Fedora GNOME.

If that doesn’t tickle your fancy, plenty of other options, but it’s a great beginner distro (especially for long-time Apple nerds like me).

Overhyped then.

Overhyped now.

Stop trying to make “API economy” happen! 😂

And yet when I look at the UI of KDE, it’s not for me. At all. 😅

Totally fine that other people use it and appreciate it! All I’m saying is I’d still be full-time on macOS if it weren’t for modern GNOME.

The only reason I use desktop Linux is because of GNOME and the UX of the GTK ecosystem. Not everyone care about 5 billion points of customization, they care about simplicity & consistency. 😄

Maybe…I misinterpreted your post. I think I’m on your side actually 😄

Absolutely against the DoB addition, yep.

This is getting really old, really damn fast. 🫩

I suppose nobody should work with you then, since you’re here complaining about things publicly.

In all seriousness though, Cine is pretty nice.

Hehe, I’m actually using a 6 year-old Mac mini M1 running Asahi Fedora, and it kicks ass.

Pagefind is an awesome solution and can work with pretty much any static site generator. https://pagefind.app/

For example, I use it here on my site That HTML Blog.

XML is very good for documents and other structured content formats. The problem is people took XML and used that for things that aren’t really documents. That led to a lot of people hating XML for the things it wasn’t good at and thus hating XML even for the things it is good at.

I wish we could find a reasonable middle ground. I’d love to have a job where I work a lot more with XML to be honest!

Just sounds like somebody who isn’t good at their job. “Not committing to answers” isn’t the role, the opposite is true.

And why is this article so antagonistic? The takeaway is…what, exactly? It’s obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention for the last few years that most companies working in tech desperately need UX—good, caring, talented people working in UX who are given real decision-making power. Otherwise the people making decisions are user-hostile FOMO VPs and C-suite types, and they’re making a damn mess everywhere.

The answer to bad UX designers isn’t no UX designers, it’s better UX designers. And give them some damn power already!

I’m a big fan of Web Awesome. It can scale from just a CSS starter like Pico all the way to a full component library, depending on what you need.

https://webawesome.com/

And yet hype cycles are real and many of them have bellyflopped. Microslop is similarly in real danger of shooting themselves in the foot with this terrible rebranding.

…and your point is?

All good on the wifi front here on Asahi Fedora Linux on Mac mini M1. 😁

(Also worth mentioning the author’s entire modus operandi is to promote Google’s Big Tech vision of AI-all-the-things and hence the blog is chock full of one just-so story after another. It’s quite safe to ignore completely as pure propaganda.)

Every year…every decade…the dream of low-code/no-code emerges once again in another form. And while well-built tools with good UX can indeed help non-programmers build “simple” databases and webpages, this is not something that scales to projects which require programming expertise.

Also the examples in this article make no sense. It’s already trivial to compile plain text in accessible formats like Markdown to beautiful, semantic HTML. You can already build systems which take very simple text descriptions of forms and emit actual forms. Heck, I could take input like:

Contact Me form

name
email (required)
appointment date
message

and turn that into an HTML form with zero LLMs involved. But why even do that? Someone, anyone, could drag’n’drop a form together in a couple minutes. Easy.

LLMs are constantly a (poor) solution in search of a problem. Virtually every just-so story someone can share with me about how an LLM supposedly will solve their problem, I can show examples of how else to do it. We are wasting outrageous amounts of time on technologies unfit for purpose.