ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ

I design software and make art. I also cook for my fantabulous fam.

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[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

I don't xeet or tweet here anymore for obvious reasons. Find me at:

https://t.co/F031U8PK1r
https://t.co/jjbyoaoeM4

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

I wonder how long it will be until there is a career path in AI psychology?

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

This is, like, the final Final Countdown:

https://t.co/8r0TcWwISI

This is the coolest nerdiest maker thing imaginable.

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

@brittneysheff Findability practices push some types of content towards weird shapes. Recipes are an example where all you want are ingredients, method, and a description, but SEO loves keywords and heft, which turns them into 10 pages of word soup. They can read like they're written by AI.

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

I'm not sure if y'all realize, but SEO has been pushing humans to create AI-level content for years. For example, popular recipe sites wrap simple lists of ingredients and steps in a bunch of nonsense text for internet points. Monetization is a much scarier trend IMO.

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

I love wedge salads as it is a restaurant's way of dropping the pretence of actually making a salad with bite-sized greens.

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

With my wife, son, and daughter in 3 different time zones, and me changing time zones a bunch of times in the last few weeks I have no idea what time it is anywhere. I’m pretty sure, though, that I shouldn’t slack my EST team right now 😝

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

I will always forget what something is in the freezer if I don't label it.

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

The whole idea of machines hallucinating reality feels oddly familiar.

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

I’ve always wondered how much travel is too much. So far I haven’t figured it out.

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

I still think of software design as a a harmony of what it needs to be (product), how you experience it (experience design), and how it all falls together (software design). For side projects I love to weave my way between all three, eventually landing on something interesting.

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

Colorado FTW 💛

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

Some days I think that most humans are AI, and not very good AI at that.

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

I can't bring myself to install browser extensions when they have such open access to stuff. The best I can do is keep an extension profile that I don't use for anything personal.

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

When I get frustrated with ads on the web I remember back to the 80s when we had magazines. They were also mostly ads, even pop-out ads that fell on the floor and floated under your furniture. We either pay for our content by renting out our eyeballs and time, or with actual $$.

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

Word of the day: subarashii.

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

@dz

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

One of the joys of life is found in conversation with your adult children. We spent the afternoon talking with our youngest about how to build a basic, trainable neural net, and he schooled me on the maths. I can imagine no better world than one where your kids outsmart you.

[ʙʀᴜᴄᴇ ᴀʟᴅᴇʀꜱᴏɴ @robotpony]

What do you make when life gives you a few kilograms of baby bell peppers? Soup of course!