“In many ways, understanding how things work is the antithesis of generative AI.”

New post about preparing for the post-bubble-era: https://fmarx.com/journal/the-magic-is-coming-from-inside-the-house/

If you tell me you’re hungry and I then walk up to another person, punch them in the face, take their sandwich, and hand it to you, the appropriate response is “What the hell is wrong with you?”, not “Thank you for the nice sandwich”.

New post about the rudeness of AI: https://fmarx.com/journal/pink-goo-and-stolen-sandwiches/

“As people building websites, we are not alone. We are like playwrights, sending a script out there and then every browser tries to perform it as best as it can given the context in which it operates.

It takes craft to set up the circumstances that are simple and yet contain the ambiguities and the incongruity of human experience.”

@mia #btconf

“On the web we are giving up design control to carry our content to places that we couldn’t even imagine, and to soften tension between author, browser, and reader.

One of the most powerful things you can do in CSS is tell the browser ‘I don’t know, you figure it out!’”

@mia #btconf