Bryan Robinson

So excited that @css-tricks.com is indie again. Already signed up for my yearly membership to get access to the Discord. I hope others will join the queue for that. Indie publications are the life blood of the type of internet that I want

Deep thoughts: Was the company Post Hog named after the logical fallacy Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc? It's a common fallacy when looking at data with poor attribution

This is exactly the principle that has fucked up everything from deli flyers to UX in billion-dollar products Once upon a time, even if you were doing something on your own, it took long enough to do that it made you think about what you were doing! You had time to think "hang on, this sucks."

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Anthropic released a blog post boasting their new version control system they created to handle 30k merges every day to their mono repo. With fewer than 3k devs on staff, I never want to hear about "The Human in the Middle" safeguard from them again. No chance code review functions properly there.

Some of you have been asking whether or not Vivaldi is affected by Chrome’s #AI API, which some websites are using for tracking purposes. The answer is straight-forward: no. ✌️ We disable all the Gemini-related code bundled in Chromium, effectively preventing websites from using this API in Vivaldi.

Anyone have recommendations for non-smart, wifi speakers? I've removed the last Echo Dot and miss conveniently streaming audio from my phone. No speech recognition, no AI, just relatively easy connection and mediocre sound quality (not an audiophile)

I'll start simply: There is no ethical use of LLMs. I mean that in both the same sentiment as "no ethical consumption under capitalism" but also deeper and more. The ills and harms are on the surface. The theft was blatant. The attempted wage theft was also blatant.

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

I hadn't heard of @ellipsus.com before, but immediately signed up for it after watching this and exploring their stances

If you find the creation and continued development of a tool to be against your morals and ethics, how do you continue the usage of said tool? How do you "square that circle" as it were...?

Random realization: Losing the care for punctuation is the same as sending slop documents at work. You're moving the labor of understanding to the receiver. I have to read your sentence and still insert the pauses,etc. to make it make sense. You just passed the work on to me No AI More punctuation

One book a month for 5 years. Dolly's Imagination Library is one of the reason's my son is an avid reader. Every book, I'd start "<title> by <author>, sent to us by..." and I'd open the cover to where her picture was and he and I would say together "DOLLY!" Thanks for that and much more Dolly.

Don't hallucinate. #HacksForTheEveryday

CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

if open source has proven anything at all it's that you can have a project with hundreds of brilliant technical contributors and not one of them will be even remotely capable of designing a decent user interface

Why did social media decide that if I turn on the audio for one video post, all the video posts for that session should default to audio on? I don't scroll them often, but both Facebook and LinkedIn do that. It's an odd choice

Hey @cwtycho.penny-arcade.com and @penny-arcade.com. I love the Luddite's Union gear, but I'm not much of a "Graphic Tee" kinda guy. Any chance there's a simple logo shirt coming? I'd sport that regularly in my daily tech meetings.

If no one holds slop accountable, how do we stop people from creating slop?

Why is it that the platitude "Humans will own the output" in company AI marketing releases never actually describe what that means? If you make something that does something awful (customer data breach) that's easy to punish... but what if you just make your coworkers lives all slightly worse?

"The poet's job is to notice" quotes the footer of the site in GIANT letters. The best way to train yourself to notice is to offload your noticing and creativity, it would appear

Write your own poetry. Even if it's crap. It'll be better than whatever this is

📣 I’m excited to announce!! 📣 I’m partnering with Unstable Games to start a sister studio to them named… ✨ Ordinary Magic!! ✨ I’m so excited to bring 3 BRAND NEW GAMES under this new studio to you this Fall!!! 🍁

So, let me get this straight. Instead of curtailing expansion of a ridiculously wasteful set of technologies, instead, let's give them carte blanche to be as wasteful as possible. Excellent. No notes

EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws reut.rs/3RzNU4A

In this era, the tech industry is just disappointment after disappointment. I don't think there's anything left that's truly worthwhile

Let's say you have a personal bot that saves you 5 minutes a day... Let's say it costs you an average of $3/day. That's $1095/year. That's mind-bogglingly bad economics, if you ask me. But you didn't ask me, so I'll just be quiet over here

Thinking about the next phase of my play library... As a proof of concept, I'm thinking of opening up free checkout of my library to my immediate neighborhood to see how things are before charging money for membership. Would you check out games from your neighbor?

A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!

I keep hearing different use cases that "we could use AI" for. So far, EVERY TIME, I think "We have been able to do that use case for a decade without AI with lower incidence of incorrect data, lower cost, and higher reliability." EVERY. TIME.

Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013. To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS/Atom/JSON feed to your web site and keep building a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.

Ownership of media is so important. We get tricked by convenience into giving away our ability to actually own any sort of physical media... Sony announcing the death of game discs is just another step on a long street to remove agency and control over what we "own"

The creative process was not in need of "democratization" You have always had it within you to be creative.