RSS feed -Alex Jones https://www.silverspider.com/ en-US Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:17:01 -0500 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:17:01 -0500 Scrappy https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/ Sat, 12 Jul 2025 07:28:29 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/scrappy make little apps for you and your friends ]]> Leading your engineers towards an AI-assisted future https://blog.thepete.net/blog/2025/06/26/leading-your-engineers-towards-an-ai-assisted-future/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:30:15 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/leading-your-engineers-towards-an-ai-assisted-future Your CEO wants to know why AI isn’t writing half your code yet — are you ready for that conversation? ]]> Why English doesn’t use accents https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/why-english-doesnt-use-accents Tue, 08 Jul 2025 08:25:07 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/why-english-doesnt-use-accents And why French is full of them ]]> Highlight from 'Isaac's Storm' by Erik Larson https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-isaacs-storm-by-erik-larson Fri, 04 Jul 2025 23:56:00 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-isaacs-storm-by-erik-larson
IT BEGAN, AS all things must, with an awakening of molecules. Erik Larson in Isaac's Storm
Erik Larson - Isaac's Storm ]]>
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:41:12 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/my-ai-skeptic-friends-are-all-nuts A must-read for every developer staring this transition in the face. ]]> An 80,000-year history of the tomato https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/an-80000-year-history-of-the-tomato Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:12:26 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/an-80-000-year-history-of-the-tomato Creating the perfect vegetable ]]> Inventing Japanese Braille https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/disability-history/inventing-japanese-braille/ Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:46:28 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/inventing-japanese-braille Wei Yu Wayne Tan explores the significance of inventing Japanese Braille. ]]> Langflow https://www.langflow.org/ Sun, 01 Jun 2025 13:22:04 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/langflow "a low-code builder that makes it easier to build powerful AIs that can use any API, model, or database" ]]> Highlight from 'Caste' by Isabel Wilkerson https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-caste-by-isabel-wilkerson-2 Fri, 30 May 2025 23:56:00 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-caste-by-isabel-wilkerson-2
Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things. Isabel Wilkerson in Caste
Isabel Wilkerson - Caste ]]>
How tech workers really feel about work right now https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-tech-workers-really-feel-about Fri, 30 May 2025 09:01:20 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/how-tech-workers-really-feel-about-work-right-now A large-scale tech worker sentiment survey for 2025 ]]> Decorative text within HTML https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/05/decorative-text-within-html/ Sun, 25 May 2025 07:04:43 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/decorative-text-within-html This concept could be super useful in large code bases, when applied well. Via Stuart Robson. ]]> Highlight from 'Caste' by Isabel Wilkerson https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-caste-by-isabel-wilkerson Sat, 24 May 2025 23:56:00 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-caste-by-isabel-wilkerson
A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups on the basis of ancestry and often immutable traits, traits that would be neutral in the abstract but are ascribed life-and-death meaning in a hierarchy favoring the dominant caste whose forebears designed it. A caste system uses rigid, often arbitrary boundaries to keep the ranked groupings apart, distinct from one another and in their assigned places. Isabel Wilkerson in Caste
Isabel Wilkerson - Caste ]]>
Highlight from 'The luxury of saying no.' by Greg Storey https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-the-luxury-of-saying-no-by-greg-storey Sat, 24 May 2025 06:50:49 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-the-luxury-of-saying-no-by-greg-storey
The real threat to creativity isn’t a language model. It’s a workplace that rewards speed over depth, scale over care, automation over meaning. If we’re going to talk about what robs people of agency, let’s start there. Let’s talk about the economic structures that pressure people into using tools badly, or in ways that betray their values. Let’s talk about the lack of time, support, mentorship, and trust. Not the fact that someone ran a prompt through a chatbot to get unstuck. Greg Storey in The luxury of saying no.
Greg Storey - The luxury of saying no. ]]>
wide emoji maker https://websim.com/@maxbittker/emoji-stretcher Fri, 23 May 2025 09:05:05 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/wide-emoji-maker ]]> Real-time London Underground Trains https://www.londonunderground.live/ Wed, 21 May 2025 08:55:32 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/real-time-london-underground-trains Watch London Underground trains move in real-time on an interactive 3D map. ]]> Unbreaking https://unbreaking.org/ Tue, 20 May 2025 13:55:00 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/unbreaking How the US administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us. ]]> Bounded vs Centered Sets https://peakd.com/language/@crell/bounded-vs-centered-sets Thu, 15 May 2025 07:11:17 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/bounded-vs-centered-sets In recent years I've come across an interesting distinction that I keep having to explain to people. To make it easier ... by crell ]]> Highlight from 'The Message' by Ta-Nehisi Coates https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-the-message-by-ta-nehisi-coates-2 Fri, 09 May 2025 23:56:00 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-the-message-by-ta-nehisi-coates-2
I think that what we were being taught was less a body of knowledge than a way to be in the world: orderly, organized, attentive to direction. There is nothing wrong with developing those skills—in fact, I’ve learned the hard way how useful they can be. What is wrong is their fetishization, the way they were allowed to outrank the actual body of knowledge held within algebra or English lit. The result was that “learning” felt like a kind of bait and switch. And this frustrated me because I truly did love to learn—it just so happened I learned best away from my desk, where ideas and concepts could be made tangible. Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Message ]]>
Highlight from 'The Message' by Ta-Nehisi Coates https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-the-message-by-ta-nehisi-coates Fri, 09 May 2025 23:56:00 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/highlight-from-the-message-by-ta-nehisi-coates
I think many of us who are teachers and professors have forgotten that the syllabus serves the student, and all around us are teachers, administrators, and columnists who seem to believe that material should be hard for the sake of it and that education itself is best when rendered not in wonder but in force. Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Message ]]>
Zed — The editor for what's next https://zed.dev/ Wed, 07 May 2025 12:00:30 -0500 https://www.silverspider.com/2025/zed-the-editor-for-whats-next A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. ]]>