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Dave Rupert 1h ago

@snugug my browser chrome disappeared today. had to force swipe quit. it was wild!

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Terence Eden 1d ago

This isn't your normal "looking for work" post.

I've decided to shut my business and do more volunteer / community work.

If you know of an organisation which could use a board member with strong digital skills, extensive experience in open source and open standards, or cybersecurity please let me know.

Nothing full time. Personal recommendations preferred. Feel free to share.

Dave Rupert 1d ago

I bought a lamp and set it up next to my recliner. Not very noteworthy, but because I go to bed last and because all other members of my house require complete darkness and complete quiet to go to sleep, I’d sit in the dark for a couple hours every night staring at an iPad with headphones on. Lamp is going to be a great improvement. I can read paper things again! The 3500K lighting feels more cozy for writing. Lamps! What a concept!

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Dave Rupert 1d ago

@benbrown I'm going to follow in your footsteps but I gotta finish my Gundam: The Origin collection.

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Dave Rupert 1d ago

@savtrip Good question, long answer. I'm under a mandate to use AI at work which has exposed me to some incredible/unreal generative AI projects, but also a lot of slop; it creates a lot of cognitive dissonance. So I have mixed views on AI and no grand thesis yet, but I'm working hard to protect my intellectual honesty – which means to not giving into the hype or the hate. I genuinely understand both perspectives tho. But I try to be real about what it can and can't do and avoid personifying it.

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Dave Rupert 2d ago

@matthiasott You perfectly captured the nuance I was living in but couldn’t quite express in my post. There’s definitely friction when traversing disciplines, but it’s good friction because we have to reshape the problem and naive idealism chips away as we get closer to the atoms. A waveform input going through two different guitar pedals will change shape, it will modulate, it’s expected, it’s welcome! Excellent post. Thanks for sharing.

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Matthias Ott 2d ago

✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction

I wrote a short blog post reply to @davatron5000’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people.

https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-shape-of-friction

The Shape of Friction · Matthias Ott

Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer

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Dave Rupert 2d ago

@NicMakesStuff Nooooooo please publish!

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Scott Robbin 2d ago

In an attempt to create healthier news habits for myself, I built an RSS reader around reading yesterday's news. No unread counts, no constant refreshing—just a finite, organized feed to read once a day.

Today marks the launch of v2.0, a ground-up rebuild. I hope it brings others some welcome focus too.

https://hindsight.today

Hindsight: a news and RSS reader

An RSS reader that helps you keep up with the news without the stress of endless feeds and unread counts.

Dave Rupert 2d ago

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Jim Nielsen 2d ago

@davatron5000 lol whoops, did that thing where it started as a note boosting what you said, but turned into more thoughts than I expected and thus a Full Blog Post™️

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/re-people-arent-friction/

Re: People Are Not Friction

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.