Goran Markovic

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Design Lead @Ministry of Programming. Product Designer. Mentor. Snowboarder. Writes in English and Bosnian.
Websitehttps://ministryofprogramming.com
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/goghie_m
Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/goghie/
Goran MarkovicJul 2, 2023
Peter MerholzJul 2, 2023

Hello! Are you new(-ish) to Mastodon? The Mastodon-branded clients are not-great from a UX and UI perspective. What works for me is:

iOS app: Mammoth (https://apps.apple.com/app/mammoth-for-mastodon/id1667573899). There are many to choose from, this one is free and full-featured.

Web: https://elk.zone . Lightweight, Twitter-like.

‎Mammoth: for Mastodon

‎From an empty feed to a timeline you love in minutes. Social you control. ■ Easily find friends and people to follow. Mammoth suggests people based on your interests and who you currently follow. Check the Discover tab regularly for new suggestions! ■ Curated Smart Lists. Connect with people…

App Store
Goran MarkovicJul 2, 2023
Charles JohnsonJul 1, 2023
Goran MarkovicJun 21, 2023
Figma being Figma and crushing it. 🔥
Goran MarkovicApr 19, 2023
Nitasha TikuApr 19, 2023
Tech companies have gotten increasingly secretive about the data, scraped from the internet without compensation or consent, used to train their AI models. So we looked closer. Here's our analysis of the 15 million websites in just one highly-filtered CommonCrawl web scrape-used to train models like Google's T5 & Facebook's LLaMA.
We found
-the copyright symbol appears >200M times
-pirated sites, 1 for e-books
-half of the top 10 were news sites https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning
See the websites that make AI bots like ChatGPT sound so smart

An analysis of a chatbot data set by The Washington Post reveals the proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data.

The Washington Post
Goran MarkovicApr 13, 2023
People complain when they have to sign some service contract IRL because "we are beyond that", while they click on "I have read and accept the Terms and Conditions" checkbox without thinking about it even for a second. 🙂
Goran MarkovicApr 13, 2023
𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿Apr 13, 2023
What does bismuth mean?
Twice every smuth
45.2%
Once every other smuth
54.8%
Poll ended at .
Goran MarkovicApr 13, 2023
Gergely OroszApr 13, 2023

Startup funding seems to have fallen back to ~2020 levels. However, one are that is worse than in a decade is exits, which have not been this low in 13 years (!)

More details in this The Pragamatic Engineer article: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-state-of-startup-funding/

The state of startup funding

I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far, it’s downwards. What does this mean for tech? My analysis.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Goran MarkovicFeb 18, 2023
This slow death of Twitter is becoming really painful to witness. After the hilarious “SMS 2FA for Blues only”, notifications stopped working this afternoon.
Goran MarkovicFeb 18, 2023
A lazy day, spent with the kid at our home. It’s priceless.
Goran MarkovicFeb 8, 2023
Layoffs at big tech companies are filling the press while the same thing, at a much smaller scale, is happening in smaller tech companies without anyone knowing but the people who lost their jobs.