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16th July 2023

🔖 The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

Tending and caring for an indie web in the midst of generative AI content farms

15th July 2023

Was highly amused at the Product-Engineering quartet alignment meeting the duelling declarations, spoken within minutes of each other, that we need an AI feature to differentiate is from the competition and we also need an AI feature because we’re losing sales as the competitors are all promising one too.

Apple Guy Gruber (I don’t know why I bothered, it’s not like he could have a vanity search going anyway) approving quotes:

Why doesn’t the EU just turn off the web?

(https://www.threads.net/@levie/post/CurnRtuLgv_ CW Threads link)

And I just don’t get it. It’s not the web that vexes the EU, it’s surveillance capitalism. A thing he also claims to dislike in many ways. Calling for TikTok to be banned; a visceral dislike of Facebook; supporting Apple’s privacy initiatives.

I mean, you can’t help but wonder if he just has a grudge because the EU wants to force Apple to make the iPhone fractionally more consumer friendly with standardised cables.

14th July 2023

🔖 Moneyball for Software Teams – An Imperfect Heuristic for Quantifying Dev Performance

I kinda of love, in a horrified way, the evaluation that middle management is basically glorified high school politics and the solution is drumroll Taylorism. No, not Taylorism like that. Like this.

Saving in order to sporadically remind myself the dangers of systemisation.

9th July 2023

🔖 Questions for our first 1:1 | Lara Hogan

I read this one a lot, before every new starter.

🔖 How to pass any first-round interview (even in a terrible talent market)

Some obvious, some not obvious tips. I can't get past first interview any longer, so...

8th July 2023

Look. I’m never going not going to see the worst on anything Peter Dutton says. He’s an amoral monster that would happily see people suffer for a win for his party. But honestly, doing anything but unreservedly apologising for #robodebt, trying to find a way to attack the ALP? Just dumb. The LNP openly broke the law to punish a class of people they hold in contempt, an action that resulted in foreseeable loss of life. There is no way for the LNP to find honour in this.

4th July 2023

Wordle 745 1/6*

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I knew this day would come eventually

2nd July 2023

Checking out my taxes because 🤘. ATO says I can't claim coffee, tea, or milk as a work from home expense. Doesn't say anything about the hard liquor.

🔖 Build the Support System you need

Saving this so it will get archived for me as a PDF because Twitter is shitting the bed

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