First off, for SEO purposes the title says, “AI”, but I don’t like that name. Not only because a capital “I” and lowercase “l” are homoglyphs in most sans-serif fonts so it looks like I’m hating on a guy named Al, but also because there is no intelligence happening with these tools. I’ll just call them LLMs from now on. Second, a little preface: I’m an LLM hater. Don’t use ‘em, don’t wanna use…
Nothing is more contentious than Web Components when it comes to the opinions of people who like the web and people who like React. Writing a frontend-framework-agnostic component and using it anywhere sounds pretty cool to me. I’ve read articles and hot takes about web components, but haven’t actually tried creating one. Let's see what all the fuss is about! What’s a Web Component? Web Components…
Over the past month or so I've come across a couple articles that talk about how web content creators should use a technique called “dithering” on their website’s images in order to send less data to their users and have their site load faster. The first article was Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images by Nathaniel. Nathaniel created a web tool called Dither Me This that allows users to…
Roblox made headlines this year after it went public with a $41.9 billion valuation. According to their IPO filing , they have 31.1 million Daily Active Users. The most popular game on Roblox, Adopt Me, has been played over 22.7 billion times and, if it was on Steam, would be the third most popular game just under CS:GO and Dota 2. According to The Verge , “Over half of US kids (under 16) are…
B a c k g r o u n d While watching Geoff Keighley’s often-cringey video game awards show, The Game Awards, last year, there was a segment involving the Muppet Labs duo, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker. I’m not usually a fan of The Muppets due to all the singing, but I thought it was surprisingly funny! Even more surprising was this tweet by Geoff explaining how the segment was pulled off: That got…