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Typography
fromCsswizardry
4 days ago

font-family Doesn't Fall Back the Way You Think - CSS Wizardry

Font-family declarations are self-contained and do not inherit fallback options from parent elements.
Writing
fromThe Walrus
3 weeks ago

I Love the Em Dash-Too Bad If AI Does Too | The Walrus

The em dash, once a stylistic tool, now faces suspicion of making writing appear robotic, yet it remains a powerful punctuation mark for expressing voice, rhythm, and authentic thought patterns.
Online marketing
fromPractical Ecommerce
1 month ago

AI Bots Don't Need Markdown Pages

Serving Markdown versions of web pages to AI bots resembles cloaking tactics and risks diluting essential signals without proven effectiveness in improving visibility.
from99% Invisible
2 months ago

The Em Dash - 99% Invisible

Vance, a Portland-based journalist who runs Stumptown Savings, a newsletter covering local grocery deals, had been accused of using ChatGPT to write his content. The evidence? His use of em dashes. "A Reddit user accused me of using AI, pointing to my use of, quote, extra long M dashes that are not possible to replicate on a normal keyboard," Vance recalls. The accusation stung, particularly because Vance spends 40 hours a week personally visiting grocery stores and crafting his newsletter by hand.
Typography
fromAlexharri
2 months ago

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

One thing I spent a lot of effort on is getting edges looking sharp. Take a look at this rotating cube example: Try opening the "split" view. Notice how well the characters follow the contour of the square. This renderer works well for animated scenes, like the ones above, but we can also use it to render static images: The image of Saturn was generated with ChatGPT.
Software development
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Opinion: You can blame me for all those em dashes in AI-generated text

I'm one of those authors whose books AI ate for lunch a few years back. At some point I might get a check to pay me for a dozen years' work on the three books it stole, but really, there's no way to compensate for the fallout. AI seems to think no, it can't think, only shuffle what real people thought that a machine can write as well as a person can.
Writing
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