Links and photos (13 May 2024)
– Baldur
Bjarnason
Delegating research to slop generators is and has always been a bad idea. #
Every time I scroll through my social media I see a couple instances of “hey, I had a bad idea which I would have discovered is a bad idea if I’d done any actual research but instead I asked an LLM and it did it for me, no problem! Isn’t that great?”
It’s exhausting.
Links #
- “Weekly Roundup #3 — Possum Edition | Ryan Trimble, UX/UI developer”. Covers the recent 11ty conference.
- “Accomplishment vs. Achievement - by John Warner”
- “Roger Corman – cinema’s pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel”. Aw, man. Roger Corman died. So so many people in cinema owe their careers to him. Turns out the best dayjob for an aspiring filmmaker is to do actual filmmaking.
- “Luxembourg Copyright Case Against Jeff Dieschburg - Jingna Zhang Fashion, Fine Art & Beauty Photography”
- “Apple Annie’s Weblog · CSS Color Modules and Changes, Part I”
- “Modularity: Enabling Interoperability and Competition”
- “Five Things: May 9, 2024 — As in guillotine…”
- “Browsers imply noopener for links in new tab”
- “More layoffs for the flutter team 😬 : FlutterDev”. This thread on reddit on Google sacking a part of the Flutter team does a good job of highlighting the anxiety and chaos being caused by the now regular mass layoffs.
- “Bookending | everything changes”
- “Adactio: Articles—Declarative Design”
- “Word Count 74: Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist, reader surveys, do people buy books? — Chocolate and Vodka”. “Do people buy books, or is claiming they don’t just clickbait?”
- “Modern WordPress - Yikes!“. “Am I going crazy? Is this not the most utterly bizarre chimera of bastardised code you’ve ever seen?”
- “The tech industry doesn’t deserve optimism it has earned skepticism”. I’d go even further and say that big tech companies have earned an assumption of guilt until proven innocent.
Cat photos #
Kolka, my sister’s cat, had a very relaxed weekend, apparently.
And this neighbour came for a short visit and did a routine inspection tour of the flat 😄
