Adactio: Links—Tagged with ip

Making Large Language Models work for you

Another great talk from Simon that explains large language models in a hype-free way.

15 Years Ago, Apple’s App Store Changed Everything. Now It Needs a Reboot.

Whereas I used to get excited about a new app on my iPhone, I now often resent being asked to download an app when I know that the website will work just as well and cause fewer disruptions or take up less space on my phone.

Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React - Josh Collinsworth blog

I don’t think most people using React on a regular basis realize quite how much it’s fallen behind.

Following on from Josh’s earlier post where he said “React isn’t great at anything except being popular”, here are the details.

Every decision React’s made since its inception circa 2013 is another layer of tech debt—one that its newer contemporaries aren’t constrained by.

This is particularly damning:

No other modern frontend framework is as stubbornly incompatible with the platform as React is.

The good news:

React is a bit like a git branch that’s fallen well behind main. You might not realize it, if React is the star your galaxy orbits around, but…well, frontend has moved on. The ecosystem has taken those ideas and run with them to make things that are even better.

Catching up on the weird world of LLMs

This is a really clear, practical, level-headed explanatory talk from Simon. You can read the transcript or watch the video.

Just normal web things.

A plea to let users do web things on websites. In other words, stop over-complicating everything with buckets of JavaScript.

Honestly, this isn’t wishlist isn’t asking for much, and it’s a damning indictment of “modern” frontend development that we’ve come to this:

Let me copy text so I can paste it.

If something navigates like a link, let me do link things.

…

WTF is the Lean Web, anyways? | Go Make Things

Three principles:

Embrace the platform

Favor small, modular tools

Build a web for everyone

4 design principles I use every day to avoid bad UX and create products that work for everyone – Adam Silver – designer, London, UK

Good design works for everyone

Good design makes things obvious

Good design puts users in control

Good design is lightweight

The Cost Of JavaScript - 2023 - YouTube

A great talk from Addy on just how damaging client-side JavaScript can be to the user experience …and what you can do about it.

Web Developer Ground Hog Day | Go Make Things

JavaScript is great. I love using it, and it does amazing things. But maybe it’s time we stop repeating these same patterns of development over and over again. Maybe we can use JavaScript more responsibly, and focus more effort on HTML and CSS.

Putting growth at the heart of GOV.UK’s strategy - Government Digital Service

This may mark the beginning of Gov.uk’s decline. The top-listed priorities are the very antithesis of starting with user needs. Instead from now on it’s going to be about growth, shiny new technology, having a native app, and literally pivoting to video.

It’ll be interesting to see if they try to maintain their existing design principles while simultaneously abandoning them.

Jack Franklin – Abstractions, complexities and off-ramps – All Day Hey! 2023 - YouTube

This is a terrific talk by Jack on how to deal with the tooling involved in modern front-end development:

Maintaining control,

Dependency awareness,

Lean on browser primitives,

Have an exit strategy.

Jack Franklin – Abstractions, complexities and off-ramps – All Day Hey! 2023

Building a Frontend Framework; Reactivity and Composability With Zero Dependencies

The thinking behind the minimal JavaScript framework, Strawberry:

Even without specialized syntax, you can do a lot of what the usual frontend framework does—with similar conciseness—just by using Proxy and WebComponents.

How to build lean efficient websites in 2023 | Go Make Things

Start with mostly static HTML.

Progressively enhance the dynamic parts.

Pick small, focused tools.

ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft. | America Magazine

But in calling these programs “artificial intelligence” we grant them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue. Each of those tokens used by programs like ChatGPT—the “language” in their “large language model”—represents a tiny, tiny piece of material that someone else created. And those authors are not credited for it, paid for it or asked permission for its use. In a sense, these machine-learning bots are actually the most advanced form of a chop shop: They steal material from creators (that is, they use it without permission), cut that material into parts so small that no one can trace them and then repurpose them to form new products.

How you want me to cover artificial intelligence

Seven principles for journalism in the age of AI

Be rigorous with your definitions.

Predict less, explain more.

Don’t hype things up.

Focus on the people building AI systems — and the people affected by its release.

Offer strategic takes on products.

Emphasize the tradeoffs involved.

Remember that nothing is inevitable.

You can’t JavaScript your way out of an excess-JavaScript problem.

Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign

So then the question becomes: how do you most effectively communicate designs, to facilitate the best discussions about those designs? My answer is: lots of little prototypes built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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