Links and photos (22 January 2024)
– Baldur
Bjarnason
- "A 2024 Plea for Lean Software (with running code) - Bert Hubert’s writings". “It is not just you, we are not merely suffering from nostalgia: software really is very weird today.”
- "Choosing Consideration, Not Consumption - by John Warner". “More importantly, where is the next generation of writers going to come from?” It feels like we’re hellbent as a society on preventing a new generation of writers and artists from developing their voice and craft.
- "RSS in HTML: A Follow-Up - Jim Nielsen’s Blog"
- "SourceHut network outage post-mortem". “Our provider in PHL has been acquired twice over the past couple of years, and it seems that the ticketing portal we were used to paging them with had been deprecated and our account had not been migrated to the new system.”
- "The Value of Open Source Software by Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle, Yanuo Zhou :: SSRN". “We find that firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist.”
- "Database Performance Simplified"
- ’“AI” as unregulated space’
- "Reality Check #3: Building out a layered hero grid layout from Dribbble - Piccalilli"
- "Death should be the end – Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall’s blog"
- "No, Oscar Wilde did not say “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness” – Terence Eden’s Blog"
- ’Google lays off “hundreds” more as ad division switches to AI-powered sales | Ars Technica’. To be fair, when you’re part of a duopoly with Facebook that has a lock on the online ad market, you probably don’t need to put that much effort into ad sales.
- "OpenAI CEO Altman says at Davos future AI depends on energy breakthrough". First off, the costs and energy consumption for “AI” is obscene. Second: this is such a fucking con.
- "The Complex But Awesome CSS border-image Property — Smashing Magazine". The syntax is a bit hard to get your head around but the benefit of border-image, like outline, is that doesn’t affect layout, so it works really well for purely decorative features.
- "Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find". This has become trivially obvious to regular users. Even my dad has started to complain about it.
- "Why Your Computer is Slow". Not wrong.
- "Your code base should look like one person wrote it (even when you have a team) | Go Make Things". This is a good rule of thumb.
- "Can I disable autocorrect on send? : iphonehelp". “This is yet another example of Apple following the trend of other OS vendors of shipping the absolute worst idea possible.” It feels like every OS release I’ve had to deal with in the past few years is filled with crap like this.
Photos #
Had to hop over to Selfoss last week and the local ravens had clearly found something interesting in the snow.
And I took this photo by the river in Selfoss.
