Frederic Marx
@fmarx.com
Enthusiasm enthusiast. Frontend developer at Ableton. Writes about code, design, music, and general nerdery.
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Frederic Marx
@fmarx.com
· Nov 26
The magic is coming from inside the house | Frederic Marx, Front-End Developer
What if we take everything that generative AI asks of us, and do the exact opposite?
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“In many ways, understanding how things work is the antithesis of generative AI.”
New post about preparing for the post-bubble-era: fmarx.com/journal/the-...
New post about preparing for the post-bubble-era: fmarx.com/journal/the-...
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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Hello again, everything is still scary and hard and the tech job market is wild right now, so here's my semi-regular thread of open jobs I've found where your work could make the world better (or at least, not make it worse)
January 21, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Hello again, everything is still scary and hard and the tech job market is wild right now, so here's my semi-regular thread of open jobs I've found where your work could make the world better (or at least, not make it worse)
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hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
January 15, 2026 at 6:09 PM
hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
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To mark 25 years of Drowned in Sound I’m doing a series of interviews with some of my favourite acts of the 21st century
Was thrilled to finally interview the techno / ambient / electronic icon Kelly Lee Owens about class, community, and clever ideas to save grassroots music
#music #depechemode
Was thrilled to finally interview the techno / ambient / electronic icon Kelly Lee Owens about class, community, and clever ideas to save grassroots music
#music #depechemode
Kelly Lee Owens: Record Shops to Depeche Mode Stadium Shows
YouTube video by Drowned in Sound
youtu.be
January 14, 2026 at 7:15 AM
To mark 25 years of Drowned in Sound I’m doing a series of interviews with some of my favourite acts of the 21st century
Was thrilled to finally interview the techno / ambient / electronic icon Kelly Lee Owens about class, community, and clever ideas to save grassroots music
#music #depechemode
Was thrilled to finally interview the techno / ambient / electronic icon Kelly Lee Owens about class, community, and clever ideas to save grassroots music
#music #depechemode
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Bandcamp bans AI music
Bandcamp Bans AI Music
AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated psych-rock band from last year with hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams? Remember bands gett...
stereogum.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Bandcamp bans AI music
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Here is the wonderful dorky talk of Astrid Bin with which she was closing the 2025 edition of Berlin. Watch “Dork Patterns: The Story of Little Character” and kick off this week in the right way. youtu.be/6MYyRuSaNSY
Astrid Bin – Dork Patterns: The Story of Little Character – beyond tellerrand Berlin 2025
YouTube video by beyond tellerrand
youtu.be
January 12, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Here is the wonderful dorky talk of Astrid Bin with which she was closing the 2025 edition of Berlin. Watch “Dork Patterns: The Story of Little Character” and kick off this week in the right way. youtu.be/6MYyRuSaNSY
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it sucks that being a woman talking about this puts a target on me, but i‘ve had my head put on nude bodies that weren’t mine as retaliation before so whatever: if it happens to you, do not panic and definitely do not isolate yourself from friends and family. talk about it with someone you trust.
January 13, 2026 at 1:58 AM
it sucks that being a woman talking about this puts a target on me, but i‘ve had my head put on nude bodies that weren’t mine as retaliation before so whatever: if it happens to you, do not panic and definitely do not isolate yourself from friends and family. talk about it with someone you trust.
They originally wanted to call it √Godzilla², but decided against it at the last minute. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzill...
Godzilla Minus Zero - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 12, 2026 at 10:54 AM
They originally wanted to call it √Godzilla², but decided against it at the last minute. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzill...
Pluribus poignantly explores the idea that “No one has to be able to work with everyone, but […] if we do not challenge ourselves to navigate some amount of discomfort, our political reach will have terminal limits.” (Let This Radicalize You by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social)
January 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Pluribus poignantly explores the idea that “No one has to be able to work with everyone, but […] if we do not challenge ourselves to navigate some amount of discomfort, our political reach will have terminal limits.” (Let This Radicalize You by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social)
Verschlimmbessern is German for making something worse while intending to make it better, and by introducing inherently non-deterministic tools like ChatGPT to problems where deterministic solutions already exist, you’re doing exactly that.
I ran the values from the ChatGPT-generated color contrast report included in the article through WebAIM's contrast checker and got dramatically different values. I'm not sure this article actually proves the point it's trying to make.
January 7, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Verschlimmbessern is German for making something worse while intending to make it better, and by introducing inherently non-deterministic tools like ChatGPT to problems where deterministic solutions already exist, you’re doing exactly that.
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With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...
January 2, 2026 at 2:27 PM
With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...
I like when a villain in a story says “my powers are stronger than ever before”, so that we know their powers are stronger than ever before
January 3, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I like when a villain in a story says “my powers are stronger than ever before”, so that we know their powers are stronger than ever before
The belly rubs will continue until morale improves
December 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The belly rubs will continue until morale improves
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The idea that autistic people lack empathy is still depressingly prevalent, partly because people conflate 'caring about other humans' wellbeing & wanting them to be happy' with 'reliably able to infer a stranger's motivation & emotional state based off observing a few external nonverbal clues'.
December 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The idea that autistic people lack empathy is still depressingly prevalent, partly because people conflate 'caring about other humans' wellbeing & wanting them to be happy' with 'reliably able to infer a stranger's motivation & emotional state based off observing a few external nonverbal clues'.
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SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
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Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
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we have a really good dev rel engineer here throwing himself to (i would say) a small number of very loud, hungry wolves because the new ceo did (i would also say) a very weird announcement that sounded like it was written in 2024 by an ai startup
Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.
We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
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We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
we have a really good dev rel engineer here throwing himself to (i would say) a small number of very loud, hungry wolves because the new ceo did (i would also say) a very weird announcement that sounded like it was written in 2024 by an ai startup
To the person who came up with the idea to replace the knobs on a stovetop with a single touch panel, which is mounted flush with the same surface on which pots of boiling water are heated up; where are you, I just wanna talk!
December 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
To the person who came up with the idea to replace the knobs on a stovetop with a single touch panel, which is mounted flush with the same surface on which pots of boiling water are heated up; where are you, I just wanna talk!
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December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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the way they’re also literally taking the place of the actual laborers who built this shit is quite on the nose
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
the way they’re also literally taking the place of the actual laborers who built this shit is quite on the nose
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Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
newhumanist.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
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Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
Cinema is great because we just watched First Cow (2019) and there’s a guy who finds a salamander lying on its back, picks it up, and turns it the right way around, and it tells you everything you need to know about what kind of guy he is.
December 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Cinema is great because we just watched First Cow (2019) and there’s a guy who finds a salamander lying on its back, picks it up, and turns it the right way around, and it tells you everything you need to know about what kind of guy he is.