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- The AI Great Leap Forward leehanchung.github.io
The sparrows are dead. The locusts haven’t arrived yet. The flowers bloomed full of poison pills. The furnaces produced pig iron stamped as steel that’s now load-bearing. The grain numbers look fantastic.
I probably didn't.
- Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life joanwestenberg.com
The desire to understand calculus versus the desire to check your notifications are both real desires, and both produce (to a degree) real feelings of satisfaction when fulfilled. But the person who spends a year learning calculus becomes someone different, someone who can see patterns in the world that were previously invisible, who has expanded the range of things they're capable of caring about, who has Been Through It.The person who checks their notifications is, afterward, exactly the same person who wanted to check their notifications five minutes ago.
- How I Setup New MacBooks catalins.tech
Aha, Brewfile.
- Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content vincentschmalbach.com
From my experience, Google now seems to operate on a "default to not index" basis. It only includes content in its index when it perceives a genuine need.
- How To Write Stuff No One Else Can thewritetoroam.com
- Neal Stephenson's Most Stunning Prediction - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
About a year ago, I worked with a start-up that makes AI characters in video games. I found it rewarding and fascinating because of the hallucinations: I could see how new patterns emerged from the soup of inputs being fed to it. The same thing that I consider to be a feature is a bug in most applications.
- How platforms killed Pitchfork platformer.news
- Dark Visitors - A list of known AI agents on the internet darkvisitors.com
- BrandGuide brandguide.page
- The unfortunate math behind consulting companies longform.asmartbear.com
Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you’d think, and launching a product rarely works out.
- China’s Age of Malaise newyorker.com
- The World’s Writing Systems worldswritingsystems.org
- Optimizing for Taste cra.mr
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.
- Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation organicmaps.app
- List one task, do it, cross it out | Oliver Burkeman oliverburkeman.com
- React Is Holding Me Hostage emnudge.dev
Billed as a rant but actually fairly even-handed.
- Everything you think you know about homelessness is wrong noahpinion.substack.com
- Python is two languages now, and that's actually great threeofwands.com
I am of the belief that currently, Python is actually two very similar programming languages sharing the same name. This certainly isn't a surprise to anyone who's been using Python for a while. What might be a surprise, though, is that I think this is actually a good thing. The languages, let's call them untyped Python and typed Python, even though sharing a very large common base are fundamentally different in how they enable the developers using them to solve problems.
- ooh.directory ooh.directory
- The new wave of Javascript web frameworks frontendmastery.com
- 🌄 MetaFilter’s rule-laden mini-utopia newpublic.substack.com
- Defensive CSS - Ahmad Shadeed ishadeed.com
- No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees sahillavingia.com
- Small tech scattered-thoughts.net
Role models matter. So I made a list of small companies that I admire. Neither giants nor startups - just people making a living writing software on their own terms.
- The Anti-Capitalist Software License anticapitalist.software
- Laws of UX lawsofux.com
- Text for Proofing Fonts | Fonts by Hoefler&Co. typography.com
- The Coming Boeing Bailout? mattstoller.substack.com
- DesignOps Handbook - DesignBetter.Co designbetter.co
- Imagining a Better Boyhood - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
- AWS in Plain English expeditedssl.com