good easy screen recordings on Windows

ScreenToGif seems like a pretty solid package for making a GIF from screen. We've been encouraging devs to put screen recordings as proof of "it works on my machine at least" on Pull Requests, and this seems a little easier than some One Drive video options.

some good ai advice

Keep a very tight leash on this new over-eager junior intern savant with encyclopedic knowledge but who also bullshits you all the time, has an over-abundance of courage and shows little to no taste for what's good. Keep an emphasis on being slow, defensive, careful, paranoid, and on always taking the inline learning opportunity, not delegating.

--capper to some good advice on AI-assisted tech workflow by Andrej Karpathy

via Gina Trapani in her piece Measured AI, trying to have a balanced view of where we go from here.

useEffectEvent

Fireship on new React happenings. Most notably, "useEffectEvent" is being blessed.

But boy. I really shake my head at how widely known the problems with coding in React are. I am convinced the platform made a very bad set of tradeoffs.

oh slashdot!

 The Great Software Quality Collapse. There's so little love for simplicity. 

the home-cooked-meal metaphor for apps

An app can be a home-cooked meal... interesting metaphor.

And I'd say... it doesn't have to be an app. The classic web and a cheap VPS is just a brilliant way of putting up all kinds of functionality and making it available from a huge variety of devices. Get a little nudge from AI if you need to!

URLs remain one of tech's best ideas.

death of the internet, film at 11

 

AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? - first off - I LOVE the instantly recognizable Windows 95 art:

The TLDR: AI conversations and Google AI summaries are further removing people clicking through the root articles, and so people making that content have no chance at seeing ad revenue.

The article probably pushes a little too hard going all the way back to "1989" - the fundamental idea of the web - an addressing and protocol setup such that anyone can put up stuff that anyone else can get to - is still alive and well.

Discoverabilty - at its height in the early Google era - is back to being a problem, of course, and the AI status quo threatens anyone trying to make a living via content, so I don't want to underestimate the threat AI makes (And I mean there's this sense of overharvesting; at some point information services are cutting off their seed corn.)

Still proud to be part of the "indie web". It's great to be able to hang a shingle off of the information superhighway, to mix a metaphor or two.

React by Default is a Bad Default

React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation. 

when combined with reports of the security attacks on the npm chain... I still think steps backward might be steps forward.