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AddOof, depressing article about the collapse of education
One of the sad stories where a lying bot affects a product.
Very, very long piece about stuff around the disability pride flag, some sort of weird conflict it seems to have with an earlier disability flag. Some interesting observations about what it really means to design with a community as well.
A comment on the value of estimating the carbon footprint of websites.
A critique on the National Design Studio. Easy, of course, but interesting.
Some interesting ideas here, most notably that you should decide what the discussion is about. At the moment, silicon valley decides and that’s bad.
A few extra arguments against LLMs. Mostly a personal answer/rant to an earlier article, and mostly pointing out flaws in the argumentation. For instance, that something was bad 6 months ago doesn't mean it’s good now. The same argument was used 6 months ago by the same people. Comparing people to large organisations when it comes to copyright Anonymous examples The fact that something gets attention doesn’t mean it’s as good as stated: see apps, crypto, etc. The fact that CEOs want us to use it, same thing, and even worse, because CEOs etc
I really should make a martian clock. It should somehow be political though.
Interessant stuk over het werk van Katja Mater, nu te zien in FOMU, en over de sculpturen van Brancusi, binnenkort in H'Art. Over tijd dus.
Kritiek op westerse oorlogstaal wordt gezien als naïef, maar er is een blind vertrouwen op een industrie die geld verdient met het uiteenrijten van lichamen.
Laten we weigeren onze kinderen op te offeren in naam van een natiestaat
Some excellent nerdy and niche HTML knowledge about the href attribute value.
About llm’s bazooka’s and accessibility.
An attempt to explain some programming paradigm visually.
Form labels and what they do
Interesting case where a new feature is added to software because chatgpt tells people it exists while it doesn’t
The idea that product (design) teams need a vision to work towards. The examples are a bit outdated (a car and a cruise ship should not be the ultimate goal anymore), but this is something our students should probably learn. And something we, as a school, should do as well?
Not sure what the real source is, but work less.
Erg mooi artikel over hangjongeren.
I don’t agree with this quote, as someone who uses code as a design tool, but …
But readable type, intuitive navigation, and smart color choices start in design, not in code. Developers build the product, but we set the foundation. It’s time to own that responsibility.
… but I really like the website and I think it is a great idea for a book.
AI is an everything machine, which fits perfectly in a frictionless dystopia. A plea for more friction. I agree fully.
Zeer uitgebreid artikel over Malcolm X
Interesting: programming is not about finishing a product, it is about making, understanding and working with the thing. So programming is not about the end result, it is about the experience. Reminds me of chronos vs kairos.
Wonderful, the old Japanese calendar was divided into 72 seasons, each of a few days. I wonder if something like this could be made for my backyard, for instance.