104 / Markdown images are an anti-pattern

Published on May 28, 2023

Hey everyone, I've been sick for most of the week, hope yours was better ✌🏻

Toot of the Week

What if we all just started using `trunk` as the go-to main branch name rather than `main` or `master`. — @emerald@mecha.garden

Same Stop (engineersneedart.com)
John Calhoun shares their experience of coming back to programming after retirement.

How Much Memory Do You Need to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks? (pkolaczk.github.io)
Piotr Kołaczkowski tests concurrent tasks in 8 technologies up to 1 million tasks, with interesting findings (Python is faster than Go‽).
Markdown images are an anti-pattern (daverupert.com)
Dave Rupert argues that you should use the HTML <img/> tag to be able to set attributes like height/width and decoding.
A Well Known URL For Your Personal Avatar (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Jim Nielsen is suggesting a .well-known URL for avatars.
You don't need a modal window (youdontneedamodalwindow.dev)
Deniz Akşimşek lists reasons why you should not use a modal window and instead make a separate page.
Single Line Comments in CSS (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Jim Nielsen explains why we'll probably never get single-line comments with // in CSS.
Add Opacity to an Existing Color (chriscoyier.net)
Chris Coyier experiments with transparent variants of colors in CSS.

We deserve to know if something was generated by AI (ntietz.com)
Nicole argues that text generated by LLMs should be marked as such, for a multitude of reasons.
OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation (theverge.com)
James Vincent about OpenAI's response to the AI regulation process in the EU.
Generative AI: What You Need To Know (needtoknow.fyi)
Baldur Bjarnason has a nice summary website about generative AI.

A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you (aeon.co)
Clifton Mark about the implications of a meritocracy and it's effect on your world view.
Noise Is All around Us—and It’s Affecting You More than You Think (thewalrus.ca)
Bojan Fürst about noise pollution, the anthropause during the pandemic and ways to live with noise.
Writing summaries is more important than reading more books (andreasfragner.com)
Andreas Fragner explains why it's better to take time to write summaries than to blindly pick up the next book.

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