... works as a web developer in Hveragerði, Iceland, and writes about the web, digital publishing, and web/product development
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“Choosing Consideration, Not Consumption - by John Warner”
More importantly, where is the next generation of writers going to come from?
It feels like we’re hellbent as a society on preventing a new generation of writers and artists from developing their voice and craft.
“SourceHut network outage post-mortem”
Our provider in PHL has been acquired twice over the past couple of years, and it seems that the ticketing portal we were used to paging them with had been deprecated and our account had not been migrated to the new system
😬
Taken in Selfoss, by the river, a couple of days ago.
“The Value of Open Source Software by Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle, Yanuo Zhou :: SSRN”
We find that firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist.
As I’ve said before, most of the software industry’s value is created by F/OSS
Had to hop over to Selfoss earlier and the local ravens had clearly found something interesting in the snow.
“Reality Check #3: Building out a layered hero grid layout from Dribbble - Piccalilli”
“Death should be the end – Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall’s blog”
‘Google lays off “hundreds” more as ad division switches to AI-powered sales | Ars Technica’
To be fair, when you’re part of a duopoly with Facebook that has a lock on the online ad market, you probably don’t need to put that much effort into ad sales.
“OpenAI CEO Altman says at Davos future AI depends on energy breakthrough”
First off, the costs and energy consumption for “AI” is obscene. Second: this is such a fucking con.
“The Complex But Awesome CSS border-image Property — Smashing Magazine”
The syntax is a bit hard to get your head around but the benefit of border-image, like outline, is that doesn’t affect layout, so it works really well for purely decorative features.
“Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find”
This has become trivially obvious to regular users. Even my dad has started to complain about it.
Not wrong.
Wasn’t quite in the right headspace to continue with my strategy review today so instead you have this, where I reconsider my choice of JS runtimes.
“Your code base should look like one person wrote it (even when you have a team) | Go Make Things”
This is a good rule of thumb.
“Can I disable autocorrect on send? : iphonehelp”
This is yet another example of Apple following the trend of other OS vendors of shipping the absolute worst idea possible
It feels like every OS release I’ve had to deal with in the past few years is filled with crap like this
A few additional thoughts on pursuing print as a strategy and the risks of the inherent variability of Print-on-Demand
“Disasters are Distracting but work has to continue”
Trying a new thing with the weeknote. Instead of one huge note that covers a number of topics, I’m breaking it up into regular blog posts.
“Burning out is not a growth hack. | by Joan Westenberg | Jan, 2024 | Medium”
It certainly looks like you can protect a town, at least up to a point, from a volcanic eruption, with massive walls of dirt.
(See the 09:39 update “Defensive walls proved their worth”)
“The incredible shrinking podcast industry | Semafor”
Podcasting was in a bubble, but it’s still one of the strongest new media format to appear in the digital era. A bubble-deflation caused by increased accuracy is only going to strengthen the form in the long run.
If you’ll allow me a short “I told you so” moment. I was a big fan of React, used it for everything, ran into all of the issues and flaws, and then dropped it completely…
…all in the space of a few months…
…before it even got it’s proper 1.0 release 😝