When you hit an article that smells like AI, do you immediately click away? Hold your nose and keep reading if the topic is interesting? Take note of the author and never read their work again? Please share! forms.gle/UcpUPzZjaV8W...
One apparent consequence of all this generative ai fervor is I've been drawing again. Sure, perhaps in spite, but I even drew something I liked enough to order it on a shirt. Never done that before. So, thanks?
It’s not just this pattern, it’s [insert a human-generated plausible insight].
American Library Association poster for National Library Workers Day with the slogan "Libraries Work Because We Do." 4.21.26
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Spectacular crane with words “Marine” and “Clyde” on side.
You’ve heard all about what Claude can do, but have you SEEN what Clyde can do?
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“Renaming is an act of reshaping reality” — @biscuit.quest (Erin White — channeling the spirit of Ursula K LeGuin)
I love seeing this called out as what categories & semantics actually do.
#iac26
This should be at least half of the curriculum in every tech formal education. Learn the value of patience. Learn to respect others. Learn how to collaborate with others. Learn that tech is a means to improve the world for all of us.
Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.
I still want to build up my humanistic tech blog but alas every time I think I’m ready to publish a new crazy headline appears.
Seems I spend my time between work, my community and family, existential questions, news jolts, and just trying to be human.
I think this poem sums up the experience well
Abstract Mad Libs
lol, I tried to respond to you but I guess in a separate thread
@theletterf.bsky.social I think “docs” lacks emotional resonance and doesn’t sound new or novel enough. I agree it makes sense though.
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I remember telling folks "docs-driven development" will never catch on as a term.
If this approach was getting renamed to be more broad, what do you think about these reframes?
A. Context-driven development?
B. BUILDME-driven development? (with BUILDME files)
C. Blueprint-driven development?
No shame in re-cloning, copy-pasting, and cherry picking. 😅 Also, git reset with the hard flag. Good luck!!
So now you’re hooked and can’t go back? 🫠🎣 I just want to know now if they have cooler commands than my alias commands.
What’s the value prop for using this alternative? Does git history migrate too?
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A mug of golden milk chai in the background, from it coming a teabag string, with the following text on the tag: Bereu Deine Fehler nicht. Bewundere den Mut, Unbekanntes versucht zu haben. In the foreground is the rear end of a chocolate Easter bunny.
Best advice I ever got from a teabag.
English translation:
"Don't regret your mistakes. Admire the courage to have tried the unknown."
I’d add that a significant part of other “hardest problems” cited is the human communication “layer.”
This has been true in my experience for naming, caching, and other technical problems.
There’s the problem, then there’s communicating about it with humans, which can be harder than the problem.
Designed by “award-winning puzzle architects!” Love learning this term.
top-down view of a notebook on top of a laptop keyboard with a pen laid on top that has the CodeTV logo printed on it
slowing down to write out a todo list longhand remains undefeated as both the best way not to lose track of things and as a tiny meditation on where I'm spending my energy and attention
can't recommend it enough
Just learned about "The Repair Shop" show!!
I just want to watch people fix things that can be repaired in a (relatively) short burst of time while learning how they work.
Sharing in case anyone needs a "feel-good" show right now:
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![4-panel comic. (1) [Black panel with white text boxes] TEXT BOX: And God said, "Let there be light," (2) [Sun radiating light.] TEXT BOX: And there was light. (3) [View of bright sun rising over Earth's horizo] (4) TEXT BOX: God saw that light was-- [Chat bubble from Earth] CHAT BUBBLE: Can you add support for dark mode?
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4-panel comic. (1) [Black panel with white text boxes] TEXT BOX: And God said, "Let there be light," (2) [Sun radiating light.] TEXT BOX: And there was light. (3) [View of bright sun rising over Earth's horizo] (4) TEXT BOX: God saw that light was-- [Chat bubble from Earth] CHAT BUBBLE: Can you add support for dark mode? Open xkcd.com to view toggles for different modes.
CREATION
Happy April Fool's Day!
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