You know you've not become too dependent on social media when you can't remember the Blue Sky URL

Or at least, I'm telling myself that this particular brand of memory-fail is a good sign…

The last thing you want to see when debugging some browser tests is CSS that sets z-index to 2^32 - 1

Oh. Bugger it…

Having a rare experience tonight, listening to a new record that I've never heard before, and bought on a hunch

It's a double album, I'm now 3 sides (and 3 beers) in, and it's had me smiling all the way through

www.piccadillyrecords.com/154033/Vario...

I popped into @piccadillyrecs.bsky.social at lunch to pick up their superb annual publication on the best of the year's music 🎶

Also bought an album, and was given a copy of their 2024 "Sampler" CD 💿 — 20 hand picked tracks from the year

Listening now. It's a good one

Also, might have met Bono…

Just raised my standing desk, which pulled my computer's power lead out of its socket

To be fair, that's a fairly typical level of performance for November so far…

I do love Computerphile. Here they are with some facts about how far generative AI can go.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDUC...

tl;dr — there's a plateau. Because science.

"oh, it wrote that email for me!" no it didn't. it cribbed from a bunch of other people's writing online and gave you a mishmash of all of them. a gutter average.

you could've looked at hand-tuned example emails written by somebody who knows what they're doing and learned from that instead

what i find really fascinating about people who use gpt to try to do their actual work ISN'T EVEN that they're cheating themselves out of learning, insight, and mastery

it's that when you use gpt output… any other fool can get the SAME results as you

you're obviating yourself

why??

Hello new blueskyers, every Friday, I post a newsletter of blog posts I found interesting that week. You can follow along at hellotacit.beehiiv.com or I’ll probably post links here too.

Occurs to me that if we spend far more time reading code than we do writing it, any tool or technique that produces more of it without making it easier to understand is likely to have a negative overall impact on productivity.

Where are the tools for *that* ?