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Groundbreaking and creepy! Looks like they're working with ethicists to make sure it follows certain standards. They apparently also have a cloud offering.

We need a counter-culture design movement that appreciates products that are difficult to use initially, but tremendously fast, easy, accurate, explicit and efficient after topping the learning curve. Ease-of-use is oversold. It's making everything suboptimal and slow.

This perfectly summarizes all my hate for Next.js. Just make up your mind and stick to it for god's sake, I don't have infinite time to keep refactoring my entire app every 2 weeks

I’m done with tailwind My code is absolutely cluttered with pointless strings that should always have been separated into its own concern Use the web platform, don’t get oversmart about your abstractions

After 5 years in the making, I'm very happy to finally release Anime.js v4, my dream animation library: 🧩 New modular API ⚡️ Highly performant 🖱️ Scroll-linked animations 🫵 Draggables ↔️ Responsive ✨ Additive animations 🪽 WAAPI support And so much more! Link below👇

There is an insidious idea that has crept into software through the open source movement, which is that software no longer being modified is "abandoned". It's very possible - even desirable - for software to simply be "finished". To serve its purpose reliably, as a tool should.

If you post anything about dynamic typing being superior to static typing, you'll soon find out from the incensed comments that many people don't know the difference between dynamic typing and weak typing and will fight you to the death over it.

It has always deeply annoyed me that imposter syndrome sessions at universities or training programs never acknowledge the possibility that you may be an imposter relative to your peers or relative to your own standards.

I read this article about software development, which I knew about because I saw Prime reacting to it: notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of… For the most part I think it is fine: a relatively young programmer is doing the healthy work of introspecting on what he should really be doing. But

User friendliness is deceiving and frequently used to justify bad design ideas. No one questions it, because how can you be against user friendliness!? Obviously, you want to be friendly to users! So let's hide the URL. Under this ritual about user friendliness, is a continual

we are now at a point that we can ditch build systems for many projects & many people underestimate the amount weight doing so would lift off their burdened shoulders

Great post on the new CSS corner-shape property from Amit Sheen frontendmasters.com/blog/understan…

people often post this stuff to imply that moral panics about the technologies of the past were quaint. But the past is full of reminders that we are on a long, slow march away from embodied experience, and that we’ve lost more of it than we can even remember

The hidden cost of enterprise .NET architecture: Debugging hell. I've spent 13+ years in .NET codebases, and I keep seeing the same pattern: Teams build fortress-level abstractions for problems they don't have. IUserService calls IUserRepository. IUserRepository wraps

Loved this comment. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=455206…

New feature in box-n-weave.js: you can now cycle through multiple custom colors for edges! Check it out: andrewfulrich.gitlab.io/box-n-weave

We just fought a nasty Kafka bug in production and it all came down to consumer lag + silent connection drops. Here’s what happened, what we learned, and what you should absolutely check in your own systems. The Incident We had a Kafka consumer that normally processes messages

"He who has not experienced greater and more exalted things than others will not know how to interpret the great and exalted things of the past" - Nietzsche

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." E.F. Schumacher