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Jakob Nielsen has written a series of articles (8 so far) on UX in the age of AI. They are:

1. AI Is First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years
2. AI Vastly Improves Productivity for Business Users and Reduces Skill Gaps
3. AI vs. Metaverse: Which Is the 5th Generation UI?
4. UX Needs a Sense of Urgency About AI
5. Prompt-Driven AI UX Hurts Usability
6. ChatGPT Does Almost as Well as Human UX Researchers in a Case Study of Thematic Analysis
7. How Much UX Do You Need for AI Projects?
8. “Prompt Engineering” Showcases Poor Usability of Current Generative AI

In “What’s your problem with Tailwind?” Chris Ferdinandi of Go Make Things articulates and illustrates why I’ve instinctively shied away from CSS frameworks:

It is faster during the prototyping phase… And then there inevitably comes a time where I need to update the style. Now, instead of just making a single change on a single class in a CSS file, I make a dozen little changes across numerous HTML elements scattered across many pages.

Basically, the styling code ends up being in the HTML, where it does not belong, rather than in the CSS, where it does.

Interesting, seeing Ars Technica’s slant on Twitter’s handling of Matt Walsh’s What is a Woman because, like most tech blogs, they lean establishment/woke, and I’d expect some pushback in the comments. But instead the comments are far more supportive of the movement (I’m trying to find a term to speak of it without speaking against it, but it objects to even being termed) than is the piece itself, and quite a few condemn the author and the publication for irresponsibly posting a link to the film. One gem by mikesmith (8y, 3,207 comments):

The next time a right-wing weirdo confidently declares that the definition of “woman” is inexorably linked to their genitalia ask them how many genitals they’ve personally inspected to be sure about it since they’re so confident.

Via Paul Graham, who chose Gerald Ford’s portrait as his favorite, “every american president, but they’re all cool and they all sport a mullet” by Cam Harless.

genders.wtf is an outstanding use of this thing we call the World Wide Web. It’s nice that it takes a hot divisive topic and makes it genuinely human and funny.