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People who shoot on film (or who used to) will probably enjoy this video from Adrian about when he brought 100 rolls of film on a road trip.

NSHipster is back again with a bunch of tips for running AI models on a Mac with Ollama. Also this:

If you wait for Apple to deliver on its promises, you’re going to miss out on the most important technological shift in a generation.

Saturday morning band practice.

The way to get even is to win. A lot of people don't get that, and it's almost always their downfall.

I’m not giving money to Democrats. I will give to campaigns that run hard-hitting ads telling the full truth about what Musk is doing now. I want to see the actual ads before I chip in, and will do so enthusiastically, but they can’t be anemic.

Hypercard stacks were the equivalent of websites.

If it had been built around the Macintosh Toolkit, and had an API that fit in with Mac apps, there wouldn't be a web, we'd all be using Macs. Alas it was all on its own, didn't work with Mac apps. Missed opportunity.

A lot was lost because the Mac development model was far in advance of what existed on the web, and it was well-thought-out unlike the app model of the web, which is a hodgepodge of horribly designed modules that don't work well together.

I was a Mac developer at the time, so I know a lot about this moment of history.

The Dems don't do positioning. The Repubs run circles around Dems. They are masters at positioning. It's not hard, you just have to decide to do it.

My partner got me some roses for Valentines Day. 😍

There are so many new (sponsored) rules in the celebrity all-star game that I stepped away for a minute and there was a mascot playing on the court. Which honestly makes me just want to see a full game of only team mascots. 🏀

Nice single-page site from Pixelfed about social web technologies. Think about if more platforms supported everything on that page.

Wrote up some documentation for the first phase of our blog post “summary” feature rollout. Like a lot of things in Micro.blog, this is a foundation. Other things can be built on top of it.

Musk will defund Medicare.

More than death panels.

Say goodbye to everyone who needs health care

Because almost no one can afford it without coverage.

That's what they mean when they say they'll cut $2 trill.

That's your health care.

I’m not a fan of Nicholas Carr and his moral panics, but this is an excellent dive into some historical media theory. What Innis saw is that some media are particularly good at transporting information across space, while others are particularly good at transporting it t...

Want to use all those great features that have been in landing in browsers over the past year or two? View transitions! Scroll-driven animations! So much more! Well, your coding co-pilot is not going to going to be of any help. Large language models, especially those on...

A couple of days ago I linked to a post by Robin Sloan called Is it okay?, saying: Robin takes a fair and balanced look at the ethics of using large language models. That’s how it came across to me: fair and balanced. Robin’s central question is whether the current cr...

Podcast: Dems must campaign 365 days every year.

This is my permanent political rant, podcast-style. The Repubs figured it out via Trump in 2016, use Twitter to campaign every day of every year. The Dems campaign intensely for a few months every four years. The rest of the time it's as if the Dems don't even take the field...

In which Rich nails Clearleft’s superpower:

“Clearleft is a relatively small team, but we can achieve big results because we are nimble and extremely experienced. As strategic design partners, we have a privileged position where we can work around a large company’s politics,” Rutter said. “We need to understand those politics — and help the client staff navigate them — but we don’t need to be bound by them. We bring a thoroughly user-centered approach to our design partnership, and that can be something novel to companies. By showing them what good design looks like (not so much the interface, as the actual process of getting to really well-designed products and services), we can be disruptive within the organization and leave them in a much better place.”

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It has now been a couple days since I stopped federating my posts to Mastodon. As expected I get effectively no replies from Mastodon now. I still get replies from Micro.blog and Bluesky. RSS still exists. Good experiment so far.

Anne Applebaum writing in the Atlantic says that people in the US feel like we're living in an occupied country. I get it. That's what it feels like to be in a Silicon Valley company that has been acquired by another Silicon Valley company, a subject I wrote about on Wednesday. I wish there was some way for us to communicate with each other about this, because I'm sure my description comes closer to the way Musk sees it, though they are very similar ideas. One of the defects of the social web is that we live in little bubbles and not much information is exchanged over bubble boundaries. So if anyone knows Applebaum, please send her a link to this post. Thanks.