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Martin Luther King Day is January 20 in 2025, also is Inauguration Day.

My father attended University of Houston, and it’s where I went to college to study political science, I started WordPress when there, and then dropped out after two years to move to San Franisco. It was fun seeing UH Magazine feature an article about my journey from a University of Houston student to co-founding WordPress and leading … Continue reading UH Magazine, Revisting My Alma Mater →

While driving to Dallas yesterday, I had what I thought was a good idea. I almost pulled over to the side of the road to register a domain name. By the time I got there a few hours later, I had talked myself out of it. Realized it was the equivalent of Trader Joe’s buying 7-11 so they could run it.

Deep in the thread: "I want to give a huge volume of writing to ChatGPT or something much like it, and then ask it to give me an outline of what I wrote, and allow me to massage the outline, churn out a synopsis. I'd like to see what's there, and there's far too much writing for me to do that."

What if you had a twitter-like system that was embedded in a ChatGPT-like app. What would you do with that?

The journalism I pay attention is labeling itself as truth-based -- but it most definitely is not. When it comes to topics I am expert in, they tell a mushed up version of extreme points of view, that (surprise!) favor the continued existence of their jobs. The choice of the truth-based label is kind of a clue. 😄

This post spawned quite a thread on Bluesky: "The AI industry could give us easy tools to build our own models, from our own archived writing, for private use. This may be a blind spot. It's as if when personal computers started, instead of spreadsheet editors, we were offered great sets of tabulated recalc'ing data. Fun to watch, maybe useful for researchers, but nothing compared to the utility of playing 'what if' on our own models."

I’ve been more curious about Claude lately because it has been getting so much new attention. Tried it for an HTML thing and it was great, love being able to iterate with Artifacts. But tried it again for something similar and it just error-ed out, over and over. ChatGPT still seems the most solid.

Scoot Inn. Nope.

The Session has been online for over 20 years. When you maintain a site for that long, you don’t want to be relying on third parties—it’s only a matter of time until they’re no longer around. Some third party APIs are unavoidable. The Session has maps for sessions and other...

I hold this truth to be self-evident: the larger the abstraction layer a web developer uses on top of web standards, the shorter the shelf life of their codebase becomes, and the more they will feel the churn.

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This magnificent piece by Maxwell Neely-Cohen—with some tasteful art-direction—is right up my alley! This piece looks at a single question. If you, right now, had the goal of digitally storing something for 100 years, how should you even begin to think about making that ...

A piece in today's NYT said all networks flame out, but that's actually too crude a statement. If you want your network not to flame out, give the users the tools to keep things moderated. One of the best features of Facebook is it gives the author of a post the power to de...

For folks using the Sumo theme (and probably some other themes) who tried the new Micro.blog photo collections, click on Plug-ins and update to version 1.0.1 of the “Photo collections” plug-in. It’ll fix the layout issue.

Overheard: “I am not kidding about Zillow the musical!”

Downtown buildings disappearing into the mist.

Got derailed into posting something too negative to my blog. Nothing wrong with constructive complaining, but today was supposed to be about new software. Good, positive stuff. Just a note to myself to not lose the big picture next time.

NPR has a convenient list of tech executives who I will hate forever. I still can’t watch the news, saw this mostly by accident. 🇺🇸