ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@qoto.org
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
Cujo being told that it’s Python today and not JavaScript. The amount of code lectures that dog has heard - he must be better than an AI by now. #WoofGPT
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A large, many-leveled topic, but I offered this quick note a moment ago to a post critical of "faith":
The words of course get used in different ways by different people. But as a student of world religion and a Buddhist minister, I favor the distinction a professor of mine made:
"Belief" can be a closed-minded and often bigoted idea.
"Faith" can be an open-hearted and often humbling engagement with life's worth.
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ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution - OpenAI's chatbot has been heralded as spurring a revolution in the tech world. But its sp... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/chatgpt-users-decline-future-ai-openai/
It's under a CW because, logos...
So the flowbite-react batteries-included component was 500+ LOC including inline JS - yuck! Here's mine:
Here ‘Tis. Yes, the very shallow sticky nav at the top of the screen. Yes, whole day. With a nod of homage to https://familyconsignmentstore.com/
Is it excessive to spend a whole day on a small UI component for a Redux Toolkit demo app that’s actually supposed to demonstrate state management? I don’t think so. It has to look great at all sizes and orientations.
Remind you of anyone you know? I hope not! Just marvel in these highly evocative words from this American version of today’s psalter: Psalm 5:10
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I asked ChatGPT to recommend some of “the most interesting articles written by the journalist Clive Thompson”
Of the nine it listed …
… seven were ones I hadn’t written, and a few didn’t exist at all, by anyone
One was a pastiche
Only one was truly correct
This performance is so unbelievably terrible it’s almost charitable to call it “bullshit”
My essay, showing ChatGPT’s responses: https://clivethompson.medium.com/you-know-nothing-of-my-work-chatgpt-66d3ac542f3f?postPublishedType=repub
A “friend” link in case you’re not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/you-know-nothing-of-my-work-chatgpt-66d3ac542f3f?sk=8765f2e9dffa3d0151c66ce12a0ac2e6
AWESOME tutorial blog post on the PNG format
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A cryptobro DMed me to ask if I wanted to join his mailing list.
I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.
I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.
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This month's #newsletter is out now, featuring tourist tin-whistling terrorism, sampling Dublin's most famous dish, and that time Spider-Man took on the IRA. You can sign up for the next one here: https://www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter
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Going through some old audio cassettes and just listening to Tape Head Cleaner. Total rip off of John Cage.
Made with React, Tailwind, and Flowbite in a Vite app if you’re interested, with just a dash of native CSS Grid🙄
...sort of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019) meets The Wrestler (2008)...
Life imitating art. Imitating life…
https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/black-mirror-season-6-joan-awful-billboards-987798-20230622
Just had the great pleasure of viewing #Netflix’ The Space Between (2021, dir: Rachel Winter). I could go on about the 90s music business, of which I was a bit player myself, or of using Kelsey Grammer’s booming voice and ivory-tinkling abilities to the full in a highly effective collab with Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, or the fact that the real daughter of a real life 90s and all time hall of fame pop icon wonderfully underplayed a wannabe climbing the greasy A&R pole with a character arc spiralling sharply downwards, in counterpoint to the rock star’s daughter, the eponymous Julia, who finally achieves emancipation from her past, but no. I won’t talk about any of that🤪 I’ll just say that in the age of multi-episode multi-season shows all vying for that elusive next series, this conventional hour and a half movie had characters, dialogue, and ensemble performances good enough to make me shed a tear, then, as the characters finally did, move on. Watch this.
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
