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James' Coffee Blog Supports Webmention
• James' Coffee Blog

Pattern: Filtering over content firehoses

Every week, BBC Scotland publishes a collection of photos as part of a Your pictures of Scotland series. Readers are invited to submit photos of anywhere in Scotland. The series has opened my eyes to all of the landscapes across the country. From morning frost over the hills ...

James' Coffee Blog Supports Webmention
• James' Coffee Blog

Matcha

I am excited by the arrival of spring; a time of flowering and growth and, hopefully sunshine. As it gets (a little bit) warmer, I have been in the mood for my go-to, non-coffee iced drink 1: a matcha latte. Last week, after drinking one, I thought maybe I could try making ic...

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• Chris Aldrich

Great! Another evacuation warning. This time instead of for catastrophic fire, it’s for rain and potential mudslides from the burn scar. Fortunately (?) I’m still evacuated from January 7th about 6 miles south.

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

Excellent Dithering today — and Upgrade yesterday for the 2-hour version 🙂 — about how the Apple Intelligence rollout missed the mark. Time for Apple to take off the rails and open up APIs and models so developers can take the lead for a while, like how Mac apps innovated with desktop publishing.

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Curating UX London 2025

I’ve had my head down for the past six months putting the line-up for UX London together. Following the classic design cliché, the process was first divergent, then convergent. I spent months casting the net wide, gathering as many possible candidates as I could, as well as...

Ben Werdmuller Supports Webmention
• Ben Werdmuller

New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review

[Erin In The Morning] While America is destroying the ability for trans people to participate in public life, over in Europe they're (rightly) improving care for trans people. "In recent years, U.S. politicians have selectively framed European healthcare pol...

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Going to Amsterdam. brb

Going to Amsterdam. brb

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Bluesky is not billionaire-proof

First I want to say that Bluesky is nice software, good design, attractive, they have a goal and stick to it, and it stays up, no fail whales that were so vexing of early days Twitter. That said, I have two criticisms: They are implementing the same limits that Twitter desi...

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• Chris Aldrich

Table level view of the front of a 1929 Corona 4 Portable Typewriter
Received on Saturday 03-08, but didn’t open it up until this morning. The case is fairly worn and has the fabric peeled off in several spots, but the leather handle is in tact and in reasonably good shape. The machine has seen better days certainly and needs a thorough cleaning. The paint has some significant … Continue reading

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• Chris Aldrich

1920 Corona 3 folding typewriter viewed from table level
Received on Saturday 03-10 and unpacked this morning. This is now the oldest machine in my collection and the first true antique as it’s now 105 years old. The first thing I’m struck by is the tiny size and scant weight of the entire machine and the case. I’m curious to compare the weight to … Continue reading

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Ten years ago today I coined the shorthand “js;dr” for “JavaScript required; Didn’t Read”* https://tantek.com/2015/069/t1/js-dr-javascript-required-deadin reference to (primarily content) pages that were empty (or nearly so) without scripts.Since then js;dr found its way into...

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Gus Mueller thinks Apple needs to get out of the way with AI:

The crux of the issue in my mind is this: Apple has a lot of good ideas, but they don’t have a monopoly on them. I would like some other folks to come in and try their ideas out. I would like things to advance at the pace of the industry, and not Apple’s.

Good post. I included several quotes in my post this morning and would’ve added Gus’s post too. Experimenting with LLMs running locally is perfect for developers who build Mac apps. Maybe third-party developers need a convention to download and share models between apps?

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After lunch I ended up having to head out of town unexpectedly to visit family, so gonna miss the afternoon SXSW and Fediverse House events. It was amazing catching up with folks who I only knew online, and meeting some people for the first time. Have a great week and safe travels!

Ben Werdmuller Supports Webmention
• Ben Werdmuller

Leader of student protests at Columbia facing deportation

[Jake Offenhartz, Cedar Attanasio and Philip Marcelo at The Associated Press] This seems completely in line with the First Amendment's protections against restrictions on speech and assembly by the US government: "President Donald Trump warned Monday that th...

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Monday session

Monday session

Monday session

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• Joe Crawford

Mistrust, LLMs, and DOGE

These are bits and pieces. Not fully formed thoughts. But I want to quote two smart people. Steve Yegge 2 years ago. And Dan Hon a few days ago. From Steve Yegge, 2023: Cheating is all you need: All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software engineering exists as a discipline because...

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POSSE.

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

Now that bookmark tags are available to all plans on Micro.blog, it’s more consistent to manage bookmarks. I’ve moved my read-later type activities to Micro.blog. Just nice to have it all in one place to bookmark posts and blog about them. Screenshot example of a bookmark with summary and tags:

Screenshot of one of my bookmarks of a MacStories blog post.

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Twittotage

I left Twitter in 2022. With every day that has passed since then, that decision has proven to be correct. (I’m honestly shocked that some people I know still have active Twitter accounts. At this point there is no justification for giving your support to a place that’s lit...

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Apple's response to AI

Ever since Apple revealed their AI strategy to lean into on-device models, there has been a sort of tension with the approach from other companies like OpenAI, Google, and Amazon. Was Apple Intelligence going to work? There are advantages: for user privacy because more data ...