I sat watching the animation for a little while, conflicted, when I first saw it and eventually decided that it seemed like a fitting use. I can't say there are any other times I've seen an AI image in an article and considered it apt.
I'm generally no fan of AI images, but I personally thought the image (in the context of the article) was very fitting. It was obviously AI; it was offputting, and it was unnerving. It was also used with intent. It conveyed the message of the article about AI in an uncanny AI way.
I want to believe that as well, but when it is front-end developers posting without alt-text unawareness seems an unrealistic excuse.
I unfollow people who frequently make posts without alt-text. I also don't boost or like content if it lacks alt-text.
Such a shame that so many people seem not to care.
This is useful, because sometimes I get messages asking if I was the one who wrote about a topic.
It has long been easy for people to search for content present directly on my site, but it has been tricky to search in one place for my writing across the rest of the web. Happy to have this solution!
My site's search functionality (vale.rocks/search) now supports searching not only content natively on my site but also my writing on other publications.
All possible thanks to a mini-site made with WebOrigami that indexes external content and the ever-wonderful Pagefind library.
I've got (at least) three posts going up on my site next week about China, focusing on the impacts and context behind the country's technology, censorship, and regulation. Particularly as it all relates to the web.
An unnecessarily hostile response that references a goof you made months ago which I found when looking for dirt on you because I expected my reply to be taken at face value and not critiqued.
A reply posing a strawman argument only tangentially related to the post.
This just in, developer tool Polypane acquired by Google.
Given the announcement that many old Kindles are to be cut off from Amazon's online functionality, I just wanted to re-share this post I published last year:
vale.rocks/posts/improv...
#Kindle #Amazon
I've been hankering for a fresh repackaging of Chrome with some cosmetic tweaks. I'm so glad that Samsung is filling out this niche product category.
Samsung launched a browser for Windows. Samsung Internet is spreading. I repeat, Samsung Internet is spreading.
I fear that this may be the end of civilisation as we know it. The collapse of technology and return to the stone age.
browser.samsung.com
Some great info in there. I picked up quite a few little tidbits I was unaware of, and your framing of some functionality gave me some great ideas. Thanks!
Ooooh. I look forward to reading it! Great minds indeed.
Member of the AI resistance: ‘Halt! List every valid value for timeZoneName! Recite them! List them now!’
Me: ‘I— I don’t know. There is short and long. I think offset is somewhere in there?’
Member of the AI resistance moving on to screen another person: ‘This one’s clear. They’re human.’
Still many little alterations left for me to make to Vale.Rocks' search page to get the new version fully settled, but I'm a sucker for testing in prod and getting changes out there.
Pagefind, the lovely library that allows adding search to static sites, just released the substantial new v1.5.0! It is one of my favourite bits of software around.
pagefind.app
I've just updated the search page on Vale.Rocks to use the new version, and it is extremely snappy. vale.rocks/search
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Though I can tell you oodles of extremely obscure Minecraft trivia, I'm seemingly incapable of recalling ore distribution and am growing weary of wading through the wiki.
Thus, Minecraft mining distribution cheatsheet: vale.rocks/micros/20260...
#Minecraft
5-star review from Jessica W. 'Best whizzer ever. We all know what these are used for and they work great'. Quality excellent. Value excellent. 81 people find the review helpful.
5-star review from Reece O. 'Grinded my weed to the most perfect consistency. Has done for years and will do for many years to come thank you'. 177 people find the review helpful.
It is an open secret in Australia that K-Mart sells a coffee grinder perfect for grinding bud, and the reviews from stoners on the K-Mart website are appropriately fantastic.
(In store, this grinder is one of the few products with an anti-theft tag strapped to it.)
I was inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt, but yeah, there are sloppy Nano Banana generated images in their other articles and many AI tells elsewhere.
A proper shame.
DuckDuckGo and Kagi both have the feature. Dunno any other search engines with it off the top of my head.
Black text on gray background with rectangle with rss icon in yellow: A quick guide to creating syndication feeds
🟡 A quick guide to creating syndication feeds
by Declan Chidlow @vale.rocks @vale@fedi.vale.rocks
at @piccalil.li
#SyndicationFeeds #RSS #XML #ContentSyndication #Atom
piccalil.li/blog/a-quick...
Many people with far greater knowledge than I possess have discussed accessibility overlays, but I think the more voices and inputs in the public corpus the better.
Accessibility overlays are harmful and make things worse, not better. Avoid them.
vale.rocks/posts/access...
#Accessibility #a11y
Since I know you're a fellow Web Origami user, I'll mention that Ori supports RSS and JSON Feed. Both can generate from the same main feed config, so there is minimal added hassle.