Bruce Taylor

I’m approaching the point where I select music services based on whether or not I can block artists.

My issue with large language models has never been the actual technology, which is genuinely fascinating.

Original source can be viewed at: youtube.com/@GeneralMusings It’s such a shame that people are getting fed up with the state of the web industry.

The last time I shared a post on my list of frontend/web development resources was back in 2023.

“El Estepario Siberiano” (Jorge Garrido) isn’t someone who usually posts videos like this.

Happy 96th birthday dad.

Happy 58th birthday Pete.

Original source can be viewed at: chriscoyier.net Alignment being the bottleneck.

You’re starting your career.

Original source can be viewed at: focalcurve.com There is so much that resonates in this article by Craig Cook.

I am, to put it mildly, skeptical of the value of so-called “Artificial Intelligence” in its current form.

Still so much truth in this quote.

Original source can be viewed at: whitep4nth3r.com Salma’s post sure does touch a nerve.

Original source can be viewed at: gomakethings.com Chris has always been good at pointing out what those of us choose not to see.

Original source can be viewed at: adactio.com Jeremy clarifies ‘magic’ in this context.

Original source can be viewed at: blog.jim-nielsen.com And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S).

Original source can be viewed at: matuzo.at Nice tip from Manuel to use an anonymous @layer for the CSS reset rules, to ensure their specificity is lower than other rules.

Doing some dabbly dabbles with Astro to create a possible version of my site.

I wonder how close to midnight the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board will say we are tomorrow at the 2026 Doomsday Clock reveal.

On refection I find I’ve changed my mind about the weight I put behind Mark Carney’s speech at Davos.

Original source can be viewed at: denodell.com There’s a lot of good stuff in this article from Den.

Original source can be viewed at: robinrendle.com A wonderful reminder from Robin not to try to be palatable to everyone on the web.

Original source can be viewed at: www.cubic.dev Can you ship AI-generated code without creating a maintenance nightmare six months from now?

Original source can be viewed at: piccalil.li Very helpful article from Kilian Valkhof on some of the programming principles / computer science fundamentals that self taught front-end developers (like myself) often miss out on.

Gosh, it’s been 13 years already.

I admire Patagonia.

Of Ai I think we should ask: To what 'problem' is Ai the solution?

Still amazes me that custom [HTML] elements can be named using unicode characters.

Original source can be viewed at: ethanmarcotte.com For those of us that may have sipped a little too much of the “Ai” cool-aid, Ethan challenges the semantics of how we’re using the word “hallucination” — and brings a much needed nudge back to reality.

Pete, I can’t believe it’s been 5 years since you passed away.

I so want Hamilton to get to grips with Ferrari and win his 8th F1 championship with them.

30 years married to a gorgeous gem of a human being.

Would it be ok with y’all if we scooted back a bit further from midnight?

Ok, could somebody please wake me up from whatever this is.

We keep hearing about this £22bn ‘black hole’ in our nation’s finances that needs to be filled… and that they’ll need to make “tough choices”, like tax changes, to help claw this back.

Just watched the Lockerbie TV mini series.

I wrote a post a few days ago about my robots.txt file — and how I thought I was being clever by disallowing OpenAI from indexing my personal website.,And how not-so-clever (and naive) of me it had turned out to be.

Just over 18 months ago, there were a bunch of conversations on the web talking about how you can disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using a robots.txt file.

Ok 2025, what you got in store for us?

Gosh, another birthday already!

It’s a relief knowing today’s the shortest day of the year.

A new documentary, “Thank You Dr.

Original source can be viewed at: www.keithcirkel.co.uk This article by Keith is spot on.

Original source can be viewed at: adactio.com Jeremy has very kindly released his book Going Offline, online, for free.

My ‘little girl’ turned 16 today.

Gees Biden!

Winnie Lim’s post on leading a purposeless life resonated deeply.

It’s been 12 years.

If you’re a MacOS user, open your terminal and type in networkquality. $ networkquality Gaboosh!

Ok.