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I keep hearing pundits and incumbent Democrats missing the point, that the people are the ones whose opinion matters about the Republicans dismantling our democracy in the United States. I want to celebrate those leaders who totally get that the power is with the people, no...

This is the 81st edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Keenan and their blog, gkeenan.co To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every ...

I’ve been out of town for a few days and not coding much, but Vincent has been working on the mobile app. iOS folks, a new TestFlight beta is out with creating a new blog category and editing summaries, plus other fixes. A couple more tweaks and then will ship to everyone.

Thursday session

Overheard, single mom who took her 401k and put it into starting a new business. Not everyone should do this, but… I love it. YOLO.

Reading Hera by Jennifer Saint.

Goodbye, Amsterdam!

Responding to John Gruber’s AI post yesterday, Om Malik blogs:

Just as Google is trapped in the 10-blue-link prison, which prevents it from doing something radical, Apple has its own golden handcuffs. It’s a company weighed down by its market capitalization and what stock market expects from it.

Chet Collins reviews my book Indie Microblogging. Most people who have checked it out have just skimmed through it a little, which is fine! Love to see a detailed look, though. I still plan to publish a final final draft with a few updates.

Ana Rodrigues blogs about how websites can be good as a playground and for others to learn from:

But deep down, all I want for my personal website is to give back to the web. I want anyone, regardless of skill level, to inspect elements, understand the structure, and learn from readable code.

Imagine my surprise, when, roughly two weeks ago, I received a direct message on Mastodon from Brandon Kelly, the founder and head of the team behind Craft CMS, opening with: 👋 I spent today work­i...

The web was initially designed for writers. Styling, links, paragraphs, titles (at all levels). The ability to edit. No character limits. That's what we had to work with when we started blogging in the mid-late 90s. Then there was a big corner-turn in 2006. In an instant th...

bookmarked Building Websites With lots of little HTML pages

Great post from John Gruber about Apple Intelligence and the Siri delays:

Leaders prove their mettle and create their legacies not by how they deal with successes but by how they deal with — how they acknowledge, understand, adapt, and solve — problems. The fiasco is that Apple pitched a story that wasn’t true, one that some people within the company surely understood wasn’t true, and they set a course based on that.

WWDC is pivotal. Apple needs to have a much clearer and demo-able vision for AI.

I collect quotes on a quotes page on my website. I add to it every few months. Since I think the quotes page is only linked on one page — my pages page (#meta) — I wanted to publish a post to say it exists. I hope you enjoy the quotes! If you have a collection of quotes on your website, send me an email and let me know.

I received an interesting bug report this week. A new user of Artemis reported that the letter “n” was missing from all of their post titles. For example, one post title ended in “Oe Moth I” instead, as it should read, “One Month In”. What was causing the bug? I had a hunch. ...

Guided by wondering “what would I say to my younger self starting a website?”, I started taking notes. Here they are: Don’t worry about writing on one topic. You’ll find great joy in exploring new ones. Write what you love — the observations of your life, the things that mak...

Something I wrote in the W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop’s Zoom chat:Another implicit assumption (flaw) that is often a part of "purely technical solutions" is the neglect or ignorance (innocent naïveté) of existing technical solutions. A technical proposal should not be prai...