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Juliette
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Also Jules. Mom to Penny and Maya. Pivoting to having a job. Holder of public library cards. Legally distinct from an engineer.
Pavel A. SamsonovThere's a new "design is dead, because AI" piece (thinly disguised marketing from Anthropic). But looking past the hype headlines, their claims cover purely production-stage tasks.
When it comes to the work of understanding user needs and evaluating the opportunity space, AI actually makes your thinking worse. Studies show that it alienates you from users and colleagues, and flattens your thinking.
We need more human-centered practice, not less.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/software-is-a-coordination-problem-ai-can-t-help-you-with-that
Oscar!This is everyone's friendly reminder that the CBC has a Lite version! It's designed for people in low-bandwidth areas, which has the delightful side effect of it not having ads (or pre-load ad auctions), trackers, or whatever new design choice the designers think will get clicks. It's very nice to just have text and a wee bit of CSS.
cbc.ca/lite
Blake C. StaceyI haven't often felt jealous of writers' coming up with premises. The two times that I can most vividly recall the "I wish I had thought of that" sensation were "I Sexually Identify As An Attack Helicopter" and "What If We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole".
feliks✨
Honestly I was lucky that in nearly every other software-adjacent job I had supervisors who wanted to make everything open source, but that history makes this transition a bit more difficult.
Going to need to recalibrate my attachment to the products of my labor at Job. Someone made a bunch of changes I have opinions on to my code in the middle of the night. After first being upset, I realized I should not form emotional attachments to software I do not hold the rights to and can't even show to my friends.
C. E. AubinI have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
blinryRemember the "One Laptop Per Child" project, that developed a low-cost computer for children in developing countries? I was always amazed by a certain feature: The "View Source" button.
When you pressed it, the source code for the currently running application would open. This was supposed to encourage tinkering with the software on your device! <3
I've been pondering what it would take to build that button on modern machines. Has anyone seen something like that?
(Prototype in next toot.)
William J. Bowman🇨🇦Did you know that in the ACM DL's built-in reader, you can only print 10 pages at a time
