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  • 🔗 The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it’s damaging our health – this is why burnout happens – Baldur Bjarnason

    we’re now shifting towards the model where devs are instead “AI” wranglers. The web dev of the future will be an underpaid generalist who pokes at chatbot output until it runs without error, pokes at a copilot until it generates tests that pass with some coverage, and ships code that nobody understand and can’t be fixed if something goes wrong.

    This is one of the things I fear. That the web will break and no one will know how to fix it.

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    30 May 2024
  • Out Early To Nottingham

    I did something that I never do. Got up early and went to shoot some street photos. There was already a long day lined up but I had a creative itch that I hadn’t been able to scratch for a while, and it needed satisfying. It was a really enjoyable 2 hours in Nottingham in the only two hours sunshine they might have. I can really feel my motivation to shoot street photography coming back and my eye for a good shot improving.
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    25 May 2024
  • Just Go Shoot

    The first Peter McKinnon video I have watched in a while summed up a very modern photography problem perfectly: just go shoot a sunrise for no other reason than to absolutely fucking enjoy it. In the questions of what will you do with the photos? After. Who cares nothing, do absolutely nothing. If anything, it’s just one for the books. It doesn’t have to be a sunrise of course, but just go shoot.
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    14 May 2024
  • What Don’t You Want

    As I move my working life towards planning, proposing, and delivering on major projects, I’ve realized what a pain it can be. From the outside looking in, those three steps look easy, but to do them properly, you first need to outline exactly what the result shouldn’t achieve. You read that right. More than anything else, the first step is to think about the worst possible solution you could deliver. This solution technically achieves the goal correctly but with all the wrong metrics.
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    14 May 2024
  • Why Are You Working?

    It was, as Thanos says, inevitable. I am so shockingly boring that I couldn’t stop working even for one day off. There was little point in tidying up after myself and trying to hide the fact that I can’t do other things. So, when all the family returned from their normal day at work and school, of course the question came. The answer is a simple one, but a little bit painful to admit: I have nothing else in my life to do.
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    13 May 2024
  • A Day Off

    For the first time in recent memory, I booked a day off from work today with absolutely nothing planned. My company leave is usually taken up by family holidays, hospital appointments, and other things that occupy my time, but today I am free to do whatever I please, which of course means absolutely nothing. Not that I don’t have anything to do; I have lots of things that could occupy my time, but I am incapable of deciding what to do.
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    13 May 2024
  • Tech And Me

    My first exposure to computers and technology came at a very early age. My mum was convinced that I needed a computer to do my school work, and for reasons only known to her, bought me a ‘486’. I would later learn that this was a description of the processor in the machine, but all I could take in at the time was how massive it was and that I had to type everything to get it going.
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    11 May 2024
  • You’re Always Reading

    Reysu in the video How to absorb books like a sponge and read 2x faster:

    One of the most valuable things you can do with your free time is reading books. They not only contain a huge depth of information, but just a single idea in a book has the possibility of changing your life entirely.

    I recently found Reysu on YouTube and have enjoyed a lot of the videos on their channel. It is a good mix of technology topics and various bits of life advice—particularly the ones on Notebooks, but that’s for another day. I hate the title of this one and wrote about why reading doesn’t need to be hacked, but this statement in the first part of the video stood out to me.

    Reading is one of my favorite things to do. I don’t know why, I have a million other things to entertain me, but reading takes me to a different place that nothing else can. There’s fiction to distract me but not leave me hollow like passive media does. There’s non-fiction for me to learn new ideas and improve my life. Whatever it is that I am reading, it contains loads of little bits that all leave their mark and improve me as a person.

    Also a special shout out to this genius thumbnail that first got me to watch Reysu’s videos.

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    08 May 2024
  • Exporting Highlights From A Kobo E-Reader

    After loosing my Kindle Paperwhite in London a couple of weeks ago I have been a bit lost. I did order another one, but when posts started popping up about a colour Kobo Libra I decided to return it and try something new. Granted I have only had it since Friday, but I am already in love with it. I will no doubt write a longer post about it later, but there are not many downsides to this new device.
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    08 May 2024
  • Tie Your Camel

    There’s a fascinating Arab proverb, “Trust in Allah, but tie your camel,” which serves as a powerful metaphor for the balance between faith and practicality. This adage has lingered in my mind, prompting reflections on how it applies not only to religious faith but to everyday life decisions as well. In essence, the proverb teaches us that while it’s crucial to have trust—whether in a higher power, the universe, or the intrinsic goodness of life—it’s equally important to not neglect our responsibilities and duties.
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    07 May 2024
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