I wrote about all the nuance you need to consider when adding keyboard shortcuts to your web app. It features a ginormous table that I'm quite proud of.

Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback
You love to see it, folks.

Accessibility for Everyone
One of the best books on web accessibility is now free!

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Sure, keep recycling those cans.

We Are All We Have
"They talk, so disconnected from reality, that they may as well be discussing a different planet. A different world. A different life."

AI will not solve world hunger
"We know these problems, we know the solutions. And we didn't need an artificial neural network to dream up the answer; we did it with our own wetware."

Orion Battleship
Holy Toledo.

The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight
More public works should contain weird, esoteric things like this.

Ice cream consumption correlates with violent crime rates
Something to trundle out the next time you see some PM poorly-inventing statistics.

Soup
This found me at exactly the right, or wrong moment.

An Hardware True Randomness Generator for $5
Eat your heart out, CloudFlare lava lamp wall.

Flop rock: inside the underground floppy disk music scene
Musical save icons!

privacy is a value we can lose
"The unfortunate reality is: What would have raised eyebrows just 10-20 years ago is shrugged at now." (link added to the quote is my own)

How to think about Gas Town
If Gas Town is the future: I don't want it.

We posted a job. Then came the AI slop, impersonator and recruiter scam
Once again revisiting my great filter comment.

the essence of frigidity
Here are a lot of words about CO2.

@videogame-fake-brands
Delivers what it promises.

Safe lift -diamond geezer
"I can imagine baffled passengers standing in front of the lift entirely unable to deduce whether their group is green or red."

Delinquent Telephone Activity
"What do I mean by occupying technology? I mean, roughly, bending it to our will; taking advantage of its adaptivity to do something different."

Some Thoughts on the Open Web
"Having an Open Web available for humanity is not a guaranteed outcome; we may end up in a future where easily available information is greatly diminished or even absent."

Should You Resign?
I've wondered about this a lot. Glad someone wrote about ot.

Why I'm Leaving Big Tech
"I am concerned that institutions with access to vast troves of behavioural data, when combined with generative AI’s capacity to produce persuasive language and imagery, will enable large-scale manipulation of public opinion." (link added to the quote is my own)

Dungeons & Dragons puts top AI models to the test
lol

tldev/posturr
"A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch."

Scott Galloway Explains How YOU Can Stop Government Overreach Using the Power of Your Purse
US tech is expensive and bad, and only getting worse. This wouldn't be too hard.

Japan lost a 5-ton navigation satellite when it fell off a rocket during launch
This is leaving your soda at the gas pump, but you know, to the tune of millions of dollars and miles of distance.

Ancient Martian beach discovered, providing new clues to red planet's habitability
🌊

I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software
huh.