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Yesterday I asked if RSS can be a social network. The answer is yes -- introducing rss.chat! And here's a Day 0 screen shot. The site is read-only except for a few of my programming buddies who are helping me figure out how to work in this environment. I started this proje...

Omnibear v2.3.0 has been release with some improvements to the login flow. But more importantly, it is now available in the Chrome Web Store! If you have a website that supports Micropub, check it out.

Good discussion on Dithering today about the updated ChatGPT for Mac. I hope a few folks at OpenAI listen to this. As @gruber says, it’s all fairly obvious stuff… The UI is fixable.

“Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.” Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (Kelly and I saw it at the Old Globe yesterday)

Digital memory is fragile not because bits decay (though they do), but because someone else owns the shelf.

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Hmm. Had to verify my age before using Bluesky from the web this morning. Good news is the verification process was fast.

I thought the Texas law was to put the burden on the App Store and Google Play to centralize age verification. A little confused now about the scope.

In the face of declining trust in media, communities are part of the solution.

Sometimes even with the robots help, you take on more than you can manage. GPT-5.6 is great. Shipping the Mac app, Sites feature, and Work all at the same time was too much.

Sites is amazing… from the web. Chat on the Mac needs a redesign. Expecting lots of app updates until they get this right.

Shout-out to Google for the amazingly quick app approval times. Minutes. I assume it’s mostly automated… Which it should be for apps that have been shipping updates for years without malware or gimmicks.

Chicago Public Media is launching a region-wide social platform as a way to bolster its journalism. I believe it represents a path to the future.

Added a new book calendar page to my blog, to visualize when I finished reading books over the last couple of years. Planning to make this available as an option to anyone on Micro.blog. First I need to blog more about what is going on behind the scenes for this feature.

I had a new art piece up last month (it did not sell). Blossomsbugs2026 I’m still posting likes. I’m still posting bodysurfing videos. Blog of the .Day continues! If you have a blog, you are invited to join. See artlung/blogofthe.day on GitHub. I still host events at events.indieweb.org, which I enjoy a great deal. “Masks,...

The horizon is bathed in orange and a faint pink hue as the hills in the middle distance turn blue with the haze of the summer’s evening. Light white clouds are scattered across the sky. Looking at the clouds, I see art; looking around at the hills and fields I see art, too. ...

ChatGPT’s update for Work and Codex puts the design in a precarious position. There is so much going on. If it was me, I would take a step back and think about how to keep a simple chat interface that scales well to Codex without immediately feeling overwhelming.

In addition to launching GPT-5.6, they’ve combined the ChatGPT and Codex Mac apps. I guess that was bound to happen. It still needs a little more work to feel right for normal, non-coding chats.

Back in 2022 I wrote a bit called textcasting. I felt it was so important it deserved its own domain. Textcasting summarized the wrong turn we took when Twitter took over discourse, basically stripping all the features the web needed to be a great writing environment. Textc...

Long-form LinkedIn posts are 41% slop. Other social networks are not far behind.

Even with AI being able to clone almost any app, Micro.blog is fairly safe because no single person actually knows everything the platform can do. 🤪

From the erratic behaviour of the seagulls on my street, I was able to deduce that it was Flying Ant Day.

In preparation for my jaunt to a Greek island, I figured it would be good to have some Greek-adjacent reading material with me to peruse on the beach. So I scoured the shelves of my local library to find a modern retelling of a Greek myth that I hadn’t already read. That’s where I found Medea by Rosie Hewlett.

The book attempts to rehabilitate—or at least give context to—one of the women of Greek legends who has been cast as a villain. See also Clytemnestra, Elektra, and more.

On the face of it, the book succeeds. We get to see how Medea’s actions were driven by her circumstances. But while it’s entirely believable that that Medea was manipulated by a conniving Jason, this framing takes away her agency somewhat.

The writing is perfectly fine if a little bodice-rippy at times. It was a perfectly good beach read.