Last Friday was a normal day, until it wasn’t. I had breakfast with my husband, went to work, had a haircut, went out to dinner with my family. Normal. And then, the bottom dropped out. A week ago, at this exact time, I was in the emergency room being treated for anaphylaxis from a severe food allergy.
Sometimes you just need to inline a SVG in your stylesheets. Why? There could be any number of reasons. One could be that you want to be able to use it as a background icon in a select element. Another could be that you’re using it as a decorative, non-informative icon in a button. I don’t judge, as long as you’re not using a SVG that should have alternative text for the user.
I’ve been in some spectacularly terrible interviews. Absolutely horrible car-wrecks of interviews. As someone with extreme people-pleasing tendencies, this can be tough. I have to remember that the things that make the interview so awful are the things that I don’t want to deal with in any new position.
It seems like AI is everywhere. Companies are slathering LLMs on like Frank’s Red Hot, hoping that generative AI is the special sauce they need to grab more revenue. As a visual artist, I haven’t been keen on AI, as apps like MidJourney and others have plagiarized from a lot of hard-working artists. Then there’s the resource-intensive processing requirements that seem to be increasing every day. As a software engineer (developer/programmer/codemonkey), I have to admit that I’m curious about the good ways we can use generative AI that don’t harm creators and how we can limit unnecessary AI use to curb resource consumption.