my forest
a few notes
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\date{2025-12-09T15:43:26Z}
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\author{liamoc}
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\title{Web Components are confusing; bugs fixed.}
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\p{I use [Web Components](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_components) to make widgets that I can easily emit from Forester documents, such as my [[loc-0015]] and [Syntax Highlighting](loc-0029) plugins. I noticed that on large pages (such as my [weeknotes page](loc-001B)) these plugins would sometimes mysteriously fail to load. I later realised that this is because the \code{innerText}, \code{innerHTML} and \code{textContent} properties may not be initialised when the web component is attached to the DOM, if the page is still loading. The solution requires attaching mutation listeners and waiting for the text to be added later. This seems unnecessarily complicated, but anyway, the plugins have been fixed now. }
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\date{2025-12-09T15:56:34Z}
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\title{"AI is Destroying Learning Itself"}
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\p{I've already listed a [decent number of anti-LLM articles](loc-001H) from various perspectives: the technological assault on artistic pursuit, authentic self-development, our social protocols, and on the stability of the economy, but (beyond the [open letter itself](loc-001H)) I hadn't seen much quality writing on the profound damage this technology is doing to higher education, until I read [this current affairs article](https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself) by Ronald Purser. A lot of it ties in with a [general decline in conscientiousness](loc-001M) that I think is not only a sign of a sick society, but also a deeply unfulfilling one. It's well worth the read. }