For and against đź”—
Yesterday, good internet friend Baldur Bjarnason shared a series of shorts he made on why he doesn’t use generative AI, and it got me thinking about h [...]
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Signal your virtues đź”—
Virtual signalling is often used as an insult, but it’s good to signal your virtues, actually. A few months back, I read a story on Bluesky from a his [...]
The SpeechRecognition API đź”—
There’s an older deaf gentleman in my town who’s very friendly, and likes to communicate with rudimentary hand gestures, but I have a hard time unders [...]
Documentation-Driven Development đź”—
Last week, I needed to make some pretty major updates to a web component in a design system I use for clients. I’m a big fan of TDD, but I wasn’t ment [...]
Life on Foot đź”—
We recently moved from a rural suburb in Massachusetts to a small coastal village in Rhode Island. It’s been transformative, and I wish I’d done it so [...]
The Village đź”—
About 14 years ago, we moved out into the rural suburbs. I loved the quiet, the abundant wildlife, and our proximity to farms. I didn’t realize just h [...]
We live in a world where... đź”—
I saw this on Mastodon today (saved the image, lost the source), and it just brought me so much joy! Did you know that we live in a world where octop [...]