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Toot of the Week

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Software

• Why is Browser Observability Hard (hazelweakly.me)

  Hazel Weakly explains why it’s so hard to instrument single page applications.

• A Better Merge Workflow with Jujutsu (ofcr.se)

  Benjamin Tan explains how to do common merge and rebase operations using Jujutsu.

GenAI

• Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art (newyorker.com)

  Ted Chiang explains why AI can’t create art: Art is made by making many choices, more than what can be made in a few words.

• Is AI a Silver Bullet? (ian-cooper.writeas.com)

  Ian Cooper about essential accidental complexity, and why LLMs can only help with the latter.

Cutting Room Floor

• 7 Management Myths That Need To Be Busted (shkspr.mobi)

  Terence Eden busts 7 management myths that are still teached.

• Notes on font licensing (robinrendle.com)

  Robin Rendle doesn’t like trial fonts and explains why.

• The world's largest wind-powered cargo ship just made its first delivery across the Atlantic (fastcompany.com)

  Adele Peters about the French startup TOWT (TransPceanic Wind Transport), which builds sailing cargo ships.