RSS feed -Alex Jones https://www.silverspider.com/ en-US Wed, 14 May 2025 03:36:00 -0500 Wed, 14 May 2025 03:36:00 -0500 Highlight from 'The Message' by Ta-Nehisi Coates https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-the-message-by-ta-nehisi-coates-2 Fri, 09 May 2025 23:56:00 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-the-message-by-ta-nehisi-coates-2
I think that what we were being taught was less a body of knowledge than a way to be in the world: orderly, organized, attentive to direction. There is nothing wrong with developing those skills—in fact, I’ve learned the hard way how useful they can be. What is wrong is their fetishization, the way they were allowed to outrank the actual body of knowledge held within algebra or English lit. The result was that “learning” felt like a kind of bait and switch. And this frustrated me because I truly did love to learn—it just so happened I learned best away from my desk, where ideas and concepts could be made tangible.
Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Message ]]>
Highlight from 'The Message' by Ta-Nehisi Coates https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-the-message-by-ta-nehisi-coates Fri, 09 May 2025 23:56:00 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-the-message-by-ta-nehisi-coates
I think many of us who are teachers and professors have forgotten that the syllabus serves the student, and all around us are teachers, administrators, and columnists who seem to believe that material should be hard for the sake of it and that education itself is best when rendered not in wonder but in force.
Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Message ]]>
Zed — The editor for what's next https://zed.dev/ Wed, 07 May 2025 12:00:30 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/zed-the-editor-for-whats-next A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. ]]> Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/ Wed, 07 May 2025 10:59:24 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/minimal-css-only-blurry-image-placeholders Handy! Via daverupert.com/2025/05/week-links-2/ ]]> The kerning on the pope's tomb is a travesty https://www.fastcompany.com/91324550/kerning-on-pope-francis-tomb-is-a-travesty Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:55:59 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/the-kerning-on-the-popes-tomb-is-a-travesty The internet is up in arms about Pope Francis's tomb, and it's all because of lettering. ]]> Highlight from 'Unknown Book' by Unknown Book https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-unknown-book-by-unknown-book-2 Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:59:38 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-unknown-book-by-unknown-book-2 Chasing TikTok users doesn’t build a better platform for writers. It builds a different platform entirely. The value proposition collapses when your infrastructure for thought becomes optimized for the attention economy. You can’t serve two masters. You either build a tool for writers or you build an app for dopamine hits. Once you choose the latter, you’ve already traded your audience. Unknown Book - Unknown Book ]]> Highlight from 'This Is Peak Featurecide' by Joan Westenberg https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-this-is-peak-featurecide-by-joan-westenberg Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:59:38 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-this-is-peak-featurecide-by-joan-westenberg
Chasing TikTok users doesn’t build a better platform for writers. It builds a different platform entirely. The value proposition collapses when your infrastructure for thought becomes optimized for the attention economy. You can’t serve two masters. You either build a tool for writers or you build an app for dopamine hits. Once you choose the latter, you’ve already traded your audience.
Joan Westenberg - This Is Peak Featurecide ]]>
ElevenReader https://elevenreader.io/ Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:55:07 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/elevenreader "Ultra realistic" AI narration app for any book, article, PDF or text. ]]> Highlight from 'Unknown Book' by Unknown Book https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-unknown-book-by-unknown-book Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:56:00 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-unknown-book-by-unknown-book Voting rights are never about who has the right to vote, they’re always about who has the right to win and who has the right to rule. Unknown Book - Unknown Book ]]> Highlight from 'Bad Law' by Elie Mystal https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-bad-law-by-elie-mystal Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:56:00 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-bad-law-by-elie-mystal
Voting rights are never about who has the right to vote, they’re always about who has the right to win and who has the right to rule.
Elie Mystal - Bad Law ]]>
An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/a-history-of-the-internet-part-1-an-arpa-dream-takes-form/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:13:32 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/an-ars-technica-history-of-the-internet-part-1 A 3-part series about the people and ideas that made the Internet. ]]> Goose https://block.github.io/goose/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:06:19 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/goose Open source, on-machine AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly. ]]> PointsYeah https://www.pointsyeah.com/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:41:59 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/pointsyeah Real-time search pf 200+ airlines to book flights with points ]]> Designers, your excuse is gone. Stunning, animated and accessible. Yes, you can! https://annebovelett.eu/designers-your-excuse-is-gone-stunning-animated-and-accessible-yes-you-can/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:58:44 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/designers-your-excuse-is-gone-stunning-animated-and-accessible-yes-you-can Sorry, dear designers, your excuses are officially dead. GitHub just proved you wrong with the rebuild and redesign of their home page. ]]> How Software Engineers Actually Use AI https://www.wired.com/story/how-software-engineers-coders-actually-use-ai/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:42:08 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/how-software-engineers-actually-use-ai Wired surveyed 730 developers about how (and how often) they use AI chatbots on the job. ]]> Free for Developers https://free-for.dev/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:45:49 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/free-for-developers a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, etc.) and other offerings with free developer tiers. ]]> Tinkering with Time Lapse https://www.silverspider.com/2025/tinkering-with-time-lapse Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:30:00 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/tinkering-with-time-lapse

Last week on a work trip to Sofia, Bulgaria I played with my iPhone's time-lapse feature for the first time and captured a few fun videos I thought I'd share.

A view from my hotel room

A March evening

A March Morning

Watching the planes at Frankfurt

These are a lot of fun and now I'm excited to record more in different environments. What a great way to save a different type of digital memory.

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Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/ Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:21:45 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/trapping-misbehaving-bots-in-an-ai-labyrinth Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers that don’t respect “no crawl” directives. ]]> How Simon Willison uses LLMs to help write code https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/#atom-entries Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:30:02 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/how-simon-willison-uses-llms-to-help-write-code Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing… ]]> The US island that speaks Elizabethan English https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:01:52 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english English recently became the US's official language. But on a tiny island, residents still speak the country's most English version of English, and many Americans don't understand it. ]]>