Went for a nice walk along the cliffs yesterday.

This is a damned fine list.

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I love how this timeline of Irish inventions starts with the ancient Ogham writing system and culminates in the creation of the spice bag:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimelineofIrishinventionsand_discoveries

David is on board. Who else?

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Kind of miffed that this evening’s traditional Irish music session in the Jolly Brewer has been cancelled because of the men’s football—I was looking forward to playing some tunes! 😞

I was having a discussion with some of my peers a little while back. We were collectively commenting on the state of education and documentation for front-end development. A lot of the old stalwarts have fallen by the wayside of late. CSS Tricks hasn’t been the same since i...

Tuesday session

Despite all of this hype, all of this media attention, all of this incredible investment, the supposed “innovations” don’t even seem capable of replacing the jobs that they’re meant to — not that I think they should, just that I’m tired of being told that this future is inevitable.

The reality is that generative AI isn’t good at replacing jobs, but commoditizing distinct acts of labor, and, in the process, the early creative jobs that help people build portfolios to advance in their industries.

One of the fundamental misunderstandings of the bosses replacing these workers with generative AI is that you are not just asking for a thing, but outsourcing the risk and responsibility.

Generative AI costs far too much, isn’t getting cheaper, uses too much power, and doesn’t do enough to justify its existence.

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