Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Mansplaining in the run down shopping mall – hybrid search engines and chatGPT solutions will be an interesting challenge
The race to implement the functionality of ChatGPT into the traditional search interface is on with Microsoft barging ahead taking advantage of their OpenAI partnership and Google trying to fast follow with Bard. And the hype is turned up to 11 where Google’s demo giving a wrong answer leading to a 7% drop in their […]
An easy way to copy + paste from the browser Console #shorts
Copying and pasting from Console is annoying but there is a better way. The Console variable $_ contains the last result. You can use this with the copy() command to copy the data to the clipboard without having to highlight it.
MacOS can remove image backgrounds #shorts
Today I learned that MacOS can remove backgrounds from images, much like remove.bg does. All you need to do is right-click an image and select Quick Actions > Remove Background. For example, it turned this image into this one:
Releasing code in large corporations is slow – and there is a good reason for it
One of the things I always loved about the web is its immediacy. You write a piece of code, publish it somewhere and people can access it. No compilation step, no packaging and distribution, no listing on marketplaces or app stores – just a push of the button. This gives people a wrong impression that […]
Things to do and not to do during a wave of tech layoffs
Currently we are in a huge round of tech layoffs that are reminiscent of the first .com crash in the beginning of the century. Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and now Google announced layoffs in the 10k range and it seems no one is spared. New people as well as people who have been at companies for […]