I learned the word from Douglas Coupland's Microserfs, I'm ashamed to say. But it's what's going on inside the head. How much software is left that has anything to do with that?
Not business software, surely; that's all performance. Not image software or page layout; those are canvases, the things …
First, I don't judge myself, or any other web developer, for getting pulled into the single-page application way of building to begin with. We all said it resulted in better developer experience, and it did, for a while; we said it resulted in faster apps, and sometimes it did, but …
Because every medium that dies just becomes art, right? Although my messianic drive to save the web or something is also back in play, thanks to Robin Sloan's exhortation to fuck around and find out in 2023. It is certainly an opportune time to experiment with this platform, as existing …
I've been using web browsers, the kind you run on regular ol' computers, for... 29 and a half years? Let's call it 30. So forgive me if I think it's worth writing about when I switch to a new one. I switched my default from Firefox to Arc a couple …
In case you missed it, the latest thing we're calling AI (or Machine Learning or whatever) is ethically very problematic! A legal case has been brought by a few professional illustrators who have had their hard-won, marketable styles straight-up ganked by text-to-image processors. While the second most …