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dude at town forum

the only thing I find interesting about vinext is the absolutely absurd lengths people will go to avoid building websites with web technology

So grateful I'll soon not need to deal with these people.

Watching software development disintegrate in front of my eyes was never something I thought I'd see. No one will be spared as this blight spreads across everything.

It's here, like the Black Death entering Messina.

Do not watch tonight’s State of the Union. Low ratings wound him. Let’s make this the least-watched SotU address ever.

SMH at the part about developers not being enthusiastic about unit testing so AI should do it and free up time for “higher-value work like strengthening security and building new capabilities”

Miss the enthusiasm around XML/well-formedness and “totally disruptive“ in the same breath.

Web 3.0 Web 2.0 is a fresh-faced starlet on the intertwingled longtail to the disruptive experience of tomorrow. Web 3.0 thinks you are so 2005.

Bubbles, bubbles, toil and trouble. Return with us to January, 2006, where we evaluated the hype around “Web 2.0.” #OldGold #Web2pointOh Illo: Kevin Cornell.

alistapart.com/article/web3...

Which is why "this is shit and you're a fool for using it" is the optimistic take

The best case scenario for the rest of us is that we have to clean up after a bunch of fools in the tech industry

And we know that tech is full of very greedy and foolish people.

Not yet Timing is a design skill we don't talk about enough.

“Speed has trained us to confuse movement with progress. To mistake activity for clarity. To believe that changing something is always better than the discipline of standing still. 1/2

Unpopular opinion: I don’t want more options for styling selects, date pickers, color pickers, etc.

A few people might do it well, e.g. Airbnb on a date picker, but I sure as hell don’t want my insurance company, or cable company, or utility company making a go at it. Just use the native ones.

Photo shows both Yamaha G-55-A guitars side by side I’ve reconditioned this past month. The first one I did, on the right, still looks beat up compared to one I did today.

Photo shows both Yamaha G-55-A guitars side by side I’ve reconditioned this past month. The first one I did, on the right, still looks beat up compared to one I did today.

Guitar all cleaned and oiled and re-strung

Fretboard wood and tarnished frets in need of oil/conditioning, et al.

Guitar unstrung before cleaning and conditioning

Fretboard wood now uniformly darker after oil/conditioning

Cleaned my other Yamaha G 55-A from Nippon Gakki, the one I’ve had since 1987.

Fretboard wood still has noticeable depressions or channels in second fret position.

Cleaned the nut, did *not* adjust or replace the saddle.

New strings (D’Addario Pro Arte) alone make it easier to play.

The plot of A View to a Kill has Bond trying to stop Christopher Walken from destroying Silicon Valley and let me just say HOLD UP JAMES LET THE MAN COOK

AI is locking people out. At Scale.

Feels like it.

conesible.de/wab/

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AI and the ironies of automation - Part Two

There’s a Part One (link inside) that covers the first half of the Bainbridge paper, too.

Worth reading for the interesting conclusions about leadership skills…

www.ufried.com/blog/ironies...

Magic Knock, knock! Who’s there? Control freak (now you say “control freak who?”)

time to practice more guitar

adactio.com/journal/22399

Read this completely.

Delete your LinkedIn account.

Do not restore access if you’ve been locked out.

thelocalstack.eu/posts/linked...

If I were still in the game, I’d break out the TDD hat to answer:
Same browser on each?
Safari vs. Firefox vs. Chrome?
Mac vs. iPhone?

Not sure that helps - google and MDN and stackoverflow haven’t helped (yet)…

Saw Leonidas on violin with a piano accompanist in SF at Herbst Theater in March 2003

Leonidas Kavakos has been named principal guest conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra from the 2027/28 season.
The Greek violinist and conductor becomes the Orchestra’s first principal guest conductor in 40 years.
Full story at moto-perpetuo.com/leonidas-kav...

The novelist E.M. Forster used the term “flat characters” who were little more than scenery.

It’s interestin…

www.marginalia.nu/log/a_132_ai...

yesterday an idiot exec at a games company said an LLM could have come up with their most successful games. today he does not have a job. this is The Way.

Those Who Can, Teach History

Those who can, teach history

www.historytoday.com/archive/maki...

Hilary Hahn and Seth Parker Woods have withdrawn from the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s Double Concerto Suite at the Kennedy Center in March.
Their decision follows other recent high-profile cancellations at the Washington venue.
Full story at moto-perpetuo.com/hilary-hahn-...

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No serious profession talks about itself as “surprising and delighting“ customers rather than *serving* them.

Well, actually, it was a study on aluminum foil, not tin foil.

Funny how the escape to social media didn’t produce a utopia outside of social media.

Yesterday I forgot the name of my own github project that I poured real effort into, even the fancy do-over 5 years ago (or was it 6?).