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If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership
andrewmurphy.io · 31 people Worth reading
AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.
Excellent analysis in the article linked here -
"If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems"
And some comical turns of phrase as well :-)
Link shared here earlier by @RuthMalan - thanks!
(I don't know if Andrew Murphy the author is on Fedi?)
— @unchartedworlds · Mar 17
Have a Fucking Website - Other Strangeness — merritt k
otherstrangeness.com · 33 people
For fuck's sake
Have a Fucking Website
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If you’re a hair salon, or a tattoo artist, or a restaurant, or whatever, please just have a fucking website where I can go and see your rates and hours. Not all of your potential clients are on these platforms, and I suspect that even many of the ones who are appreciate a simple, unadorned site that tells them what they need to know at a glance.
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— @lproven · Mar 18
Overthinking: AI wasn't the first to break my heart
ohhelloana.blog · 14 people
In this post I do a shit job at trying to carry on when values misalign. Ta-da!!
“Oh Hello Ana - Overthinking: AI wasn't the first to break my heart”
> We will lose good people in exchange for cheap, quick and shit outputs.
— @baldur · Mar 18
Free SPARCstation and more — mackenga.ro
mackenga.ro · 24 people
If you’re interested in retro and old computer hardware (Sun SPARCstations in particular) and you’re able to get to the South of Scotland early this April, you might be interested in some equipment I’m trying to give away. If you like the sound of any of this stuff, Contact Me (Mastodon is ...
Would you, or anyone you know, be interested in a free SPARCstation 20 and be able to collect it from the South of Scotland in early April? Some more details here:
Boosts appreciated if you think someone downstream of you might want it.
— @radicalabacus · Mar 18
Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
joanwestenberg.com · 19 people Worth reading
This newsletter is free to read, and it’ll stay that way. But if you want more - extra posts each month, access to the community, and a direct line to ask me things - paid subscriptions are $2.50/month. A lot of people have told me it’s
Marc Andreessen was right about web browsers.
But he has since been wrong about a great many things.
And he is entirely wrong about introspection.
— @Daojoan · Mar 18
Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul
restofworld.org · 17 people Worth reading
Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity.
"The pushback against AI is not a rejection of 'progress' but the creation of a future that doesn’t diminish what it means to be human"…
"Contemporary resistance in Latin America, Africa, and elsewhere is inseparable both from the ongoing colonial logics of contemporary tech industries and from the original anti-colonial resistance that was a part of attempts at colonization. The populations outside of the West are still often simply treated as either cheap labor or as valuable data. At the same time, these populations’ natural environments are extracted for the building-out of essential AI infrastructures. Contemporary resistance to AI and to data centers needs to be understood as a refusal of these afterlives of colonialism."
Why refusing #AI is a fight for the soul.
Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity…
— @nicol · Mar 17
Cancer vaccines could transform treatment and prevention – but misinformation about mRNA vaccines threatens their potential
theconversation.com · 9 people
False claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines cause cancer could, ironically, lead to worse cancer outcomes by undermining a promising tool to prevent and treat it.
Good news, folks! mRNA vaccines don't cause "turbo cancers" — first, because those don't exist, and second, because mRNA technology has been studied for decades and large population studies have found no increased cancer risk at all following vaccination. Here's more from @TheConversationUS on how the rapid spread of vaccine misinformation is threatening the development of this potentially transformative technology.
— @ScienceDesk · Mar 17
"[...] the chatbot’s most notable feature is not its “brainpower” but rather how desperately sycophantic it is."
— @thomasfuchs · Mar 18
Let’s work together. — ethanmarcotte.com
ethanmarcotte.com · 13 people Worth reading
Hi, I’m Ethan. I’m a web designer who helps companies make beautiful sites and services that work everywhere.
I’m winding down with two excellent clients I’ve been working with since January, which means I’ve got some availability for new work coming up soon.
If you need a designer who thinks deeply about systems and teams, and who will ooh and/or ahh over an especially pretty serif, I’d love to chat with you!
Here’s more about me, how I work, and some work I’ve done:
— @beep · Mar 18
Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science - Bertrand Meyer's technology+ blog
bertrandmeyer.com · 11 people Worth reading
Tony Hoare at the LASER summer school, September 2007 (All photographs in this article are by the author) Had they included just one of Tony Hoare’s major achievements, many scientific careers would be considered prestigious enough. His had a long list, which I am going to try to summarize, not...
Celebrating Tony Hoare’s mark on computer science
— @lproven · Mar 18
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