I listened to a terrifying episode of Darknet Diaries this week where a developer, Connor Tumbleson explained how their identity was stolen by some form of grifting company that created a fake Upwork profile pretending to be them. They then proceeded to hire freelancers to pretend to be Connor in interviews… It’s all very weird […]
Something I really don’t like is how “hate” is used so lightly — especially by tech folks. Same for “dead” too (tech doesn’t die it’s just sand that can think). Over the last couple of years, I often get mischaracterised as “hating” stuff. Y’know, “Andy hates React”, “Andy hates Tailwind”, “Andy hates Twitter”, or more […]
Predictions are fun and social networks seem to be in a period of turbulence, excitement and of course, decline. This is what I reckon it might look like in 6 months: Twitter will be like Facebook: cringe and irrelevant. It certainly will not be “dead”, but just like Facebook is now: Twitter will be completely […]
Elon Musk has removed check marks from everyone now on Twitter, so I thought I’d make a web component so you can add one wherever you want!