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Hood Canal.
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• Joe Crawford
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
We get a lot of flak at WordPress.org for supporting older PHP versions, but an area we’ve always pushed the frontier is in Web Standards, getting websites and browsers evolving together to make the web richer. Ever since I caught the religion from Zeldman, promoting more functionality in the browser has been a life mission. … Continue reading Pushing Standards →
Automattic has a clever and touching memorial to Eric Binnion, hidden in the HTTP response from WordPress.com.
Interesting to see Meta working directly with Apple to run Muse Spark Open on Macs efficiently. John Voorhees has a good summary at MacStories. But the cost is still pretty insane… Spending well over $10k to get “only” an 800-billion parameter model when the frontier is still a ways ahead of that.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Current Affairs has enshrined tough restrictions on publishing using generative AI into its union contract. It's bet is that it will publish better journalism that way.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Too often, 1:1s can be reactive, unstructured spaces - or simple status reports that don't give the relationship time to breathe. This advice changes that dynamic.
What made you happy today? asks Catch a Bird. I love this question, and the website. For the last five minutes or so, I have been both answering the aforementioned question, and trying my best to make some people smile. Here are a selection of my answers to the question:
Trying 100% dark chocolate for the first time. Playing the guitar. Singing my heart out. The joy of autumn. Have a wonderful day :) Taylor Swift! Seeing two cats while wandering the neighbourhood. You’re an amazing human :)
I love technology that can highlight the best of us; technology that brings us together.
To you, dear reader, I hope you have a wonderful day.
See also: Frances’ Sharing good things online.
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ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Reading more details in the story of an OpenAI engineer getting arrested after bugging a conference room:
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, was arrested Friday and charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications. He made his initial appearance in federal court Tuesday and remains in custody.
He seems to have had a fairly normal career, so what caused this flip to espionage? Strange. Not the obvious “he was a Chinese spy” that people might guess.
Sometimes a business has to make difficult decisions to stay profitable. But I can’t accept that major layoffs are needed at companies that make literal billions of dollars in revenue. Often these companies are still hiring even as layoffs are announced. 📺
Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
