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This always feels good!

Last night from Mattie’s at Green Pastures.

UX London isn’t the only event from Clearleft coming your way in 2025. There’s a brand new spin-off event dedicated to user research happening in February. It’s called Research By The Sea. I’m not curating this one, though I will be hosting it. The curation is being carried...

As AI gets better at helping with coding, I think it’s going to feel similar to the productivity boost going from assembly language to Pascal or C. Or maybe from C to Ruby. Development becomes more about orchestrating lots of modules that AI handles the busywork implementation for.

I don’t really understand what consistency models are, but nice to see OpenAI sticking to their bizarre lowercase letter naming. 4o, o1, and now sCM.

Back in 1994, I would never have guessed that the computing future 30 years later would still have so many modal dialog boxes.

Jason Fried says version 1 is for you:

v1 is for us. No one else. Others will use it, many will resonate with it, but ultimately, v1 is ours. It’s sacred ground. There’s an eternity to change, tweak, modify, grow, expand, and adjust for everyone else, but there’s only a fixed amount of time to make that perfect version 1 for us.

The only thing I’d add is that sometimes v2 and v3 are just for us too. Micro.blog does a lot of things and the only way it works is that I don’t add features I won’t use myself.

Glass houses, throwing stones, etc. I gripe about ActivityPub’s chattiness but just fixed a bug that caused way too many activities to be sent out for some posts in external feeds, as if they had been edited. Need better tools to peer into the system to see what it’s actually doing.

If only voters understood that government isn't a TV show.

Wednesday session

Whenever I search for recipes and get back so much search-optimized filler text and ads, explaining the background of every ingredient instead of just showing me the recipe, I want to start my own recipe blog. Today I actually registered a domain for this. Have a recipe to share? I can invite you.

The weakest link in Micro.blog’s server infrastructure remains our two Redis servers, which often get up to the breaking point of memory usage. That blew up today and I just finished restoring it. 48 GB memory is not enough, but I’m hesitant to do another upgrade… Need to trim the bloat instead.

I think it's probably too late, anyway. Journalism should have reported, constantly, that the house is on fire. And nothing else. Biden's age didn't enter into it you fools. The much bigger story was and is that Hitler wants to be president, and this time he has a plan. It was true then and it's true now. The next question is what will Biden do if Trump wins. It was tough watching Obama greet Trump at the White House in 2016. I can't see Biden doing that. I wonder what ideas they're workshopping in the actual Situation Room.

This is such a great project from Jon—a mashup of two books from his childhood!

Put that RSS feed in your feed reader.

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The background queue for ActivityPub-related tasks in Micro.blog seems to have accumulated 5 million jobs overnight. Some replies to the fediverse will be delayed until I sort out what happened or it eventually catches up.

Good interview from Joanna Stern with Craig Federighi. I’ve got nitpicks with Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1, but listening to Craig it’s pretty easy to nod along with Apple’s strategy.

Last night I was surprised to see Wolf Blitzer reporting, on CNN, on all the worst things Trump has said, with supporting video. On CNN, one of the worst sanewashing sources for our would-be despot. I can't imagine what happened there. Or maybe I can. Is it possible that the ...

I would pay for a third-party API that works like Apple’s private cloud compute. For the foreseeable future, AI is just going to be better in the cloud. Would be great to take advantage of that with fewer privacy trade-offs.

[Maggie Harrison Dupré at Futurism] File this under "good, but I can't believe this wasn't already banned": "Sweeping changes to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines aimed at cleaning up the polluted, confusing world of online product reviews went into ...