... works as a web developer in Hveragerði, Iceland, and writes about the web, digital publishing, and web/product development
These are his notes
It’s a little bit shocking to see Icelandic “influencers” use hyperbolic language like “this is the end”, but I guess this is the norm for social media
Icelandic is usually more toned down during tragedies. Like what Fannar, Grindavík’s mayor said: “This does not look good.”
To quote the reporter on the scene at Grindavík: “this probably isn’t good news.”
True words.
And the last few pictures from the fog walk yesterday
Even the precursor to the fog was atmospheric.
Feels almost inappropriate to post this now but yesterday I saw that a fog bank was heading towards town, so went out and took a few photos
Well, this isn’t good. www.ruv.is/english/2…
Kolka, my sister’s cat, always looks mildly astonished. #caturday
“Where have all the websites gone?”
So here’s the bad news— we are the ones who vanished
I need to rethink my link sharing this year as well.
“A print project retrospective: the biggest problem with selling print books is the software”
The project was fine but everything else? Awful. I don’t know how people sell physical products online with services like these.
I wrote this pretty much exactly a year ago and now we’re several iterations into this loop
“Swallowed up without a trace by a crevasse” news like this is pure nightmare fuel
No trace has yet been found of a man who fell into a crevasse in Grindavík yesterday morning
“The Intelligence Illusion: stepping into a pile of ‘AI’”
Where I talk about how you can do the right thing, make the right project for the right reasons, make something that you think is genuinely good, but still have it not really work out for you.
“Curation is the last best hope of intelligent discourse. — Joan Westenberg”
“You can make a React app in only minutes with AI” 😬
“AI” is going to make harmful practice impossible to dislodge
Web dev is going to continue to make shitty, unusable, and inaccessible React apps for at least another decade isn’t it?
“Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees - The Verge”
I’d like to remind you that lay offs don’t work. The org is generally less functional, less reliable, and less profitable after a mass lay off. Lay offs are also always a symptom of exec incompetence
So don’t use it. Don’t play with it, don’t post it, don’t share it around. Reject the Art Barf Robot. You don’t need it. It’s not for you.
Part three of my two year review:
“Sunk Cost Fallacy: chasing a half-baked idea for much too long”
boy oh boy oh boy was this depressing to write. Necessary. But so depressing.
Amazing how many of the responses seem to think the problem is that the coworkers must be using ChatGPT in the wrong way.
You can tell that much of the tech punditry has never worked in retail, online retail, or had to pay the bills by selling things online. 😑
My post from yesterday where I go over some of the principles of entrepreneurial thinking that I’m trying to apply in my project analysis.
“Two-year review: to plan a strategy you must first have a theory of how the hell things work”
Following up on what I wrote yesterday, today I go over the book I wrote and published in 2022, Out of the Software Crisis, talk about how it happened, what worked, what didn’t work and what I should to next