Notices by henry ✷ (henry@front-end.social)

here’s an essay on something i've been thinking a lot about for a while, but especially lately.

https://henry.codes/writing/a-case-for-unconditional-giving/

this is why AI for art, for writing, etc, is so dreadfully misguided. it is a miracle to be a human in an awkward, curious struggle to reach out & touch your fellow humans. human connection is fraught, and it is astounding. what a strange privilege it is, to know and to tend to the needs of others

the, come si dice, "discourse" around AI for accessibility/alt-text is so spiritless, so desiccated. one of the great pillars of Being Human is finding empathy and spectrality and wonder in other Humans — the manual task of writing careful, magnificent alt text is a prayer of empathy and joy

🔵 - a website in which you have been falling. you scold yourself now, free-falling endlessly down this trap-doored hole. you curse your foolishness for seeking the footer on a modern website, when you're certainly old enough (or perhaps young enough!) to have learned that...

(inspired by Andy and Matthias' conversation about the lurking evils in web design these days lol)

https://strange.website/2024-01-30

sorry about that, i wasn’t making a strange face because of what you said on the team sync meeting, but because i’ve been watching my own camera the whole time, and at all times i am nothing but a horse discovering his own reflection