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The new Salter Cane album is available on Spotify now:

https://open.spotify.com/album/3MeUNUs1EKdleklacQMaQB

I have to agree with John here:

There’s absolutely no reason the mobile web experience shouldn’t be fast, reliable, well-designed, and keep you logged in. If one of the two should suck, it should be the app that sucks and the website that works well. You shouldn’t be expected to carry around a bundle of software from your utility company in your pocket. But it’s the other way around.

There’s absolutely no technical reason why it should be this way around. This is a cultural problem with “modern front-end web development”.

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“ The internet is now five websites owned by three people and all of them are awful” they said on yet another social media platform where they posted more than a thousand times already and it’s doomed to become the sixth websites.

This is part two of an ongoing series apparently.

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Circumstances have totally dictated that I chose the wrong year to try “Dry January.” In fact, it was the dry Southern California January that got us into this mess…

If you only build a new skyscraper every year or so, downtown Austin doesn’t seem like it’s changing much. Looking at the skyline, it’s familiar — hey there’s the capitol, and the Frost tower, and… — but when I think about the full scope of changes over decades, it’s almost unrecognizable.

16 years ago today I wrote up and posted a proposal for a new calendar: newcal.orgHaving long been frustrated by unnecessary unevenness and other quirks of the Gregorian calendar, I designed and wrote up a more ordered, mathematically simpler, and more continuously consistent...

History is going to view Joe Biden very favorably. He accomplished a lot that we’re only just starting to see results from. Competent management of the pandemic and a peace deal for Gaza are bookends. Thanks Joe. 🇺🇸

Looking for a headshot-style photo, it’s surprisingly hard to find something good in my photo library that doesn’t have other people in the photo. Maybe I need to take more selfies.

Was SwiftUI a mistake? Steve Troughton-Smith writes on Mastodon:

Boy do I wish Apple had built a real Apple-quality next-gen UIKit/AppKit-like first-party cross-[Apple]-platform UI framework instead of SwiftUI. The closest thing Apple makes is still Catalyst, but they completely squandered their opportunity to make something better than what came before. Going all-in on SwiftUI is the kind of mistake that will hurt for decades to come

This is a frequent topic on Core Intuition. For the Mac, there are pros and cons for choosing AppKit, Catalyst, or SwiftUI. It shouldn’t be that way.

Sad to say I'm going to have to mention Trump from time to time. When I hear a reporter wondering what to make of his thing about all those friendly countries he wants to go to war with, here's what it means. He's trolling you. Haven't you figured that out by now. Just by mentioning the weird thing he's talking about as if it were some kind of puzzle, a brilliant chess move, etc blah blah zzzz. It's trolling. Stop falling for it. If it's Trump-initiated nonsense, don't report it. You. Are. Being. Trolled. Asshole. All he wants is attention. Always. No exceptions.

Wherein Brad says some kind words about The Session. And slippers.

Slippers are cool.

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Micro.blog’s tweets import sometimes struggles, and it needed a few kicks before we finally got Romit Mehta’s tweet archive of over 140k tweets imported. But it works! The cool thing about the architecture is that after import it makes everything available on a separate blog and via an API.

Good article by Jason Snell at Macworld about how Apple’s previous playback is in conflict with recent products like the Vision Pro and Apple Intelligence. Also this bit about how Apple’s culture is still in the 1990s despite their massive success:

Today’s Apple is a titan, but it still behaves like it’s a put-upon underdog in danger of being taken advantage of by the cold, cruel world.

I’m sure I’ve blogged the same thing. I still think we hit peak Apple about a year ago.

Matt Mullenweg said something provocative on Twitter two days ago that I'm just tuning into now. "The lawsuits will go years and could potentially bankrupt me or force the closure of WordPress.org." I commented on it as a developer who views WordPress as a platform.

Daytona is the search engine for Scripting News.

I've wanted to do a rewrite for quite some time, there were a lot of decisions I wanted to redo, and I've learned a lot about databases in the three years since the first release.

You can try it out. There are docs, and a place for questions and comments. The usual caveats apply, esp since it's newly deployed, quickly.

I realized some time ago that all the ways I want America to change just bring it closer to being Europe. Like, what if we had this can-do attitude and all the good parts without the guns and with universal healthcare, real education, unprocessed food without sugar in it, a ...

The feediverse is not a joke. It's deployed, scaled, widely supported, far beyond AT Proto or ActivityPub. It's the HTML of the social web. And where the others are complicated, feeds are, wait for it, really simple.

Interesting—this is exactly the same framing I used to talk about design systems a few years ago.

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ChatGPT scheduled tasks are interesting. I’ve tried a few things — sending me a news summary or programming tip at a certain time — and it works as advertised. Not sure I have a good use case right now, so for fun I’m having it send me a haiku.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bug related to == vs. === in JavaScript. Half the time we’re comparing strings anyway and it just doesn’t matter, so why ugly up your code with an extra =? Also while I’m being controversial, real tabs are great. 🤪