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Hallmark Skill

Hallmark Skill

A UI skill, not a cheesy rom com

I saw this new Hallmark design skill that usehallmark.com put out. It exposes roughly 50 different themes from Editorial to Modern minimal, Atmospheric to Playful. It’s made by a couple of guys, Hassan El Mghari and Youssef El Mghari which I assume are relatives (but have no confirmation). They build very cool Open-Source and AI driven sites such as RoomGPT.io and self.so and this very cool AI Papers site, 1kpapers.comm. Let’s check out their skill, which despite the graphic, really has nothing to do with the Greeting card company (which is now more known for cheesy romantic movies).

A 1980s Airline Repair guide may be a cure for AI Slop

A 1980s Airline Repair guide may be a cure for AI Slop

How a 30 year old reduced English standard applies to LLM tech writing today

In the last few days I’ve been rather fixated on this YouTube video called “The cure for AI slop is a 1986 aircraft manual”. If you like more of a narrative, pause here and watch the video. First, a bit of context… Simplified Technical English has its starts going all the way back to the 1930s with “Basic English” and later the 1970s with CFE, Caterpillar Technical English and Kodak International Service Language (KISL). Per the CFE documentation: