Busting the ghost engineers (0.1x-ers) (News)

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Ben Affleck’s take on AI replacing actors, Stanford researcher (Yegor Denisov-Blanch) busts the ghost engineers, Electrobun takes a crack at Electron apps, April King opens up a cookies can of worms, John Arundel thinks many of us are making a career ending mistake & Typogram’s CodingFont.com is like Zoolander’s Walk Off but for coding fonts.

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1. What up, human nerds? (00:00:00)

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/11/13/ai-doesnat-stand-a-chance-against-actors-or-shakespeare-ben-affleck-says.html?utm_source=changelog-news

2. Busting the ghost engineers (00:00:51)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1859290734257635439.html?utm_source=changelog-news

3. Electrobun is a fresh take on Electron (00:01:57)

https://www.electrobun.dev/?utm_source=changelog-news

4. Handling cookies is a minefield (00:02:51)

https://grayduck.mn/2024/11/21/handling-cookies-is-a-minefield/?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:04:09)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=changelog-news&v=XP-h304N06I

6. A career ending mistake (00:05:21)

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/career?utm_source=changelog-news

7. It's a coding Font Off! (00:06:26)

https://www.codingfont.com/?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:07:20)

https://changelog.com/news