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Art is notoriously hard to define, and so are the differences between good art and bad art. But let me offer a generalization: art is something that results from making a lot of choices. […] to oversimplify, we can imagine that a ten-thousand-word short story requires something on the order of ten thousand choices. When you give a generative-A.I. program a prompt, you are making very few choices; if you supply a hundred-word prompt, you have made on the order of a hundred choices.

If an A.I. generates a ten-thousand-word story based on your prompt, it has to fill in for all of the choices that you are not making. There's so much push in the web development scene to use AI for jobs and my own LinkedIn feed is chock full of "AI to do X", such as generate articles, and amass content, but, as this quote so simply puts it, the actual human input is so utterly thin. To me, it makes that AI generated content unwhelming and unimpressive because it lacks so much of the individual's own input.

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Luddites understand tech better than you and or I do because you have to know something on an intimate level to stage a coordinated push back against the particular tech. I feel like these are my people and want to actively push back against the companies in the arms race for our intimacy. Find some quiet time and read this post.

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The SENDUNE email designer focuses on simplicity and ease of use. It is light-weight. It does pure HTML - no intermediate code wranglers like mjml. There is no lock-in of any kind. Save HTML output as a template and use with ANY email service provider.I can't get over how any simple design is still so stupidly hard in 2024. Hoping this is a simpler tool (without having to fork over the farm!)

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We find disconcerting trends for maintainability. Code churn -- the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored -- is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline. We further find that the percentage of 'added code' and 'copy/pasted code' is increasing in proportion to 'updated,' 'deleted,' and 'moved 'code. In this regard, AI-generated code resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness [don't repeat yourself] of the repos visited. Sure, AI can be treated as the unpaid intern, but do we really want the unpaid intern to be committing the majority of our code to production? (Also, pay your interns…yikes).

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Policies and law haven't been written and it's the experts that don't even have the confidence you'd hope to hear about:

50% of A.I. researchers believe there's a 10% or greater chance that humans go extinct from our inability to control AI

Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss the risk to society and how safety measures are far from adequate and laws need to be implemented.

When you invent a new technology, you uncover a new class of responsibilities

It's a long watch at a little over an hour, but strongly recommend as we plough head long into a future where AI is inter-tangled with society.

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What's neat is that you register a database with the system, then you can query against that particular database.

Very nice that I can use this on the command line and then pipe into jq for more data manip.

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Being a JS developer first and foremost since pre-Node days, it puts me in a funny spot that I absolutely agree with everything said in this article, whilst also considering that I pick JS on the server to suit me.

When it comes to the front-end, I'm pretty sick of the poison that's been sold to us for over a decade.

The web's war for JS libraries/etc summarised excellently with:

It’s a popularity contest. Plain and simple.

And that popularity contest can change on a dime.

10 years ago, it was AngularJS.

Today, it’s React.

Tomorrow, it will be something else because that’s inevitable.

Absolutely this - I felt exactly the same when I had peers and colleagues trying to shove Angular down my throat.

But it's the future, the kids who come to the industry and will continue it. As Jared White writes,

but all those bright-eyed eager newcomers getting churned out of code schools knowing only React?

Those jobs will be gone. 😕

Grim future.

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Specifically, and TIL - the inputmode can be different, i.e. using a type="text" field but inputmode="url" to help with partials like ".com" (if the input field didn't need URL validation for instance).

/via Bruce's reading list 300

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Mostly this is written documentation and proof of what I've been seeing and feeling every time I have to use a CSS-in-JS library.

Via Bruce Lawson https://twitter.com/brucel/status/1582787411469533184

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It’s for kids. I mean that in a good way! I think Web3 has resonated powerfully with young people because it feels like something genuinely new, and it feels like it can be theirs. Who could argue with those feelings? Not me.

The notes go on and I come away with the same general sense that I've had so far of the crowd cheering on for Web3: it's about making money. Which is fine, the world runs on capitalism for the most part, it's just not entirely for me.

And I think that's the rub, the stories I know of the creation and the spread of the web (and indeed the internet) came from those wanting to share and do good. The stories I've read were never about making money but instead creating a place for others.

I will concede that I don't tend to read the "got rich by selling X web start up" - but it's that start in the web that's what drives me, and what I love about the web. It's what I love about the Open Web.

Web Zero if you will. It was about sharing, community, learning and finding a place in the world.

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But now, without JS, you only get the first few lines of content, and the rest is loaded entirely with JS - which… is stupid.

Scribe fixes all that and focuses entirely on the author's content.

I also used the FAQ to auto redirect and now I can read the full content without being distracted by Medium's horrid cruft.

Great example of taking back the web.

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Better screencasts often (to me) means simpler for your audience or student to follow along - which is only positive.

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Just the image from this post was enough to make it click in my head 👍

• VOLTAGE is like the pressure that pushes water through the hose. It is measured in volts (V).

• CURRENT is like the diameter of the hose. The wider it is, the more water will flow through. It is measured in amps (I or A).

• RESISTANCE is like sand in the hose that slows down the water flow. It is measured in ohms (R or Ω).

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Extremely useful for quick hacks, potentially useful for smaller projects (though limited to UK).

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There's some nice additions but the trick is to use them for local tooling and not for shared tools or workflows as it's less likely someone else will have a tool like sd installed.

The dog and xh look particularly interesting to me.

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A detailed walk through of the tech is on CloudFlare - and I do hope the domain remains active for years to come, I'm certainly challenging the 90s teenager in me when I hear those sound effects.

Death match anyone!?

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There's also a useful YouTube video on how to plan pixel font design called Make a Pixel Art Font

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The only (big) problem I run into is that the solution offered is to use "docker secrets" which, for the vast majority of my own work isn't something that's available (I don't use docker for my development or deployments).

It makes me wonder, is there a simple alternative for those non-docker devs 🤔

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• Apple have a monopoly

• Safari, for over a decade now, been way way behind

• Safari is not a modern browser - this is literally what devs and designers complained about IE6 for years.

Still, read Alex's post - it's packed full of data (as usual) and draws a clear conclusion that Apple, again, are delaying progress for the world wide web.

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  foo.bar.10.0.0.1.xip.io   resolves to   10.0.0.1

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This is such a good product and I'm glad that it's moving into a paid for business model because I can give them my cash in the safe knowledge that the extension will continue to be supported even as Gmail changes under it.

Free is great, but longevity is better and always worth paying for.

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There's a lot of my side project work that requires an AST to make better tools for developers, but I tend to err on the side of "hack a parser and protect with tests".

However, a full parser that generates a full Abstract Syntax Tree gives me a lot more options.

This post looks like a nice gentle introduction to how to start that.

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Generally I have a similar process to my day to day work, but two things that specifically stood out for me. She writes

I’ve found that I like to create standing, and consume sitting.

I've realised I have exactly the same approach I just hadn't articulated it. Now that I've got words to go with this process, I'm intentionally switching from standing to sitting depending on the type of work I'm doing.

I've got an IKEA Bekant desk with a custom hack "Megadesk" - so switching to the predefined sit/stand positions is simple for me.

The other item that jumped in Sara's post was the note on music. I love music. Since as far back as I can remember, I've intentionally listened to music more often than not listening to music (i.e. it's always there) - but a funky track can sometimes be distracting and I've used Noisli (similar to Noizio that Sara mentions) for relaxation sounds, but it's not quite "in the zone music".

Sara recommends Brain.fm which thus far is actually very nice. (Here's Sara's referral code link if you're thinking of signing up).

Good stuff. Worth the read 👍

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I wouldn't use this as a lookup to "do a thing" but it's extremely useful to browse and see what's possible and how you can go about it.

The list is based on linux so for Mac users (like me) won't be able to run every command, but they're still super useful for learning.

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I've written about how I run my blog in a way that this character isn't actually part of the content (it's an non-selectable CSS pseudo element), but this doesn't help when taking code from other sites.

Mikkel's tiny, tiny script is so elegant I pinched it right away. The script, called $ consists entirely of:

#!/bin/zsh
$@

Now whenever I paste a line starting with $ ... the command runs as I would intend. Perfect!

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One of the fascinating things about The Social Dilemma is that in one scene a person will proudly note that they are responsible for creating a certain thing, and then in the next scene they will say that nobody is really to blame for that thing. Certainly not them, they thought they were making something great! The insiders simultaneously want to enjoy the cultural clout and authority that comes from being the one who created the like button, while also wanting to escape any accountability for being the person who created the like button. They are willing to be critical of Silicon Valley, they are willing to be critical of the tools they created, but when it comes to their own culpability they are desperate to hide behind a shield of “I meant well.” The insiders do a good job of saying remorseful words, and the camera catches them looking appropriately pensive, but it’s no surprise that these “critics” should feel optimistic, they’ve made fortunes utterly screwing up society, and they’ve done such a great job of getting away with it that now they’re getting to elevate themselves once again by rebranding themselves as “critics.”

Lots of quotable material, and I'll definitely be forwarding this on to my family and friends in the hope they find time to read the full article.

/via Alice Bartlett

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Really interesting stuff, but also reminds me that picking an algorithms that suits the dataset is an important consideration.

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A much better technique than the random letter generator since you're building entire words.

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This post reminds me that all components are re-rendered (in memory at least) unless memo is used, and some of the pros and cons and use cases (and when you don't want to use it).

Frankly, doing "modern web dev" is a bit of minefield of these things...

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