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📍 Checked in at Hello, Yam!, New York, NY.

This is just so, so nice. Congrats Joe and thanks, and thanks to all who have helped one another learn and make web pages. 💖 And here’s to more!! ✨🔥✨

https://artlung.com/blog/2025/04/25/study-hall-reflections/

Pre-Preamble I share some personal history at the start. Skip down to the Front End Study Hall if you’d prefer to skip intro. Preamble Every Job A long time ago my family was living in the Philippines. We didn’t have money. We had roommates. Other medical students like my Dad. One was Dave. Dave M....

My post earlier today about Bluesky seems to have spread more widely than I expected. Lots of feedback! Looking at it again, the analogy with Google was confusing, and the post title with “downtime” set the wrong expectation… It was supposed to be a more positive, hopeful post.

It would be nice to have ChatGPT available in the terminal app on the Mac. I could use it as a stenographer.

Bluesky was down last night and I saw a couple posts questioning how this could happen if it was really decentralized. Worth a few thoughts here. If mastodon.social went down, what would the user sentiment be? It hosts 2.7 million users, or roughly 15% of the fediverse. (Not...

Catching up on last night’s NBA scores. I watched some of Knicks / Pistons, but staying up on east coast time for west games is tough. Thunder are a force, will be difficult to get by them. 🏀

[Tim Stevens at The Verge] It's rare these days that I see a new product and think, this is really cool, but seriously, this is really cool: "Meet the Slate Truck, a sub-$20,000 (after federal incentives) electric vehicle that enters production next year. It...

If you’re following the last few photos I’ve posted, my daughter and I have been slowly making our way to New York. Surprisingly the first time I’ve ever driven through a few states: Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Road trips are usually out west. 🚙

OpenAI wants to buy Chrome. Perplexity wants to buy Chrome. Yahoo! wants to buy Chrome. Heck, Micro.blog would also love to buy Chrome (if we had a budget). If Google has to spin it out, could be an interesting shift for the open web.

This is the 87th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Frills and her blog, frills.dev To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every Fr...

Reading Salt Slow by Julia Armfield.

I’ve come to the conclusion that my current mental state is fucked up in all sorts of ways for a variety of different reasons. The thing that sucks the most about mental health is that it’s usually not something like a broken leg where you immediately notice something is wro...

Another fantastic essay by Dario Amodei, this time about “interpretability” and the need to better understand AI:

People outside the field are often surprised and alarmed to learn that we do not understand how our own AI creations work. They are right to be concerned: this lack of understanding is essentially unprecedented in the history of technology. For several years, we (both Anthropic and the field at large) have been trying to solve this problem, to create the analogue of a highly precise and accurate MRI that would fully reveal the inner workings of an AI model.

Train bridge at Falling Waters, West Virginia. On the other side of the river, the Confederates were stranded for days after Gettysburg.

I've got Crazy Fingers in my brain. Can't stop humming it.

Thursday session

So with threads.net switching to .com, I was a little worried about how this might impact the fediverse support. Thankfully looks like they’re sticking with .net for handles.