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The hierarchy of competence
Some people are just easy to work with. Hand them something and you can forget about it. That’s the whole feeling, and it has nothing to do with being pleasant. I’ve known very pleasant people I wouldn’t trust with a real deadline. – Hardik Pandya This link showed up in a newsletter, very good read:…
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Dark mode toggles: two states are enough – Leah Verou
«Users do not seek out solutions to problems they don’t currently have.« Leah Verou writes about light/dark mode toggles and argues that they should be two-state rather than three-state. I was initially sceptical, but have been converted after reading. Her argument is compelling and it makes more sense that the user experience will improve with…
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re:publica 26: Cory Doctorow – On Enshittification – and what can be done about it.
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Beware Software Brain
“You can’t advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences. This is a fundamental disconnect between how tech people with software brains see the world and how regular people are living their lives.” BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN – The Verge
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Enshittification – Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow writes about how the Internet changed from an exiting and adventurous place to be, to an extractive machine made to make a small group of people and companies richer and us users less free on the internet. He argues that the change is a process that follows a set three stage process: This…
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Lebensborn – Isabelle Maroger
Lebensborn er en tegneserieroman fra franske illustratøren Isabelle Maroger, som forteller historien om hennes familie, et resultat av nazistenes avlsprosjekt lebensborn. Opprinnelig på fransk, men oversatt til norsk av Thomas Lundbo og utgitt av Omnipax i 2025. Maroger forteller en sterk historie om sin familie, som er sterkt knyttet til Norge, krigen og nazistenes renhetsprosjekt.…
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Diary of a CEO: AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By The AI Companies! They’re Hiding The Truth About AI!
Steven Bartlett interviews Karen Hao on AI and the AI industry. Very good.
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Turning Forty – Mike Gayle
The book follows Matt, who’s about to turn 40, and he’s having a midlife crisis because of it. Matt thought he would have figured out life by now, but instead he’s going through a divorce and he has to figure out who he really is. Ideally before the big day when he’s no longer in…
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Can accessibility be whimsical?
Sara Joy on good internet magazine writing about practical A11Y, primarily for personal sites. Go read her thoughts
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Creativity is Human
Steven Heller writing about how the AI revolution isn’t likely to be the end of designers. As Heller points out, design isn’t about being able to use Photoshop, Figma or any other tool, but the ability to create good solutions to problems while using creativity and the tools. In the same way being able to…