FeedCity

Welcome back, Jason!

adactio.com/links/21832

The Wikimedia Foundation, stewards of the finest projects on the web, have written about the hammering their servers are taking from the scraping bots that feed large language models. Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic spikes from humans during high-in...

I’m sitting comfortably in my chair at home while my brother is running a 300 mile race through Arizona.

https://trackleaders.com/monster25i.php?name=Eoin_Keith

1. Basic functionality should work on any device that can access the web.
2. Extras and flourishes are treated as progressive enhancements for modern devices.
3. The UI can look different and even clunky on older devices and browsers, as long as it doesn’t break rule #1.

adactio.com/links/21829

If we were to follow Jiro’s and his apprentices’ journeys and imagine web development the same way then would we ask of our junior developers to spend the first year of their career only on HTML. No CSS. No JavaScript. No frameworks. Only HTML. Only once HTML has been mastered do we move onto CSS. And only once that has been mastered do we move onto JavaScript.

adactio.com/links/21828

Here’s the main problem I’ve found with generative AI, and with “vibe coding” in general: it completely sucks out the joy of software development for me.

I hate the way they’ve taken over the software industry, I hate how they make me feel while I’m using them, and I hate the human-intelligence-insulting postulation that a glorified Excel spreadsheet can do what I can but better.

adactio.com/links/21827

📗 Want to read Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest by Sammy Winemaker ISBN: 9781774582961

📗 Want to read The Mechanic and the Luddite by Dr Jathan Sadowski PH D ISBN: 9780520398078

📗 Want to read Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry by Ransom Riggs ISBN: 9780593530931

📗 Want to read The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer ISBN: 9781668072240

The Level Up is an indie improv showcase. Join us as we watch amazing New York indie improv talents gain XP on the Magnet stage, unlock new achievements, and reach new milestones. Or do comedy.

Come support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for these exciting indie teams:

• Goat Party
• Improvised DnD
• ¡Abogado! ¡Abogado!

I’ll be playing in with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!

Looking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)

Saturday April 6th, 2025 @ 9pm
Magnet Theater
254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)
New York City, NY 10001
Tickets $10: https://magnettheater.com/show/59475/

Magnet Theater

The Minecraft movie was a lot of fun. 🍿

[Ernie Smith at Tedium] Ernie Smith points out the creator-economy platform Gumroad open sourced its platform at a surprising time: "But if that’s all Gumroad was doing, I wouldn’t feel compelled to say anything. The reason I’m speaking up is because of thi...

I wonder when ChatGPT or Claude.ai will compete with Wikipedia. I think Wikipedia is great but it has always had a weakness in that it can be manipulated to tell a story from a very limited point of view. For example the RSS page has a long section explaining the benefits of Atom. What I like about the AI versions of the basic history of things is that it isn't so easily manipulated. I talked about this with Claude, and asked it to write up a proposal for ClaudeWiki, a Wikipedia workalike, not too expensive to run, make it part of a user's $20 per month subscription. I think it would be useful, if only as a demo how Wikipedia itself might improve its service.

A search for WordPress on this blog tells an interesting story.

My rig for livestreaming from in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center for NAB!