Hey friends,
Last Saturday, the first humans to travel to the moon in more than 50 years(!) arrived back on earth safely, but somehow this didn’t feel like the strangest thing that happened. The US president, after weeks of failing to negotiate the re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz, decided that the best way to save the world economy was a blockade of his own. Shortly after, he posted pictures of himself as Jesus Christ and started an online feud with the pope. A few days later, his own Secretary of Defense used Samuel L. Jackson’s famous (but fictional) bible verse from Pulp Fiction in an actual prayer at the Pentagon. Because who cares anymore, I guess.
Oh, I also turned 40 and one of my kids was sick at home.
Interesting times.
Anyway, none of this stopped me from reading. Here are a few things I found noteworthy (or wrote myself).
Craft
This whole post is so good and touches on so many things people get wrong about the benefits of LLMs and what “Craft” actually means. It kept me nodding along for the whole thing.
Chris Butler – Craft is untouchable
Design and Engineering, As One
Fitting the theme of the above, Matthias Ott wrote this absolutely brilliant piece about Design & Engineering and why there should be less of a hand-off and much more close collaboration between the two. Agree 100%.
Matthias Ott – Design and Engineering, As One
The AI Great Leap Forward
This comparison between China’s “Great Leap Forward” in the 50’s under Mao, and the current AI hype-cycle is spot on. It’s not real steel.
Han Lee – The AI Great Leap Forward
On EmDash and the Block Editor’s content storage limits
I haven’t tried EmDash myself and mostly thought about its UI and design. In this post, Hendrik Luehrsen looked into how EmDash stores its data and how this compares to how the Block Editor in WordPress stores content as HTML. Definitely agree with a lot of the points he makes and would love to see something like this in WordPress.
KrautPress – EmDash CMS Shows Why Gutenberg Is Hitting Limits with HTML as a Content Storage Format
40 things I learned
I turned 40 this week, and felt like writing down a few of the things I learned along the way. Mostly a list for me and my future self, but maybe you enjoy it too.
Cheers and have a nice weekend! ✌️