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When we're looking to the actors guilds for direction, you know the future of our industry might be in trouble.

I've been quoting von Tiesenhausen's Law of Engineering Design for over a decade, since it is a great summary of why I switched from engineering to product design mid-career. That …

I'm sometimes asked to produce meaningless 30-page documents that nobody ever reads. I mean literally nobody, since I can see the history of who has accessed it. Me and a proof-rea…

Some programmers are engineers, but not all programmers are engineers. A lot of us are plumbers, basically. We connect together things other people have engineered. There's nothing…

I bought all the Affinity programs after ditching Adobe, which I'd used for 20 years or so. I'm a professional designer, and even though most of my work is in Figma these days, it'…

The headline is incorrect, it should say " A Browser That's Anti-Web". Many other browsers are also trying to destroy the web for their own benefit, including some you may have hea…

The ideal scenario isn't the government forcing a sale of TikTok for political reasons. The ideal is that people stop using TikTok because they realize it's not good for them, but …

I guess I disagree that it's a good thing. As a developer, I think most documentation is terrible both for developers and non-developers alike. And if you write your documentation …

You'd think so, but I've been hosting MM for about 6 years, and it's definitely gotten more user- and admin-hostile in that time. They've restricted really vital improvements to pa…

If it turns out the dip is caused by a lag between the implementation of new tariff rules and the implementation of processes to handle them, and that in a short time traffic to th…

Jobs, who died in 2011, may very well have had some new or updated opinions himself by now.

> Precisely one reason comes to mind to have ROBOTS.TXT, and it is, incidentally, stupid - to prevent robots from triggering processes on the website that should not be run automat…

Check out the first 1 minute of the linked video for answers to both of these questions.

You know, I used to bullseye small thermal exhaust ports in my T16 back home, they're not much smaller than womp rats.

Here's how little I understand business: $45 million in revenue, earned by taking a totally fair 10% of subscriptions that other people do all the work to get, seems like it ought …

> Hill said that the X300 is the favorite ThinkPad he worked on, not only because of its thinness, but also because it proved that, under Lenovo, he could build an even better prod…

Does what it says on the label.

I don't think it has to be ADHD. I don't have ADHD, and none of my friends have it that I know of. We all start things we don't finish, though. I was going to post some of the more…

What are some subjects that ChatGPT has given only shallow instruction on? I'll tell you that I recently found it the best resource on the web for teaching me about the 30 Years Wa…

It's got to be a good agenda, too. It can't just be "discuss delivery of project X" or "sync on status of feature Y". Those are too generic. The agenda needs to make it clear what …

It's a reference to Wernher von Braun. I think it's a really pointless thing to say, since it adds nothing to the conversation and just sort of makes an unrelated, uninformative re…

I don't think the results of the last two decades of mass information dissemination have been all that great. People didn't trust anything on the internet before GPT, and the inter…

> Younger Americans (millennials and Gen Zers) owned $1.35 for every $1 of wealth owned by baby boomers at the same age. https://www.stlouisfed.org/community-development/publicatio…

A lot of people are responding with other technical considerations that may lead you to consider using an SPA pattern. But, note that the article is about responding to the stakeho…

The title made me think this was going to be about the mental consequences of outsourcing writing to AI. In fact, the article is completely about people not reading documents. Corp…