“A lot of stuff is just fine. - Chris Coyier”
True. One major wrinkle, tho. Just how fine any given content website is is generally inversely proportional to how much time a web dev has worked on it
Granted, they’re generally implementing other people’s bad ideas, but still
“AI Startups Are Already Running Into Some Serious Problems”
“siderea | I Blame the W3C’s HTML Standard for Ordered Lists”
That thing where a community fork of a project, by most of the core contributors, makes you feel optimistic that the new fork is more sustainable
I began to feel stifled by the iPhone’s camera and realised I really did enjoy photography so I might as well pursue it as a hobby
Because I’d been using the iPhone I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted from a dedicated camera
But that’s a story for another day
Then I moved to Montréal in 2016. In hindsight, this was a mistake, for reasons that have nothing to do with photography, but it did give me the opportunity to finally take a picture of Habitat 67 in person, which has always been my favourite bit of architecture, even as a kid
The high point in my iPhone photography is probably the trip we took to the top of Snæfellsjökull.
(The company that sold these trips is since defunct as the owner died suddenly, IIRC.)
Hard to go wrong with this view.
We’re up to 2015 in my amateur photography and I’ve discovered that, in good light, iPhones had become pretty good cameras. They do a decent job and will be all you need for many photographers
“How often do you get to rewrite and rethink?”
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“Book Notes: “Out of the Software Crisis” by Baldur Bjarnason - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
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“milen.me — Premature Optimization: Universally Misunderstood”
“Money Is Pouring Into AI. Skeptics Say It’s a ‘Grift Shift.’”
Tech is inflating a new financial bubble just in time.
“You Are Not The Man In The Arena”
Much like cryptocurrency, the AI conversation almost always discusses what might happen rather than what is happening,
“Safari Un-Intelligent Tracking Prevention: Data loss by design”
Experiment of the day: turns out deno run --allow-all npm:@11ty/eleventy works. At least for the simple preexisting project that I tried. --serve doesn’t work, but since deno comes with a file server in the standard lib that’s not a deal-breaker.
So, this looks like a very interesting module github.com/WebReflec…
That feeling when best-laid plans turn out to be only middling well-laid and you need to turn a website into an archive of sorts, at least for the time being.
Bath, UK, which is where I was living in 2015, is similarly picturesque. Hard to go wrong with these sights.
This would be enough. For a while.
The photos from the iPhone 6 are for the most part spur-of-the-moment snapshots. That’s freeing, but not really conducive to practicing your photography and getting better at it.
But with good light and Reykjavík as the subject matter, it’s genuinely hard to take a boring picture
We’re up to 2011 in my personal history of my amateur photography and I had given up on dedicated cameras. Or so I thought. Phones are replacing cameras, right?
Well, no. Not in 2011. It wasn’t until I upgraded to an iPhone 6 plus in 2015 that I got a phone camera worth using.
This opinion, though unusually clearly stated here, is getting quite common and is why I’m writing less about the practical risks of generative models
It isn’t possible to have a realistic discussion when the other side thinks AI is people and can be used to replace people
“Why are websites embarrassing?”
I mean, fundamentally it’s because managers in charge of websites care less and they care less because web quality is disconnected from business outcomes.
I just published “That thing where you change your mind”
For the past few weeks, I’ve been preparing to launch a new blog. But now I think I probably shouldn’t.