When anyone can produce something that looks good, the question becomes not “Can you make this?” but “Can you tell if it’s any good?” Or: “Can you make it better?”

Not sure what the real source is, but work less.

Very, very nice article about the independent web. For my students.

Very handy, and cleverly opinionated read-later tool.

The question is just as relevant and just as meaningful as the question whether submarines can swim.

In retrospect, this accident of history has been a disaster, since almost all the opinions pushed by the commercial propaganda were false, and, in addition, the propaganda has been so effective that for many those opinions have become dogmata that can no longer be challenged without committing heresy.

One of many people warning for a bubble

I want to start using the temporal API for my clocks.

Nice and thorough. Footnotes are style and should be used, whenever you think you should use them. Design them, and do so with attention.

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.

Some excellent nerdy and niche HTML knowledge about the href attribute value.

Vocabulary of any tech hype, really, not just AI.

AI is an everything machine, which fits perfectly in a frictionless dystopia. A plea for more friction. I agree fully.

Liquid glass is bad.

A beautifully illustrated visual essay about AI and art.

Turn a so called passport file into a png, as it should be.

About llm’s bazooka’s and accessibility.

A critique on the National Design Studio. Easy, of course, but interesting.

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.

Brilliant, clever recursive animations

Depressing stats about using ridiculous amounts of energy

Shocking article about the ‘hysterical obedience’ in Germany:

very common in Germany, that to be law-abiding means not merely to obey the laws but to act as though one were the legislator of the laws that one obeys.

Numbers about the idea that people do not want AI.

PNG got an update with HDR as the most important update (I guess)

validation and error messages