“Robots.txt - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
What he said. Robots.txt is a convention based on a social contract and the industry has demonstrated that it doesn’t believe in social contracts.
So, Shopify is the only option I have for setting up pre-orders for the print edition of Out of the Software Crisis as it’s the only thing on the intersection of “services that support Iceland” and “services the book printer integrates with”
But boy is it an awful service.
Switching to career Plan N+1 (where N is wherever I was) means I need to rethink what I’m doing both on my blog/newsletter and social media. And come up with an actual plan
Probably means I’m in for a rough few months (😬️), but I do have a clear idea of what I want to try so 💪🏻️
“Failing Without Knowing Why: The Tragedy Of Performative Content - DaedTech”
Just say “No!” to A/B tests.
This might be a trend.
So, most of the details here are outside of my wheelhouse, but the “AI” clauses seem like a sensible compromise, for the most part
“Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can’t agree on Tailwind”
They say the day you delete all the Kubernetes code from your codebase is the day you truly start living
The few experiences I’ve had with Kubernetes have all been nightmares.
“Software is What We Learned Along the Way - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
“13 super rad web dev tricks you don’t know about (but should) | Go Make Things”
“Generative Artificial Intelligence is slowly entering children’s lives - AlgorithmWatch”
‘The Illusion Of Developer “Productivity” Opens The Door To Snake Oil – Codemanship’s Blog’
Agree completely.
A long one this week. Mostly because I’m using the journal format to work through a few thoughts on work-related setbacks.
“Build Great Software By Repeatedly Encountering It - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
“The invisible problem – Scott Jenson”
Text editing on mobile isn’t ok. It’s actually much worse than you think, an invisible problem no one appreciates.
Are there actually people out there who think that mobile text editing is ok?
If so, then that explains a lot.
“Writing Is Thinking - by John Warner”
Easily this week’s best read.
“Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist”
😬️
“Writers and talkers and leaders, oh my! | everything changes”
“React is slow at its very core | Go Make Things”
The golden rule of JavaScript: more abstractions means worse performance.
More abstractions also make the code harder to reason about and harder to fix.
“How to escape CSS selectors in JavaScript | Stefan Judis Web Development”