Sarah Brown

@another_sarah_brown
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Hi, I'm dipping my toes into social media again. We'll see how it goes over here!
++ working in the open
++ digital sustainability
++ rethinking social contracts
My Sitehttps://www.questadon.com
This morning the amount of grief lots of people are experiencing around AI landed for me. I have some thoughts about it. https://questadon.com/digital-garden/ai-and-grief/
On AI, Grief, and Restabilizing Society

The AI debate isn’t just about policy or ethics, it’s also about grief. Some thoughts on loss, destabilization, and what to do about it.

@triptych thanks! Really cool how it’s been able to produce a bunch of cohesive works!

@triptych I took a quick peek at these, I bet this was so satisfying to create! And you've knocked out a lot of them! practically a Brandon sanderson over here (is that gauche to say?)

What you said about writing as a way to do some self care and therapy resonates, it's why I checked them out. Been a long time since I've done any writing, but I might do a bit today, you've inspired me to give it a go.

The thing is, I want to learn all the things all at once.

I think in the time/energy I have outside of my day job, while I am excited to package a tool I made into an app for my friends to use and also learn Django and also get my Eleventy site really rolling and also migrate my partner's site over to a self-built one.... Can't do everything at once.

So for now, my primary focus is finishing my Python course! My learning path has me done with that by end of August.

TIME TO FOCUS!

Make little tools for you and your friends https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/?ref=dailydev
Scrappy

make little apps for you and your friends

@Robb Thanks for this. I really resonate with the freedom and encouragement you put forward for people to learn outside of the box of their specialty, in a way that builds up the craft and thereby community.

In a world where a common goal seems to be safety through independence (not needing to rely on anything/one that isn’t replaceable), finding ways to make WORK an area of life where we build mutually beneficial networks that don’t cannibalize feels so important.

Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices.

What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?

https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/looking-elsewhere/

Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen

Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?

Robb Owen Digital
@bobmonsour Ah, makes sense, and this does seem like a perfect use-case!

@bobmonsour @11ty makes sense, do you add a CMS so it feels user friendly for them to make updates etc? Are these like personal sites or for an org or business?

I guess if they don’t see themselves making new pages often, just updating content, probably a more low-tech way to do that is all they need.

Someone who helps you out by making a website that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg to maintain is an excellent friend, the gratitude makes sense! 🙌

For those who build sites for other people, I'm curious how frequently people say yes to a Jamstack build when most consumers who don't understand websites would ask for a Wordpress / Squarespace / Wix site.

Are you seeing more non-developer and non-hobbyist people / companies saying yes to #11ty or #Astro or #Nuxt etc? @11ty @nuxt