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Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations – Retraction Watch
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

It's easier to do sloppy work nowadays.

 
Added 1 year ago
Send Big Files up to 5GB Securely. Tresorit Send: Secure, Fast & Free
https://send.tresorit.com/

A good alternative to wetransfer

 
Added 1 year ago
Granular Time — Silvio Lorusso
https://silviolorusso.com/publication/granular-time/

Observations about shrinking time, the idea that the computer didn’t give us more time, as promised, but instead filled our lives with micro tasks. We should leave the clock at the door in many situations, like the art/design classroom

 
Added 1 year ago
GitHub - kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic: Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.
https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

Tool for better audio control on Mac

 
Added 1 year ago
Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/

Oof, what.

 
Added 1 year ago
E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On IPW's (EWD 867)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD867.html

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.

 
Added 1 year ago
Python: The Documentary | An origin story - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GfH4QL4VqJ0

Nice docu. Interesting insights about how to run things, and how to do inclusion.

 
Added 1 year ago
WCAG vs EAA: Understanding where WCAG stops and where the EAA starts
https://www.getstark.co/blog/wcag-vs-eaa/

Very interesting article that points out that the EAA goes much further than the WCAG. We should focus on that as well.

 
Added 1 year ago
Pakkenmaker Bonne Reijn (34) maakt zich zorgen om de monocultuur van de binnenstad: ‘Jongeren kunnen zich niet verhouden tot Amsterdam’ | Het Parool
https://www.parool.nl/ps/pakkenmaker-bonne-reijn-34-maakt-zich-zorgen-om-de-monocultuur-van-de-binnenstad-jongeren-kunnen-zich-niet-verhouden-tot-amsterdam~bee2b5ef/

Geweldig verhaal over een geweldige kerel. Onder andere over dat zaken doen niet per se alleen maar over zoveel mogelijk geld verdienen gaat. Wat een fantastische kerel, wauw.

 
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Don't believe ChatGPT - we do NOT offer a "phone lookup" service
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/dont-believe-chatgpt

One of the sad stories where a lying bot affects a product.

 
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(optional.is) Latency and the Sea
https://optional.is/required/2025/07/03/latency-and-the-sea/

Fun exercise that compares internet speeds to nerve-speeds in animals.

 
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The Terror of Total Dasein | Hito Steyerl - DIS MagazineDIS Magazine
https://dismagazine.com/discussion/78352/the-terror-of-total-dasein-hito-steyerl/

The author writes about junktime, which I think is an even higher step from kairos -> chronos -> junktime. Who was it again who said that Kairos is village life, Chronos is city life, controlled by the clock, and then Junktime might be online life, controlled by ever presence.

 
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Do you speak typography? » Fontstand News
https://fontstand.com/news/essays/do-you-speak-typography/

Very interesting article about the work that went into creating Words of Type.

 
Added 1 year ago
Mac VoiceOver Testing the Simple Way – Cloud Four
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/mac-voiceover-testing-the-simple-way/

A nice introduction to testing with voice over on a Mac.

 
Added 1 year ago
National Design Studio offers a rebrand of government services
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/12/national-design-studio-rebrand/

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

 
Added 8 months ago
Luister naar moslimvrouwen, zegt schrijver Houria Bouteldja. ‘Een vrouw met hoofddoek zegt tegen witte mensen: ik behoor jou niet toe’ | de Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/luister-naar-moslimvrouwen-zegt-schrijver-houria-bouteldja-een-vrouw-met-hoofddoek-zegt-tegen-witte-mensen-ik-behoor-jou-niet-toe~bc577135d/

Bovendien is het moeilijk voor te stellen hoe radicale gelijkwaardigheid eruitziet, het is onbekend terrein. Ik weet ook niet hoe een wereld zonder uitbuiting eruit zou zien, maar de huidige wereldorde leidt tot oorlog en geweld, dus het is het onderzoeken waard.

 
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You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/

A furious, very well written reply to an ableist and arrogant linux developer.

 
Added 1 year ago
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

Depressing stats about using ridiculous amounts of energy

 
Added 1 year ago
Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI — Ludicity
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/?1

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

 
Added 1 year ago
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/

Interesting case where a new feature is added to software because chatgpt tells people it exists while it doesn’t

 
Added 1 year ago
Taste at speed - by Carly Ayres and marc - Good Graf!
https://carly.substack.com/p/taste-at-speed

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?”

 
Added 1 year ago
The Server Doesn't Render Anything
https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/the-server-doesnt-render/

Good article that explains that server side rendering does not exist.

If you love React and love using it—by all means. Just don’t mistake the complexity of React Server Components for complexity that is inherent to the web platform.

 
Added 1 year ago
De stekeligste zwarte stem – De Groene Amsterdammer
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-stekeligste-zwarte-stem

Zeer uitgebreid artikel over Malcolm X

 
Added 1 year ago
HTML Form inspector | Polypane
https://polypane.app/form-inspector/

A tool to see if your HTML form is well formed.

 
Added 1 year ago
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