Raindrop.io Bookmarks 02/16/2025

2025年2月16日

• Generating image descriptions and alt-text with AI | Dries Buytaert

  "The TL;DR is that, not surprisingly, cloud models (GPT-4, Claude Sonnet 3.5) set the benchmark with A-grade performance, though not 100% perfect. I prefer local models for privacy, cost, and offline use. Among local options, the Llama variants and MiniCPM-V perform best. Both earned a B grade: they work reliably but sometimes miss important details."

• Measuring ROI of Design Systems: A Comprehensive Guide | by Ana Bramson | Jan, 2025 | Design Systems Collective

  "Discover how to measure the impact and value of design systems with actionable insights and metrics."

• Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? | Kyrylo Silin

  "It's simple - developers needed a way to explicitly tell the browser to open the link in a new tab, free of frame semantics. The underscore signifies a special value rather than a frame name."

• The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding

  "Here's the most counterintuitive thing I've discovered: AI tools help experienced developers more than beginners. This seems backward - shouldn't AI democratize coding?"

• The Internet Is Unusable - by Stephen Moore - Trend Mill

  "The real answer would be to fix the Internet experience. To regulate how many ads there are, how often they appear, how easy it is to close them, put laws in place to stop them tracking us from page to page, to control how much of page is advertising versus content, for search engines to penalize sites that only exist to suck in ad revenues."

• Style Observer

  "A robust, production-ready library to observe CSS property changes. Detects browser bugs and works around them, so you don't have to."