“Announcing Squire 2.0—Fastmail releases next generation of open-source rich text editor”
Looks interesting. I wonder what it’s accessibility is like?
Last couple of times I had this strong a sense of “wow, people are really buying into the hype with cult-like fervor” was 2007 in the Icelandic financial bubble and 1999 in the dot-com bubble. I don’t think crypto came close, even at its peak
‘Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”’
“A search engine that summarizes results is a really useful thing. But a search engine that adds some imaginary numbers for a company’s financial results is not.”
I know I’ve said several times that the hype for AI is going to be deafening over the next couple of years, but, damn if that isn’t going to be an understatement. It’s going to be even more excessive than I imagined.
“It’s not aliens. It’ll probably never be aliens. So stop. Please just stop. - Ars Technica”
“Declarative Shadow DOM - WebKit”
I know knocking WebKit is always fashionable, but lately it’s been Firefox that’s the laggard. E.g. module workers and declarative shadow dom.
“Video Game Voice Actors Doxed and Harassed in Targeted AI Voice Attack”
The more this happens, the stronger the case for an outright ban becomes.
Some thoughts on how to make a book, three months after I made one
So, on Friday I wrote up a few notes on the approaches I took when I made my book. Contains advice on editing, covers, that sort of thing.
“Inside the Heart of ChatGPT’s Darkness”
“OpenAI’s current guardrails are only skin deep; some serious darkness still lies within.”
“Automated testing won’t solve web accessibility · Eric Eggert”
“The Limits of ‘Computational Photography’ - PetaPixel”
So, because tech is a pop culture, it will apply techniques and approaches because they are fashionable even when the outcomes are worse.
Whenever you see an AI/ML paper making extraordinary claims remember that the field has a reproducibility crisis due to poor modelling, evaluation, over-optimism, and data leakage
“Leakage and the Reproducibility Crisis in ML-based Science”
“Some thoughts on how to make a book, three months after I made one – Baldur Bjarnason”
Wrote this yesterday.
“Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article”
“The dangers of autocomplete: Why we should resist AI’s attempts to eliminate friction from writing”
For those committed to ignoring history: “the brain works just like this new tech” is a recurring theme in tech discourse and it’s always wrong
The brain does not work like a clockwork mechanism, transistors, computers, software, or LLMs
The brain, so far, is a unique thing
My CSS wishlist is simply to have more time to be able to do things properly.
Also my JS, HTML, and blogging wishlist
“Why I’m not the biggest fan of Single Page Applications - Manuel Matuzović”
“ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web - The New Yorker”
“What use is there in having something that rephrases the Web?”