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Baldur Bjarnason works as a web developer in Hveragerรฐi, Iceland, and writes about the web, digital publishing, and web/product development
A note on estimated reading times baldurbjarnason.com
A short conversation on individual responsibility baldurbjarnason.com

@fgtech Iโ€™ve been having a lot of fun with it at least ๐Ÿ™‚

The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus baldurbjarnason.com
Your use of AI is directly harming the environment I live in baldurbjarnason.com
Other photos (26 August 2024) baldurbjarnason.com
Why Halide's Process Zero is an important tool for iPhone photography enthusiasts baldurbjarnason.com
Getting outshone by great writers is a relief, not a failure (so many links) baldurbjarnason.com

@fgtech ๐Ÿ˜„ That's it in a nutshell.

Everything's the same, they say baldurbjarnason.com
Binna's Grove: forests can begin with one person baldurbjarnason.com
The other shoe dropping on 'AI' and office work baldurbjarnason.com
Very short note on the EU's DMA and DSA regulations baldurbjarnason.com
I'd like fewer things to happen. At least for a while. Please and thank you. baldurbjarnason.com

@anniegreens ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

@Havn I haven't. I'll definitely have a look at those.

That only solves part of the problem, though, as I still have cross-posting issues all the time, like today where a post never appeared on Bluesky or Mastodon at all.

@ChrisJWilson I know, right? Should be such an obvious thing.

@ChrisJWilson I mean, if the monochrome Pentax sells well enough, maybe? Since it's the same company and all. (Ricoh is also working on a new film camera so they're definitely trying a lot of interesting things at the moment.)

@odd My sisterโ€™s getting really good at taking these ๐Ÿ™‚

@odd Yeah, definitely makes me worried to hear talk like that from a candidate.

@torb Yeah, definitely. Mongo has its use cases as do things like DynamoDB but so so many organisations adopted them based on hype not need.

@chadkoh That is a very good point ๐Ÿ˜„

@chadkoh Oh, it was just one of those LLM-promoting programmers saying that it massively increased their productivity at specific kinds of coding as a defence when people are pointing out the harms. Later, when asked how much time it saved them per day, it turned out to be about half-an-hour at best. Turns out they spent less than an hour a day on that kind of boilerplate coding.

@anniegreens Thankfully the redwings and blackbirds that are my main regulars don't really mind me being in the kitchen as long as I'm not too close.

@odd I think that would be the flotmeisa in Icelandic? (Bird names are so fun and weird.)

Thankfully, in this instance, the bird returned as soon as I left the kitchen. ๐Ÿ™‚

@MitchW Oh, absolutely ๐Ÿ™‚

@artkavanagh Yeah, Iโ€™m not on substack so I have to rely on reports like these about whatโ€™s happening there and, in this case it looks like it might be quite inaccurate.

@tracydurnell I was given permission to apply some scritches ๐Ÿ™‚

@fgtech Yeah. The sad thing is that, at its peak, the mac app scene was magical. That period when Mac OS X had matured, the hardware was coming together, and the Mac indie software scene was in full swing was a second renaissance for the mac. And I think at this point we aren't going to be lucky enough to get a third.

@torb yeah definitely weird.

@lwdupont You need to have multiple different keyboard languages enabled and a hardware keyboard connected, which isnโ€™t an uncommon scenario when writing on an iPad.

@petebrown I mean, itโ€™s one dude who has shipped five apps and keeps adding features such as transcripts and e2e encrypted notes. I donโ€™t think slowing down the feature churn to test and fix longstanding UI and editing widget bugs is too much of an ask

@torb Never too late to start!