ChatGPT has voice now. Dawn of a new era…

Word of the month: enshitification

Once users are locked in, the platform then shifts its surpluses to suppliers, and once suppliers are locked-in, the platform shifts surpluses to shareholders.

Once the platform is fundamentally focused on shareholders and the users and vendors to the users are locked in, the platform no longer has any incentive to maintain quality.

Enshittified platforms which act as intermediaries can functionally act as both a monopoly on services and a monopsony on customers, as high switching costs prevent either from leaving even when alternatives technically exist.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensh…

I am inside a land zeppelin.

Once in a while I like to become a tourist in the place I live.

London, from inside a Thames clipper.

When I see people with tape or plasters over their laptop’s cam I wonder if that’s a legitimate concern for their privacy or they do have some very dark secrets.

I see more and more Godot news and growing interest. Unity’s attitude towards their users helps a lot.

🚲 Just exchanged my electric bicycle for a traditional human-powered one. Amazing how much power I lost in the six months I used motor assistance. I hope it will take me less to recover than it took me to lose all the fitness, although I am afraid it might be longer.

I know it is a cliché that says “if you want to go fast you go alone, if you want go go far go with others.”, but it is a cliché partially because it is true. I think it applies in couples, in teams. It is one of those trade-offs that govern the life. You can’t have fast and far.

IEEE Spectrum published the list of top programming languages 2023: Python and SQL are on top…

spectrum.ieee.org/the-top-p…

When I was developing in JS I was upset with how the whole node_modules and dependency system. Still a mess, but with Python I am still so much more frustrated… it is such a pain to import files in the same project I’m in… I thought relative imports should be easy, but I always get punched in the face with import error: attempted relative import with no known parent package. will persevere.

Finished reading: Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken 📚

“Trust is built in drops and lost in buckets”

—Kevin Plank, founder of Under Armour”

Went to Waterstones

… that one near Regents Street. These are the books that are on my “to read” now as a result:

• Hari - Stolen focus
• Miller - Chip War
• Chen - Influence Empire
• Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
• Fukuyama - Liberalism and it’s discontents
• Hartman - Object Oriented Ontology
• Carr - The Shallows
• Christensen- The innovator’s dilemma
• Milne - Smoke and mirrors
• Jacquet - The Playbook

My quote of the day:

Dom’t let the entropy win!

(Originally heard on the Pragmatic Programmer book)

Tried to find a London suburb without airplane sound. Could not.

I still find cooking to be the hardest kind of project management.

I am testing sending text to micro.blog from different note-taking apps. iA Writer is one of them. This is published via iA Writer publish feature.

just setting up my micro.blog