Tag: youtube

  • get rid of that crap blocking your YouTube shorts

    YouTube is also introducing a new “Clear Screen mode,” which is designed to temporarily hide “all icons and text from your playback view,” giving users a clean view of their content unencumbered by floating distractions. 🔗 YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed

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  • “He’s just… ✋👋🖐✋👋🖐👋✋🤚 …different”

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  • Who invited these goofballs into my workshop of hand-crafted excellence

    I think the point is: it’s nice the professionals can make excellent content. It’s fun that the rest of us can now putter around the edges of that, ten seconds at a time. // Also, looks like a good example of a “Strasian reading” with Casey, there. While he is condemning AI generated images, he…

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  • AI women skew young

    “Despite there being no systematic age differences between women and men in the workforce according to the US Census, we found that women are represented as younger than men across occupations and social roles in nearly 1.4 million images and videos from Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, Flickr and YouTube, as well as in nine language models…

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  • Feeding the hungry robot with your video content

    Doing SEO for the LLMs so that your content can be found. 🔗 AEO for YouTube: How to Get Your Videos Cited by ChatGPT

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  • The Larry King

    The Larry King

    Desk and framing arrangement for that YouTube talking head look.

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  • When the AI policy board is slowing everything down youtube.com/shorts/Xq…

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  • Why you should buy your internal developer platform

    Why you should buy your internal developer platform

    Building your own internal developer platform is a lot of work, buy it instead Here’s a transcript: One of the reasons internal developer platforms are so valuable is because they do so much, and that’s something that you run into if you’re trying to build your own platform instead of buy it. The goal of…

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  • The Creator Economy Is a Race to the Bottom for Human Dignity – “Edelman Trust Data reveals (especially for Gen Z) that people are more likely to trust what a creator says about a brand than what the brand’s own CEO says about the brand. Compounded by parasocial relationships and a dash of isolation, people…

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  • In the world of podcasts, YouTube is now the elephant in the room — just like in TV – This is obviously a category error: if I can’t add it to Overcast with an RSS feed, it’s not a podcast. But, (1) old man yelling at clouds, it me! and, (2) aside from using the…

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  • Digital News Report 2025, Reuters and Oxford – “These shows are filmed, with many people watching on YouTube – the most popular platform for podcasts in the country, with 50% of US podcast consumers using it.”

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  • Semiconductors, Security, and the DeepSeekFreak, along with Ass Semiotics

    Semiconductors, Security, and the DeepSeekFreak, along with Ass Semiotics

    In this episode: AI eschatology, assology, and a deep, intellectual commitment to hating mayonnaise. Tariff trouble, security panic, and NVIDIA shrugging off DeepSeek. Young voters shift rightward, no one agrees on ‘medium roast,’ and Hollywood still relies on glue to critique its own youth obsession. Wastebook “immanetize the AI eschaton,” Charlie Stross. “The ass is…

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  • How platform engineering is different than DevOps

    How platform engineering is different than DevOps

    How platform engineering is different than DevOps, plus, narwhal teeth and spider digestion, with Viktor Farcic Software Defined Interviews #89 This is a good one, Viktor is great, almost an iconoclast on DevOps and platform engineering: In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Upbound, about platform engineering, the evolution…

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  • IMG_0001 – Take a look into random videos from people’s lives from a decade ago: ‘Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in “Send to YouTube” button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.’ // Mesmerizing!

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  • How I got 8,700 views for my talk about developer productivity.

    How I got 8,700 views for my talk about developer productivity.

    The recording of one of my talks has 8,400 views. That’s a lot more than other talk recordings. How does YouTube work, I sure don’t know! Confusing it more is that the same talk given at a different conference has 85 views. At least I wore a different shirt each time. Oh, and while I’m…

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  • “a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity”

    “a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity”

    My daughter’s opinion of platform engineering is “cool story, let’s go get that kibbeling.” Relative to your interests Ask HN: What happens to “.io” TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands? – Not good. Users engage with only 6% of product features: Product benchmark findings – ”We found that even the best product teams…

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  • Publishing an annual survey is a great marketing tool, even better for thought-leadership

    Publishing an annual survey is a great marketing tool, even better for thought-leadership

    Using Surveys for Marketing Wastebook They dress like they’re Chaotic Good, but they’re totally Lawful Good under all that sloppy couture. This is some buck-wild ABM: a direct appeal to Delta to buy their AI stuff. “I wrote this one when my family was in Hawaii, too. I kind of had a meltdown there, to…

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  • YouTube dominates streaming, forces media companies to adapt – ’YouTube made up 9.7% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the U.S. in May — the largest share of TV for a streaming platform ever reported by Nielsen’s monthly “The Gauge” report. Netflix ranked second, claiming 7.6% of viewership. Among streamers only, YouTube’s…

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  • Excuse the navel-gazing – “TikTok heavily favors videos edited inside their app. YouTube is mainly a thumbnails game. And who knows what Instagram wants.”

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