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Writer, computer programmer, systems developer and thinker, with a tendency to take you seriously.
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@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy@enobacon Shoulder?! In Massachusetts that’s at least three lanes.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gyDon’t make me tap the sign NOT KNOWING SOMETHING IS NEVER SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy@dpp @dariaphoebe.com Lol they are heeeeeere
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy@timbray They’re pretty great!
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gyHuh. The habit of not giving credit on the internet sure has let a lot of AI-acted-not-me framings flourish hasn’t it.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy[Uspol]
@JessTheUnstill Me too, but especially in primaries.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gyGenerated code introduces such strange problems. Well architected code, complete and documented, fit for purpose. The wrong purpose. And it’s easier to start over than it is to edit toward the adjusted purpose.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy@yaxu And if you don’t do business with them, what’s left?
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gyThis. The problems are very real! And we need to deal with them! But at their core _these are useful technologies_. Disruptive, and we’re not navigating that at all well. And we’re letting the tech industry run roughshod over everything as always. But. We can use them well.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gyThe thing you want is called either “Information Architecture” or more often, “Content Strategy” which is what information architecture is when it grows up: not just an organizational system, but bending organizations _into_ good systems.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gySo basically, if you care about the web, it’s time to get good at information architecture and develop relationships with experts for when it’s relevant to bring them in.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gyAnd while apps are not much better, they are at least given the purview of A Designer, usually a much more singular entity than manages The Website. Of course apps even more than the web are subject to design-by-metrics. So they become Orwellian surveillance and manipulation machines instead.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gyHot take, the web is dying because people do not respect or even know that information architecture is a thing, and that there are experts in the field.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gyWoot. New shift cables on the bike (again: Enviolo, the new design is better but it’s still not great) It shifts so well right now I thought it was broken at first.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy@b0rk Yeah me either :(
I don’t hate the actual development work this way. Not loving it, but not hating it. But fuuuuu the creative side, and the losing the incidental value of so many things in favor of only the core explicit value.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy@b0rk Yeah :(
Fuuu.
At least yours are so specifically friendly that they’re The Thing To Start With If You’re Scared, but … ugh.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gykill me now the robot is speaking colloquially at me and if it had hands it would be hand-waving.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gyhttps://molily.de/web-dev-education/
So much this. So much destruction in already-weakened technical education.
@aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gyNot to say “don’t block people”, but the more chat-like a platform is (which Mastodon is solidly in the middle of), blocking creates this weird effect where someone is talking to you, and only the people around you can see. It means someone can be abusive, the target not receive it, but most of […]
