... works as a web developer in Hveragerði, Iceland, and writes about the web, digital publishing, and web/product development
These are his notes
Me, writing a course on web dev: “I’m not going to be opinionated and alienate the audience. It’s just going to be uncontroversial, wholesome advice all the way.”
Me, later on, reading what I wrote: “OMG! How did uncontroversial and wholesome end up being so opinionated?!”
“People expect technology to suck because it actually sucks @ tonsky.me”
Three years old but still accurate. If anything the various OSes have just got worse. Things are not okay. They are actually quite bad and people who pretend things don’t actually suck come off to me as in denial.
“Passkeys: A No-Frills Explainer On The Future Of Password-Less Authentication — Smashing Magazine”
“Why I Get Sick Selling A Curriculum To Homeschool Parents | HuffPost HuffPost Personal”
“Everything wrong with tech in 2023 (in no particular order) — Joan Westenberg”
“Land is rising close to Svartsengi”
This is bad news because the Svartsengi power station provides heat and power to around 21 000 homes so a volcanic eruption near it would be… disruptive.
“Pushing for a lower dev estimate is like negotiating better weather with a meteorologist”
“So you’ve been publicly accessibility-shamed | daverupert.com”
“Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash — Steph Ango”
It really is.
“Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search | WIRED”
Last week, Griffin discovered that his blog post and the links to these chatbot results had inadvertently poisoned Bing with false information.
Our industry is a fucking clown car.
I decided to stop noodling around and just publishing this:
Trying a new thing.
“Introducing Mozilla’s AI Guide, the developers onboarding ramp to AI”
Is it just me or has the vibe lately from Mozilla been “I don’t care what the question is, the answer is always AI”?
“How Netlify rebranded their app in just 6 weeks”
I wonder what the ROI is of massive rebrands like this (logo, colours, apps, marketing, websites, etc.)?
I have my doubts about these sorts of projects. Most of them look like executive ego-stroking.
“Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework | jakelazaroff.com”
And yet people keep using these tools.