Really enjoyed reading “Conversation With Things” – from my ever growing conversation design reading list. Review and read notes: https://bit.ly/48PkO3G


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Conversation With Things by Diana Deibel and Rebecca Evanhoe

Conversation With Things is a fascinating journey into the world of conversational design. Authors Diana Deibel and Rebecca Evanhoe have gone to great lengths to produce the introduction they wish they'd had when they started. Two chapters, 'Talking like a Person' and 'Complex Conversations', truly demonstrate an understanding of the…
  • ux
  • design
  • conversational-design

@openai just push me onto pre-purchase credits. Time to start looking into moving fine-tuning over to open models. Seems short sighted when more options are opening up

On my way to @edinburghjs for a talk on Netlify by @philhawksworth Feels new and a blast from the past at the same time. https://www.edinburghjs.org/meetups/2024-02-20

Just finished reading "Conversational Design" by Erika Hall, researching existing works on designing linguistic user interfaces, i.e., AI chat interfaces. Reading Notes https://bit.ly/42HZXOw


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Conversational Design by Erika Hall

Conversational Design could have been a straightforward view on the emergence of voice interfaces such as Alexa or the UI of customer service bots that live in the bottom right-hand corner of many sites. Instead, Erika Hall explores the rich possibilities of conversational language in UX from a more holistic…
  • ux
  • design
  • conversational-design

Loving the naive and surreal AI images created entirely within the browser. Utilizing SD-Turbo, WebGPU, Wasm, and ONNX


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Off to Tech Meetup Edinburgh tonight - "Hacking ChatGPT" by Dan Llewellyn - https://lu.ma/8wx857zf

New blog post on "Hosting multiple Node.js sites on Scaleway with Nginx and Lets Encrypt" http://bit.ly/2oDDldb

Hosting multiple node sites on Scaleway with Nginx and Lets Encrypt

Two years ago I wrote a blog post about hosting Node.js servers on Scaleway. I have now started using Nginx to allow me to host multiple sites on one €2.99 a month server. This tutorial will help you build a multi site hosting environment for Node.js servers. We are going…
  • node.js
  • nginx
  • letsencrypt
  • hosting

Its that time again, box up my few old web sites and move on to another hosting platform - https://my.xervo.io/shutdown

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Reading a legal paper - directors: "each of whom shall be a natural person" people really are scared the robots are taking over

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Putting devices on VPN passing through Iceland. Protecting my privacy from my own government. Sad day that I feel have to do it. UK Subject

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One reason for not showing other code is we don't have the visual stylistic cues like 'sketch' or 'wireframe' that de-marks experimentation

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Thought kids party metaphor in Dave Snowden #uxbri talk on the use ordered and complex sytems in management http://bit.ly/2fdAtAf was great

Replied to a item on twitter

@sl007 thanks for taking the time to post fixes for https://github.com/glennjones/microformat-node updated version on npm

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Its amazing how viral Promises are becoming in Javascript. They start in the browser APIs and infect your code. Weather you like them or not

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Taking a closer look at Google's sw-toolbox, so built a tiny example https://github.com/glennjones/sw-toolbox-example maybe of use to others

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Think we will see a lot more work on virtual DOM's unless browsers give us UI-less access to DOM APIs in web workers, service workers etc.

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Found @RollupJS very easy workflow understand. Help by good intro video's https://code.lengstorf.com/learn-rollup-js/ from @jlengstorf

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