Use Firefox

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) seems to enjoying being highly opinionated in a way that divides an audience. The examples are numerous. I'll pick his decision to drop Typescript support for Turbo to illustrate my point. But he's always been one to keep an eye on because he does have some really valuable opinions. His recent defence of Elon Musk didn't hugely surprise me I suppose, but it felt noteworthy. I think DHH selects his Musk facts a little too neatly, and ignores a bunch of other stuff as well as deflating the significance of just how much wrecking he will likely do. Government is big and complex for a reason - it's not a micro-blogging platform and the real-world implications are immediate and devastating. (I guess social media platforms can also have immediate and devastating ramifications but let's not go there right now).

A pretty solid counter piece is Sam Harris' recent piece, The Trouble with Elon, which is a pretty systematic breakdown of his character by someone who was once very close to him. It's also noteworthy coming from Harris who very much exists in the Tech-bro world of Silicon Valley.

Of course the person to listen to about Musk is probably Kara Swisher.

Continuing on my quest to watch lots of tech videos, I've had this James Lewis talk lined up to watch for an awfully long time so finally got around to it. It's a great synthesis about How Work Works. It's all about queues and batch sizes it would seem.

Ed Zitron's take on Microsoft cancelling significant leases for data centres and walking away from other data centre contract negotiations is well worth a read. If Zitron is right, the AI wave may have finally crashed. In the mean time Ezra Klein is making some pretty big statements about AI which I struggle with a bit but the discussion is worth a listen - particularly the surveillance state stuff.

Finally your regular reminder that you should be using Firefox - despite Mozilla's imperfections.