Bruce Abernethy

Software developer, director, dad, and husband. Ocassional writer, speaker, and teacher.

AI

AI isn’t unleashing imaginations, it’s outsourcing them. The purpose is profit - Comments (the Guardian - Hacker News)

Llama-OCR: An Open-Source Llama 3.2 Based OCR Tool - Comments (llamaocr.com - Hacker News)

BSA, representing OpenAI, Microsoft, and others, urges Trump to review rules that are “unnecessarily impeding AI adoption” but to keep some of Biden’s moves (Morgan Chalfant/Semafor) - Morgan Chalfant / Semafor: BSA, representing… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

The EU publishes its first draft of a Code of Practice under the AI Act for general-purpose AI models, including provisions for copyright and systemic risk (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) - Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The EU publishes… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch a new AI agent codenamed Operator, which can use a computer to take actions on a person’s behalf, in January (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI plans to launch a… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac - Comments (simonwillison.net - Hacker News)

design

10 Top Graphic Design Trends for 2025 - As 2024 wraps up, we’re on the cusp of entering… (Graphic Design Junction - Muhammad Faisal)

A Short Tour of the Best Inventions of 2024 According to TIME Magazine - The newly released TIME Best Inventions of… (Rohit Bhargava - Rohit Bhargava)

10 Top Visual Trends for 2025 - The world of visual design is constantly… (Graphic Design Junction - Muhammad Faisal)

development

Why refactoring is important, necessary, and not shameful. Weekly Update 426 - I have absolutely no problem at all talking about… (Troy Hunt - Troy Hunt)

Please, Stop the Coding Challenges - Comments (_blackentropy - Hacker News)

AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive - Comments (gauge.sh - Hacker News)

I Regret Ever Open Sourcing Java – Jill Malony Ratkevic - Comments (facebook.com - Hacker News)

In .NET 9 Debut, Microsoft Focuses on .NET Aspire, AI - Microsoft shipped .NET 9 today with the dev team… (Visual Studio Magazine - News)

ebikes

America’s best-selling cargo e-bike arrives with advanced features at same affordable price - America’s best-selling cargo e-bike arrives with… (Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News - Gaurav Sood)

eink

MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia - Comments (miksovsky.com - Hacker News)

fun

This Desktop Robot Toy Is A Delightful Tribute to the Iconic Apple IIe Computer - This Desktop Robot Toy Is A Delightful Tribute to… (Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News - JC Torres)

Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# - Comments (GitHub - Hacker News)

general

Why Do So Many Companies Want People Back in The Office Now? - The future of work is hybrid. If there was one… (Rohit Bhargava - Rohit Bhargava)

Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 23 – Crazy 8s - It’s time to ideate, so bust out some paper, put… (Marginal REVOLUTION - Kimberly Crawford)

jobs

3 Benefits of Remote Work (and Why We Chose Co-Location) - I believe that remote-first is a viable model for… (Marginal REVOLUTION - Ryan Abel)

Looking for a Job Is Tough - Comments (Sergey Kaplich - Hacker News)

leadership

How to Navigate a Leadership Transition - If you’re taking on a new leadership role, this… (Harvard Business Review - HBR.org)

nature

2024 NBP International Awards Winners - (missouri.edu - link.join1440.com)

This Is the Best Way to Germinate Seeds Outside During Winter - With this method, the results are more resilient… (Lifehacker - Amanda Blum)

security

Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they? Here’s why they should - Comments (theregister.com - Hacker News)

How Public Key Cryptography Works, Using Only Simple Math - Comments (Quanta Magazine - Hacker News)

Please Don’t Use Any of These Passwords - Your accounts can be breached instantly. (Lifehacker - Jake Peterson)

tech

Avoid ‘dead butt syndrome’ with these 4 top tips from a physical therapist and chair expert - Dr JulieLandis wants you sitting comfortably. (Creative Bloq - beren.neale@futurenet.com (Beren Neale))

“Why Is It So Expensive To Repair My Devices?” - Now, of course, we’ve all dropped a cell phone,… (Electronic Frontier Foundation - Christian Romero)

The best ergonomic keyboards for 2024 - If you spend a good portion of your waking hours… (Engadget - Amy Skorheim)

M4 Mac, Ollama, and Mandelbrot Sets - Local AI/LLM goodness for Developers (Medium - Bruce Abernethy)

Apple released a hearing aids feature for the AirPods Pro… - Apple released a hearing aids feature for the… (X (formerly Twitter) - Rithwik Jayasimha)

M4 Mac mini’s efficiency is incredible - Comments (jeffgeerling.com - Hacker News)

Sources: Apple is making a 6” wall-mounted display that can control appliances, do videoconferencing, and use AI to navigate apps, and may unveil it by March (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

ui

Uno Platform Studio: GUI Designer for Cross-Platform .NET Applications - Comments (Uno Platform - Hacker News)

Europeans Spend 575M Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year - Comments ( - Hacker News)

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