johnnyicarus
@marinaeschba.ch
Trying to make real good websites at liip.ch. Consulting available at formwerdung.ch
Failing to have a broader view on technology at marinaeschbach.ch
Failing to have a broader view on technology at marinaeschbach.ch
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Straying out of my lane a little bit here but I think one of the biggest disservices designers do to themselves in the web world these days is going all in on whatever new features Figma or [x] design tool comes out with and not putting that energy into learning HTML and CSS.
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Straying out of my lane a little bit here but I think one of the biggest disservices designers do to themselves in the web world these days is going all in on whatever new features Figma or [x] design tool comes out with and not putting that energy into learning HTML and CSS.
@profanity.accountant clean as heck because I don't post!
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
@profanity.accountant clean as heck because I don't post!
Mixed feelings that the official recommendation to handle Next.js v16 breaking changes is basically “just install the MCP we’re shipping, it has a prompt specifically for rewriting stuff”: nextjs.org/docs/app/gui...
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Mixed feelings that the official recommendation to handle Next.js v16 breaking changes is basically “just install the MCP we’re shipping, it has a prompt specifically for rewriting stuff”: nextjs.org/docs/app/gui...
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The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick
Computer got me with this classic philosophy joke
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Computer got me with this classic philosophy joke
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The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
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idk man I feel like it shouldn't take explaining why I don't want to live in a world where most people's worldview and ideas are shaped and mediated by a coarse statistical average of a sample of all the writing on the internet circa 2019
August 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
idk man I feel like it shouldn't take explaining why I don't want to live in a world where most people's worldview and ideas are shaped and mediated by a coarse statistical average of a sample of all the writing on the internet circa 2019
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Okay, but:
1. given that outside of the source data itself, the weights used to represent it in the model are essentially arbitrary - it's not calculating the 'essential value' of it, it's just trying to find a way to fit it in with the other pieces of source data - this is a stupid rationale
1. given that outside of the source data itself, the weights used to represent it in the model are essentially arbitrary - it's not calculating the 'essential value' of it, it's just trying to find a way to fit it in with the other pieces of source data - this is a stupid rationale
October 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Okay, but:
1. given that outside of the source data itself, the weights used to represent it in the model are essentially arbitrary - it's not calculating the 'essential value' of it, it's just trying to find a way to fit it in with the other pieces of source data - this is a stupid rationale
1. given that outside of the source data itself, the weights used to represent it in the model are essentially arbitrary - it's not calculating the 'essential value' of it, it's just trying to find a way to fit it in with the other pieces of source data - this is a stupid rationale
Every time I see Guillermo Rauch I think about the "ET with hammers" tweet
September 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Every time I see Guillermo Rauch I think about the "ET with hammers" tweet
So astro.build is basically a Static Site Generator using Components written in JSX?
I am glad that someone else figured out the actually, truly, and objectively best way to make a website 👍
I am glad that someone else figured out the actually, truly, and objectively best way to make a website 👍
Astro
Astro builds fast content sites, powerful web applications, dynamic server APIs, and everything in-between.
Astro.build
September 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
So astro.build is basically a Static Site Generator using Components written in JSX?
I am glad that someone else figured out the actually, truly, and objectively best way to make a website 👍
I am glad that someone else figured out the actually, truly, and objectively best way to make a website 👍
I got really fed up with the old formwerdung.ch so I put together a really minimal replacement I can iterate on later.
First site I built with astro.build, very nice experience overall.
First site I built with astro.build, very nice experience overall.
Formwerdung - Web Design und Engineering
Ich bin Marin. Ich habe 15 Jahre Erfahrung als Designer und Software-Entwickler. Ich berate und freelance bei Ihrem nächsten Projekt im Web.
formwerdung.ch
September 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I got really fed up with the old formwerdung.ch so I put together a really minimal replacement I can iterate on later.
First site I built with astro.build, very nice experience overall.
First site I built with astro.build, very nice experience overall.
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Liberals are doing the right’s job for it.
By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.
By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.
September 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Liberals are doing the right’s job for it.
By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.
By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
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I've always hated "Agile" ideology's use of the term "sprint". You know what actual sprinters do at a track meet? They run as fast as they can for a very short time, and then they _don't run_ for a _much longer time_. They definitely don't run another sprint immediately after a five-second break!
It used to be possible to get some trust and autonomy to manage your own time and deliver, even as just a bottom rung code monkey. The monitoring/reporting granularity didn't used to be so fine. You could get some flow state. You could even get some moments of slack, instead of ceaseless sprinting.
August 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I've always hated "Agile" ideology's use of the term "sprint". You know what actual sprinters do at a track meet? They run as fast as they can for a very short time, and then they _don't run_ for a _much longer time_. They definitely don't run another sprint immediately after a five-second break!
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I think David Graeber was onto something when he diagnosed the scarcity of jobs with meaning. (I think he was mostly wrong about the analysis, but he was always wrong in a fruitful way!) And so, people are looking for that. But they don't realize that it's precisely the use of technology 1/n
Someone recently wrote a book using ChatGPT and emailed it to me, asking if it's any good, as if I would ever waste a second of my time reading it? Why are people so shameless? Why do people want to be seen as "writers" so much? Why can't they use AI to get a lucrative job in coding instead?
Just received a blanket pitch from a children's book author (sent, presumably, to many indie bookstores) pitching a clearly AI-illustrated book. In the interest of public service, this was my response. I'm fucking done with being nice to these people.
August 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I think David Graeber was onto something when he diagnosed the scarcity of jobs with meaning. (I think he was mostly wrong about the analysis, but he was always wrong in a fruitful way!) And so, people are looking for that. But they don't realize that it's precisely the use of technology 1/n
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I will say the thing that AI does really well is emulate that precise feeling of meeting someone new, and they seem amiable and pretty verbose, but over the course of the conversation you start to realize that they’re very stupid.
August 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I will say the thing that AI does really well is emulate that precise feeling of meeting someone new, and they seem amiable and pretty verbose, but over the course of the conversation you start to realize that they’re very stupid.
Even if it were true, overcoming its grecophilia would be a net positive for philosophy especially
kind of disturbing how many university professor just mindlessly accepted this was true (at least two of the comparisons are false even if you take the dataset as 100% accurate)
August 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Even if it were true, overcoming its grecophilia would be a net positive for philosophy especially
Interesting example of what it means that LLMs do not really 'have' a representation of reality that can track or diverge in any sense of the word zed.dev/blog/why-llm...
Why LLMs Can't Really Build Software - Zed Blog
From the Zed Blog: Writing code is only one part of effective software engineering.
zed.dev
August 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Interesting example of what it means that LLMs do not really 'have' a representation of reality that can track or diverge in any sense of the word zed.dev/blog/why-llm...
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Phlogiston didn't fail, it was failed.
July 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Phlogiston didn't fail, it was failed.
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Helen De Cruz was a person of exceptional kindness and an exemplar of how to be a great philosopher—passionate, creative, intellectually honest, unendingly curious, and an advocate of flourishing for all. I will miss our discussions about music, philosophy, and spirituality. rest in peace.
Helen De Cruz (1978-2025) - Daily Nous
Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, has died. Professor De Cruz specialized in philosophy of religion and cognitive science. They were the author of Wonderstruck: How Won...
dailynous.com
June 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Helen De Cruz was a person of exceptional kindness and an exemplar of how to be a great philosopher—passionate, creative, intellectually honest, unendingly curious, and an advocate of flourishing for all. I will miss our discussions about music, philosophy, and spirituality. rest in peace.
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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
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I agree that "design systems" are the thing du jour rn just as "design thinking" was a couple years back, but in case ppl are not aware it's worth saying that both got co-opted into selling the same old shit with a new sticker in much the same way
June 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I agree that "design systems" are the thing du jour rn just as "design thinking" was a couple years back, but in case ppl are not aware it's worth saying that both got co-opted into selling the same old shit with a new sticker in much the same way
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"responsive web design is only 14 years old" is crazy when you think about it. it's hard to imagine a world doing anything else now.
June 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"responsive web design is only 14 years old" is crazy when you think about it. it's hard to imagine a world doing anything else now.