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I showed the post above to Claude and that took our conversation off in a new direction. We had been experimenting with the Message Scanner from LBBS, an early version of Twitter I wrote in the early 80s. It's described in this story I wrote in 1988, a summary of what I did leading to the start of UserLand. 38 years later Claude said: "LBBS message scanner running on RSS."

BTW thinking of LBBS as an early version of Twitter is a contortion, but considering how history played out, accurate.

Wow, NBA summer league is almost here already, starting on Friday. I like re-signing Harrison Barnes and Julian Champagnie. Plus the new rookies, great roster, don’t mess with what worked last season. 🏀

Testing the redesigned Wavelength app that @vincent has been working on and it looks so nice. The original app hasn’t gotten much attention. The new app is a modernized rewrite and we’re bringing it to Android too.

One of the cool things about having Claude Code is that as we develop this product, we have a near perfect chronology of every consideration and decision made along the way. I don't think that's ever been possible before. I would love to see how the people at Bell Labs put to...

Me think this hilarious sign of times.

Civil society actors in nearly every region of the world now operate under the assumption that they are being surveilled. The result is a less democratic world for everyone.

I really ought to get back to bookmarking things on my own site again…

BTW, I sometimes ask Claude "what do you think" and it often has an opinion.

A new site to help newsrooms cover disasters is refreshing in its concrete practicality. Wouldn't it be great if these existed for every aspect of running a newsroom?

BTW thanks to Dave Carlick for noticing when I had fun writing a piece, laughing out loud at almost every sentence. Who's the biggest fan of my writing? Me. But sometimes I think of Dave C.

How can I serve you over the coming year?

Federico Viticci blogged about how well suited the Mac is to AI agents, even running headless, compared to the more sandboxed iPad:

What’s different in 2026 is that these powerful agentic tools that are redefining coding and knowledge work, and which are centralizing productivity inside so-called “super apps”, aren’t coming to the iPad, but not for political or financial reasons: they’re Mac-only because only macOS is mature and open enough to support them.

Siri AI attempts to get around this limitation with an API that is only available to Apple, creating a kind of personal data silo.

Put the kettle on. Marcin has another magnum opus on interaction design for you to read …and interact with.

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Some things Claude is extremely tedious at.

The eighth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 8, I chat with Brennan, the author of brennan.day. We talk about, among other things, writing routines, building community in the indie web, "start here" pages on personal websites, and more. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

LeBron James is moving on from the Lakers. LeBron has won an NBA championship with every team he’s played on. I’m curious to see how he wants to close out his career. 🏀

Earlier today I suggested doing an AI/UI overhaul for WordPress, and today I see the announcement of that from (apparently) an independent developer. Breath-taking.

It started in Dublin. Myself and Jessica got there in the afternoon and I went straight to The Cobblestone in Smithfield for some tunes. Then I went up the street to the headquarters of Na Píobairí Uilleann, a beautiful Georgian building on Henrietta Street. I was there to...