Two of My Favorite Things Together at Last: Pies and Subdomains 🔗
I like pie. And I’ve learned that if I want a pie done right, I gotta do it myself. Somewhere along my pilgrimage to pie perfection, I began taking a [...]
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w0rdz aRe 1mpoRtAnt 🔗
The other day I was looking at the team billing section of an AI product. They had a widget labeled “Usage leaderboard”. For whatever reason, that phr [...]
Book Notes: “Blood In The Machine” by Brian Merchant 🔗
For my future self, these are a few of my notes from this book. A take from one historian on the Luddite movement: If workmen disliked certain machine [...]
Computers and the Internet: A Two-Edged Sword 🔗
Dave Rupert articulated something in “Priority of idle hands” that’s been growing in my subconscious for years: I had a small, intrusive realization t [...]
Making Icon Sets Easy With Web Origami 🔗
Over the years, I’ve used different icon sets on my blog. Right now I use Heroicons. The recommended way to use them is to copy/paste the source from [...]
How AI Labs Proliferate 🔗
SITUATION: there are 14 competing AI labs. “We can’t trust any of these people with super-intelligence. We need to build it ourselves to ensure it’s d [...]
A Few Rambling Observations on Care 🔗
In this new AI world, “taste” is the thing everyone claims is the new supreme skill. But I think “care” is the one I want to see in the products I buy [...]
Unresponsive Buttons on My Fastest Hardware Ever 🔗
This is one of those small things that drives me nuts. Why? I don’t know. I think it has something to do with the fact that I have a computer that is [...]
A Brief History of App Icons From Apple’s Creator Studio 🔗
I recently updated my collection of macOS icons to include Apple’s new “Creator Studio” family of icons. Doing this — in tandem with seeing funny t [...]
Study Finds Obvious Truth Everybody Knows 🔗
Researchers at Anthropic published their findings around how AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills: We found that using AI assistance l [...]