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Rob Shearer wrote a detailed and fairly scathing critique of Mastodon. I don’t agree with everything in the post, but I do think he’s right about migration: One of the big selling points of Mastodon was that you can pick which instance your account lives on, but it is easy ...

I was out in the sunset again this evening. I set off a bit later than yesterday. At the beginning of my walk, I looked to the sun – which would not set over the hills for at least an hour – and thought about where it was this time yesterday. I am now thinking about how my gr...

Reading A Psalm For The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers.

Soon…

Stephen Hackett commenting on a report in The York Times about Apple not allocating much of a budget to AI servers:

For a company that says it doesn’t like looking back at its own history, very often, Apple makes decisions like it’s the late 1990s and the company is on the verge of failure. That drives it to make incredible products, but it also means Apple can be incredibly stingy. To play in the AI race, you’ve got to be willing to spend piles and piles of cash.

Old train bridge next to new light rail bridge in Tempe.

Dave Winer has written up two improvements Bluesky can make to RSS feeds: including images and including embedded posts instead of the “contains quote post” message. The images are especially important and make the feeds really impractical to use right now because the data is just missing.

This morning ChatGPT told me it knows more about me, and will learn better. Promises promises. I would like to begin with teaching it my coding conventions. Will make it much easier for me to work with it. Their idea of how JavaScript works is disorganized bordering on chaos....

When young people come out of university in a technical subject, they think they know more than people already doing the jobs. They quickly learn that in school they were doing "student projects" which are not the real thing. Ooops, maybe we didn't know as much as we thought.

[Alexander Lee at Digiday] Substack isn't the best deal in town for independent journalists: "A year after leaving Substack in early 2024, newsletter writers are making more money peddling their words on other platforms. [...] Since leaving Substack, some w...

This is the 85th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Jedda and her blog, jeddacp.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every Fr...

I put a little care into something and sent it out into the world.

Finished reading: Dragonsteel Prime by Brandon Sanderson. I read the last several chapters on my flight. Fascinating to see such an early take on a few pieces that would later turn up in Way of Kings, and other draft ideas for the Cosmere. 📚

The difference between a junior developer and a senior developer isn’t actually about writing better code. It’s that for people with more experience, their gut feeling about how best to solve something is just correct more often. That’s it.

It wasn’t the Amtrak route I had planned for today, but guess this airport train will have to do. Hi Phoenix. 👋

Picked up for some work related to the Eaton Fire recovery, but it also means I’ve upped my game on tools for typewriter repair.

Thursday session