Just some shower thoughts about AI that I had recently. What we have right now is undoubtedly useful. But I wonder if we're too naive to think that we can truly build something smarter than us.
If we should use the right tool for the job, then I think that our brains and AI are two different tools, useful for two different jobs. And we should keep them that way. Just how higher level languages and lower level languages have their pros and cons, each useful in different situations and in different ways.
Hope I can help fellow web devs dodge a bullet… When you deal with legal documents, it's better to forget about HTML semantics and especially CSS styling. If you get too smart around ordered lists and they render incorrectly for some reason, you're on the hook!
Hi there! I'm sharing with you a little tool I made for myself.
Sometimes it's easy to lose track of time and have deadlines get you caught off-guard. Especially when you have some vacations planned. You're like "pfft, there's plenty of time…" and then the invitable "oh, shit" moment comes.
The idea behind this tool is to give you a concrete, visual view of exactly how many workdays and workhours you have. It also allows you to mark your vacations, so you can know how much time you really have. On top of that, you can add your goals and the estimated time you think they'd take in order to get a rough estimation of how they fit in.
Apart from tracking quarters, you can configure it to track any period of time, in case you follow some different parttern. I hope you find it useful!
But I think something's missing from it — the simple act of consistent self-reflection on what you're doing and why. Cultivating this habit is what I call a "metasystem." What do you think about this idea? Does it make sense? How could it be better?
I was suffering from the paradox of choice lately when choosing a framework for a long-term company project. Nowadays it's like thinking of holiday gifts for distant relatives… There's no clear winner, yet there are lots of people with strong opinions out there. They put stickers on their laptops and preach as if {{insert framework here}} was their life. That's when I realized — your framework is not your religion.
TL;DR: Picked React because it's the biggest and most stable cult, but you should experiment with other cults as well because it's about the ideas, not the specific frameworks.
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Hope this can help someone out there who is also pulling the lever of the framework roulette and has to make a decision.
Have you ever used something that "just works" and it actually has done so always, without a miss? I don't think I have. And the more magical something is, the harder it is to debug. When it comes to code, I think it makes more sense to keep things clear and obvious, rather than whimsical and obscure. Make the final product magical, not the software that runs it. What do you think about that?
Browsers are actually okay with <style> tags in the <body> and apply the rules inside. Although MDN says they must be placed in the <head> [1]. Email clients seem to be a lot more restrictive, apparently. Or lazy.
Nope, that doesn't work as well. I tested it before finishing up the article a few days ago. If you put `<style>` in the `<body>`, it gets removed when the email is forwarded and it still looks like shit.
When I first got introduced to email development, I remember I wanted to throw myself off a cliff. I couldn't believe how nonsensical everything was. I kept track of everything in a little text document, which I've now turned into a post.
If you happen to be starting out with emails, I hope this can get you up to speed with exactly how everything is fucked. And if you're an Outlook survivor, I hope you'll find something you can relate to…
If we should use the right tool for the job, then I think that our brains and AI are two different tools, useful for two different jobs. And we should keep them that way. Just how higher level languages and lower level languages have their pros and cons, each useful in different situations and in different ways.