Tag: Adobe

  • Parasocial Media, the War on Adobe, and Garbage Chairs – Related to your interests, Wednesday

    Parasocial Media, the War on Adobe, and Garbage Chairs – Related to your interests, Wednesday

    Also: Bob picks the model, AI-BOMs, $37.5M DIY platforms, and AI slop on tap. From: AI Slop Me Related to your interests 🤖 The Venture-Capital Populist – Packer’s profile of David Sacks as architect of Silicon Valley’s MAGA alliance, who delivered crypto legitimisation and AI deregulation to the Trump administration while keeping his venture fund…

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  • Relative to your interests on Thursday

    Your aging brain stops being a people-please. But: “The same directness that would be called ‘no-nonsense’ in a man gets called ‘abrasive’ in a woman over 40.” “I had to teach a lesson on asparagus, an ingredient I couldn’t care less about but apparently was good for SEO.” Forrester’s highlights from re:Invent, including things that…

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    DISK3A.BMF Corel Gallery Clipart https://mastodon.art/@clipart/115649690844400016

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  • Free Lunch – Some strong Amsterdam type vibes here. // “Free Lunch is an all-caps display font that would look comfortable in a butcher shop window. Or a lunch counter menu in 1955. Or printed on the waxed paper that wraps a half-pound of Swiss cheese from your neighborhood deli. A little playful, great for…

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  • Celebrity photographer Chris Floyd shares six pieces of career advice everyone can learn from – “I think that anything generic is fucked now. Anything where a client thinks: ‘We need a picture of a woman who is eating a salad’, say, or ‘laughing with a laptop’. If it’s not a specific person, it’s just a…

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  • Coté’s Commonplace Book #43

    Coté’s Commonplace Book #43

    There’s an insane block of travel coming up for me in October, and then Asia in November. Figuring out a “road warrior” job is difficult, and I’m constantly asking if that’s the life I want, away from family a lot. The perks – pay, seeing people and places, all the frequent traveler benefits, and also…

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  • Link: Oracle plans to end Java serialization, but that’s not the end of the story

    ‘Oracle’s chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization mechanism which he called a “horrible mistake” and a virtually endless source of security vulnerabilities. This is evident in nearly half of the vulnerabilities that have been patched in the JDK in the last 2 years are related to serialization. Serialization security issues have…

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  • Old tile shards from our house

    This is a little "home archeology." Our relatively young home was built in 1949 and under the large kitchen add-on we have, there’s (at least) two structures: an old porch that was left there stupidly as a support beam and the remnants of an early kitchen floor – two or three levels of it! This…

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  • DIV vs. Table

    There’s a fantastic presentation from an Adobe person on transitioning from tables to divs. Also, for all those cross-browser problems, and even for reference and lurnin’, I recently came across QuirksMode.org: chock full of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and quite a bit of interesting commentary and practical howto’s on each. Update: the links now work.

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