... works as a web developer in Hveragerði, Iceland, and writes about the web, digital publishing, and web/product development
These are his notes
“The Online Photographer: Why Would a Film Photographer Shoot Color?”
Looking around at the film scene here in Iceland and it’s funny to see just how broad the selection of B&W film is now, many of which I had to special order back in the day. Today available in store.
“Editing has always been an integral part of photography — aows”
“men are hitting on my scheduling bot because it has a woman’s name — Ask a Manager”
I will personally pay you thousands of dollars if changing the bot’s name to Wayne doesn’t put an immediate end to this.
Massive link post to start off the year
Almost a month’s worth of links
This is something I needed to put together to be able to plan the year properly, so I figured I might as well publish it. First part of lord only knows how many.
“We Need to Talk About the Front Web - Part 5 : Ge Ricci”
I don’t believe that those who want to work with web development start their education course — or start studying by their own — already despising HTML and CSS. This negative bias must come later on
Great series of posts
“We Need to Talk About the Front Web - Part 4 : Ge Ricci”
If we don’t address the front web problems, we’ll never be able to provide a good UX.
“We Need to Talk About the Front Web - Part 3 : Ge Ricci”
our users are beginning to notice the decay behind the looks, and they are suffering from extremely bad UX.
“We Need to Talk About the Front Web - Part 2: The Three Strengths of the Front Web : Ge Ricci”
“We Need to Talk About the Front Web / Part 1: Introduction : Ge Ricci”
we just keep making it heavy, inaccessible, unmanageable, and offering a very bad UX. It is hard to say who is benefiting from these attempts.
“Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem”
As a consequence of using benchmarks intended to measure human performance generative models are designed to memorise, which makes them prone to overfitting the output. There is a wealth of academic research demonstrating this
“Silicon Valley runs on Futurity - by Dave Karpf”
Tech co stocks will get annihilated once the AI Bubble pops, so they’ll do everything humanly possible to keep it going.
Be supremely sceptical about AI-boosting press, research or case studies.
So, my “simple” end-of-year overview has ballooned into a series of blog posts analysing the past couple of years and planning my strategy for the future
I realised that this is something I need to do anyway and figured doing so in public might result in useful feedback
“Fix The System Problem, Not The People Problem – Paul Taylor”
Always post a link to somebody quoting John Seddon.
And you can substitute “React” there for pretty much any framework around. Frameworks and dependencies are overused.
“What’s next for Mozilla? | TechCrunch”
he also believes that AI will become part of everything Mozilla does. “We want to implement AI in a way that’s trustworthy and benefits people,” he said.
Boo, hiss, boo.
“jwz: My dinosaur just threw up in its mouth a little”
Are we allowed to criticise Mozilla now? Feels like we should be allowed to criticise Mozilla now without somebody coming and saying we’re playing into a right-wing or homophobic agenda or something.
“Advice for new software devs who’ve read all those other advice essays • Buttondown”
“Simple and Small Git Hosting”
It feels like every time I read about Git I learn something new. And I once spent a couple of weeks reading up on git’s internal storage format just out of curiosity, so it’s not as if I’m unfamiliar 😄
“The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn’t Exist | jakelazaroff.com”
The taxonomy here looks fairly accurate
“Only you can give meaning to your career: How to mark moments that matter by planting a flag”