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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.
