My Experience Has Nuance, Yours Is a Data Point 🔗
Eric Bailey has a fun little post about how we need more than a few icons to express the nuance of our shared human experience. For example, he sugges [...]
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A Calendar View For My Blog 🔗
807 blog posts across 14 years. That’s how much I’ve published on my blog at the time of this writing. And here’s the question I’ve been turning over [...]
Have You Heard the Good News About Microlighter? 🔗
Dave Rupert wrote about shipping microlighter: a tool for handling syntax highlighting using the CSS Custom Highlights API. I saw his post the day he [...]
Getting an LLM to Make Me a Tool for Enriching the Color Metadata in My Icon Collection 🔗
On my icon gallery sites, I have metadata I’ve manually added over the years to tag certain icons as being predominantly “blue” or “orange” or some ot [...]
A Sloppy Interface Is a Security Liability  🔗
In his talk “Why AI Is Breaking Software Security As We Know It” (my notes here), Feross Aboukhadijeh talks about the Axios npm incident and how the m [...]
Oops, Should’ve Thought of That 🔗
Gordon Brander writes: The thing about computers is that they can do anything you wish, so long as you specify your wish in exacting detail. However, [...]
Oh Hey, It’s Not Just Me 🔗
My whole life I’ve felt like I have great eyesight (and I still do). But lately I’ve been noticing what feels like…some slippage. Nothing big. Just th [...]
The Fruits of AI 🔗
Terry Godier has a post titled “Mea culpa” (which, given his framing, might’ve been better titled “Claude’s Culpa”). I’m not sure how much to even tru [...]
A License to Act 🔗
In the past, search engines and the open web granted access to other people’s knowledge but the task fell to you to synthesize an understanding from i [...]
The AI Aesthetic 🔗
Every zeitgeist comes with new design idioms unique to its challenges. Many of them disappear as fads change, but others bake themselves into deeper p [...]