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Apple OSX at some point got this idiotic suggested emojis feature which falls exactly into this category of UX labelled "meant to be helpful, doing the opposite". There is a way to make it stop. Run this in a terminal: defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/UIKit.plist emoji_enhancements -dict-add Enabled -bool NO A reboot later and the suggestions are gone. Note that writing to…
This cartoon by Tom Toro is an absolute classic, and it really keeps growing on you. Indeed, for a teeny, tiny moment we had so much shareholder value ! The cartoon appeared in the New Yorker , and Tom Toro said himself in an interview that the image is from November 25th 2012.
I have seen this quote go round here & there, and I simply want to recreate what appears to be a comment from Frank Wilhoit on a post from 2018, just in case it goes away for whatever reason ( the blog I'm linking to is similarly old as mine, but we should cover our backs ): There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy…
<Info icon={false} header="Clarifying my viewpoint on LLMs"> I sort of sit in a bubble on Mastodon where most people are heavily opposed to the current incarnation of AI: LLM-based technology. I absolutely get it, while many would disagree, I share many values with those people. There is a lot to criticize and I don't want to reiterate all the points that have already been made: The way cheap…
I saw today in a post that Carl Sagan's Cosmos has been made available on archive.org . This show is about 45 years old and left a huge impression on me as a child. The narrator is Carl Sagan , to me one of our great mentors, an astute observer, a curious person, kind, thoughtful, someone I deeply admire. The soundtrack contains classical music as well as beautiful songs from Vangelis. The title…
I am not ready yet to form coherent thoughts on AI, or rather, the subject has an almost unfortunate depth as companies with a near-infinite war chest are pouring billions upon billions of cash into LLMs to make the subject completely unavoidable in tech, drowning any critical voices by the sheer mass that has been put into motion to only God knows which direction. Of course, many people have been…
<TopicToc title="Cloud agnostic series" topicId="azure-ahead" active={frontmatter.title} closed /> Time to look at what may be by far the most exotic technology choice in ahead: The use of a graph database in the form of the gremlin endpoint provided by Cosmos. <figcaption>Speaking of graphs - Aspire allows you to see your Resources and their interdependencies as a graph</figcaption> This decision…
<TopicToc title="Cloud agnostic series" topicId="azure-ahead" active={frontmatter.title} closed /> Let's take a short break from looking at service replacements and marvel at the fun that is having good OpenTelemetry data. When we started ahead many years, OpenTelemetry didn't exist yet. Aspire leans into it quite nicely, providing a dashboard in which captured open telemetry data is seen. When…
<TopicToc title="Cloud agnostic series" topicId="azure-ahead" active={frontmatter.title} closed /> Time to look at the second messaging pattern. A message can have the notion of an event , where you want several systems to be notified . RabbitMQ's approach here is to declare an Exchange . Every participant interested in messages posted to said exchange create a non-persistent, temporary queue tied…
<TopicToc title="Cloud agnostic series" topicId="azure-ahead" active={frontmatter.title} closed /> Sending messages between processes is an ubiquitous pattern that has been in use for many decades - as such, the available alternatives are plenty. In the past I have only heard good things about RabbitMQ . What I did not know before I looked at it is that it is able to cover both our Inter-process…