Koos Looijesteijn

I wrote a postscript to a blog post I published two years ago. It's very much not about LLMs: www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/you-are... #skill #design #art

Going through some of my drafts for blog posts and all I will say is that it's very good that in 2018 I didn't publish the one about how the correct way to make websites is with Webpack and Vue.

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In 24 hours: GitHub outage, can't create new Google Ads, can't upgrade our MailChimp subscription. Looking forward to the PR articles describing how these companies finish projects that used to take days in hours.

Was machen wir mit dem #Tankrabatt? Die politische Entscheidung kann man selbst jetzt nicht ändern. Aber man kann für sich entscheiden, was man mit der Entlastung anfängt.

Apple Passwords is good enough for me now! www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/proton-...

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

❝ Tom Bombadil and the Witch-king of Angmar are the same person. 1. We never hear of Tom at all during the whole of the First Age. The Nine Rings aren't forged until the Second Age. QED. 2. You never see the two of them together. ⋯ ❞

Good articles that are illustrated with AI slop exist. There's also an infinite supply of good articles, so I need to decide quickly what to read and what to ignore. The probability of finding text slop with image slop is very high, so pardon me for ignoring your hard work if you taint it with slop.

Time to vote, #Berlin! 🗳️ Time to decide on a future that is inhabitable, fair, and desirable. Go out and vote!

If your computer does illegal things, you are responsible. If your computer does illegal things because of what your customer does with it, there’s laws for that too. That whole please regulate AI is such bullshit. Except perhaps it’s time copyright law is actually enforced

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

If someone is asked "Are you sexist/racist/islamophobic/antisemitic" and instead of saying "No" try to phrase their believes in what they think are acceptable terms, then that's just a really long "Yes"

By the end of next year, the projection for the average British household is a reduced income of about two and a half thousand pounds *just as a direct result of the Iran war*. It’s truly insane what this guy has done to the world.

they used to make much stronger hinges in Apple's foldable AI phablets

I asked Claude replace all variables with numbers, but now everything is broken I'm devastated please help how solve without fake math

Sometimes you look at an old HTML document and see some weird tags and snippets from bygone eras. I've complied many legacy HTML bits I've noticed and documented what they were and why there were present. Many of them are rather obscure. Satisfy your curiosity: vale.rocks/posts/html-r...

Ahw shit, imagine working at Calendly and announcing your redesign is going live in a week just around the time Google rolls out scheduling links right inside Google Calendar

If you reset it to 'default' position, western Europe is right at the point where it's least distorted, so maybe US representatives to the United Nations can admit it's not actually woke:

Tell me a fun fact.

If you put Sweden and Denmark's abbreviations together, they spell SWEDEN. The letters left over spell DENMARK.

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

🎵 It's the time of the season for telling an Adobe sales agent I'm going to cancel the cloud subscription if they don't extend the limited twelve month offer once more 🍂🧡

Maybe I'm too much of an engineer, but I never liked the mic drop meme. Microphones are amazing, sensitive devices and the more I know learn about them, the more I appreciate them 🎤🫲

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also HOLY MOLY www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

@standard.site hey is there already a proposal to define languages/locales for documents? Would be neat for non-English readers to find publications. And for English only speakers to not see translations in feeds/searches.