I’m excited to announce the 1̶s̶t̶ 7th release candidate of Elena today! 🫶
Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components. Unlike most web component libraries, Elena doesn’t force JavaScript for everything.
Crafted with love and care using HTML, CSS & plain JS: elenajs.com
Tired: “Scare quotes”
Wired: ✨Scare sparkles✨
love to see more people pushing back on goals of being “frictionless”. friction is a part of how we make meaning and build things that are worth building. messy, slow, human conflict has value
The band Godspeed You! Black Emperor on stage; behind them to screens with projected black and white footage of buildings and construction sites in New York City.
“They called Coney Island the playground of the world.”
This is what happens when you leave me in this country unattended, I don’t like it either
Big black wooden door with a sign that says “WCs”
This is where they store the web components.
“Keeping up with version updates is a problem we’ve created for ourselves. The web is inherently versionless. You can start using any new web platform features you like today, and the browsers will implement them for you while you’re eating breakfast.” — @csswizardry.com #WebDayOut
“I often get hired by orgs that spent nine months to refactor their product for the latest version of a shiny framework, and then suddenly it’s much slower.”
@csswizardry.com with some harsh truths about reality vs. expectations when it comes to the tools we use to build websites. #WebDayOut
“When building an app that relies on syncing local data with a server, make it seamFUL, not seamless. People should always know the status of critical data so they don’t experience any bad surprises.” — Aleth Gueguen #WebDayOut
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A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
I'm at the beginning of my rope. I'm doing great.
Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing.
Persephone: Thank you.
Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.
I didn’t and neither did you! ✋
I'm trying to think of something that would be less helpful to ADHD people than a machine that does boring tasks but randomly gets small details wrong and therefore requires extreme attentiveness to the boring tasks but I'm having a hard time.
Appeals to our worst impulses and biggest weakness.
*adds “communal knowing” to personal lexicon*
I think the most pragmatic thing people can do, if they're being mandated to use LLMs, is to unionise.
If by some miracle the bubble doesn't burst, there will still likely be lots of layoffs so get protecting yourself and your colleagues.
@ethanmarcotte.com has got the blueprint for you here.
four stick figures on sleds, one is sliding face first, face down, marked "skeleton", diagonally opposite to it is one sliding feet first, face up, marked "luge". The other two combinations are drawn and labeled with question marks
given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports
I dunno. I got my PhD from a lab called "The Stanford AI Lab" and I'm described as "an AI skeptic." Not an engineer, not a computer scientist, not someone who has built things that work and describes the harms of tech as a technologist, but as an "AI skeptic." Interesting.
title: The Man Who Ate Michael! ~ Al Yankovich -- by Takeshi Oya side text: With “Eat It”, Al has also become popular in Japan!! I’m going to reveal the story behind the production
Poster of Michael Jackson on a wall in a messy apartment with speech bubble saying “Tonight is Beat It…..” (the japanese title of the song)
good morning! apropo of nothing, here is a manga about Weird Al Yankovic that appeared in a 1984 issue of the japanese magazine “FM RecoPal”(translations in alt text)
An image of a DS9-themed Valentine with Chief O'Brien's face framed by hearts. He is winking at the camera. The text reads: "I'll be your union man," a play on O'Brien's "he was more than a hero, he was a union man" moment from the show.
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone who isn't a Nazi, and especially to the trekkies.
If you don’t love me at my “Horkheimer and Adorno predicted Anakin Skywalker’s fall to the dark side”, you don’t deserve me at my “Is Yoda a bug or an insect?”
The trick to making perfectly poached eggs is always using at least n+1 eggs. Follow for more cooking tips.
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."
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Gendo Ikari aus Neon Genesis Evangelion sitzt in seiner berühmten Grübelpose in der Rossmann Ideenwelt
Hello again, everything is still scary and hard and the tech job market is wild right now, so here's my semi-regular thread of open jobs I've found where your work could make the world better (or at least, not make it worse)
