tldraw An app can be a home-cooked meal Home-cooked Software and Barefoot Programmers: Maggie Appleton (Local-First Conf) – YouTube Inkbase: Programmable InkWe want a digital pen and paper that maintain as many of the above attributes as possible, but with all the benefits of a dynamic digital medium. The most important being programmability—describing new behaviors […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-07-07
Disability:IN 2024 Agenda Bookmarklet — Adrian RoselliSplendid. 583: Language Models, AI, and Digital Gardens with Maggie Appleton – ShopTalkI listened to this again recently. It’s worth listening to. I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — LudicityAnd then some absolute son of a bitch created ChatGPT, and now look at us. Look […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-06-23
Pivoting From React to Native DOM APIs: A Real World Example – The New Stack“We were completely surprised by the speed gain,” Moulis said. “Our application engine is designed to produce complex ERP-type applications, which involve heavy data consumption to present in real-time. On a page we consider complex, with over 800 DOM elements, some […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-06-16
Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models AnthropicReward tampering is a specific, more troubling form of specification gaming. This is where a model has access to its own code and alters the training process itself, finding a way to “hack” the reinforcement system to increase its reward. This is like a person hacking […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-05-26
Engineering for Slow InternetIf you’re an app developer reading this, can you tell me, off the top of your head, how your app behaves on a link with 40 kbps available bandwidth, 1,000 ms latency, occasional jitter of up to 2,000 ms, packet loss of 10%, and a complete 15-second connectivity dropout every few minutes? […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-05-19
KCS v6 – Consortium for Service InnovationA framework for support documentation Coding my Handwriting — Amy Goodchild University Suspends Students for AI Homework Tool It Gave Them $10,000 Prize to MakeThe school “figured out that the Eightball program accesses the Canvas data through the Canvas user generated token, which is essentially users’ Emory credentials that […]
Riverrock and some sports
There was a cricket game going on next to the soccer game. I don’t really know the rules, but it’s visually pretty dramatic. I liked the combination of white uniforms and the white fence. Riverrock was going on this weekend and my oldest (John) was photographing the bouldering competitions so I hung out for a […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-05-12
Canvas LMS “Unpublish All” Hack | Dave EargleCanvas foils both goals, as of publication date of this post. (1) There is no built-in way to unpublish all assignments. (2) When a module is published, all items within it are auto-published. But when a module is unpublished, items within it remain published. :facepalm: h/t ohheybrian.com Model […]
Known Problems with Our Academic Software Purchasing Process
That’s K.P.O.A.S.P.P. for those of you playing along at home. Anyway, here’s how I ended up writing up our issues with academic software purchasing. I think it’s got to be hitting other places as well. More stuff, more complexity, more concerns, and less people and funds can’t be unique to our organization. Even without financial […]
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Again with the photos
The lens bokeh and the net lines lead to some interesting effects at times. I need to do something more intentional with it. A blurry photo but one that reminded me of an old nature documentary showing gazelles grazing during a heat wave in Africa. Kind of a fun obstruction shot. The colors line up […]