Computing

2024-11-03

Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI: Their computer programmers are turning into code reviewers.

2024-10-30

Yelling at clouds: ‘The Cloud’ might feel like magic but we must remember that it has a real material footprint and consequent impact.

2024-10-29

RSS and Instapaper as cup and saucer: I appreciate anyone’s efforts to make me feel OK about the amount on unread articles I saved.

2024-10-28

The Doc Web: A deep dive into the dynamics of publishing to the web via Google Docs.

2024-10-27

A woman, blogging: this is a political act: Blogging can be empowering, especially for people who otherwise might not have a voice - but it’s not without risk.

Smarter than ‘Ctrl+F’: Linking Directly to Web Page Content: I didn’t realise URLs already let you link to and highlight any specific piece of text on a webpage.

2024-10-26

Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted: Consider your URL haunted ‘when something in its past gives it a poor reputation among search engines’.

2024-10-24

The web and I: Ben Werdmuller on growing up during the time when the web-as-we-know it - with its ‘spirit of magic and possibility’ - was being born.

Intentional web: A name for the parts of the web you proactively choose to interact with.

2024-10-22

It’s not just you, Google Search really has gotten worse: Researchers find that search engines are getting ever more flooded with nasty SEO product spam sites despite their best efforts.

2024-10-22: Currently trying out a combo of FreshRSS and NetNewsWire to experience the joy (?) of aggregating, …

Why you should ditch social media for a (micro)blog: Yes, I’m a big fan of both the general concept and the specific product Aaron mentions.

Online Safety and the “Great Decentralization” – The Perils and Promises of Federated Social Media: Is the Fediverse in need of better tooling around moderation?

2024-10-19

The Other Bubble: Why “Software as a Service” (SaaS) products - especially the enterprise-oriented offerings - often end up being so awful.

2024-10-18

The Return of the Deniers and the Revenge of Patoshi: One of the analyses that suggest that the creator of Bitcoin owns around 1.1 million of them.

2024-10-18: TIL: Thanks to the innate lack of privacy that the technology has, whilst we might not know who …

2024-10-17

Using static websites for tiny archives: What Alex does with the files that survive the decluttering.

2024-10-17: Added a few more books to my absolutely unrealistic “Books about AI I want to read” …

Digital decluttering: Alex Chan’s process of deleting their less valuable files.

2024-10-16

You should be using an RSS reader: RSS is great (& Cory Doctorow uses Newsblur for it).

2024-10-11: Well this is one of the more aggravating CAPTCHAs I’ve had to solve. Especially as 2/3 of the …

2024-10-07: Google's creators envisaged that advertising-funded search engines are a bad idea (but made one anyway)

2024-10-07

Introducing canvas: A new interface for OpenAI’s ChatGPT that’s designed for better “collaboration” when coding or writing.

2024-10-06

Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh: Never really thought about customising my command line much before but now I’m probably going to waste half of tomorrow doing so.

You Can’t Own The Social Web: Would the ‘Social Web Foundation’ better be thought of as an Activitypub trade group?