The UK Online Safety Bill is back on the cards for Sunak’s government and, although they’ve dropped one onerous features, there are a bunch more
When it comes to all trends digital, I’m less interested in questions like “is it legal?” or “is it ethical?” than I am in questions like “is it a dick move?”
And it’s almost always a dick move
“Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model”
The AI crowd in one breath talks about generated art being additive and just a tool and in the next breath tries to replace the artist completely
“Why Musicians & Other Creative Professionals Will Soon Get Their Revenge on the Old Guard”
Interesting points. I’m a bit more pessimistic myself but it’s nice to see an optimistic take.
“Don’t remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place”
“Website Fidelity: Browser Perspective - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
One day I’ll post my blogroll—the blogs I follow regularly—but cleaning up my feed list is a bit of a task. And I like it when one of the unreachables comes to life again after several years of silence. It happens.
These are all very good blogs to follow.
“Accessibility in the Fediverse (and Mastodon) · Eric Eggert”
It would be a fulltime job to maintain a blog that does nothing but correct DHH’s misconceptions and factual errors.
“Why does my office smell of sulphur?”
Turns around. Sees the open window facing the geothermal park next door. “Right.”
It’s usually either still or extremely windy around here. Not used to a breeze light enough to carry the smell 😄
“Scroll to Text Fragments - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
One of my fav new additions to the web stack. Two browsers done out of three, so well on its way towards standardisation.
These ideas would not be out of place in the original Smalltalk systems which IIRC tried to expose the underlying programming objects to the end user.
“The shorter the feedback loop, the better”
Excellent point. This applies to product design and design in general, not just software development.
“A beginner’s guide to Chrome tracing - Read the Tea Leaves”
“OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog”
“How to balance software architecture goals with limited resources”
“What if the team assumes my functional JavaScript is slow?”