best bouncer ever
I spent a good chunk of my 20s obsessed with building a co-writing web platform I called PlotPlant. I really want to riff off what you did here, but I'm scared it will reignite my interest in the project and I'll just add to the pile of unfinished work
also "quinn entered the dark and cold forest" is fine. sentences aren't boring, stories are.
that fits the tone of this stubborn defense
and you have to grow a moustache for the month, if it catches on we'll say it's for men's health charities or something
fyi they updated their blog post with this catch-all disclaimer in the last couple of hours
"it is simply too big to categorically endorse or not endorse"
"so we're gonna play it safe and endorse it"
I have a mental image of the person who designed a logo like that but I won't describe that person because this is the internet and I know better
I hope so. I know the founder designed it and then learned how to code to build it himself. Hopefully he's still running the show and he's a good one
New webbed brief about react.js https://briefs.video/videos/what-is-react/
yeah, same vibe as hate reading the jakob nielsen substack
Also I'd hate to see Scrivener touch AI - esp because they sponsor nanowrimo and still seem connected https://web.archive.org/web/20240902130810/https://www.literatureandlatte.com/nanowrimo
Scrivener is a hero product in my research/writing as an example of a software product that is designed for concrete purpose
I joined a writing meetup here in Amsterdam which gathers every week in a bar to write, to talk about their writing, to bounce ideas, etc. I kinda got tired of going because there were a worrying number of people using chatgpt to generate ideas. I was the only one trying to write non-fiction, and most of what I was writing would be crit of tech (sometimes genAI) so talking about my writing was always fun. But nonetheless, their use of chatgpt seemed extra weird because we were there, together, to write and support each other, for free.
It's strange to use solidarity, support, and just general helpfulness from others as an explanation for how AI opens writing up to classes or abilities when that's probably one of the top things that social media (and pre-social media social media) gave us on the internet.
anyway..
this thread about the spare tire placement on the cyber truck made me lol https://web.archive.org/web/20240828180114/https://www.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/1f0chzk/spare_tire_installation/?rdt=49951
maybe also that time the diver hit his head on the platform
was recently trying to explain to someone how The Games is the best Olympics memory I have
I've written about this a few times, like this one from https://fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-potential/ but I think you've summed it up perfectly
Nothing could make this more evident than the crypto/web3 community’s obsession with “mass adoption” which they generally resolve to being a UX problem. They know that the complexity of crypto is intimidating to non-technical people (crimes and scams aside) so they relentlessly try to remove as much of the complexity as possible.
The unfortunate thing about removing complexity is that you never remove it, but rather, you move it to another place. The other place is always what crypto people like to call a “trusted third party” the very thing that Bitcoin, was created to eliminate.
There is a thing in crypto called "ux/acc" which, from what I can fathom, is a new way to avoid thinking about why it isn't being adopted
death of another gateway drug to digital creativity
FYI this led to me watching the movie last night
sounds bad! hope all is ok