Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

Salut, web dev friends! 🧑‍💻

I have selected some news from the web dev world to share.

Have a great week.


📗 Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI
Now that generative AI is nearly mainstream, the internet is filling up quickly with fake and low quality content. The cost to produce bullshit article or spamming SEO is near zero so now the human internet is getting buried over by generative AI. Even YouTube for kids is filled now by poor quality video for toddlers.

This blog is not AI generated, nor will ever be 😤.

🔮 vCard + RSS as an alternative to social media
vCard ( Virtual contact File ) is a standard for electronic business cards, it’s in use in every smartphone. And with a RSS feed you can have your own feed of information.
With the two you can share a QR code which links the two and replace a LinkedIn profile.

How we’re approaching theming with modern CSS
How Andy Bell write 3 themes for a landing page and configuration of the page is only 43 lines of CSS.

☠️ How to Kill the Cascade
With some new addition to the css language by the Safari team, Robin Rendle show us a new technique « the local reset ». Instead of having a global reset for your website, you can now have a localised reset for your component.

😎 Git yolo
If you don’t want a clean git history and just want something done, this script is the perfect for you.


Web tools and Library

⛺️ Runtipi
Runtipi is a homeserver for everyone! One command setup, one click installs for your favorites self-hosted apps.

🤯 MistCSS
Write React components using CSS only
A new, better and faster way to write visual components. CSS-in-JS ? Nope! JS-from-CSS is the way to go.

🤖 Ollama
Run Llama 2Code Llama, and other models. Customize and create your own.

🦙 LlamaIndex
Data Framework for LLM Applications, generate a LLM fine tuned with your local data easily.

📖 Sources

Every news are mainly from my Twitter feed, my Github feed, The collective, Michael Thiessen, Michael Hoffmann, Stefan and more recently by my friends Adrien Zaganelli.