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Finished reading: The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams. Strong characters in this. The monsters creeped me out a little. There is a lot going on, maybe a little too much, but it wraps up well for the first book in a trilogy. 📚

Every time I solve a Wordle puzzle, I'm allowed to switch over to ChatGPT and narrate a new scene for the Wordle Kitty. Here's today's installment.

The cute and adorable Wordle Kitty, Democratic VP candidate, got tired of waiting for the Republican, so she took a few of the reporters with her back to the presidential suite at the Plaza Hotel on 5th Ave and had a drunken night of debauchery with the reporters and totally trashed the place. The next morning the story appeared in The NY Times. Headline read “Adorable kitten trashes suite."

You can always count on Teslas to have fun vanity license plates.

Sunday session in Cork

Somehow, I need to deal with my sadness. Do we all? It’s like it sits just under the surface, ready to spring up. Is every adult like this? I think it must be more common than anyone talks about. It’s not even that the world is getting harder, between climate change and nati...

[Dmitry Antonov and Andrew Osborn at Reuters] "A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their children found out they were Russians only after the flight took o...

Good W3C SocialCG telcon yesterday morning.Minutes: https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG/2024-08-02Appreciate working with @evan@cosocial.ca @dmitriz@mastodon.mit.edu @TallTed@mastodon.social @snarfed.org Lisa a @AaronNGray@fosstodon.org @bobwyman@mastodon.social @by_caballero@mastodon.social @j12t@j12t.social @steve@social.technoetic.com @thisismissem@hachyderm.io#W3C #SocialCG #20240802 #2024_215 #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #relAuthor

Wordle Kitty is rumored to be the VP choice for the Dems. She is at the Carnegie Deli in NYC to meet the Republican VP candidate, to talk about a debate, but the Repub is a no-show! Weird. Meanwhile the press is having fun asking her embarrassing questions about a cat in the White House. They want to know if the WH has a litter box. What if she gets pregnant? Stuff like that.

I don’t invest any more, but here are some areas I’d be interested to see startups explore: The hallway track for remote and hybrid teams. One reason many companies are enacting return to office policies is to re-establish cross-pollination across teams. Yes, a strong, inte...

For some reason I don't like writing user-level docs for my own software, but I don't mind narrating a draft with voice. Now that I have a voice recorder that creates transcripts exactly where I need them, I can feed the narration to ChatGPT and ask it to write docs based on...

Saw a video where Elon Musk talks about climate change, no snark, didn't call it a hoax, was intelligent and serious. Also heard that he's backing Trump for president, who says it's a hoax and one of his major campaign promises is to "drill baby drill." Maybe they could discuss this because there seems to be a disagreement here.

[Jason Snell at Six Colors] "In the most recent financial quarter, Apple generated $24.4 billion in revenue from Services. The Mac, iPad, and wearables categories together generated just $22.3 billion. Only the iPhone is more important to Apple’s top line th...

Still a little puzzled by the link handling in Threads posts. Every character in the URL counts toward the total, even though the URLs are shortened when displayed anyway. I don’t want to run a URL shortener in 2024 but it would help.

Good post from Jason Snell about Apple services:

Apple is building an enormous business that’s based on Apple customers giving the company their credit cards and charging them regularly. And that business is incredibly profitable and is expected to continue growing at double-digit percentages.

Another thing that struck me about Tim Cook’s comments on the earnings call: no mention that I noticed of App Store revenue. And yet that is a huge part of services. As a developer, it feels like Apple doesn’t want us to think about how profitable they are based on third-party apps.

Blogrolls, in the 90s, were the beginning of the social web. In the 20s, they can bring today’s social web into blogs.

Dan Murrell blogs about how he uses ChatGPT to add features to his iOS app:

Why should I spend time writing all the code when I could instead describe what I want, and evaluate and adjust minor bits instead?

This is going to become more and more common. Importantly, you can’t blindly follow AI coding advice. A human still needs to be in charge who understands the code.

Here’s an example screenshot in the Mac app of how I use bookmark summarization. I bookmark things I might blog about and get a nice summary of the story. Then later I might add tags or make highlights and use those as quotes in blog posts.

From the M.b news blog, bookmark summarization via our future robot overlords is now available to everyone. I love this feature.

New for everyone: when you bookmark a web page, Micro.blog will automatically include a summary of the page in your bookmarks list. This was previously just for Micro.blog Premium customers. Of course it’s skipped if you disable AI in your account.

Micro.blog News https://news.micro.blog/2024/08/02/new-for-everyone.html

Made a tweak to how timelines in Micro.blog are stored, especially helpful for our poor servers when there are lots of inactive accounts. Our memory usage for Redis servers continues to be out of control, gotta chip away at it.