Tabs for July 21st 2023
- Air.ai. Fascinating AI-powered system to replicate sales calls. Could have enormous ramifications for my industry (technical presales).
- Electric bike, stupid love of my life
- Take It from Me, Capitalism: Remote Work Will Make You Sick and Die
- The Problem With LangChain
- CEO fires 90% of support staff, replaces them with AI
- Musk's introduction of xAI. He says all the right things, I think. But his track record is appalling right now.
- 6 days to change 1 line of code
- This link will send you to a random web1.0 site. I love this.
- Tonka toys site. A great example!
- Bill McDermott (ServiceNow CEO) commits to 400 Irish jobs, no layoffs. Bold sentiment given the current economic situation.
- Japanese soufflé pancakes
- Adam Conrover slams movie/TV billionaires. "The reason for that is that the companies, the streamers and studios, have spent the last 20 years making our work pay less. Making it more precarious, less stable, making it harder to build a career, so all of these writers and actors know — myself included — that if we do not win this fight, we will not have careers to go back to in five years. So we will be on the picket lines as long as it takes. They’re not starving us out, we’re starving them out."
- Eoghan McCabe returns to Intercom with big ideas, but has to convince staff he still has the vision. It's a bit of a mad interview as I can't make heads-nor-tails of what his vision really is, how he'll execute against it or, more importantly, why you would work for him.
- Moderat live. I somehow missed this from one of my favourite electronic bands, in a very cool setting. Absolute highlight to see them for a third (maybe fourth?) time with my wife at Body & Soul festival this summer.
- 39-Year-Old 4.77 MHz DOS Web Server Hits 2,500 Hours of Uptime
- Billionaires aren't okay — for their mental health, time to drastically raise their taxes
- James Acaster manages to have a racist call himself out. This is funny, but my word the thread on twitter is grim. What a hellsite.
- "The New Workday Dead Zone When Nothing Gets Done". Tracking keyboard clicks as a measure of productivity is ridiculous. And we learned how to hack it from Homer Simpson 20 years ago.
- Van Moof officially goes bankrupt
- Framework 16 laptop. They sold 3 batches of machines in a few hours!
- Max Barry on AI. Great reading.
- Bookwyrm. A federated social network for reading.
- Mapping imaginary citites. An untethered talk by one of the Bookwyrm creators.
- Twenty - an open source CRM. I spent years in the CRM space, and this is pretty legit looking.
- Experiment to pay a scammer to get a post on TechCrunch
- Reddit brought back r/place, and it's not going well for u/spez
- RIP Kevin Mitnick