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OCTOBER 31, 2023

What are the unknowns that will shape 2024? I doubt that we’ll see strikes at major technology companies like Google and Amazon—but we’ve already seen a union at Bandcamp. By the end of 2024, we’ll know a lot more about the answers to these questions. I’d bet it will happen before the end of 2024. Which will win out?

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Is it possible to distinguish between creative output (“Write in the style of Jesmyn Ward”) and actionable output (“Write a program that converts between current prices of currencies and altcoins”)? But Google has the best search engine in the world. Ask this course, expected to go into beta in the first half of 2024 Footnotes 1.

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CSS Wizardry

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Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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High Scalability

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