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Playing with private note tags in the latest update to Lillihub. It is based on the Micro.blog API but adds its own features and user experience. This is what is possible when there’s an API that developers can just run with.

When I read the tech news or listen to podcasts, my mind sometimes wanders into how I would talk about this with @danielpunkass on Core Int. It’s going to be hard to break the habit. But I packed up my microphone and threw away the mic stand. “Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."

I've been using claude.ai for programming work lately, and it does one thing better than ChatGPT. It reads your code and tries to mimic your coding style. ChatGPT won't do that. It's really frustrating to have to edit their code before I can even try it out.

TL;DR: The key to success is convincing developers to ignore the fact that you will eventually kill them. Would-be platform vendors, open or not, in order to entice a developer to learn how it works: Quick success. Hello World works in less than 30 minutes. Hopefully much l...

I've decided that trading in my Model Y for another EV is an acceptable solution. Let someone else ride around in this car that I love, but hate because it is a symbol of American terrorism and apartheid. This is compatible with my understanding that hate is love that was betrayed. I'm sure I won't love its replacement as much as I loved the Model Y, but I will feel better about driving it. And Tesla shareholders will, I hope, learn the lesson that products must be politically agnostic in order to work commercially. Or if you must take a stand, make it against fascism. So many of our oligarchs have made the wrong bet here. We will never forget what Zuckerberg, Bezos, the CEOs of Apple, Microsoft, Open AI -- all these companies went the wrong way.

Here we are on an artichoke farm in coastal California, a place where migrant workers would normally be doing back-breaking work to pick the artichokes we could eat in our salads and antipasto.

Instead all we have are Trump's beautiful dancers! It is a beautiful scene, but hold your nose because the unharvested 'chokes are rotting and they don't smell very sweet!

In the context of Apple services revenue, I want to mention something I noticed yesterday. I opened the App Store to check something, and staring me in the face right on the home page was an ad for Truth Social. Between that and search ads clutter, ads only make the App Store worse. 💰

This is the 75th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Donny Truong and his blog, visualgui.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox...

Friday morning kitchen session

Lighthouse says https://saltercane.com is 🎉 💯💯💯💯 🎉

For the first time in over a week, today I felt like I could catch my breath. There has been a lot going on.

Tragic what happened with the crash in DC. I’m sure the next time we watch a figure skating competition, even years from now, it will be hard to shake the memory. Every day, every minute, small and big events rewrite the future.

Just heard the sad news that Marianne Faithful has passed away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrsv0NVa6k

Commuter train heading downtown. From the other side of the fence at Cosmic.

After cleaning out the White House of scummy career woke liberals and replacing them with beautiful dancers and then offering buyouts to the 2 million federal leeches, President for Life Donald J Trump set his sights on journalism, beautifying the NY Times! Newly beautified briefing room. Air traffic control is just lovely. The newly beautiful NYT is a work of art. Oh my they are beauts, and loyal too!

Now that Core Intuition is over, we need to give a little thought to the permanent archive of MP3s. Unfortunately the files are spread across our own servers, S3, and Libsyn. It’s probably about 15 GB and sort of difficult to move around.

Good oligarchs and bad oligarchs. We need to help the good ones have the guts to get on the air, with really good creative advertising, telling the people exactly what's being done to them now, without pulling any punches. They have to be warned and they aren't. You have to be paying a lot of attention to understand. And it's hard to know what to believe. We have to have a voice in this, now.

Andrew Hickey wrote something I wholeheartedly agree with. "If you think the day job might literally kill you, and you have no kids, quit and try that mad idea. That might also kill you, but better to die trying something wonderful than be killed by a crappy job."

My response: "My life story since i was 22, and I'm 69 now. It's worked out okay, not perfect, I have regrets, but I would have far more if I hadn't bet on myself. My 22-year-old self was very right about a lot of things."

Great points in this conversation about how Micro.blog handles longer blog posts with titles. Maybe the time has come for a change here. I’ve never wanted Micro.blog’s timeline to be a bunch of summaries and “read more” links, but right now we should be encouraging longer posts, not relegating them.

Pouring down rain this morning, so maybe not a good time for that walk I was planning. Today is the first day in a week that I don’t have anything on my calendar. That means coding and email progress.