Jen Kramer

So sad to hear that the iconic, trailblazing, Apollo 11 moon landing software engineering lead, Margaret Hamilton, is no longer with us. Love this image of her, standing next to a print out of the software that landed Buzz Aldrin and Neil Amstrong on the moon! 👩‍🔬🔭🛰️🧪 ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Remember the Columbia House cassette tape/album/CD scam when we were kids? Here's a fascinating look behind the curtain of how it worked and how we fought back in the days before two factor authentication.

1000% true. case in point, this is the website of the absolute hands-down best vietnamese restaurant in my city vietbistro.co.uk

I've been impersonated by multiple scammers over on Mastodon. My friend Alan wrote about it here: ambitonline.com/nextrelease/... Meanwhile, if you get followed by a new Jen, look closely. I speak English, and I'm generally not confused by technology which caused me to make a new account.

“There are different types of value. There's monetary value... There's historical value, intellectual value, sentimental value. All sorts of things, and all of those the AI companies don't care about. They just want the content as a bunch of words strung together.”

❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. https://accessibility.gov Action taken by the nan (General Services Administration) at or around 2026-08-06 08:40:55.

Where am I? What can I do here? Where can I go next? A book foundational to my thinking in the early web days. It's still on my shelf.

Trying to figure out what’s clickable in modern UI

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

How fast is your tectonic plate moving right now? neal.fun/speed/

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Happy Dave Brubeck Day to all who celebrate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9E...

ADOBE: welcome to photoshop. what would you like to do. here is an AI tool ME: i would like to draw a rectangle. i am selecting the rectangle tool ADOBE: did you say AI? ME: rectangle please ADOBE: sorry but i can only do that in an insane way now. here is a new layer and a vector for some reason

haha how silly… oh (from @twonks.bsky.social)

The comment period for SpaceX's proposal has ended. Now we wait, but overall, over 1300 comments were submitted, and many of those from viewers of this post. Thank you all so much for commenting, and if you haven't, Reflect Orbital's comments are open until the 9th. Instructions in the link below.

one google data center in virginia two million gallons of water per day information only released under court order & risk of contempt

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion — theonion.com/ai-chatbot-t...

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

comiCSS #109: Coincidence? comicss.art/comics/109/c... November 27, 2023 – One of those small cartoons that are simple yet fun to code. And it's versatile, too. You can basically change CSS for anything you want: Taxes? it works! Humans? Works too! Tailwind? D'uh! #css #html #webdev #joke

Many dislike WFH because work never seems to disappear. Try separating your home and work spaces and create a "commute" to mentally transition from work to home. Even without a dedicated work room, this will help mentally separate the two spaces. newsletter.bphogan.com/archive/issu...

🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has highlighted some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026! More ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... @dukelaw.bsky.social

"80% of Americans think AI should be robustly regulated and fewer than 20% of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on America over the next 20 years."

Merry Christmas! This is your yearly reminder that mistletoes, uniquely among ALL known multicellular life, do not have working mitochondria. What the fuck? Biology is fake.

Read Erika's beautiful description. Think about how you would describe this amazing photograph to a friend. The alt text is: "Image may contain Gail Graham Blazer Clothing Coat Jacket Formal Wear Suit Face Head Person and Photography"

Timeline cleanser

I'd like to go back to the early web. Have fun with CSS, make friends, and deal with annoying popup ads but nothing worse. Early 2000s maybe, that felt like peak the Internet is magic time.

This thing’s way less accurate than Google, uses 1000X the resources, has a monetization plan that will never work, and destroys the ability of the websites it uses as source material to cover their expenses. But hear me out.

Need one that says "recording my course." Wonder if I've hit a year of my life yet, babbling away into a microphone, with no one listening?....

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...

AI will get irrelevant answers out of my book "Joomla Start to Finish," published in 2010 & covering long-dead Joomla 1.5. However, the 1st chapter focused on site planning - something the community needed help with at that time. Still applicable & worth reading. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

CSS `field-sizing` on a `<textarea>` is obviously awesome. But the horizontal growth using it on an `<input>` is less clearly useful to me. But check out this design pattern I cooked up. I don't hate it. Keeps the name area compact until you need to see more. Just a bit of flexbox wrapping.

If you ever feel like you don't know what you're doing, just keep in mind Spotify sent out an email today with an image that is 8736x11648 in dimensions and 19.6MB in filesize. So. You're fine.

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