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Thank you! This has been on my list forever, finally added it today: https://perthirtysix.com/rss.xml

hah good morning to you too HN (it's my piece and I'm not AI)

My personal satisfaction and sense of craftsmanship is definitely lower now, even if my net output is higher. I think there is a world where I am only using AI to do the menial and…

I sure hope not.

I appreciate the nuanced take here. LLMs have definitely made certain tasks easier, and therefor let me build ou features I wouldn't have had time to before (i.e. the theme picker …

Great read. Raymond Chen's blog is absolutely legendary.

https://drawbeats.com This is one of my long-standing passion projects, a simple web-based music sequencer built to have a very low barrier to entry.

Great great project, as usual by the pudding

Great read. The part about art needing to be created by a human particularly resonated. There is a fundamental difference between creativity and novelty. Novelty is empirically mea…

If you really don't see any difference between "evoking emotion" and "emotional manipulation" then nobody will change your mind on this. And like I wrote about, you can have very p…

No reason those need to be mutually exclusive. Posted this in another thread, but I don't see a good argument against this project ( https://www.dear-data.com ) being both data vis…

Hah, so I actually went back and forth on that. The original studies around visual inference also included axis labels on the bar chart. The fact that you CAN label the axis on a b…

Author of the article here. Great points, thanks for reading and commenting. I think that data journalism is a great example of that "put it in someone's brain" idea. I also think …

All visualizations abstract and obscure data. There is no such thing as a fully neutral graph. Should everything just be a raw table?

A few thoughts there: 1. I generally agree with you on that goal, but there are a TON of ways to convey information in a digestible way without being misleading. Even if you follow…