Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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AI is not a person
And it's important to remember that. Chris Ferdinandi has some direct words, and I expand upon them.
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
Meta decided to replace a lot of their tech support with a chatbot. Which meant giving that chatbot the power to manipulate data. Which meant, to the surprise of nobody whatsoever, that hackers tricked the chatbot into giving them access to other people's accounts.
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Disabling AI in WordPress 7.0
Nicholas A. Ferrell explains how to tell WordPress 7.0 to keep its AI features disabled, and I share my alternative approach: use a fork - ClassicPress - that doesn't include the AI features in the first place, and add them using a plugin if that's really what you want.
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Bringing Three Rings volunteers together: doing remote-first in person, and what to eat in a crisis
JTA wrote a LinkedIn post about Three Rings, its remote-first culture, doing things in person, and crisis management, and it's brilliant.
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Is AI Profitable Yet?
No surprises from this website, but it's interesting/staggering to see quite how LARGE the disparity between spending and profit is for some of these companies.
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Bloomscrolling & Agentic Intelligence
Aquarion's written about using agentic intelligence and the role of LLMs in various tasks. The conclusion's pretty solid, and I agree with it 90%+.
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CSS or BS
Keith Cirkel's made a game where you have to identify if something is a CSS property or a convincing fake. How's your CSS knowledge?
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The first glimmer
Zach of The One and I wrote earlier this year about 'glimmers', which he describes as the opposite of 'triggers'. I love both the word and its concept, and I'm going to try to cultivate a better personal awareness of the glimmers in my life.
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Coding Is When We’re Least Productive
Jason Gorman shares a wonderful anecdote about a workday in which he wrote only three lines of code, but that he considers productive because he took the time to understand the underlying problem he was working on.
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Thames Path 7
Ruth's completed yet another stretch of the Thames Path, continuing at what could literally be described as a glacial pace, and she's written another part in what's turning out to be a wonderful blog series to follow-along with.
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Spoon bucket
Jaime Derringer shared that she got a literal bucket of assorted spoons for her birthday, and I'm just delighted to discover that such a thing exists.
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ElenaJS (Progressive Web Components)
Ariel Salminen shared a release candidate for her new microframework Elena last week, and I love it! It's entirely geared towards Progressive Web Components and seems to provide all the scaffolding you'd need with none of the cruft. Delightful!
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NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
New Scientist reports that the NHS are closed-sourcing a lot of their code, out of fear that AIs like Mythos will facilitate easier exploitation of their systems if they don't. Which is pretty-much... completely backwards thinking.
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rejecting convenience
RNotté shares a manifesto to seek out inconvenience in order to seek greater human connection and authentic experiences. And you know what their post reminds me of? The Matrix!
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Molly guard in reverse
In his Unsung blog, Marcin Wichary's shared the concept of a 'reverse molly guard', which is awesome. I didn't actually know the originating term 'molly guard' until I saw it, though, although I've definitely seen (and implemented) then before. Hey: d'ya wanna hear about a molly guard I added to Three Rings the other year?