104 / Markdown images are an anti-pattern
Hey everyone, I’ve been sick for most of the week, hope yours was better ✌🏻
Toot of the Week
What if we all just started using
— @emerald@mecha.gardentrunkas the go-to main branch name rather thanmainormaster.
Culture
Same Stop
John Calhoun shares their experience of coming back to programming after retirement.
Software
How Much Memory Do You Need to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks?
Piotr Kołaczkowski tests concurrent tasks in 8 technologies up to 1 million tasks, with interesting findings (Python is faster than Go‽).
Markdown images are an anti-pattern
Dave Rupert argues that you should use the HTML <img/> tag to be able to set attributes like height/width and decoding.
A Well Known URL For Your Personal Avatar
Jim Nielsen is suggesting a .well-known URL for avatars.
You don't need a modal window
Deniz Akşimşek lists reasons why you should not use a modal window and instead make a separate page.
Single Line Comments in CSS
Jim Nielsen explains why we'll probably never get single-line comments with // in CSS.
Add Opacity to an Existing Color
Chris Coyier experiments with transparent variants of colors in CSS.
Large Language Models
We deserve to know if something was generated by AI
Nicole argues that text generated by LLMs should be marked as such, for a multitude of reasons.
OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation
James Vincent about OpenAI's response to the AI regulation process in the EU.
Generative AI: What You Need To Know
Baldur Bjarnason has a nice summary website about generative AI.
Cutting Room Floor
A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
Clifton Mark about the implications of a meritocracy and it's effect on your world view.
Noise Is All around Us—and It’s Affecting You More than You Think
Bojan Fürst about noise pollution, the anthropause during the pandemic and ways to live with noise.
Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
Andreas Fragner explains why it's better to take time to write summaries than to blindly pick up the next book.
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