AMP was, in many ways, a step backward for the web. […] But it was fast. And to Google, that was all that mattered.
Speed Trap by David Pierce
AMP was, in many ways, a step backward for the web. […] But it was fast. And to Google, that was all that mattered.
Speed Trap by David Pierce
Because what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent.
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are by Naomi Klein
Roughly three months ago I stopped smoking and this means I saved some money, which I used to buy myself a present:
Recently I discovered some new Austrian artists I like and thought I share them:
Lola Marsh at Flex, Vienna
Finished reading: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead 📚
Morzinplatz, Vienna
How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the billionaires. Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much.
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter by Paul Ford
Rather than feel impotent and useless, you must come to terms with the fact that as a human being you are infinitely powerful, and take responsibility for this tremendous power. Even our smallest actions have potential for great change, positively or negatively, and the way in which we all conduct ourselves within the world means something. You are anything but impotent, you are, in fact, exquisitely and frighteningly dynamic, as are we all, and with all respect you have an obligation to stand up and take responsibility for that potential. It is your most ordinary and urgent duty.
ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a ‘bullshit generator’. If a generated sentence makes sense to you, the reader, it means the mathematical model has made sufficiently good guess to pass your sense-making filter.
We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it by Dan McQuillan
📝 New blog post: Effective Remote Work by James Stanier (2022)
📝 New blog post: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner (2022)
Table tennis
I’m preparing a job posting at the moment and I’m going to replace every instance of “Frontend” with “Web” and change the ordering of skills to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (previously it was JavaScript, HTML, and CSS).
Finished reading: High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove 📚
However influential and innovative this book has once been, it seems outdated now. Instead you should read a more modern management book that took its good ideas and brought them into the 21st century.
📝 New blog post: My Favorite Albums of 2022
Trash
Your personal website is a place that provides immense creative freedom and control. It’s a place to write, create, and share whatever you like, without the need to ask for anyone’s permission.
The Year of the Personal Website by Matthias Ott
Finished reading: RCE by Sibylle Berg 📚
A foggy day at Lainzer Tiergarten, Vienna
Nibelungenbrücke, Linz
Exactly five years ago. There was still snow back then.
📸 New blog post: Budapest in December
Sometimes you discover a band through the news of their breakup. Today that would be For Tracy Hyde.