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iA: AI Videos: ******* Psychotic Computer-generated imagery is not bad in its every fiber. There certainly are great ways to use AI in a creative process. The more you control your tool and the process, the more mindful the product, the less it qualifies as “AI”. This article is not about

These days, paying for TV programming is a fact of life. You pay your cable company or some streaming service and the only question is do you want Apple TV and Hulu or would you rather switch one o…

The writer Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification to describe the way that services decline in quality as their users become the product. He was talking about online services when he came u…

With content federation and fully hosted GraphQL, even smaller developer teams can punch above their weight and deliver the personalised content-rich experiences that their customers increasingly demand.

David J. Berg, Romain Cledat, Kayla Seeley, Shashank Srikanth, Chaoying Wang, Darin Yu

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It’s been nearly a year since I last posted, for several reasons… I do dataviz full time now and don’t have much creative juice left over after work The creative juice I do have i…

An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge.

And that's a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models.

Programming is like magic. Once you know the basic syntax of a language and the core principles of coding, you can pretty much create anything given enough time.

From economic shifts to new regulation and the growing adoption of AI, we are at a pivotal juncture as a society, and open source will play a critical role.

In an era dominated by broadband and wireless cellular networks, it might come as a surprise to many that dial-up internet services still exist in the United States. This persistence is not a mere …

It has been said that the most popular programming language in the world is the spreadsheet (and in particular these days, Excel). There...

Nintendo’s strong-arming of the Switch emulator Yuzu shows how little the company understands its own fan base. Emulators will not die so quietly.

Posted on Wednesday 6 Mar 2024. 819 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

Developer experience is important when designing software, but when it comes to APIs, it becomes essential.

Chaosnet is a long-extinct network protocol. But traces of it survive in the plumbing of the internet.

This is where AI generated formats, Minecraft splitscreens, Reddit stories, 'Would You Rather' videos, and deep sea story spam come from.

When introducing Open Policy Agent (OPA) to application developers and platform engineers, I normally end my presentation with a bulleted list detailing what I think are the best steps to take to start learning OPA and its declarative policy language, Rego. Simple things like “start small,” “the docs are great, read them!” and “try the…

What is dystopia? What is technology? What is progress? What is society? What is civilization? It’s all a moving target. What seems like dystopia, seems normal eventually. I was reminded of t…

The field of media ecology can inform how we think about using software to reinforce a sense of place.

Is it possible to build software that respects and reinforces a “sense of place,” rather than regressing to some placeless, generic style?

Can software feel rooted in the place where it was made?

How my Hudson Valley projects have gotten me thinking about how to imbue software with local flavor.

The definition of a subgroup is obvious, but the definition of a normal subgroup is subtle. An alternate definition and generalizations to category theory.