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UPDATE: I’ve switched back to Chrome at work and I’m not even missing features like Peek View … wow

Arc, the first browser by The Browser Company of New York, dies at three An obituary for the Arc browser from a current user

I’d been using the Arc browser daily since it was invite-only, so The Browser Company confirming it’s effectively dead still stings.

I really admired Arc for how much thought and craft went into it. So I wrote an obituary for my favourite browser:

sidney.me/writing/arc-...
#ArcBrowser

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

it’s possible to not care if people (humans, readers) pirate my book—or even feel pleased they do, if anything; and, at the same time, express fury when corporations grab and grind the text up like scrap metal for their word-garbage generators

Does AI herald an industrial revolution for art? I recently came across a comment thread discussing a blog post, Goodbye Slopify. It’s a short post that exposes Spotify inserting AI-generated music with AI-generated album art in its Discover Weekly ...

I’ve had so many thoughts swirling in my head this year about #AI, especially how it affects #art. Now I’ve finally written a blog post about it!

sidney.me/writing/ai-a...

Bauhaus Clock - Elegant Timepiece Screensaver for macOS Transform your Mac's idle time with Bauhaus Clock, a minimalist analog screensaver inspired by Bauhaus design. Features precision movement, customizable colors, and multilingual support. Elegance when...

now THIS is craft bauhausclock.com

Instaframe Frame your Instagram photos for free. No ads. No tracking.

Context: I built instaframe.sidney.me 3 years ago to frame photos for Instagram and it randomly got a pull request recently, so I found the time to give it some love and create this button 😍

mmmm pretty button

Screenshot of an email from Iberia airline announcing their AI travel assistant

I just got an email from an *airline* that they now have AI to generate a wall of text … pero en español

i saw a response to this saying spotify silently inserting AI-generated music is no different to the industrial revolution displacing furniture artisans for mass production

and how i feel about that can be described by the florence pugh frown emoji ☹️

alexeystar.com/blog/slopify/

tired: fearing that robots will become so smart they take your job

wired: fearing that robots will still be dumb but take your job anyway

Screenshot of a Mini Motorways playthrough of London with 2,743 points

youtube really gave me one (1) recommendation for a mini motorways video and now I bought the game and can’t stop playing

shoutout @dinopoloclub.bsky.social, I also love mini metro

protect your prized possessions! (bulk pack of antihistamines) (you’re waiting to get the $10 cashback)

360 but charli xcx is performing in front of sue beating up elizabeth YouTube video by bambimixes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC5Y...

why yes i am a southerner (south newtown resident) (please don’t hike my rent next year)

if you are reading this, yes it is time to watch an episode of The X-Files

i’m in queer media (luigi mangione updates)

the old man sitting at the front of the bus just offered the driver a snake lolly 💖

I love Mad Magazine

this is what it must have felt like to hear Robin Hood stories in 1370

jpeg is the working class image format. png is for coastal elites. tif belongs to the ivory tower intelligentsia. gif is libertarian borderline sovcit and webp is the DNC

oops just saw the brat hashtag on here is all porn

screenshot of Spotify Wrapped 2024 top songs: 360, Von dutch, Talk talk, Apple (all by Charli xcx), and What’s The Time Where You Are by Troye Sivan

the absolute chokehold #brat has had on me this year #SpotifyWrapped

where all the sydney people at? i want to post hyperlocal inner west things and get attention

shoutout to clairo

screenshot of bluesky’s notifications tab showing @officialjellyroll.bsky.social following me

chat is this real

finally saturday! i can go from my online job to my favourite pastime: online

marrickville metro is the centre of the universe

I’ve said this before, but at a certain level of engineering your ability to write a doc is likely to have more impact than your ability to write code.

Not because you won’t write code, but because your ability to convey an architecture, idea, or approach and get folks buy in is essential.

is there a german word for peeking under the hood of the abstraction and realizing it’s neither as good as you thought of it when it was at its best nor as bad as you feared it would be at its lowest moments