199 / Rolling the ladder up behind us

Hi, hope you had a good week!

Toot of the Week

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans" — @quillmatiq@mastodon.social

AI

• Rolling the ladder up behind us (xeiaso.net)

  Xe Iaso about the grim impact of AI on future generations.

• Why I Won't Use AI (agentultra.com)

  James explains the moral and ethical reasons they're not using AI.

• Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI (ludic.mataroa.blog)

  Nikhil Suresh replies to Thomas Ptacek‘s "My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts" in a hilarious way.

Software

• Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs (nolanlawson.com)

  Nolan Lawson lists reasons to build accessible UIs other than making them accessible for disabled people.

• my website is one binary (j3s.sh)

  Jes Olson explains the perks of building a website that's you can run on any server with a single binary.

• I really like the Helix editor. (herecomesthemoon.net)

  Mond writes a love letter to the Helix editor that makes me want to switch back to it.

Cutting Room Floor

• YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures (iter.ca)

  loops explains why your ad-blocked YouTube videos started to have a delay.