Notices by Large Heydon Collider (heydon@front-end.social)

Can there be any more of a ringing endorsement for a hand drawn font than some dick on Reddit telling me I should post it in r/lettering instead?
https://heydonworks.com/article/skune-hand-drawn-variable-font/

Losers.

@annika I better get a move on then!

Been working on some monochrome #pride gear and this came to me out of nowhere. Thoughts?

Combined ideas for trans and asexual

📢 I have a big anouncement to make 📢

https://briefs.video/videos/introducing-webbed-sites/

The reason it's considered (by many) acceptable to churn/sling/vibe code using AI is largely due to how we frame development in respect to design. We consider design thinking as both innately human and a non-technical code-free occupation. We think of developers as machines who only encode design.

If developers get replaced by AI, it's only because we dehumanised them already. And the development itself *will* get worse. Because the best developers actually think deeply about their work.

Bluesky has perfected being Twitter.

It's concerning to me that this """ethical dilemma""" comes up so frequently regarding self-driving cars. Does self-driving mean *never slows or stops*? Are self-driving cars all designed after the bus in Speed?

"This AI output is highly inaccurate."
"Nah, you're just prompting it wrong."
"How do I go about prompting it the right way?"
"You really need to know the subject you're asking about. Then you can help it avoid making mistakes."
"If I know the subject deeply myself, why am I asking an AI about it?"
"It helps to train the AI."

📝 New Blog Post: Poisoning Well

I have started publishing nonsense content on my blog, to hopefully mess with LLM crawlers.

Here is the article, all about it: https://heydonworks.com/article/poisoning-well/

And here is the nonsense companion article, all about whatever: https://heydonworks.com/nonsense/poisoning-well/

When you find out Sebastian Coe is a massive transphobe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3uLA0NuPl8

I am 43 today. My wish is for everyone to reply with a new conjugation of the word “cunt”.

I’ll start us off:

— cuntesque
— cuntible
— ...

📼 Why Is Everything Binary?

The latest briefs.video.

https://briefs.video/videos/why-is-everything-binary/

@sam no pressure https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/you-would-not/

It's only just sinking in there's a social media platform called Truth Social where sharing is "re-truthing". Feels too stupid to be real.

Another satisfied customer.

@joachim dungarees are cool too! Will merge that PR tomorrow, thanks again.

Not sure what agender fashion is but I had a sudden hankering to own a boilersuit.

From the people who brought you React. https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/113790220085063594