“16 things you believe about software: A retrospective on the Searls-Briggs Type Indicator®”

“Google Insiders Question Usefulness of Bard AI Chatbot - Bloomberg”

“Adobe previews AI upscaling to make blurry videos and GIFs look fresh - The Verge”

That everybody seems to have decided that it’s fine to add tons of fake detail into realistic images boggles the mind.

“Using Web Components on My Icon Galleries Websites - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”

“Ian Betteridge - Publishers need to wake up to the truth about Google traffic”

Hard to see how this isn’t a mass extinction event for web media.

“Tech Leaders Are Obsessing Over the Obscure Theory E/acc. Here’s Why”

😬

“Word Count 60: Writerly practice, US author income survey — Chocolate and Vodka”

“Adactio: Journal—Making the Patterns Day website”

I didn’t use any build tools. There was no pipeline. There is no node_modules folder filling up my hard drive. Nothing was automated.

IMO, this is the baseline. Start from here, then add simple tools incrementally.

“Adactio: Links—Did technology kill the craftsman? - The Progress Network”

Here I thought the biggest news of the day here in Iceland would be bad weather

It’s notable that he doesn’t believe he did anything wrong. So his judgement is, and has always been, extremely poor

www.ruv.is/english/2…

“AI hype is built on high test scores. Those tests are flawed.”

“Naming Variables In CSS”

“1491342 - Atomics.wait(sb, 0, 0, delay) might fail unpredictably on notify(sb, 0) - chromium”

“Ian Betteridge - GitHub Copilot costs more per user than it charges”

People generally don’t realise just how expensive this shit is.

“Adactio: Links—Against Scale”

“Against Scale”

“AGI Researchers Stop Quoting White Supremacists Challenge (Impossible)”

That the AGI crowd keeps citing white supremacists absolutely does tell us something about them.

“Notes, Links, and Weeknotes (9 October 2023)”

I’m trying a slightly different format this week: longer notes from the week, followed by this week’s links, followed by the weeknotes.

“Hey designers, they’re gaslighting you. By Sara Wachter-Boettcher | Nice Work”

They tried so, so hard to prove that they were valuable. But all they got for their effort was bone-deep burnout.

“Absolutely Do Not Change Your Blogging Platform (unless you have to)”

As somebody who has migrated blogs a few times (my 2000s blog was a blosxom PERL thing, then Tinderbox, my current blog started on Jekyll and is now Hugo) I agree with this. Don’t migrate unless you have to

“Adactio: Links—Kinopio’s Design Principles”

“Kinopio’s Design Principles”

“The Labor Market Returns of Being An Artist: Evidence from the United States, 2006-2021 by Christos Makridis :: SSRN”

These results highlight the increasing financial precariousness of artists over the past decade.

“What Happened to Separation of Concerns in Frontend Development · Jens Oliver Meiert”

“A Note From WIRED Leadership | WIRED”

One of the benefits of being old enough to remember the 90s is that I have an immediate scepticism of anything published by Wired.