New webbed brief about react.js https://briefs.video/videos/what-is-react/
yeah, same vibe as hate reading the jakob nielsen substack
Also I'd hate to see Scrivener touch AI - esp because they sponsor nanowrimo and still seem connected https://web.archive.org/web/20240902130810/https://www.literatureandlatte.com/nanowrimo
Scrivener is a hero product in my research/writing as an example of a software product that is designed for concrete purpose
I joined a writing meetup here in Amsterdam which gathers every week in a bar to write, to talk about their writing, to bounce ideas, etc. I kinda got tired of going because there were a worrying number of people using chatgpt to generate ideas. I was the only one trying to write non-fiction, and most of what I was writing would be crit of tech (sometimes genAI) so talking about my writing was always fun. But nonetheless, their use of chatgpt seemed extra weird because we were there, together, to write and support each other, for free.
It's strange to use solidarity, support, and just general helpfulness from others as an explanation for how AI opens writing up to classes or abilities when that's probably one of the top things that social media (and pre-social media social media) gave us on the internet.
anyway..
this thread about the spare tire placement on the cyber truck made me lol https://web.archive.org/web/20240828180114/https://www.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/1f0chzk/spare_tire_installation/?rdt=49951
maybe also that time the diver hit his head on the platform
was recently trying to explain to someone how The Games is the best Olympics memory I have
I've written about this a few times, like this one from https://fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-potential/ but I think you've summed it up perfectly
Nothing could make this more evident than the crypto/web3 community’s obsession with “mass adoption” which they generally resolve to being a UX problem. They know that the complexity of crypto is intimidating to non-technical people (crimes and scams aside) so they relentlessly try to remove as much of the complexity as possible.
The unfortunate thing about removing complexity is that you never remove it, but rather, you move it to another place. The other place is always what crypto people like to call a “trusted third party” the very thing that Bitcoin, was created to eliminate.
There is a thing in crypto called "ux/acc" which, from what I can fathom, is a new way to avoid thinking about why it isn't being adopted
death of another gateway drug to digital creativity
FYI this led to me watching the movie last night
sounds bad! hope all is ok
The project, internally named Cosmos (but different from the company’s existing Cosmos deep learning product)
these people are a creativity vacuum
the keymasters
can we pin this one?
can it be both?
I love how the time factor is always ignored when tech companies eventually comply with regulation or just do the right thing. "at least they did it" isn't an argument, it's a consolation.
It took airbnb over a year(!) to show all the fees up front on the search results page instead of waiting to show them on the checkout page. That's over a year after their asshat CEO announced on twitter that they would be doing it (to quell the social media uproar about how deceptive it was)
you've got to say more than that
if my product was labelled "general purpose" I'd consider that a slur
that's a linkedin-level take