In a sign of how well AI adoption is going, I noticed that Adobe is referring to manual edits I made by hand in Lightroom Mobile as “AI edits”.

“Nobody wants this so we will pretend they used it”

At some point the corporations realized that Clarke's logic works in reverse, and any sufficiently advanced sleight of hand is indistinguishable from technology

Očitno smo pešci in kolesarji drugorazredni uporabniki cest, ki se bomo morali na vsakem semaforju ustavljati, preden se bo prižgala zelena luč.

Tole je odgovor na sporočilo, da se na prenovljenem križišču Topniške in Linhartove zelena luč za pešce in kolesarje prižge samo če čakaš najmanj en interval na razbeljenem asfaltu (če se ustaviš v senci malo stran od semaforja, pa lahko čakaš v nedogled – zelena luč se ne bo prižgala):

Enjoying the warm weather.
#caturday

Study: When experienced open-source developers used current AI tools, work took 19% longer to complete. In spite of which, the developers *thought* they were working *faster.*

It’s just one study, and they don’t claim anything beyond what they observed. Their results are not predictive. Still....

(There must be a name for the psychological trick we play on ourselves to believe we’re being more productive even when we’re considerably less so.)

Hat tip: Dave Martin

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

It is 2000. I'm 18 years old. They say my job won't survive quantum computing (IBM is really close).

It is 2005. I'm 23 years old. They say my job won't survive visual IDEs.

It is 2010. I'm 28 years old. They say my job won't survive smartphones.

It is 2015. I'm 33 years old. They say my job won't survive web3.

It is 2020. I'm 38 years old. They say my job won't survive AI.

It is 2025. I'm 43 years old. They say my job won't survive quantum computing.

why do something like
<a href="...">click me</a>

if you can just
<div role="link" tabindex="0" href="..."><div><div><div><div aria-label="click me">click m<span>e</span></div></div></div></div></div>

Good Lord.

NEVER buy a LOGITECH SPOTLIGHT.

When its battery drains to 0% it just won't charge any more. Period.

It's possible to re-kickstart it (https://matthiasott.com/notes/fixing-the-logitech-spotlight) but I don't feel comfortable at all doing this, and I don't have the equipment anyway.

So I have to buy a new pointer.

#caturday

You don’t need to be Jewish to apply.

$10,000 interest-free loan for folks who need to relocate because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence.

https://www.keshetonline.org/movetothrive/

Hetzner is telling me that @yournameisinvalid…

Needed to reactivate Office on a computer, and since it's been activated a few times already, had to do it by phone. Instead of letting me type in the numbers, Microsoft now wants you to talk to the robot. 🤮

The Slovenian one also uses a female voice, but keeps referring to itself as a male, and if it can't understand you a few times, it gives up, tells you to call again later and ends the call with an extremely cheerful "Good bye!"

RIP 2010-2024

🕵️ Still using Chrome?

How do you feel about any site being able to call `document.browsingTopics()`to learn all about you?

https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/private-advertising/topics/web/topic-classification

"Google, Amazon, and Microsoft control seventy-five percent of the cloud computing market. Meta and Google own half of the fiber optic cables supplying internet services across continents."

…

"So what did GAMM do? They convinced us that our notetaking apps require an internet connection and forty thousand dollar GPUs located on a server three hundred miles away."

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

If you use figma you are going to want to know this: next month it will start to use your designs to train AI. This feature will be *on by default* even for professional users. 🤯

Another episode in the life of having a é in my name, when people don't accept "non English letters" whatever that means?. Would you tell Beyoncé she can't use her name on your site?

I got a whole talk on the topic, by the way: https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/hello-my-name-is-stephanie-talk-encoding-special-characters-issues-poor-user-experience/

Currently apoplectic that the Speech Recognition API hears “fuck” and outputs ['f***']. You puritanical Christian dickheads are at it again aren't you?