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Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist
https://gizmodo.com/wall-streets-ai-bubble-is-worse-than-the-1999-dot-com-bubble-warns-a-top-economist-2000630487

One of many people warning for a bubble

 
Added 1 year ago
Foundations: form validation and error messages - TetraLogical
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2024/10/21/foundations-form-validation-and-error-messages/

validation and error messages

 
Added 8 months 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
Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ

Brilliant video showing the three shapes of stories.

 
Added 1 year ago
Welcome to Medieval Murder Maps
https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/

This is what the web is for.

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

Oof, what.

 
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
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

Erg goed verhaal over het weigeren van LLMs en het opzetten van een LLM-loze schrijversclub

 
Added 9 months ago
The JavaScript Date Quiz
https://jsdate.wtf/

Brrrr, date in javascript is even worse than I thought. Ridiculous.

 
Added 1 year ago
The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad
https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

[AI hype companies are] selling the idea that doing things is worthless.

Long, but very good read about hype, that the author calls Whatever.

 
Added 1 year ago
Overview ‹ Your Brain on ChatGPT — MIT Media Lab
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/your-brain-on-chatgpt/overview/

Your brain is less active when you use tools instead of just your brains. Not very shocking. Rather obvious.

 
Added 1 year ago
Hiut Denim | No Growth
https://hiutdenim.co.uk/pages/no-growth

I agree with the idea that businesses do not need to grow. Growth is the ideology of a tumor, of a parasite.

 
Added 1 year ago
Time moved 5 times more slowly in 1st billion years after Big Bang | Space
https://www.space.com/quasar-clocks-universe-time-dilation

The fascinating idea that time moved slower in right after the big bang

 
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.

 
Added 1 year ago
PNG is back!
https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/

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

 
Added 1 year ago
Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories | drew's dev blog
https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/artisanal-git/

Making a git repo, completely manually. A clever explanation about how git works, and what it does.

 
Added 1 year ago
Het zalige ogenblik – De Groene Amsterdammer
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/het-zalige-ogenblik

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.

 
Added 1 year ago
Nederland wil van Amerikaanse cloud af, maar weet niet hoe - Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/amerikaanse-cloud-ondermijnt-de-soevereiniteit-van-europa?share=KhaJE%2FB4FN0%2Fz88WK9mF049JYxOT0A3DB22NFh0d7xiukJHQFuxkLkp6FlecnyQ%3D

Oef, wat zijn digitale directeuren toch belachelijk voorzichtig.

 
Added 1 year ago
Berbice Nederlands: een taal in Zuid Amerika
https://neerlandistiek.nl/2025/06/berbice-nederlands-een-taal-in-zuid-amerika/

Interessant, over een uitgestorven vorm van het Nederlands.

 
Added 1 year ago
Designing for User Font-size and Zoom | OddBird
https://www.oddbird.net/2025/07/22/size-preferences/

The missing article on font size on websites, while also taking the user’s preference seriously.

 
Added 1 year ago
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time

Fantastic article about NTP, the complex system that synchronises time on the internet.

 
Added 1 year ago
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Opinie | De geesten worden klaargemaakt voor een permanente mobilisatie - NRC
https://archive.ph/LVZm3

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

 
Added 1 year ago
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen – Random Thoughts
https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/

Brilliant and wonderfully written article which says that everybody who doesn’t use a microwave for all their cooking is missing out.

 
Added 1 year ago
Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/23/magazine/ai-art-artists-illustrator.html

A beautifully illustrated visual essay about AI and art.

 
Added 1 year ago
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