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Dan MacTough feels the same about AWS breaking Node devs.

I should be using the lh and rlh units more enough—they’re supported across the board!

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The foreword to the O’Reilly book on creating inclusive experiences.

Crazy finish to that Nuggets / Clippers game. Not sure I’ve ever seen a dunk so close to win it like that. 🏀

Special shout-out to @vincent for troubleshooting Micro.blog servers while I’m traveling. Driving in traffic through Brooklyn is not when I hoped to get downtime notifications! Annoying hackers trying to mess with our servers.

I asked ChatGPT for an "imaginary image of Harvard Square with middle-class people from red states visiting in their trucks and country mannerisms."

What if, before we transfer human awareness into computers, we discover proof of reincarnation. What then?

I read this article about AI and cancer research last night, thinking about it more this morning. It’s really well-researched. The title is misleading. There’s a lot of promise here, even if we might not get the “compressed 21st century” of medicine that Dario Amodei hopes for.

If Bluesky really wanted to decentralize and do it quickly, they could build a layer out of RSS and OPML on top of what they have and not only would they be able interop with other Bluesky-like services but they could also interop with Mastodon and it could all be done in a matter of weeks.

If I was president of Harvard University, I'd be thinking about how to take advantage of the spotlight the Trump Administration had focused on us. It goes beyond saying No. There's a No, and.. that could come. No and, we're going to do something about X, Y and Z -- ways that...

I have been getting warnings on all my Node.js code that uses AWS api's that come September they're all going to break. I'm working on my mail list stuff this week, trying to get the HTML to work for a lot more people than it was working for, and it's a very depressing proce...

Stephen Hackett continues to have good links related to xAI energy use and gas turbines in Memphis. From what I can tell, none of the other AI companies have done anything like this. They use the existing grid or have proposed new power plants. Google considered generators for backup only. xAI is unique in seeming to not care at all about pollution.

This fits the model we’ve come to expect from Elon Musk. He cares a lot about the big picture and less about who is hurt along the way. It’s an extremist, unhealthy perspective.

I drove through Memphis a few nights ago, only stopping for dinner, but I could tell right away it was a city I’d love to explore more on a future trip. Cool place.

Feels like an emerging trend:

Instead of that deep immersion where I’d craft each function, I’m now more like a curator? I describe what I want, evaluate what the AI gives me, tweak the prompts, and iterate. It’s efficient, yes. Revolutionary, even. But something essential feels missing — that state of flow where time vanishes and you’re completely absorbed in creation. If this becomes the dominant workflow across teams, do we risk an industry full of highly productive yet strangely detached developers?

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The view from Queens. Kind of a wild few days of driving now that I reflect on it.

WordLand v0.5.6: You can customize the menu that pops up when you select text. and we now handle sites with large category lists, the previous limit was 100.

Enjoyed the album launch gig by Patients tonight!

https://patientstheband.bandcamp.com/album/post-high-lows-2

April 18-25, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #026 Thursday, April 24 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom! Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks of the we...