If you write code you probably have to read this, because it’s by Steve Yegge: <https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need>

I’m still unconvinced, but you still have to read it.

I wrote about how AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects <https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/ai-enhanced-development/>

I published a new library called ThumbHash, which generates very compact image representations for image placeholders. There's more info on the website: <https://evanw.github.io/thumbhash/>

It's inspired by BlurHash but does some things a little differently (e.g. supports alpha, uses binary instead of ASCII, separates luma and chroma).

Big thanks to [@WAHa_06x36](https://mastodon.social/@WAHa_06x36) for the original BlurHash concept and implementation.

Copenhagen

[#photography](https://hachyderm.io/tags/photography)

The entire 3-disc set of the Portal 2 soundtrack is still online to download for free if you need some mp3s to hear while you are working: <https://www.thinkwithportals.com/music.php>

RT @OrinKerr
How many people are in prison or jail in the United States, and for what. <https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2022/03/14/whole_pie_2022/>

🌟 Near my house, there's an apartment building with a courtyard. Big deal, right? But if you walk up the steps a little bit, there's something about this courtyard that you might find really truly wonderful… <https://cabel.com/2023/02/25/the-courtyard/>

[@ivory](https://tapbots.social/@ivory) [@paul](https://tapbots.social/@paul)

The release of the iPod is closer in time to the birth of the Internet than the iPod’s release is from today.

I do not photograph architecture that often. But it is a lot of fun trying something new.

[#Photography](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/Photography?src=hash) [#Nature](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/Nature?src=hash) [#Projekt1zu1](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/Projekt1zu1?src=hash) [#Project1to1](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/Project1to1?src=hash) [#Squared](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/Squared?src=hash) [#Architecture](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/Architecture?src=hash) [#ArchitecturePhotography](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/ArchitecturePhotography?src=hash)

very nice app <https://www.wickeditor.com/>

kinda if HyperCard and Framer had a really cute kid.

[#animation](https://indieweb.social/tags/animation) [#indieWeb](https://indieweb.social/tags/indieWeb) [#gameDev](https://indieweb.social/tags/gameDev) [#opensource](https://indieweb.social/tags/opensource)

For everyone who's up to date with Abbott Elementary: are you a truckie?

TIL that macOS ships with a default CLI command called "sips", for "scriptable image processing system" - and it can convert webp images to PNG, but it can also generate entirely new images from scratch using an almost entirely undocumented canvas-based JavaScript API! <https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/sips>

6 months ago my pineapple plant started growing a flower, which turned into a fruit, which I harvested this week. It was delicious! Sweet, juicy, and full of flavour—very pleased. [#gardening](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/gardening)

Hey, folks. Big layoffs at DigitalOcean today, and my team and I were hit. In fact, so was my adjacent team, and a good chunk of my department. I don't have much reach here on Mastodon yet, but if anybody wants to discuss opportunities for a technical editor / writer / manager of same, I'm up for it.

[@chockenberry](https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry) you can also/instead add to Control Center in System Settings › Control Center

Happy birthday Tom Hiddleston! Can you stop growing so I can catch up to you? Wishing you a good one, bro—wherever you may be in the world.

My wife has been asking me to make Toum (Lebanese garlic sauce) for a while. Today I finally took the plunge & boy I shoulda listened to her long long ago.

If you’ve never eaten it before it’s hard to describe just how good it is. It’s light and fluffy (it quadrupled in volume as I was making it!!) and so garlicky and yummie.

Awesome as a dip, on chicken or fish, in pitas and on and on. Really easy to make, lasts for months in the fridge. Highly recommended!! 🧄👍 Recipe: <https://feelgoodfoodie.net/recipe/lebanese-garlic-sauce/>

Trying out <https://toot.readthedocs.io> - since I have some bots I need to move to Mastodon

You can now add up to four social account links to your GitHub profile which render with a sprinkling of formatting support for our most popular platforms. Yes, the resulting links links will satisfy Mastodon verification requirements when rendered.

To get started, visit your profile and click the "Edit profile" button in the sidebar.

For typography addicts, this is amazing. (It’s also extraordinarily well-done.)

<https:klim.co.nz/blog/epicene-design-information/>

This is a fantastic annotated talk about ChatGPT for educators, in this case from the perspective of a journalism professor, Jonathan Soma

<https:jonathansoma.com/chatgpt-for-educators/>

Everywhere I've worked, people have complained that internal communication could be better. There is an art to delightful internal comms, but doing a reasonably good job bakes down to mechanically following a few fairly simple practices.

Full notes in <https://lethain.com/internal-comms-execs/>

We just posted a free wallpaper drawn by [@piraino](https://mastodon.art/@piraino) on our Patreon depicting Ollie's take on the recent chaos. <https://www.patreon.com/posts/is-this-fine-77509303>

The character of the light made it possible to get the texture and color in the feathers.

Want to embed a stream of your Mastodon posts on a website? Want to turn a thread or a bunch of comments into an article? I made some templates for y'all! <https://patrickcurry.com/socials/mastodon/tools/>

Mind. Blown.