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It’s odd how many developers in the fediverse don’t know how Bluesky works. I’ve made it my business to understand a little bit about all platforms, going back 30 years of building for the web. Product design is then finding the right way to put the pieces together.

What a sad situation. What started with the open web in the 90s is now owned by billionaires, who, looking for new worlds to conquer have adopted a fascist buffoon as their frontman. It was never supposed to be owned by anyone.

Why hasn’t the NY Times run a story that takes Trump at face value and explains to voters what it would be like to live in that United States? It should have been updated and run every time Trump ups the ante. An example. Trump says Americans who criticize the Supreme Cour...

Why hasn’t the NY Times run a story that takes Trump at face value and explains to voters what it would be like to live in that United States? It should have been updated and run every time Trump ups the ante.

[Anne Helen Petersen] "The best indication of the health of an industry like journalism isn’t who excels there, because the answer is obvious: work robots who come from some sort of family money. To understand just how broken media is, look at who leaves the...

I’ve noticed a few people recently refer to their top-level pages as “slash pages”. Honestly my first reaction was “Aren’t those just ‘pages’?”, but I’ve come to find the term kinda fun. But when people started adding a /slashes slash page, I thought “Isn’t that a sitemap?”. XML sitemaps are common to aid in search engine indexing, but there are lots of documented examples of human readable sitemaps as well. Apparently others think of them as “index pages”. The ...

OpenAI’s Orion model may be released before the end of the year, according to The Verge:

Unlike the release of OpenAI’s last two models, GPT-4o and o1, Orion won’t initially be released widely through ChatGPT. Instead, OpenAI is planning to grant access first to companies it works closely with in order for them to build their own products and features, according to a source familiar with the plan.

My first reading of this is that the model is too powerful to just let anyone use right now. But maybe it’s also too expensive. I wonder if it’ll be available from the API.

Podcast: WordPress is too valuable to overlook.

When your house is on fire there aren’t two sides.

Added a help page to describe how configuring Bluesky handles in Micro.blog works. Super easy, almost nothing to do.

It’s probably not well known that when you enable Bluesky in Micro.blog, it also enables your blog domain name to be used as your Bluesky handle. In fact it’s so hidden a feature that I forgot if I had ever implemented this and had to double-check today.

Train crossing at Cherrywood.

[Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users] An important announcement from Bluesky: "We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Alumni Ventures, True Ventures,...

Writing is the best means I have of metabolizing my own life.

— Maria Popova, 18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian

I really liked this short story.

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Interesting contrast today in how two newspapers have covered the same story. I cancelled my NYT subscription this year, but I happen to see the news item pop up in my timeline. The New York Times: Biden Administration Outlines Government ‘Guardrails’ for A.I. Tools A natio...

We rolled out a new zoom for photos on the web. Thanks @vincent for working on this! It turned out really well. Here’s a quick demo video.

Mathew Ingram has posted some smart reflections inspired by Netscape’s thirtieth birthday: I don’t think an ancient serf seeing an illustrated manuscript for the first time in the 11th century would have been any more gobsmacked than I was at Netscape. Yes, there were ...