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Ted Merz

Playing a Different Game

Sometimes you can win big by playing the game differently. My father shared a story about one of the most famous football games in history. We were asking him about great sports moments he had witnessed such as Joe DiMaggio ...

Daniel Miessler

We Are Confusing Two Types of AGI

We Are Confusing Two Types of AGI/images/two-types-of-agi.webp/images/two-types-of-agi.webp I think the biggest problem with the AGI debate is that we're confusing two types of AGI. I propose thinking and discussing them as two different things: 1. Soft AGI: An AI system ...

Chris Coyier

Hawai’i

I’m just back from the United States 50th state, a staggering 2,500 miles from the mainland. For the next week or two, I’ll pronounce it Ha-Vie-ee, like how it’s pronounced in the native Hawaiian language. A language, by the way, ...

Daniel Miessler

AI Unmasked Our Work as Scaffolding

AI Unmasked Our Work as Scaffolding/images/blog/ai-unmasked-our-work-as-scaffolding/header.webp/images/blog/ai-unmasked-our-work-as-scaffolding/header.webp I think AI is revealing that a vast percentage of knowledge work is scaffolding overhead. Maybe 75-99%. 1. In my own field of cybersecurity, ...

David Bushell Notes

“Accessibility had never really played a significant role since I started working as a front-end developer in 2019. It didn’t have a significant role in my boot camp, or in YouTube tutorials I watched, and certainly not in my job. ...

Max Bernstein

Using Perfetto in ZJIT

Originally published on Rails At Scale. Look! A trace of slow events in a benchmark! Hover over the image to see it get bigger. img { max-width: 100%; } img:hover { transform: scale(2); transition: transform 0.1s ease-in; } img:not(:hover) { ...

David Bushell Notes

“The whole tech industry is nothing but scumbag billionaires and smarmy marketing and unbridled enshittification and oppressive management and AI psychosis and alpha-bro startup-hustle grind-culture bullshit and I’m just… so tired. The End - Craig Cook”Don’t we all know that ...

CSS Tricks

Generative UI Notes

Looking at research and experiments that are designed to automatically generate user interfaces based on user preferences. Generative UI Notes originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Derek Kedziora

Prompting

I’ve noticed lately that more people are writing forum postings and Reddit questions as if they were writing a prompt for an LLM. Here’s an example from a Buddhist forum I lurk on:

Daniel Stenberg

Don’t trust, verify

Software and digital security should rely on verification, rather than trust. I want to strongly encourage more users and consumers of software to verify curl. And ideally require that you could do at least this level of verification of other ...

David Bushell Notes

Elena from Ariel Salminen looks to solve many problems. “Layout shifts, flash of unstyled content, poor server-side rendering support, too much reliance on client side JavaScript, doesn’t play well with frame­works like React Server Components, accessibility issues, and so on… ...

Jim Nielsen

Code as a Tool of Process

Steve Krouse wrote a piece that has me nodding along: Programming, like writing, is an activity, where one iteratively sharpens what they're doing as they do it. (You wouldn't believe how many drafts I've written of this essay.) There’s an ...