Danny Banks

Danny Banks

@dbanks.design

Principal Design Technologist. Design Systems. Design tokens. AWS Amplify. Style dictionary. Cats. (He/him)

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I have now seen a TD celly based on an AI slop video. It's been real y'all. Shut it all down. Computers were a mistake

The darker the bean, the sweeter the juice

Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social

One bean to rule them all One bean to find them One bean to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

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The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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This is the coolest article I've ever written. Genuinely. All of you should read it.

ngrok@ngrok.com

Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. @anniesexton.com's interactive essay walks us through the basics of compression to reveal its surprising overlap with every language model you've ever used.

What chapter in parenting books do I learn how to deal with our 6yo boy and 4yo girl kissing on the mouth because they want to be married? Asking for a friend

Taco Bell proving it is the best fast food in the game.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

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watching the tech industry burn out all the people i know who actually care about delivering things that aren’t perpetually broken, all at the altar of infinite velocity, is making me utterly utterly furious.

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Just read "MCPs are dead," and I think we need to reflect on why we, as an industry, are so obsessed with things dying right now. Like, seriously. Psychologically. Are we okay? (No.)

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This is peak AI mania: identify a task that has long been well- and cheaply-handled by human beings, pay to use an LLM (which is ill-suited for the task), and be completely shocked when it goes disastrously.

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

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New comic: Beware of CSS! comicss.art/comics/248/ Best practices don't actually work, so use our library with new best practices that don't actually work either… so use our extension with even newer best practices that also don’t actually work... so use our... #css #comic #webdev

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🎉 Registration is now open for my latest course, Whimsical Animations! This course will teach you everything you need to know to design and build stunning, creative animations and interactions. It’s time to make the web less generic and boring! 😄

whimsy.joshwcomeau.comWhimsical AnimationsLearn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!

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slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time

Grass Toucher Georg@avengingfem.me

probably orthogonal to your view of slop but: bsky.app/profile/aven...

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Replying to @ky.fyi

when you have 16,000 new lines of code which must be maintained indefinitely, and neither the author (who used AI) nor the reviewers (who used AI) has any knowledge about what that code *actually* does… that’s a perfect recipe for the erosion of institutional knowledge

Have kids so you can have a 6yo punch you in the stomach because they're angry they had to stop doing something after you tell them it's time to stop. Then 30 minutes later say mother's and father's day is their favorite holiday because it celebrates mommy and daddy.

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The two most effective ways your company can support open source: 1. Let your developers have time for open source work. 2. Give each of your developers an annual budget to allocate to whatever OSS projects they think are important.

I got kneed in my penis by my 3yo and then slapped there by my 5yo as he ran through the house. In case anyone was wondering what having kids is like