FeedCity

Wednesday session

"Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes." This study shows that some do - to significant effect.

I found the URL design page particularly interesting. I have given URL design some thought. I should maybe write up the thinking behind the current design. However, I've sometimes gotten frustrated because I felt that I couldn't reach a perfect design. And perhaps there is no right and wrong. Only trade-offs as in other types of design. I want to implement URL rewriting so that I can fix bad URL design with HTTP redirects so that old links can keep working while still promoting the newer ...

I'm curious about how private posts could look like on the open web. I see a need to share certain posts only with certain people and not have everything on my blog public. Today I have to share that in another way. And I'm not sure they can all co-exist on my blog and what that would look like.

Bono on today’s release of Songs of Ash:

The songs on Days of Ash are very different in mood and theme to the ones we’re going to put on our album later in the year. These EP tracks couldn’t wait; these songs were impatient to be out in the world. They are songs of defiance and dismay…

Always happy for new U2 songs. Listening now. 🎶

My social networks are currently awash with Deep Blue:

…the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of work.

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My social networks are currently awash with Deep Blue:

…the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of work.

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I recently wrote:

The issue isn’t with the code itself, but with the understanding of the code.

That’s the difference between technical debt and cognitive debt.

John has written lots more on this.

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I don’t and won’t use “AI” in the text of any of my published work. I’m not worried about “AI” replacing me as a novelist. People in general are burning out on “AI.” I’m supporting human artists, including as they relate to my own work. “AI” is Probably Stickin...

Guy Kawasaki blogs one of the more thoughtful takes on Facebook’s “move fast and break things”:

Today, what you break tends to matter. Systems are bigger, platforms are interconnected, and the consequences of failure travel farther and faster than they used to. What once felt like harmless iteration can now trigger lasting damage.

Marcin’s history of “molly guards” in hardware and software:

Old-school computing has a term “molly guard”: it’s the little plastic safety cover you have to move out of the way before you press some button of significance.

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Frameworks like React are often perceived as accelerators, or even as the only sensible way to do web development. There’s this notion that a more “modern” stack (read: JS-heavy, where the JS ends up running on the user’s browser) allows you to be more agile, release more...

Looking forward to going to State Of The Browser in ten days.

I spoke at it eight years ago and I still like what I said then:

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I have been thinking about the rhythm of my writing recently. I wrote in my drafts: I have spent much of this evening writing. I started by working on a draft of a post about clouds that I wrote on my phone using Apple Notes while waiting for the bus. I then explored a few mo...

Not long now ’till Web Day Out — just three weeks! It’s also not that long until the start of a new financial year so if you’ve got training budget that needs to be used this year, send your team to Web Day Out. Not only is it excellent value for money, it’s also going...

In a world where traffic is decreasing, publishers are moving more heavily into subscriptions - with very good results.

Your favorite local improv team Bizzo! returns to the Rat for an hour of hilarious improv comedy, along with a few of their friends.

And it’s totally free (with a one drink minimum)!

Come on out to see Bizzo! And also friends! I’ll be playing with Bizzo!!

Tickets (free RSVP): https://www.theratnyc.com/event-details/bizzo-friends-2

https://www.theratnyc.com/event-details/bizzo-friends-2

I visit the IndieWeb wiki almost every day. The wiki is maintained by the IndieWeb community, documenting everything from interfaces for creating posts to POSSE. I was thinking that, like all wikis, there are pages that are almost “hidden gems” in the sense that, while they ...

Brent Simmons wrote on his linkblog about Terry Godier’s new RSS reader, Current:

Because RSS is an open protocol, and because there are so many different possible ways to follow and read the news, RSS readers ought to be a UI playground in the way Twitter clients once were, where innovation and experimentation are normal and celebrated.

As small developers, even when we compete in the same space, we link to each other. We share something positive or unique about what the other person is working on. I exchanged a few emails with Terry leading up to Current’s release and I feel really good about what he’s bringing to RSS, even though I’m releasing my own feed reader soon too!

Current has now cracked the top 10 paid apps in the App Store. Incredible. $10 up-front pricing is such a throwback to the old App Store and I love it.