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Manton Reece

Using ChatGPT while driving

In used to be that I avoided using Siri except in a few specific cases while driving: Read and respond to text messages. Map driving directions. Dictate a note. If I ventured outside these tasks, the experience was unreliable and frustrating. So I just haven’t bothered to ...

Manton Reece

Listen to the contrarians. They’re sometimes wrong, but when they’re right, they’re right years before everyone else.

Aaron Parecki
Aaron Parecki

I think this is going to work! I gutted an iMac G5 that had a broken display, and am swapping the display with the guts of a new 17" monitor! Gotta let the epoxy set, then I can wire it back up!

Manton Reece

Another shot from Washington, D.C. — the Carnegie Library, also probably the most beautiful Apple Store I’ve ever visited. Needed to pick up a new MacBook charger since I somehow left mine in NYC.

Manton Reece

Loved all the greenery at Maman this morning. Got there early enough that there was lots of space, but it filled up. ☕️

Scripting News

If Harvard could become more American and less elite, that could change things. Make a contribution directly to the well-being of Americans. Big courage would be required for that. A great university, empowered withe the latest online information distribution systems, could be the source of reliable information to the people that's missing because the major corporations who own the media outlets are playing it safe. Harvard is no longer in a position where playing it safe is an option. The Trumps will continue to cast doubt on the truth, but in a contest between Trump and Harvard, I bet a lot of people, maybe even most, would trust Harvard first.

Manton Reece

Micro.blog is now sponsoring blogroll.org. We’re going to try a few new things to get the word out about Micro.blog, especially supporting small platforms and podcasts. If you haven’t checked out blogroll.org yet, consider adding your own blog there!

Manton Reece

Perplexity voice mode

I hadn’t seen the new Perplexity voice mode until Federico Viticci blogged about it. Looks impressive. I also think Federico is exactly right on this: Looking at the big picture for a second, I do think Apple is in a precarious situation here. The fact that the company make...

Scripting News

Dems get on the air!

I’m sick of saying this over and over, the Dems need a regular snark-filled irreverent presence on social media to condemn every freaking fascist thing the Trumps do. They had it with the Kamala accounts, but they shut them down on Election Day. It’s so freaking simple. Not...

Scripting News

I mentioned this in yesterday's podcast -- new problems popped up with websockets in WordLand. I worked through the whole tree of possibilities with ChatGPT and it came to the conclusion that the source was an out of date package, and it was confident if I replaced it with the one "everyone else" is using, the problems will go away. Now this is the moment when human judgement prevails. I'm going to experiment in a very small app first, to make sure I have the approach right, then I will cautiously make the change on my test WordLand server, and if it works there, then I will figure out how to install it on the main site. It couldn't break all that much because for some reason the WS code stopped working, completely, with no code changes anywhere.

Manton Reece

Cool to see the POSSE photo I snapped at Fediverse House used in this blog post:

The encouraging thing about IndieWeb is that it’s presented as a series of incremental improvements. It’s not an all-or-nothing replacement and it’s possible to expand in parallel.

I’ve uploaded a copy of the photo to the IndieWeb wiki too. Public domain, CC0.

Scripting News

Well it looks like the new email app is working. I got some really nice lookin emails last night, hope you did too. Subscribe here. And there's a basis on which to build. I will now proceed to turn off the old email app that has been serving us so well since 2017 or thereabouts. Goodbye old friend. Hello new world!

Manton Reece

Over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge into Washington, D.C.

A bridge is visible through a car windshield at sunset, with a small Sorcerer’s Apprentice Mickey Mouse minifigure on the dashboard.

Manton Reece

Things I’ve now learned driving in the two largest cities in America:

  • Los Angeles: You have to run a red light to turn left.
  • New York: You have to double park to do anything.