It's the time of fundraisers, when being a radio host means you really have to fulfill music requests, and the only revenge is knowing that "Dream a Little Dream of Me" was originally recorded by Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra in 1931
“Semi-Annual Reminder to Learn and Hire for Web Standards”
Core skills ensure adaptability and a better user experience, as frameworks come and go, but standards remain essential.
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/09/semi-annual-reminder-to-learn-and-hire-for-web-standards.html
Semi-Annual Reminder to Learn and Hire for Web Standards
Alex Russell wrote a four-part series a couple weeks ago arguing that modern JavaScript-first framework-focused front-end development is costing the industry and users. Part of his conclusion for organizations: Never, ever hire for JavaScript framework skills. Instead, interview and hire only for fundamentals like web standards, accessibility, modern CSS, semantic…
The things RFK Jr is saying about his plans and ideas in the upcoming Trump administration must feel uncomfortably familiar to many Europeans, especially the Green parties, ecologists and proponents of organic farming.
I'm curious, but not optimistic, to see how they react.
"Painful intelligence: What AI can tell us about human suffering".
A book by Aapo Hyvärinen, available in PDF.
https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/painintl/
Painful intelligence --- Book home page
A book combining artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience to Buddhist and Stoic philosophy to understand human suffering and how it can be reduced.
Ich hab Käsekuchen, ihr könnt mir gar nix!
I am concerned that, especially in politics, transparency is misunderstood as a value in itself. Transparency, e.g. in algorithms, is not synonymous with being easy to understand. That is why regulation in the EU is heading in the wrong direction.
Kevin Powell is such a great CSS expert and teacher. I always learn something from watching his videos, even though I consider myself advanced. And this one is a real treat.
”At Last! Simple details/summary animation with pure CSS“
https://youtu.be/Vzj3jSUbMtI
At Last! Simple details/summary animation with pure CSS
Training AI on Reddit data will - if at all - result in some pretty twisted artificial minds.
Over-regulation can be a way of discouraging or controlling certain behaviours without explicitly banning them, giving the illusion of freedom while subtly restricting choice. It can create a maze of rules that, while not technically prohibiting anything, are so difficult to navigate that they effectively have the same effect as a ban. This approach can shift responsibility, making it harder to hold any single entity accountable for the restriction.
We need to go back to Europe as a project of makers rather than the EU as a project of lawyers.
