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A lot of people are worried that AI is making us dumber. I’m not convinced; often times I find that it will show me a better way of doing something (like a coding problem), and generally I’m smart enough to adopt that better way of doing it into my own coding. I’m learning…
Today’s kind of a “knock off a whole bunch of small things” kind of a day….
I learned today that up until the 1920s, nobody really knew of other galaxies — they thought the Milky Way was about it. That’s fascinating to me, that it’s just a fairly recent thing. Every once in a while I want to make a giant timeline of historical things like this, perhaps with different “rails” for various disciplines — art, science, technology, war, etc.. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve been more curious in how events from various disciplines were happening at the same time.
Lots of small commits really make me feel more productive.
Just sitting here working with my helmet on, hoping someone will get the hint that we should go out and skateboard.
Loving me some midcentury futurism this morning.
Added the ability to search/filter pages by title or url on the page listing screen. Very needed since a few sites that I’m tracking have hundreds of pages and there is definitely a need to pull up the exact page I need.
I wonder how much of our current issues as a society are tied to the terrible platforms we have for online discussion. I don’t think online discussion is necessarily a problem, it’s just the mechanisms that are in place — moderation, upvoting, downvoting, etc… Could we solve some of our problems if the tools we have for online discussion were designed better?
Started logging the total download size of pages while scanning (the html, images, css, and other assets). I’m working on updates to a page, and it would be interesting to see how the overall data that has to be downloaded shrinks as I improve things.
I feel like everyone should have a favorite bird.
Had a more extended coffee walk — just sat on a bench at the pocket park, talked, and enjoyed the warm early-afternoon. Pretty perfect out. Perhaps we need to do more extended coffee walks.
I really want vector graphic design software to function more like CAD software. I just want to remove a line segment between two other intersecting lines. It of course can be done in Affinity Designer, but it’s more complicated than it needs to be. It could be trivial, like it is CAD, just select the two cutting lines, then cut click on the segment to remove — easy. Same thing with snapping to tangents on circles, fillets, etc…
It doesn’t happen often, but I do think it’s possible to overdo it with imagery on a webpage.
I may not be making as big of a positive impact on the world as I’d like, but some of my clients are. I’ll take some satisfaction in knowing that I’m helping them do so.
Heard a Swainson’s Thrush this morning and it brought an immediate smile to my face. Why I love this bird
It’s always nice when you finish that thing that you’ve been thinking about doing for several years. But I don’t know how I feel about it taking me only 90 minutes to fully implement. I should have worked it into my schedule long ago.
It can be a bit of a difficult existence when you can see the possibilities in nearly everything.
I love the sound of rain falling outside while I sip my coffee and design various things from the comfort of my office.
Icons on a website are tricky. They can add interest, life, and professionalism. But they can very easily just make a website look amateurish.
People seem to get defensive when you suggest that they may just be an LLM.
I really love the process of continually refining websites. Changing and tweaking small things here and there, seeing the improvement from update to update.
Added functionality for removing text that the visitor doesn’t want to be printed. Just click on text block to remove it. The text will appear faded. To undo, just click on the text block again.
I wonder if I could start using AI to become a better conversationalist. May have to look into that. Seems like it could be beneficial for others as well.
I always drift back to creating a website that pulls good, interesting articles that are ideally from smaller, less known websites. People’s personal blogs and such. Organized by topic. In a way, I think of it more as the internet of old, where independent writers and people creating things can create stuff, and the website will just let others more easily find their content, without the creator having to post it on various social media platforms.