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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
alvaromontoro@front-end.social ("Alvaro Montoro") wrote:

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Now, frontenders, consider what it means that a lot of the "pivot-to-AI" thinkfluencers aren't talking about how we get to break out of silos; how they're just cargo-culting and hype-recycling the same old shit. Why is that? Hmm....

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Asking the right questions matters more (assuming this stuff works as advertised) because changing your mind is cheaper. Want to evict a janktastic Lottie animation and bloated deps from the bundle? If the primary hurdle is knowing to ask, *knowing to ask* is what's worth paying for.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is all separate and apart from the question of "do these tools work at all?", which is very much TBD. But operating as though they don't impact the choice architecture, while churning out bad output, is going to be increasingly untenable.

And orgs that bet heavily on them, while failing to put management around the quality of the output of the black box, are going to get washed away in shitty UX and customer DSAT as sure as night follows day.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This will seem counter-intuitive; "but I can just vibe-code this thing now..."

But that means the output is a commodity. The *input* -- what you ask a machine to produce -- is more important. And as contexts grow, refactoring becomes cheaper.

If you're a software engineer asking tools to hand you output that isn't as tuned up as it could be -- something you can only do if you understand the interactions and options -- then the failure of *your* context grows in (negative) impact.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I spend a lot of time ruminating on the failure of the contemporary tech middle-management class (largely PMs, but also a lot of EMs and VPs) to actually *manage* their products, and what it means that LLMs and ML tools make it ever easier to break away from path dependence.

The penalty orgs will pay for not putting folks in positions of responsibility that have a sense of taste and an understanding of fundamentals just went WAY up.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Also is Colin Farrell my new fav actor? He was so good and banshees and now this I really love his acting.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Are you curious how browsers work? I'm working up a list of essential web performance resources, and many of the talks from this 2020 instance of Chromium University ("internal" training for Chromies) are incredible:

https://code.sgo.to/2020/12/16/chromium-university-fall-2020.html

Boosted by jwz:
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

Here's what I sent them:

I don't use generative AI. I have a computer science degree so I understand how large language models work, and I don't believe that they have any value. They are just stochastic parrots. That they so beguile their users with vapid statistically-probable output is distressing.

But LLMs have still changed my life, because the training models are forever scraping my personal web site, costing me bandwidth and money, violating the copyright on my original content without my consent. The datacentres that house LLMs consume vast amounts of energy and fresh water, an environmental disaster in the making.

I expect that in the future, LLMs will once again change my life as I'm called to cover for an entire generation of workers who lack important life skills such as composition and critical thinking. I'm not exactly looking forward to it.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Penguin is really good. I'm two episodes in and hooked.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mhoye wrote:

"look the computer can generate more code faster" the world absolutely does not need or want more code, nothing needs more code for the sake of code, we need utility, functionality and empathy, an encoded understanding of the problem being solved and the humans around it. Code is the price we pay for that encoded understanding. What you've created is an entropy spigot pointed at the proxy metric graph you’re stuck using because your management doesn't understand anything.

Boosted by jwz:
spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

Hmmm....

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I've only skimmed the words so I can't speak to accuracy, and it appears the project has barely started, but the illustrations are just beautiful:

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-a-screen-works

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
suzannespirit@mastodon.art ("Suzanne") wrote:

Made this embroidered pendant! I bought 4 of these little flower pendant kits secondhand, just to get started and gain some confidence. Then later on I want to make some designs myself. But this was great fun already!

#embroidery #pendant #CreativeToots #handmade #jewelry #creative #flowers

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

shit

“Multiple people injured in series of shootings in Kentucky, governor says” - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/multiple-people-injured-series-shootings-kentucky-governor-says-2025-07-13/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Today the Israeli military hit a water distribution point in Nuseirat refugee camp. They murdered 6 Palestinian children and injured 17 more people.

This will barely make headlines, because Palestinian blood is expendable and the Israeli government is apparently exempt from international human rights law.

Corporate media continues to fail in its obligation to report that this is genocide. Keep raising your voice against these atrocities. Be on the right side of history.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This essential post by @tammy chimes with my experiences; teams I talk with don't understand that there are huge gains to be had when they finally get perf under thresholds that they think of as "impossible" with today's JS-laden stacks:

https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/web-performance-plateau/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

The logo for Argentina’s postal service looks like a Pokéball and I love it. #pokemon #mail

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Captured with the Rodenstock 50mm Digaron lens and about 13mm of vertical shift to maintain the geometry (but several architectural features - setbacks and tapers in the building design - still make it appear to converge toward the top).

Pittsburgh's 42 story "Cathedral of Learning" houses offices and classrooms for the University of Pittsburgh. Completed in 1937, it took 11 years to construct. It remains the tallest academic building in the US.

The lobby is also gorgeous, and worth a visit.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, 2023.

All the pixels, none of the learning, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52977939495

#photography

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
latte@mastodon.online ("a new hope :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

redesign!! anh(v7)

https://anhvn.com

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tdp_org ("Neil Craig") wrote:

Patron saint of insecure JavaScript

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is neat:

https://oklch.com/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I don't like the way #Siri says "Puerto Ricans"

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

Top 10 Most Educated OECD Countries in 2024 (% of adults aged 25-64 with tertiary education)

1. 🇨🇦 Canada - 63.3%

2. 🇯🇵 Japan - 56%

3. 🇮🇪 Ireland - 55.3%

4. 🇰🇷 South Korea - 54.5%

5. 🇦🇺 Australia - 51.4%

6. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg - 51.3%

7. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 51.3%

8. 🇮🇱 Israel - 50.3%

9. 🇺🇸 United States - 50%

10.🇳🇴 Norway - 48.1%

Source: OECD Education at a Glance 2024

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:

The politicians who visited the FL immigrant concentration camp and then made a big deal about the design of the integrated sink/toilets have apparently never been to a jail or prison where these are common. Standard piece of equipment available from many suppliers, designed to prevent vandalism and self harm. Is it gross to have your sink over your toilet? Yes it is. But this isn't a new thing.

The problem is that we have concentration camps, we are providing no due process of law, we have a private prison industry capable of building a concentration camp in the middle of nowhere in a week, and the likelihood that many politicians are invested in these companies and benefit from their lobbying and donations. I guess if it takes the design of a toilet to get people upset then by all means roll out that talking point but it's really just surface detail.
#fascism #DueProcess #immigration #ConcentrationCamps

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Miami Herald - Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the US are being held at Alligator Alcatraz. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article310541810.html#storylink=cpy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HumanServitor ("Daniel Detlaf") wrote:

@DrALJONES @palestine

"Population transfer" doesn't have the ring of a euphemism for something horrible or anything. Not at all. 😐

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

I must admit that I did not see coming this immense blow-up within MAGA relating to Epstein. In retrospect, it makes sense, but claiming 20/20 hindsight isn't worth any prediction points. However, it is extremely telling in all sorts of important ways.