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I’m really excited to introduce a project I worked on with various AI agents the other night, which I think represents a new way we might build things in the future. First, the problem: My WordPress site has 5,600+ posts going back decades, and I had some categories that were old and I didn’t really … Continue reading Taxonomist →

Wednesday session

Project Hail Mary came out right after I left on my trip, so I just finally got to see it today. It was great. English with Spanish subtitles. 🍿

I am interested in how software feels to use. Back in 2024, I wrote: I want to learn about design, I thought to myself, excitedly. I was interested in why some things feel better to use than others – why do some tools feel like a delight, while others feel rough around the ed...

People of Brighton, be sure to get your ticket for the Salter Cane gig this Saturday, April 4th featuring Skyscrapers and The Equatorial Group!

https://saltercane.com/tickets

We show you a CSS property name. You tell us if it’s real or if we made it up. That’s it. It starts easy. It does not stay easy.

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BTW, suggestion to web-based companies that send out notices via email. It's good to do that, but make sure somewhere there's a link to exactly the same material on the web. It can only build traffic for your ideas, earned media.

Got an email from Automattic about MCP support in WordPress, which is now available on their servers. With this new interface you can write prompts in Claude etc that do things in your WordPress workspace. Kind of like a scripting language, but English, like this -- "In Word...

There's so much bullshit, why deliberately add more -- in hope of being either funny or memorable -- and only succede at annoying.

Why didn’t anyone tell me you need to get tickets to Sagrada Familia weeks in advance? Just kidding, literally everyone I’ve talked to in the last month has told me that. I don’t listen and just do what I want. 🤪

The new WebAIM Million report is out, the eighth annual accessibility analysis of the top one million home pages on the Web. And after eight years of data, the picture is as sobering as ever. In 2019, 97.8% of home pages had detectable WCAG conformance failures. In 2026, tha...

"Four weeks into the war, Iran is plummeting toward total digital isolation with its internet blocked and communications heavily restricted and monitored." And it's part of a bigger trend.

"Groups that challenge books have begun using Gemini, ChatGPT, xAI, and other AI tools to try to get books banned." The point is to create a chilling effect.

Archived Scripting News OPML source for March 2026.

I updated the Mac version of Inkwell again this morning. Here’s a very quick demo video on YouTube describing the recent changes.

This post is my contribution to the April 2026 IndieWeb Carnival on the topic of “Adventure”. Thank you for hosting, Pablo! The Seven Hills of Edinburgh challenge invites participants to hike up seven designated hills in Edinburgh within a day. There are official events to p...

This is my entry to the April 2026 Grizzly Gazette Carnival on the topic “Your favourite unconventional animal". My favourite animals are cats, undoubtedly [1] [2]. This month’s Grizzly Gazette Carnival invites participants to think beyond cats, however, to “unconventional” ...

Om Malik blogs about OpenAI’s latest funding round, presumably the last one before an IPO:

OpenAI is quietly pivoting, shutting down Sora, its much-hyped video app, and concentrating resources on a “superapp” for developers and business users, with coding assistants at the center. Why? Because enterprise is exactly where Anthropic is eating their lunch.

I don’t completely agree with this. Yes, Anthropic has the momentum and is making a ton of money. But is it a pivot? OpenAI is still going to release a hardware device within the next year, which is clearly a consumer product.