Currently apoplectic that the Speech Recognition API hears “fuck” and outputs ['f***']. You puritanical Christian dickheads are at it again aren't you?
"Sometimes, all I want is to comment on someone’s post to say « lol » or « nice thanks for sharing » or « saaame! » and that’s not something that warrants a whole blog post and entry in my RSS feed." h/t @jimniels and their excellent notes RSS feed. https://alexsirac.com/webmentions-make-me-sad/
"Data-driven" approaches to decision-making always steer us astray. Measured solely by how many people a car transports, this fold-out seat would be a brilliant feature that got its PM promoted.
Anyways! These are mostly half-baked inside thoughts turned into outside thoughts, but in my defense the text box's prompt does say, "What's on your mind?"
It's the human ability to transcend and take stock of seemingly unrelated, under-appreciated, and overlooked qualities and apply them to the problem space in new and novel ways.
LLM coding creates a curve-fit effect on the entire digital experience creation process that disincentivizes that kind of exploration.
It's the same broad reason we're seeing folks adding "before:2023" to their web searches. We've effectively locked ourselves in.
Some might argue that LLM code generation frees us up to have more of those moments, but I think the opposite is true.
These moments are generated when you spend time really working with the specific qualities of the material and thinking about its potential.
It's also clear that the time being freed up is expected to be used to produce… more. Not better, just more of whatever is already out there. Same principle as building more lanes to lower traffic congestion.
The "you" part is a wonderfully wiggly turn of phrase. It does not touch on language, culture, age, race, religion, social status, wealth, etc. Heck, it doesn't even necessarily map to if you're human or not.
The specific use of the phrase "problem" is also interesting in context, in that it implied that a problem is what you perceive to be.
I am looking for examples of an app, document or website that is technically conformant to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) but is, in fact, still quite inaccessible from a practical perspective. I'd like to get my hands on something concrete so I can demonstrate how this happens. #accessibility
