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Hey hey, how was your week?

Toot of the Week

Going to sit on the doorstep of ICANN and meow until they give us .uwu — @julia@snug.moe

Peopleware

• Ask Questions, Repeat The Hard Parts, and Listen (randsinrepose.com)

  Michael Lopp shares their framework of decision making.

Software

• Hitchhiker's Guide To Moving From Relational Data To Events (event-driven.io)

  Oskar Dudycz gives advice how to move from a relational model to events.

• The await event horizon in JavaScript (frontside.com)

  Charles Lowell about the lifetime and cancellation of async functions in JavaScript.

• Extreme dogfooding (archiloque.net)

  Julien Kirch about extreme dogfooding, when you not only use the software you write, but you use it to write itself.

• The hidden depths of the input element (htmhell.dev)

  Phil Nash explains everything you can do with an HTML input element.

Large Language Models

• The birth & death of search engine optimization (xeiaso.net)

  Xe Iaso about the impact of AI on search engines and the internet in general.

• The AI trust crisis (simonwillison.net)

  Simon Willison about the opaque methods of training large language models with (customer) data and why many people don’t trust hosted solutions.

Cutting Room Floor

• “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (pluralistic.net)

  Cory Doctorow about the issue of DRM and buying something you don’t truly own.

• walk and talk (sive.rs)

  Derek Sivers explains a format where 10 people walk together for 7 days and discuss interesting topics.

• Sudden loss of domain (b.tuxes.uk)

  The author of this post lost their domain with a seven day notice.