Porting this account to indieweb.social, methinks
A series of bits.
Musings about Apple products, software engineering, and technology labor.
Chronically distracted toddler parent.
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Phil Giammattei
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Jon MitchellWhen are people going to stop posting “we need new good RSS readers” and start typing “good RSS readers” into their search box of choice
Heather BuchelYou know what makes me happy? Looking up something weird like "why does my carrot have a green ring inside" and finding a forum post from like 2010 with a bunch of gardening enthusiasts discussing it. Forums are great. Searchable, readable, text. Still works 13 years later. Wonderful.
If AT Protocol people are going to do something, they’d better do it now
Ben DelarreThe new #github based on #react is an abject failure to improve the user experience. On every count it is objectively worse than previous iterations.
Page load time is poor, interactivity is gated seemingly on very large JS loads. Initial page layout is broken on mobile and randomly resizes the width of the viewport after loading. The number of micro-annoyances seem to be adding up daily.
This is like an object lesson in what not to do to your successful webapp.
fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷
@ivory I set my color theme to blue a week ago and have watched it step slowly but surely over to orange since then. This only happens on the phone app, iPad and Mac seem to stick where they’re set. Are you aware of this behavior? Feels like some sort of off by one thing
Anonymous Shopify employee explains how the company is laying off employees in favor of AI tools:
"Everything in Shopify is turning to AI, from product descriptions to virtual sidekicks to a new help center AI agent (that is still in beta testing and yet to be released)."
Can these companies pull it off? Who knows. But they’re firing people right now. That feels like a more relevant concern. https://x.com/sh0p1fyj03/status/1681673980682305541?s=20
Joe Momma (@sh0p1fyj03) on X
1. In the first quarter of 2022 Shopify promised staff that their jobs were safe over a town hall video link. But then in July of 2022, Tobi sent an email to all staff telling them that in the next few minutes some of them would find out whether they still had a job or not:
Laurie VossGetting Christmas ads like "your mom's heart will melt" and it's an indoor lettuce farm.
kouhai, of the health issuesthe JavaScript ecosystem is actually galaxy brain
by throwing away your ecosystem every year, you make it resistant to LLMs
bam
job security