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Welcome back to earth, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. 🚀

Bluesky’s a world without caesars shirt is back in stock. Ordered. I don’t impulse buy clothing very often but this one captures the moment.

This is like that moment, five years ago, when we realized that Covid was going to kill a lot of us but it hadn't happened yet. A lot of people weren't yet aware. My friend John Palfrey, who is a legal scholar, has been writing about this moment on LinkedIn and Facebook. Thi...

My workflow:

• Program a new feature.
• Draft a blog post announcing the feature.
• Realize while writing the post that it would sound better if it also did this other cool thing, add that to the announcement post.
• Go back and add that thing in code.
• Ship it!

The Dems highest priority should be to get the Kamala Harris campaign back on social media, 24 by 7, with the truth and snark, irreverance, disrespectful of the Repubs, as a matter of principle. They were great. Perfect. We need a voice for the Democrats on the social networks.

Would someone please send this to AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Bernie Sanders, Mark Cuban, James Carville, anyone else you can think of.

The Dems only problem is there is no voice, no pulse, no heartbeat. Even without this, they almost won the last election.

Everything you like about government came from the Democrats.

[Freedom of the Press Foundation] Wired is going to stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. This approach makes a ton of sense: "They’re called public records for a reason, after a...

Today we try for the third time to get an appointment for AT&T Fiber installation to work. It’ll help that they know have my correct phone number. 🤞

Feeding your words to a platform is a vote for its values, whether you like it or not.

— Matt Webb

[Scharon Harding at Ars Technica] Don't keep an Amazon Echo (or any smart speaker) in a room where you'll be having sensitive conversations, either with your family or on a work call. Particularly if you're a journalist or activist - but privacy is something...

This post is for idiots like you who click on links to The Bulwark.

Dan wrote an interesting post with a somewhat clickbaity title; This Competition Exposed How AI is Reshaping Design: I watched two designers go head-to-head in a high-speed battle to create the best landing page in 45 minutes. One was a seasoned pro. The other was a non-...

So, let’s start with a simple premise: how can we make design less opaque and encourage teams to make small changes more efficiently? Not every product decision needs to be a big, complicated design process.

This checklist, in four parts, is meant to be a simple, lightweight way for the team to get the ‘gist’ of the issue and make a shared decision quickly. It’s a starting point, a way to get the critical information in once place so the entire team can understand and discuss. The four parts are:

• Gather: Bring the right info together into a single place
• Impact: List the size of the problem and possible risks
• Sketch: Create a preliminary sketch of a solution
• Team Huddle: Get the product team to discuss and agree on a solution.

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This is a really thoughtful piece by Rich, who’s got conflicted feelings about large language models in the design process. I suspect a lot of people can relate to this.

What I do know is that I find LLMs useful on occasion, but every time I use one I die a little inside.

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It’s my birthday week. We had coffees and hung out in Bird Rock this morning. It was a lovely and also productive morning. We were at Starbucks and I got my regular coffee order, the Caffè Misto. And yes, I documented that as a new page using my new lightweight pages at /starbucks. And I...

Coffee (and booze). Houndstooth. ☕️

St. Patrick’s Day session

This is the data we currently keep for every draft you edit in WordLand.

Politics is bleeding into everything. Tech headlines, podcasts that aren’t usually political. For 2025, I like to box my politics into narrow parts of the day, not everywhere all the time. Soon we’ll need mute filters in all apps, from RSS readers to Overcast.

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