RSS feed -Alex Jones https://www.silverspider.com/ en-US Sat, 19 Apr 2025 06:04:09 -0500 Sat, 19 Apr 2025 06:04:09 -0500 ElevenReader https://elevenreader.io/ Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:55:07 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/elevenreader "Ultra realistic" AI narration app for any book, article, PDF or text. ]]> Highlight from 'Bad Law' by Elie Mystal https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-bad-law-by-elie-mystal Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:56:00 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-bad-law-by-elie-mystal
Voting rights are never about who has the right to vote, they’re always about who has the right to win and who has the right to rule.
Elie Mystal - Bad Law ]]>
An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/a-history-of-the-internet-part-1-an-arpa-dream-takes-form/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:13:32 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/an-ars-technica-history-of-the-internet-part-1 A 3-part series about the people and ideas that made the Internet. ]]> Goose https://block.github.io/goose/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:06:19 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/goose Open source, on-machine AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly. ]]> PointsYeah https://www.pointsyeah.com/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:41:59 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/pointsyeah Real-time search pf 200+ airlines to book flights with points ]]> Designers, your excuse is gone. Stunning, animated and accessible. Yes, you can! https://annebovelett.eu/designers-your-excuse-is-gone-stunning-animated-and-accessible-yes-you-can/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:58:44 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/designers-your-excuse-is-gone-stunning-animated-and-accessible-yes-you-can Sorry, dear designers, your excuses are officially dead. GitHub just proved you wrong with the rebuild and redesign of their home page. ]]> How Software Engineers Actually Use AI https://www.wired.com/story/how-software-engineers-coders-actually-use-ai/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:42:08 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/how-software-engineers-actually-use-ai Wired surveyed 730 developers about how (and how often) they use AI chatbots on the job. ]]> Free for Developers https://free-for.dev/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:45:49 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/free-for-developers a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, etc.) and other offerings with free developer tiers. ]]> Tinkering with Time Lapse https://www.silverspider.com/2025/tinkering-with-time-lapse Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:30:00 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/tinkering-with-time-lapse

Last week on a work trip to Sofia, Bulgaria I played with my iPhone's time-lapse feature for the first time and captured a few fun videos I thought I'd share.

A view from my hotel room

A March evening

A March Morning

Watching the planes at Frankfurt

These are a lot of fun and now I'm excited to record more in different environments. What a great way to save a different type of digital memory.

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Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/ Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:21:45 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/trapping-misbehaving-bots-in-an-ai-labyrinth Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers that don’t respect “no crawl” directives. ]]> AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-fakers Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:12:26 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/ai-fakers-exposed-in-tech-dev-recruitment-postmortem A full-remote security startup nearly hired a backend engineer who doesn’t exist, after a candidate used an AI filter as an on-screen disguise in video interviews. Learnings for tech companies ]]> Design systems need a colour space https://bjango.com/articles/designsystemcolourspace/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:10:06 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/design-systems-need-a-colour-space Imagine walking into a shoe store and asking for size 10 sneakers. You may end up shoes that fit, but “size 10” isn’t descriptive enough to be sure — the US, UK, EU, Australia, and Japan all have different shoe sizing systems. To ensure you get shoes that fit, it’d be wise to be more specific and ask for “size 10 US” or “size 10 EU”. ]]> Game-Changing Vaccine Offers Long-Lasting Protection Against COVID-19 & Flu https://scitechdaily.com/game-changing-vaccine-offers-long-lasting-protection-against-covid-19-flu/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 10:24:19 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/game-changing-vaccine-offers-long-lasting-protection-against-covid-19-flu Saved on Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:51:45 GMT https://www.silverspider.com/2025/saved-on-thu-06-mar-2025-225145-gmt Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:51:45 -0600 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/saved-on-thu-06-mar-2025-225145-gmt ]]> AI, Product, & Discovery https://www.silverspider.com/2025/ai-product-discovery Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:38:00 -0600 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/ai-product-discovery

Marty Cagan provides an insightful breakdown and prediction of the impact of AI on Product teams in his article A Vision For Product Teams (not just Product Managers, but Designers and Engineers as well). It resonates with me, especially in light of an important distinction he highlights -- the difference between product discovery and product delivery. In particular, he highlights:

Everything in product has some amount of judgement, and some amount of process, but product discovery is primarily about judgement, and product delivery is much more about process.

and

Most jobs involve some blend of judgement and process, and the process aspects are prime targets for the tools.  What remains is the judgement.

Read the piece when you have a couple of minutes, and if you build products for a living, think through which potential path you'd like to take. Personally, I'm excited about the opportunity to focus on discovery and ideation and delegate even more of the delivery to systems. 

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Inclusive Sans https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusivesans/feature Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:02:16 -0600 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/inclusive-sans I love seeing more accessibly-oriented fonts hit the market. See also Atkinson Hyperlegible. ]]> Your Essential Guide to Carry-On Luggage Restrictions https://www.afar.com/magazine/a-guide-to-carry-on-luggage-size-restrictions Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:29:56 -0600 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/your-essential-guide-to-carry-on-luggage-restrictions Carry-on luggage size restrictions vary by airline—here’s how to tell if your bag is small enough to bring onboard. ]]> Model Context Protocol https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:28:04 -0600 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/model-context-protocol MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. ]]> 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗔𝗚? https://mlops.community/%F0%9D%97%AA%F0%9D%97%B5%F0%9D%97%AE%F0%9D%98%81-%F0%9D%97%BC%F0%9D%97%BB-%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%97%AE%F0%9D%97%BF%F0%9D%98%81%F0%9D%97%B5-%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%98%80-%F0%9D%97%A5%F0%9D%97%94%F0%9D%97%9A/ Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:53:41 -0600 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁-𝗼𝗻-𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵-𝗶𝘀-𝗥𝗔𝗚 Explaining Retrieval Augmented Generation ]]> Here's a PDF Version of the CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism https://www.404media.co/heres-a-pdf-version-of-the-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism/ Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:43:21 -0600 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/heres-a-pdf-version-of-the-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism A 404 Media reader made a PDF version of the World War II-era manual that's going viral right now. ]]>