Eso! Felicitaciones en correr un maratón! Estoy empezando correr también, y un día voy a correr un maratón. Ya hice un mitad maratón, y puedo trabajar por lo completo!

With this selector, a CSS stylesheet outside of a native web component can style the native web component! It's declarative, and a programmer has to specify a `part` html attribute in the component.

::part() - CSS | MDN The ::part CSS pseudo-element represents any element within a shadow tree that has a matching part attribute.

Today, I learned about the `::part()` pseudo-element! I'm surprised to see it's baseline widely available, because I've poked around web components before, and I don't remember seeing this.

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This article illustrates that AI-enabled workflows may cause task expansions, blurs work-life balance, and cause more multitasking. This is problematic, because it may lead to a high burnout rate. Any user of AI can mitigate the risk by "intentional pausing", "sequencing", and "human grounding".

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

Another study saying be careful when having AI-enabled workflows. I know AI technology is great to automate, jump start a project, and figure out obscure bugs. But if it isn't used carefully, then it might cause more harm than originally intended.
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A Higher Call A reflective peice to support a rationale to be kind and understanding to everyone.

Why are people so angry with another? I've been learning a bunch recently about moral psychology from Jonathan Haidt, and he sheds light on why people behave adversarial. And yet, being adversarial should not be the way to go. I talk about it in my new post!

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I have been feeling something similar. I feel like I'm using my mind when I use AI as a "co-worker" instead of something to pawn off tasks.

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Anthropic came out with a paper that seems to say skills development in an AI enabled work place needs to be done cautiously. Namely, don't let AI do all the work, instead, interact with AI to make sure a conceptual understanding is gained.

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Access Local Wifi Endpoints through the Browser I detail the journey to get a local Wifi point accessible by an HTTPS website.

HTTPS and HTTP swapped places! Originally, I couldn't request a local HTTP resource from HTTPS. Now I can!

Read more at my new blog!

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Scrooge's Reflection YouTube video by Andrew Gremlich

Merry Christmas! I've always found it fun to assemble clips and sound bites into a small video. I wanted to pick it up again and remind myself of some basic videography. So I made a small and simple video!

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MCP Reality Check This post explores the idea of how useful MCP and LLM technology is for the software engineer.

"It’s odd to me to see a push for the experience of a website be oriented around a chatbot, instead of a chat being a complementary feature of the website. Having a chat agent be the main feature of website seems like it’ll lead to too much for a user to do."

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Don't [...spread] or .split() your strings!

Use Intl.Segmenter API. Available in every JS runtime

Extreme Competition: This Isn't It A reflection on the Utah–BYU rivalry, game theory, and how cooperation and sportsmanship can overcome today’s culture of extreme competition.

"Seeing and experiencing joy when another side experience pain is counter productive to the larger game at play because we are all on the same team in the larger context."

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If you're curious, checkout my mega-bookmarks website here!

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A CSS code bit demonstrating how to customize a scrollbar. scrollbar-width: auto; scrollbar-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) rgba(200, 200, 200, 0.1); scrollbar-gutter: stable;

Here's a simple goodie CSS tidbit. I've had a mega-bookmarks website, and I recently remade it using Hugo, because the previous iterations were a bit to unwieldy to manage. To enhance the design of scrolling, I customized the look of the scroll bars using the following snippet!

A zoomed up photo of the Eiffel Tower.

I would absolutely love to see more exploratory 3-D spaces of famous places like the Eiffel Tower!

All the while, if we can evolve learning with the assistance of AI, then perhaps learning can take a different non-traditional approach. What would AI evolved learning look like? I don't know. I imagine the instructor would need to be creative (which isn't a bad thing). Big questions to answer.

The rise of AI tools forces schools to reconsider what counts as cheating Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat.

This article does make me wonder. To use AI in schools or to not use AI in schools? The prohibitive approach would seem archaic, but at the same time no, because students can practice discipline in school. To practice discipline in school is certainly a valid point.

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AI Powered Freelance Development Discover how to turn AI from a crutch into a superpower—learning to harness it wisely, stay creative, and keep the magic of problem-solving alive in software engineering.

It was a blast and a thrill presenting my special project after a long time working on it. I encourage you to read the script and look into the resources provided!

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When my CFP was accepted, I sat down to brainstorm how to present it. Knowing that the conference was going to be held at a theater, I decided to theme my presentation off of wizardry! I got a cloak and hat, and I custom made presentation software to provide sound and special effects.

The wizard is out of the hat! Today I had the privilege to give a presentation that I've been working on for several months at UtahJS conference. This was my first ever conference talk, and I wanted it to be a good one. I decided to present in a way that I've never seen happen in a presentation!

"When you're hiking, those little steps might not seem like much — but they're exactly what get you to the top."

I'm a big time hiker, and a client said this to me when our project started to show fruit. I love this because it's exactly what I know and remember while on hikes.

As a software engineer, I feel it important to use tools the right way, and LLMs are no exception. Using tools properly will merit a higher increase of quality work, which hopefully means that work will be easier to debug and maintain.

By extension, and using a weightlifting metaphor, it was by not using one's brain while creating content that their brain may atrophy and become weak. In another podcast I listened to, experts in the psychology field expressed concern about the mind atrophying while using LLMs for the same reason.

I read this study as encouragement to use AI properly. Misusing AI meant to let AI do all the work, so an LLM-only research participant would not be engaged with their work at all. Whereas using AI to review their work naturally-made work caused higher engagement with the content being created.

"In contrast, the LLM-to-Brain group, being exposed to LLM use prior, demonstrated less coordinated neural effort in most bands, as well as bias in LLM specific vocabulary. [...]"

This came from a study done at MIT, and it may be found at www.brainonllm.com

"We believe that some of the most striking observations in our study [were] where Brain-to-LLM participants showed higher neural connectivity than LLM Group's [...]. This suggests that rewriting an essay using AI tools (after prior AI-free writing) engaged more extensive brain network interactions."

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

I found this quote from the paper found at www.brainonllm.com. It's a fascinating study showing the potential downside of using AI or even search tools to do all the work. There is a lack of originality and creativity in the output of AI and search tools.

"Most of them focused on reusing the tools' output, therefore staying focused on copying and pasting content, rather than incorporating their own original thoughts and editing those with their own perspectives and their own experiences."

"Participants in the LLM and Search Engine groups were more inclined to focus on the output of the tools they were using because of the added pressure of limited time (20 minutes)."