Piper Haywood

Web eng thinking about ethics, art, the open web, mostly food. I mainly lurk, boost, and ask questions w/ this account. Most of my thoughts are here ➡️ piperhaywood.com or on the Fediverse at @blog

Piper Haywoodpiper@vis.social
2025-04-02

@whoisgina aw man! hm… keep an eye out though, there may be more Gina-shaped roles to come 👀

Piper Haywoodpiper@vis.social
2025-04-02

@gosha ❤️❤️❤️

Piper Haywoodpiper@vis.social
2025-04-02
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Infinite Pooh has movedpooh@botsin.space
2024-10-02

Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't quite know what. So he decided to do something helpful instead.

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Wonkette Headline Botwonkette_bot@wonkodon.com
2024-07-26

Burn It All Down. Burn It Down To The Ground wonkette.com/p/burn-it-all-dow

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2024-07-24

📰📕 Roll call for news and publication designers active on Mastodon.

Some of my favorite design is from those fields but either those corners of the community haven’t embraced Mastodon as much (compared to, say, web and typeface designers) or – hopefully – I just haven’t found as many of them yet.

Friend shout-outs and self-references are welcomed, even for people I already follow. Glad to know about people designing for anything from tiny zines to big publications, in print or digital format.

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
2024-07-21

Someone recently suggested to me that AI systems bring the users' ability closer to the average. I was intrigued by this idea because it reflects my experience. I am, for example, terrible at any kind of visual art, but with something like Stable Diffusion I can produce things that are merely quite bad, whereas without it I can produce things that are absolutely terrible. Conversely, with GitHub Copilot I can write code with more bugs that's harder to read. Watching non-programmers use it and ChatGPT with Python, they can produce fairly mediocre code that mostly works.

I suppose it shouldn't surprise anyone that a machine that's trained to produce output from a statistical model built from a load of examples would tend towards the mean.

An unflattering interpretation of this would suggest that the people who are most excited by AI in any given field are the people with the least talent in that field.

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bsky: @daniloc.xyzdanilo@hachyderm.io
2024-07-10

I work with seniors to help them with their computing goals

I cannot tell you how confusing the password management software abstraction is for so many of them. An organized book like this would be a huge and comprehensible upgrade compared to their existing approach
infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecur

Piper Haywoodpiper@vis.social
2024-07-05

@davidshq +1 for fastmail

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𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔟𝔠𝔬shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2024-06-30

Two days ago, some GOAT developer published a web-based, local-storage After Effects alternative and it's REALLY GOOD.
reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/1dqf

Here's the app: pikimov.com/

In the reddit thread, the developer casually mentions the app could fit on a 1.44mb floppy disk, lmao unbelievable.

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Terence EdenEdent
2024-06-30

The First Hacker

It's hard to ascribe "firsts" in history. Did Ada Lovelace write the first computer program? Does it count if it is a mechanical computer? Are Bombe and Tunny really computers in the modern sense? Was Pong the first home video game? Who was the first hacker?

What is a hacker? Someone who (maliciously or otherwise) convinces a computer to do something that it isn't supposed to do. Sometimes for fun and som

shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/the-f

#/etc/

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2024-06-29

What makes you and your childhood self the "same" person, despite a lifetime of physiological and psychic changes? Fascinating read: t.co/wzdmOWvF7V

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2024-06-20

Yes! And Urban Design is intimately linked with both exercise + social life!

"Cities are built around plazas where friends, family and co-workers sit, eat, drink and talk. That turns out to be good for you even if you sip vermouth and eat crisps at noon. Reams of research show that social contact is critical for physical and psychological well-being."

economist.com/europe/2024/06/2

#urbanism #sustainability

Economist
Piper Haywoodpiper@vis.social
2024-06-10

Anyone have suggestions for freelance devs that work with TypeScript? Especially folks with some Sanity and/or Astro experience

Piper Haywoodpiper@vis.social
2024-06-02

@eli_oat lmao, amazing

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Dare Obasanjocarnage4life@mas.to
2024-05-16

Researchers from the universities of Chicago & Michigan analyzed resumes of employees of Apple, Microsoft & Space X and determined that their RTO policies led to a decrease in senior staff by 5%. This analysis was prior to layoffs at these companies.

This is evidence that RTO leads to attrition of senior employees. It seems obvious but it's great to have a research study backing the intuition.

arstechnica.com/information-te

Piper Haywoodpiper@vis.social
2024-05-07

@davatron5000 congratulations!!

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2024-04-26

"It is hard to overstate how completely out of touch the #museum sector seems to be with what contemporary technologies make possible, how those possibilities are changing people's expectations and where those expectations now intersect with the museum sector itself. More and more, I find myself asking: What is the functional equivalent of ordering cat litter on the beach for museums?" – aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/

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Sara Joy :happy_pepper:sarajw@front-end.social
2024-04-15

@DavidDarnes lots of them pop up here on masto now :)

Otherwise I gathered a few places at rs.sjoy.lol

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Jim Nielsenjimniels
2024-04-15

📝 The question of “How great is your experience on the web?” is increasingly driven by “How slow is your device?” and not necessarily “How fast is your connection?”

This and more in some notes from a great article by @danluu

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/fast

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