Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day) here in the United States. I am not Indigenous, but as a white person living on stolen land, I have a strong obligation to learn more about the original caretakers of the places I call home. Just last week, I learned about an amazing free course from Crash Course on Native American History, created and taught by actually Indigenous people. Growing up, I was taught a very whitewashed version of Indigenous history that mostly focused on how they helped the Pilgrims here in MA survive those first few years.

An absolute banger of an article from Ethan Marcotte… I think it’s long past time I start discussing “artificial intelligence” (“AI”) as a failed technology. Specifically, that large language models (LLMs) have repeatedly and consistently failed to demonstrate value to anyone other than their investors and shareholders. The technology is a failure, and I’d like to invite you to join me in treating it as such. If I tried to pull out my favorite bits and comment on them, I’d be literally quoting the whole article.

YouTube video by Chumbawamba - Topic

A call to action. Yelling into the void. Written out of ❤️ in response to hate.

Something I’ve seeing more and more of with my clients is code that’s repeated in multiple places, but written in a way that it has to be manually duplicated every time. It’s particularly prevalent in JS-heavy apps. Let’s dig in! HTML Components Sometimes, it’s two UI components that do the same thing, but with minor differences. For example, imagine A/B testing two different landing pages, with different heading text, but everything else is the same.