Links from 2023

Most public services deteriorated in the decade from 2010 under the pressure of austerity, and then deteriorated again during the pandemic. It is not easy to see how they will recover, since many years of weak economic growth have left the UK somehow achieving the trifecta of high taxes, chronic budget deficits and inadequate public services.

Good times.

The culprit is technically rising interest rates, but you could argue it began when founders and investors started to see the downside of swinging for the power law. The first venture funds formed as a way for savvy investors to help innovators create fundamental technologies like transistors, which required huge outlays of time and treasure before they could produce value. But in the past few years, causality inverted: Start-ups and entire markets were manufactured from whole cloth to meet the demand of overcapitalized venture funds searching for a home run.

Polite counter to Kent C Dodd's Why I Won't Use Next.js.

Geist embodies our design principles of simplicity, minimalism, and speed, drawing inspiration from the renowned Swiss design movement.

Forked from Inter, apparently

When I transitioned from Angular.js to React, I left a lot of Angular.js behind me. All of the time I had invested at getting really good at Angular.js felt like a huge waste. I don’t want that to ever happen to me again. So I prefer to focus on a framework that can not only give me what I want from the user experience perspective, but can also give me skills that I can use wherever I develop for the web.

As far as I am aware, I am a mentally healthy, well-adjusted, and sane person with no disorders. But I have a strange, fairly innocuous quirk which seems beyond my control and I'm curious about it...

Er, yeah, it me too.

Founded in 2015, Pleo is a fintech platform that provides businesses with expense solutions and automated financial management tools. Their goal is to centralise every accounting or expense-related work into a unique, simple platform.

... or more accurately: bad mobile-first web design.

Humans like being together. Here’s the truth: Everybody moves to cities, not just because of their jobs but because of their sociability.

As we transition to a green economy, we must compensate petro-states for their lost income. Otherwise, the world economy will collapse like a house of cards.

Performative content is a recipe for slowly failing at content marketing, and more broadly at business, in a non-obvious way and without ever understanding why.

Present Day, heh... Present Time! Hahahahahahaha!

There are many, many reasons I am opposed, but the one we should care about is how it fosters a culture of decision paralysis. It fosters a culture of decision making without having an opinion, without having to put a stake in the ground. It fosters a culture where making a quick buck trumps a great product experience.

A.I.’s wonkiness—all of these networks are still in their nascency—forced Lopatin to reëxamine his most instinctive and well-worn habits. “It reminds me a lot of Paul Schrader’s transcendental-cinema thing,” Lopatin said. “He always talks about how there are films that are formulaic and ones that aren’t. The ones that aren’t do weird things with time. They dwell a little bit too long on the wrong object, like a door after someone has passed through it. You’re usually following the person, but now we’re staying on the door. That’s what A.I. is actually doing really well. What it’s not doing very well is following the person.”

There is an old Dutch saying that intends to remind people that trust takes time to build, but is quickly lost.

What does a mature, end-to-end design system look like in a big, complex organization? What are all the moving pieces, and how do they hang together as a…

Tech independence is not depending on any particular company or software. The only tools you need are the common open source basics built into any Linux or BSD operating system — free public-domain tools that are not owned by anyone, and can run on any computer.

I've been working on a sort-of content toolkit today. A bit like a “how to blog” guide, but medium-agnostic. It will almost always be, or start with, a blog…

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During the iOS 17 beta testing process from June to September, MacRumors wrote a series of in-depth feature guides highlighting every major new addition, plus…

There’s a reason to be optimistic about Britain. The nation is completing a seven-year therapy treatment that worked. True, it’s been an expensive exercise in…

This article will show you how to set up a brand new YubiKey 5 with the following applications: : used for encrypting and signing PGP (aka GPG) messages, as…

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Given the option, most rats will choose sugar instead of cocaine. Their lust for the carbohydrate is so intense that they will go as far as to self-administer…

For the open core model to work, the OSS product should be standalone and featureful. If users feel like it's just used to advertise a commercial product, it doesn't work. And the commercial product should offer value-added services and features that are not strictly required for the base OSS product.

05 September 2023 i made this I'm finally sharing my project Postmarks, a single-user bookmarking website designed to be easily hosted on Glitch. Postmarks aims…

As far as financial problems go, having a pension pot worth more than £1mn is something most people would count as a blessing. However, with a general election…

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

We've deliberately chosen not to take on staff. We could have grown at many points along the way but haven't wanted to. Instead we've stayed small, focused and…

They aren’t making sites easier to use, but some people are profiting Image: Tomasz Woźniakowski Aug 31st 2023|NEW YORK Bill Dengler is trying to become an…

Energy makes time 04 Aug 2023 by Mandy Brown BECAUSE I WORK WITH a lot of high performers, the kind of people who are frequently responsive to both the unending…