Piccalilli

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Level up your front-end skills. Stay for the approachable, friendly content and go away with transferable skills you can use day to day.

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@jakearchibald.comReposted by @piccalil.li

I'm really glad we're running this again. It helped us prioritise a lot of work this year. The previous method was đź‘Ť on GitHub issues, which (imo) is too easily gamed, either intentionally or unintentionally.

@piccalil.li

This is the stuff that's exciting about the AT protocol. Not the "new twitter" bullshit, but the endless possibilities that this technology opens up. It's using the fancy new private data stuff too.

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@infrequently.orgReposted by @piccalil.li

The deep issue isn't that CSS-in-JS was always shite, it's that the epistemic rot has settled in so deeply that teams don't know how to evaluate engineering choices on any basis but GH stars and twitter clout.

Or as @baldurbjarnason.com quipped, programming as pop culture.

@spavel.bsky.socialReposted by @piccalil.li

Plenty of people will refuse to buy a product that used AI (whether as a feature or just a promo). But no one out there will refuse to buy it because there's no AI in it. The profitable choice is not to use AI.

@jason.energyReposted by @piccalil.li

when everyone can generate anything with a prompt, how do you stand out? most app promo videos I see are indistinguishable from each other (because they were likely made w/the same basic prompt) the only way to stand out is to care and to put actual effort into what you make. been true. still true

LinkedIn screenshot of Todd Morey's post, which begins, "Life comes at you fast. I've been so flooded by animated demo videos I can't scroll past them fast enough. That's mostly because they don't demo anything about the product; they only demo the motion design Al is now capable of. (Linkedin became a rave club over the last 10 days. My eyes...) Now that Al has built decent competence in motion design, a flashy promo video is just another Al tell. So... what's next? love the art and craft of motion..." Below, Jason has commented, "My hunch is that 'obviously made by human hands' is going to start carrying a 'premium quality' association even more than it used to. "At CodeTV we've been leaning into practical effects (physically creating visual assets, moving the camera to 'animate' them, interacting with 3D props vs. having animated illustrations flying around the screen) to give more personality and perceived weight to videos. "Al and other low-effort video gives the sense of, 'They didn't care at all about the quality of this. I wonder if they care about the quality of their product?' "Going the other way with content sends the right signals, I think: 'Wow, these folks care! They're willing to do a harder thing because it produced a better result.' "Feels like the best approach when everyone's smashing the Easy Button™ over and over again is to actually give a shit about quality."
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