Links and photos (29 April 2024)
– Baldur
Bjarnason
- “The polish paradox”. “The more you polish, the less you see.”
- “Thoughts on Cosmotechnics - daverupert.com”
- “Luke Kanies | Why We Hate Working for Big Companies”
- “Why Would I Buy This Useless, Evil Thing? - Aftermath”. This x1000. Just… why?
- “Surviving the AI Summer. When I was in grad school in the 1990s… | by Amy Bruckman | Apr, 2024 | Medium”. “Right now his research organization is only allowed to work on AI.” FFS.
- “So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.”. “None of this is surprising (as an end user, WordPress’s trajectory towards shit has been all too obvious IMO and I’ve heard similar from others) but it’s still eye-opening to read.”
- “Passkeys: A Shattered Dream”. This feels broadly accurate. The UX for passkeys is, well… unusable.
- “Five Things: April 25, 2024 — As in guillotine…”
- “Neurodiversity and UX: Essential Resources for Cognitive Accessibility by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
- “The many (many) ways I’ve backdoored your dependencies and other supply chain attacks”
- “Why Meta Stock Is Plummetting After Earnings Beat Expectations - Barron’s”. “The problem with using rituals and magic incantations to juke the stock market—VR!, AR!, AI!—is that eventually incantations backfire and have the opposite effect. This is, like, Folklore 101.”
- “Slingshot. — Ethan Marcotte”
- “Civil War (the movie) is a blunt object. - by Dave Karpf”. This review makes me actually want to go out and see this movie
- “Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees | Fortune”. I’d say tech execs are clowns who don’t take their job seriously and are just spouting nonsense for the stock market while their orgs burn… But genuine clowns would actually do a better job
- ‘The Labor Movement Must Learn How to Exploit “Choke Points”’. This seems broadly appropriate as International Worker’s Day draws near.