Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-12-07

  • Useful patterns for building HTML tools
    “I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to provide useful functionality. I have built over 150 of these in the past two years, almost all of them written by LLMs. This article presents a collection of useful patterns I’ve discovered along the way.”

  • A Single Div
    Always crazy what people can do (and choose to do).
  • SynthID – Google DeepMind
    SynthID is our new watermarking tool, designed specifically for AI-generated content. It empowers users to identify AI-generated (or altered) content, helping to foster transparency and trust in generative AI.

  • Manifesto | Cluely
    We want to cheat on everything.
  • AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
    Universities scrambled to fight back with AI-detectors like Turnitin—despite high rates of false positives, documented bias against ESL and Black students, and the absurdity of fighting robots with robots. It’s a twisted ouroboros: universities partner with AI companies; students use AI to cheat; schools panic about cheating and then partner with more AI companies to detect the cheating. It’s surveillance capitalism meets institutional malpractice, with students trapped in an arms race they never asked to join. 

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