though it looked good to begin with and, by the way, here’s another LLM use case which sure looks good to begin with and I’m sure won’t turn problematic at a later date” post
“Should links open in a new tab?”
You are taking a piece of self-determination from your visitors and forcing something on them.
“In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox @ tonsky.me”
Ugh.
“Nicer Text Wrapping with CSS text-wrap / Coder’s Block”
One of the nice things about CSS is you can start to use properties like these, where implemenation variation is likely to be low, well before full cross-browser support has been rolled out
“New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’ – Visual Studio Magazine”
No shit. I’m so surprised /s