Do you also know somebody who answer to the question if they play an instrument: “Yes, the triangle 😜”

13 years ago I was so annoyed by people underestimating this instrument, that cuts through every mix, that I planned to make a website about it. Today it goes live:

https://moritzglantz.de/the-mighty-triangle/

Life Hacks, 2025 edition:

-If Peter Thiel's involved, avoid it
-If it’s “opt-in,” It'll be mandatory
-If AI is involved, it’s profiling you
-If Big Tech says it's for safety, it's not
-If it demands a facial scan, walk away
-If it’s “for your safety,” it’s for their control

via Jason Bassler

I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs made with copilot".

Meanwhile, there's a grand total of zero requests for "plz put copilot in more stuff".

This should be significative of the attitude of veteran coders towards #LLM creep.

It’s time for modern CSS to kill the SPA https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/its-time-for-modern-css-to-kill-the-spa/ AN SEO consultant writes "Use modern server rendering. Use actual pages. Animate with CSS. Preload with intent. Ship less JavaScript.

Build like it’s 2025 – not like you’re trapped in a 2018 demo of Gatsby.

You’ll end up with faster sites, happier users, and fewer regrets."

6 years ago today.
#WalktoWCEU #Berlin

picture: @caspar

In today’s “terminology matters”:

❌ Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.

✅ Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.

We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.

🆕 blog! “Book Review: Understanding Privacy - Heather Burns”
★★★★★

Heather Burns has an absolutely deft way of turning the sometimes-dull world of digital privacy into entertaining, informative, and actionable prose. Too many of these sorts of books end up being a list of woes and end with "someone should do something, I guess?". Understanding Privacy is different. A…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/book-review-understanding-privacy-heather-burns/
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#BookReview #privacy