Photography is a visual art, and as with most art forms, there are no rigid rules or formulas that guarantee a captivating image. However, there are certain key elements that often contribute to an image’s impact and appeal.
Source - 7 Essential Elements to a Good Photo →
Silence is golden. Amidst friends, it is not. →
It was Holi today, and I was surrounded by friends or people I knew once as friends. Yet there was hardly anyone I could walk up to and converse with without things getting awkward pretty soon. I knew then that some threads between us were broken.
One of the questions people like to ask lexicographers is this: Can you sneak something into the dictionary?
The more that text generated by large-language models gets published on the Web, the more the Web becomes a blurrier version of itself.
Source - ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web →
If you read only one analysis on ChatGPT, it should be this on The New Yorker.
It’s time to shake things up, to turn the ship around. To innovate. Meta’s big, new idea: Charge people for basic support features and … a blue check mark.
Source - Why Would Anyone Pay for Facebook? →
Email really is an amazing, miraculous technology. But at the end of the day, it’s in the hands of humans who are always going to screw it up.
Source: Why Is Email Still So Terrible? →
How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the billionaires. Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much.
I had no idea a Mercedes-Benz makes a special sound before a crash which helps “make the noise from the crash impact not nearly as harmful” to our ears. Now I Know.
That’s a smart feature. And here I was getting pleased having a few buttons aligned to the centre through CSS.
If you’re a developer or a tester, and you want to abbreviate the word “accessibility” in a bug report, then as my New York friends keep saying to me, “knock yourself out”. But when we’re talking about accessibility in a public environment like Mastodon, where we can connect with people who know little about it, using A11Y as a hashtag creates a clique that has the potential to lessen the reach of the subject matter.
[L]earning to write is about more than learning to write. For one thing, it’s about learning to turn a loose assemblage of thoughts into a clear line of reasoning—a skill that is useful for everyone, not just those who enjoy writing or need to do a lot of it for work.