The recent innovations in the AI space, most notably those such as GPT-4, obviously have far-reaching implications for society, ranging from the utopian eliminating of drudgery, to the dystopian damag
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Preface In March 2023, I published The Age of Average. The article argued that the world in which we live, including its art and architecture, film and fashion, increasingly looks alike. Since publish
[Editor’s note: At nearly 7,000 words, you probably don’t want to try reading this on an iDevice. Bookmark it and come back later.] Imagine something a wee bit outside your comfort zone. Nothing scand
Okay, Color Spaces February 20, 2024 Colors… in… spaaaaaaace What is a “color space?” Well first you take some colors. red yellow blue And then you arrange them, however you like, into some kind of sp
Building your own entitlement service is key for supporting a modern, flexible SaaS product. Whenever I read about billing systems, there’s a lot of talk about the billing aspects but not so much arou
A list of useful, not-obvious hacks to get the most out of your browser’s debugger. Assumes an intermediate-level-or-higher understanding of the developer tools. By using expressions that have side ef
Back Clickbait title, I know. It's kinda true though. Every 2 days, there's a new thing about react and how to use it, that the whole"it's just javascript" statement makes no sense to me anymore. I've
I used to tell this story, about my theory of fucks. The theory goes like so: you are born with so many fucks to give. However many you’ve got is all there is; they are like eggs, that way. Some of us
At first sight, the idea of 1,216-page two-volume work on keyboards for $150 might seem like a heavy lift. But it was years in the making. 41 min read· Jan 22, 2024 -- Yes, you can hire me as a crowdf
Feb 04, 2024 “AI Inside” Tech companies are scrambling to stake their claims in the AI gold rush, and — on top of the legal and ethical woes they’re leaving in their wake — a lot of them are shipping
Ten years ago, Stephen Fry ate balls in the Hobbit films. If that doesn’t ring a bell as something from Tolkien, don’t worry. Not only is it from the second film in the culturally forgotten Hobbit tri
At around the same time as news of the New York Times lawsuit vs OpenAI broke, Reid Southen, the film industry concept artist (Marvel, DC, Matrix Resurrections, Hunger Games, etc.) I wrote about last
26th October 2023 Last year I wrote about my initial experiments with DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s image generation model. I’ve been having an absurd amount of fun playing with its sequel, DALL-E 3 recently. He
Hey, guys! There’s been a lot of discussion going on lately and I just wanted to clear the air. I totally understand that people think I got my job because of my dad, but I definitely would have still
Published: September 26, 2023 When my brother and I were younger, our tastes in music were nearly polar opposites. I was a total hipster, and valued what I saw as artistic integrity and creative innov
The first question plaguing omnivorous, content-hungry humans with a spare hour or two is this: What should I watch? In recent years, a second question has come to dominate our evening streaming ritua
Typography is so much more than picking a font and deciding what sizes to use for headings and body text. It could be regarded as its own branch of science. And it’s not just science either, it’s a mi
Details on the painful experiences and hard-earned lessons I've learned migrating the Redux packages to ESM Table of Contents Introduction For the last 8+ years, the JS ecosystem has been undergoing a
“What if India ruled Great Britain?” reads the caption of a TikTok video, now viewed over 1.7 million times. The prompt is followed by a series of faux documentary images that narrate a history which
It's been 10 years since Google acquired Waze, and I thought it would be the right time to tell the story and some of what I learned. In June 2013, Waze was acquired by Google for $1.15B. In those day
You have been using JavaScript for 10 years. It’s time for your test. You are sitting in front of a computer. The test is simple: you have to open a package.json file and read it. The package.json is
Maybe grandma's secret family recipe isn't so secret after all. Paul Boston When Danny Meyer was gearing up to open his barbecue restaurant, Blue Smoke, there was one recipe he knew he had to have on
Carl De Souza/AFP via Getty Images This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maggie Kloza, the lead zoologist of mammals at the Dallas Zoo. This conversation has been edited and condensed
I am currently looking for a new job. One thing that keeps happening is that people get my CV, are impressed but then ask me that I seem to be focused on the front end a lot and what my experiences wi
Node.js is a very popular choice for developers writing CLI applications. The platform’s rich developer ecosystem has a large number of mature packages to help create elegant, interactive command line
I wish I was better at journaling. I love it and love having documentation of the things I’ve done, feelings I’ve felt, experiences I’ve had, etc. I just haven’t built the habit yet. I’d like to chang
When Elon Musk took over Twitter on October 27, he was determined to transform the meaning of the blue checkmark. In particular, he was incensed it was given to journalists — people he’s increasingly
There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling to move forward and turning the handlebars to steer makes bike riding an effortless activity. In the
Introduction: In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans
The age of frontend JavaScript frameworks eating the web world didn’t happen simply because some well-meaning developers found great DX. It happened because we were fed a line.
Announcing TypeScript 5.0 Daniel Rosenwasser March 16th, 2023 Today we’re excited to announce the release of TypeScript 5.0! This release brings many new features, while aiming to make TypeScript smal
GPT-4 GPT-4 was released on Tuesday, and on my sector of Twitter, many of the smartest people I know were losing their brilliant minds. And for good reason ; many wonderful things have been made with
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The Secretary of State is Michael Gove. I found this peculiar. Just before Christmas, when he was in the political wilderness following his calamitous attempt to secure the Tory leadership post the Br
Perceptual color spaces have been around for ages, but the average designer doesn’t actually know much about them, and certainly don’t use them in their work. So, when we set out to build our UI for t
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