web components are usb-c
react is the lightning cable
thank you for coming to my ted talk

“The problem is whether you create content to sell ads, sell subscriptions, or just to know that people value what you've created, an AI-driven web doesn't reward content creators the way that the old search-driven web did. And that means the deal that Google made to take content in exchange for sending you traffic just doesn't make sense anymore.”

— Matthew Prince, Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compensation/

#cloudflare #contentcreators #crawler #ai #search

Time was in the box,
Death on the line.

#europlop #haiku

If you are attending @europlop please check out this fun Focus Group "Play Music and Card Games to Uncover the Future of Music with AI"!!

It's tomorrow/Friday at 15:15 in room 126 led by Mary Tedeschi and Sridevi Ayloo

There is questioning on the wisdom of holding PLDI in the United States.

Indeed, this is a tough question.

Non-US students that exit the US to attend a conference risk not to be able to return.

Foreign academics that come to the US risk being held at the border or possibly sent to detention without means of recourse, perhaps without being able to seek consular help.

I don't have a solution, except perhaps holding separate conferences US vs non-US.

I'm actually embarrassed by this. I am currently laboratory director, which means that I authorize business travel and I am, in a certain way, responsible for the safety of employees. We currently have received only light guidance and instructions about travel to the US.

The New York Times today if it was December 7, 1941.

"The US base at Pearl Harbor hosting navy ships reports several stopped floating Sunday morning."

Evolution of the #Web

@einarwh https://leanpub.com/unethical-software-engineering

@rauschma @tolmasky

Happy to second #WebScript

It could take along only the good parts of JavaScript.

When the flight gets delayed, but the email notification of the delay gets sent after you landed.

New blog post: "Explaining software and computational methods"

https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2025/06/25/hyperdoc.html

My friend, the epidemiologist,
told me that war
is bad
for pandemics.

My friend, the climatologist,
told me that war
is bad
for the climate.

My friend, the veteran,
told me that war
is bad
and left it at that.

That time of the year when one prints the stack of #EuroPLoP papers to read before the writer's workshop.

Trying to get a few good sentences finally written while the stochastic parrot is eagerly completing them as you type the first word is like...

@VaughnVernon if only there was a way to abstract away those mLoC into some model

eco{nom|log}ical

@streetartutopia

A few months ago, when planning where to submit papers this year, I made the decision that this time around we were not going to send anything to MODELS, since it is hosted in the US.

Trump's travel ban today says it was 100% the right decision.

That said, the MODELS organizers are doing their best. They have created a hybrid attendance option, allowed virtual presentations, etc. But these are band-aids.

Holding any SE conferences in the US is going to be a very tricky proposition going forward. And I strongly believe that ICSE 2028 should NOT be held in Hawaii.

#modelsconference #icse @SIGSOFT @seresearchers @icseconf

Dear #reviewer,

Complaining that I don't cite 2 (or more!) papers that, coincidentally 😉, are authored by you is, 99% of the time, blatant (and stupid) self-promotion. And if one is an #arxiv paper from this year, well, that's just ludicrous.

I wish reviewing systems include some sanity checks / alarm triggers 🚨 that force #PCChairs to double-check this unethical behaviours.

(another pet peeve of mine when it comes to reviews is New Ideas tracks rejecting papers because of insufficient validation. Honestly, I think every #conference should include a #track for real #new #ideas where any type of validation is explicitly #forbidden as argument).

"In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.

In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it."

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/