2023 May
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"You can't learn the whole stack. Nobody can. Maybe it was possible in 1990, the day after the web was invented, but I'm not even sure about that. The stack grows and shifts and evolves every day. We are constantly throwing more money and more processor cycles away by using standards, packages and abstractions, and that's fine too."
2023 April
2023 March
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Always nice when two of my interests collide - in this case, software dev and #mtg
2023 February
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Now when you look at it like that, it makes you wonder why we give these people such a large stage while the very quiet majority don’t get a voice at all. The very quiet majority are out there building more than 90% of the web, after all.
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In 2015, I came out of a long stint at a company that didn't follow these frontend trends and was baffled at all the JS build systems that seemed wildly unnecessary for most simple sites, yet people were treating them as required frontend material
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Longish post on the problems with modern frontend development using JS frameworks
"These technologies were initially pitched on the back of "better user experiences", but have utterly failed to deliver on that promise outside of the high-management-maturity organisations in which they were born. Transplanted into the wider web, these new stacks have proven to be expensive duds."
2022 September
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A couple of months ago I got access to the DALL-E, an AI/machine learning model that lets you generate images from natural language descriptions. Basically they have a server they run and you get some limited number of credits per month (?) to generate images. I only got around to trying it last week and posted some of my samples in the most recent weeknotes. Since then, I feel like there's a spike in the number of AI image generation-related news and articles I encounter. (More likely than not, I just notice them more now that I've actually played with
2022 March
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Interesting Twitter thread about naming conventions in Southeast Asia: Vietnamese and other peoples of Southeast Asia have naming conventions very much different from those in the Anglosphere. For us, writing our names overseas is a big headache. Let me first explain Vietnamese names, then I'll touch on names in other cultures. The comments in the thread are full of examples of Western people and systems having trouble with cultures that have different naming conventions. Of course, the Philippines isn't included in the discussion because we largely follow Western-style conventions. When my dad and I had to check in at the -
(Warning: Medium) I found this interesting only because when I started out in web dev, our company's standard test plan required that we autofocus the first editable control on page load
2022 February
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🔗 Misidentifying talent via web
Dan Luu on difficulties identifying talent in both sports and software dev
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We used to attend these online quiz nights where at the top of the quiz, the host would do his introductory spiel explaining how the quiz night works. This is typical of quiz nights. But this quiz group in particular always had a semi-complicated final round where each team makes a wager against how many answers you can get in the final question which has multiple answers. They introduce this mechanic during the intro spiel, and at the end of the night, if there are any new teams during the quiz, they will inevitably raise a question or two that
2022 January
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I've solved all #CSS puzzles on CSS Speedrun™ within 06:03:8 and all I got was this stupid tweet.
2021 December
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Have mercy on those of us who don't always have access to fast broadband.
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More CSS Flexbox/Grid tips
2021 November
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TIL that if you don't put
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🔗 People Matter via web
Dan Luu on how corporations treating people as fungible is a mistake