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I don't have time for your cutesy error messages
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Failure states are not the time for levity
on Tue, 10PM
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Artificial intelligence and the language of conscious intent
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LLM GenAI can't lie, it can only be wrong
on Jun 26
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Constraints make for a better end product
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Many of the designers I've worked with on web projects in the past would complain about being "stifled" by web standards.
on Jun 26
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Quoting Jan-Lukas Else on minimalist design
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I like clean and simple things, especially in the digital world. — Jan-Lukas Else
on Jun 26
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I, like many people, hated email. Because, like many people, I hadn't tamed it.
on Jun 25
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Quoting Leon Paternoster on alt text
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Alt text should convey its fullest meaning to people who can’t see it. Handing that responsibility to a machine that can only recognise the the basic elements of the image shows a lack of respect for some of our readers. — Leon Paternoster
on Jun 25
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This one weird punctuation thing really grinds my gears
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It is grammatically correct to place ending punctuation within any quotation marks but should it be?
on Jun 24
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I was skimming through my RSS feed the other day and there was an article about someone I know by someone else I know.
on Jun 23
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Writing a ranking is a popular blog post topic; top 25 games, top ten movies, top 100 embarrassing times my brain won't let me forget.
on Jun 1
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Quoting Cory Dransfeldt on supporting journalism
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We should value and support journalistic institutions and throwing money at them to treat their content as more grist for the AI mill doesn't qualify. — Cory Dransfeldt
on May 30
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Hryggrbyr is an online handle used by Thomas Rigby, a developer who frequently writes about web development, JavaScript, and other tech topics. — Chat-GPT
on May 26
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Review — Married at First Sight (New Zealand), Season 1
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While it wasn't as polished or dramatic as its Australian counterpart, it was an enjoyable watch.
on May 25
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Reflecting on evaluating my surroundings for content to post about
on May 18
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"You get what you pay for"
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A lesson learned in childhood to be unlearned
on May 13
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#TIL: Bicarbonate of soda to reduce smells
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I was today years old when I learned how to fix a stinky cabinet
on May 10
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Quoting Julian Oliver on deadbots
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Rather than such software being the fruit of recommendations from therapists and psychologists, to meet real needs, tech is instead forced upon the vulnerable by a predatory market. — Julian Oliver
on May 9
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YouTube ads aren't "interactable"
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The adverts I see on YouTube are kind of useless.
on May 7
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When was the last time tech blew your mind
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Highlights in a personal history of technology
on May 6
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Improving page load times with pagination in Eleventy
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This is probably a very obvious one for everyone; the less content on the page, the quicker it will load.
on Apr 19
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Seeing money and effort being invested in an ass-backwards fashion
on Apr 18
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Can we solve a classic programming challenge without using a "real" programming language?
on Apr 17
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Robotics and the Gender Pay Gap
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Robotisation fuels inequality. Who knew?!
on Apr 11
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Fixing a typo shaved 4 minutes off my Netlify build time
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Caching images across Netlify builds
on Apr 10
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Quoting Brad Frost on communication
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The best thing any designer can do is to communicate and closely collaborate with the people who are building things in the actual medium. — Brad Frost
on Apr 5
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Friday Random Ten for 5th April 2024
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Ten random songs from my collection
on Apr 5