Links and photos (6 May 2024)
– Baldur
Bjarnason
If things are unreliable… #
About half of the new weirdness we’re all encountering in our software services (like GitHub Actions) is because the companies in question laid off a bunch of their staff a year ago and are now dysfuctional.
The other half is because they took much of the remaining staff and put them on “AI”.
Links #
- “Misconceptions about CSS Specificity – Bram.us”
- “What Elon Musk’s favorite game tells us about him”. I like Polytopia. It’s the sort of game you play if you want to be bored without feeling bored. That Elon think’s it’s the greatest game ever invented is… well, Dave Karpf explains it better than I could.
- “Twitter reply guys were bad, but Mastodon is no better - localghost”. This is, unfortunately, absolutely correct and, if I get these sorts of replies, I have to assume that it’s even worse for people who are of a more targeted group or have more followers.
- “What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs”. Honestly not sure anymore why anybody would risk using cloud-based apps as their primary writing tool.
- “Graph: Growing number of threats leveraging Microsoft API | Symantec Enterprise Blogs”. As I’ve said a number of times: there is one constant—a fixed point in technology—that you can rely on always being true and that’s the fact that Microsoft is the absolute worst at security.
- “Heat Death of the Internet - takahē”
- “Resisting the lure of research — Chocolate and Vodka”
- “Social media 1, ChatGPT 0”
- “Turning Off Adobe Acrobat’s AI Assistant - Words by Wes”
- “Custom Element Naming | BitWorking”. I didn’t have an opinion on this but I’m seeing his point.
- “Adactio: Journal—My approach to HTML web components”
- “Why monopolies are harmful”. Remember, pretty much all of tech is either a monopoly or oligopoly. That’s how they get away with bad management, bad products, and anti-competitive behaviour.
- “Managing Up”. Like I’ve been saying for a while, like a broken record—that makes sense to people again, right, with the resurgence of vinyl, or is modern vinyl too durable to scratch and skip?—the tech management and exec class is manifestly bad at their job.
- “How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? | by Anna Andersen”. Glad somebody wrote about this because it’s an objectively hilarious UX case study.
- “Ex-Amazon Was Told to Ignore Law to Develop AI Faster: Lawsuit”. I’m not surprised.
Photos #
Took this one yesterday in Hveragerði’s small park next to the river.
This neighbour came for a short visit earlier and seemed to be in good spirits.
