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I'm farting around with the OpenAI API. I have a nice encapsulation for calls to ChatGPT, one that hides all the tricky stuff, all you need is an apiToken to make it work, something that is available for free. The first place I put it is in an outliner. Basically I can write a question in a headline, click an icon and the response from ChatGPT is placed in a series of sub-heads. Interesting to see that they use Markdown to convey the response. The logical choice. I'm not sure how or if I will use this in my writing, but now I have an idea what it's good for. Here's a screen shot of a question I asked and the answer. Also the API is very slow. A question like that would be displayed instantly in their app, in my app it takes a half minute. And I have to pay for it, whereas in their app it's all covered by my $20 a month subscription.

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Good recap at WP Tavern of State of the Word from Tokyo. Matt Mullenweg:

Some people might see 2024 as a year of distractions or attacks from bad actors in the community. But it was really a year of growth and focus where we were able to accelerate so many things that we’re doing.

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Cosmic sticker. ☕️

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We went to see War of the Rohirrim a few days ago. It has the feel of the battle scenes of Return of the King, but stretched to the entire 2-hour film. Worth seeing for LotR and anime fans. There is no chance to catch your breath, though. The quiet scenes are taken up with voice-over narration.

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Interesting episode of the Daily podcast about AI in Hollywood. They specifically mention a new movie starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, with bodies and faces edited by AI to be various ages other than what they are (mid-late 60s). The movie Here, was rated not too great by various critics including the NYT.

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I usually post one photo at a time, so my last post was mostly an excuse to test the new layout for photo collections in the Micro.blog mobile app. Here’s a screenshot. Photos scroll horizontally, tap to go full-screen. This currently only works for collections, not any set of photos… yet.

Screen of Micro.blog timeline on iPhone.

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A couple photos today as I was walking along Riverside.

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It’s amazing how many things we worry about that don’t actually matter.

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Choosing a geocoding provider

Yesterday when I mentioned my paranoia of third-party dependencies on The Session, I said: I’ve built in the option to switch between multiple geocoding providers. When one of them inevitably starts enshittifying their service, I can quickly move on to another. It’s like...

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I recorded a new demo of Micro.blog photo collections on YouTube here. This video shows the Mac app’s interface for photo search and collections.

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Worked on a few things over the weekend, including Mastodon posts and photos import. Micro.blog and Mastodon have had moving followers for a while, but you couldn’t actually move your Mastodon posts. Now you can import a Mastodon archive and Micro.blog will copy the posts and photos to your blog.

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• Ben Werdmuller

The reader experience

[Ghost] Another great update from the Ghost team, this time with some lovely animation to illustrate the fediverse reading experience. The second topic of the post gave me a little bit of pause, because, whoa Nelly, I've been there: "In light of that, we opt...

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Ev Williams, Twitter and Medium Founder, Unveils New Social App

[Erin Griffith at the New York Times] I've been using Mozi for a little while and like it quite a bit: "Mr. Williams views Mozi as an attempt to return to social media’s original intention, which was about interacting with people you already knew. Over the y...

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• Matt

State of the Word Tokyo

It’s a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We’re going to be in an amazing venue that looks over the city. Most of WordPress and Automattic’s senior leadership is here, and we’ll also have several hundred folks from the local community and press. We’ve gotten so much inspiration … Continue reading State of the Word Tokyo →

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Black wooden typewriter case covered in black material. It's split into two parts and sitting on a wooden table in front of a 1941 Corona Standard "Flat top" in the background.
Spent an hour today cleaning up the case of my Corona Standard and removing some rust from the metal fittings. Some of the material is peeling away from the case and I’m debating whether or not I ought to recover the entire thing—a restoration project I’ve not yet done on any of my machines. Took … Continue reading

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• Marty McGuire

I screen printed some stuff

This week I finished up a fun and challenging screen printing class at the Gowanus Print Lab! Tucked away in the giant maze of brick buildings that is Brooklyn's Industry City, Gowanus Print lab is a small space, mightily equipped for paper and fabric screen printing project...

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On the highway, passing small towns, I sometimes question why we pay so much to be in the city when there is nearly unlimited affordable property everywhere else. Of course the more central, the closer to things, the less time getting anywhere. We aren’t really buying a location. We are buying time.