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Former teammate Frederic Van talks about how generative AI photography is affecting taste.

The Choluteca Bridge in Honduras survived Hurricane Mitch intact — but the hurricane moved the river out from under it. Mike Bowler uses this as a memorable parable for long delivery cycles: you can build exactly the right thing perfectly and still miss, because the world changed while you were building. The antidote is shortening the time from idea to in-use: smaller slices, less work in progress, fewer dependencies, and real collaboration.

Ryan Trimble shares a handful of VS Code plugins he’s used so long he forgot they weren’t built-in — Markdown All in One (paste a URL over selected text to make a Markdown link), Better Comments for highlighted TODO/alert annotations, and Peacock for color-coding windows per workspace. Handy if you do a lot of Markdown authoring or juggle many projects at once.

Will Larson on Irrational Exuberance: Navigators

Alex Kladov on matklad: Push Ifs Up And Fors Down

Yay … GitHub makes hosted M1-based runners available!

via Kent Bull: The Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation is now hosting the KERI protocol specifications.

GitHub: “Rust continues to top the charts as the most admired and desired language by developers, and in this post, we dive a little deeper into how (and why) Rust is stealing the hearts of developers around the world.”

This.

Irrational Exuberance: Manage your priorities and energy

via [John Gruber at Daring Fireball]: Terrific update to one of my very favorite iOS apps.

Notes from a Mastodon migration https://erinkissane.com/notes-from-a-mastodon-migration/n

Shawn Blanc: Two types of overwhelm …

Phil Windley’s Technometria: Passkeys: Using FIDO for Secure and Easy Authentication

via Shawn Blanc: Article from my friend, Nathan Barry, that shares the three criteria for an effective flywheel. If you’re a business owner and/or creator, this will be an especially helpful read.

Shawn Blanc: You have six areas of life

Tim Bray asked for and found help bringing his home-grown CSS into the modern/mobile era.

I think I’ve made many of these mistakes over the years:

charity.wtf: Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes