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Good morning and welcome to May 2025.

It's nice to start with a simple almost-empty outline.

Archived the OPML for April in the usual place.

I turned yesterday's Baseline Playground into a GitHub repo. I never made one of these before and thought it was worth sharing, or just writing about. I'm struggling to find the most readable font, size, line-height. I'm looking at the screen where I do most of my online writ...

Phil Donahue interview with Bernie Sanders from 1981, then-mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He was a novelty then, an American politician who was a socialist. He was asked if capitalism was the normal way for humans to relate, he said no. I wonder if he still agrees, because I ...

Marc Andreessen doesn’t think AI will take his job. But venture capital is barely a real job. All money, all talk. 🤪 I would rather actually create something even with the risk that AI might obsolete part of what I do.

Micro.blog bookmarks are a significant part of my workflow now. I have over 1000 bookmarks stored, mostly web pages that Micro.blog will also archive, and enough tags to filter through them. Probably about time to import my old Pinboard and Instapaper bookmarks.

That is the magic day, the perfect day. The day when I’m gonna stop doing the things that make me feel miserable. The day when I’m gonna start doing the things that I know make me happy. Tomorrow is the day when I’m gonna start drinking more water, taking better care of my b...

Allen Pike has a great post about user interface input design in an LLM world:

As we start to see new interfaces that support these more humane controls, it will seem increasingly inhumane that we once chose “Helvetica”, “Semibold”, and “36pt” from three separate dropdowns. It is inhumane – it’s an artifact of the past, back when computers needed us to chunk up our inputs into separate dropdowns for them, lest they be confused.

While watching Wedding Crashers (2005, New Line), I noticed that John Beckwith (portrayed by Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) both have multiple card indexes in their offices in the movie. One can’t help but wondering if their work leverages one of the variety of card index filing systems? Were they commonplacers? Zettelkasten users? … Continue reading Card Indexes in Wedding Crashers

Huge new ruling by the judge in the Epic Games case. Hope to take advantage of this as soon as possible in Micro.blog to let people subscribe from the iOS app. Finally a clear voice of reason in the App Store.

It ended up being a good idea to stop overnight in Little Rock and wait out the storm. Went to a restaurant across the street and there was a jazz band playing, a bit of peace and beauty as the wind and rain picked up outside.

Welcome to the May 2025 edition of IndieWeb Movie Club!As your host for this month¹, I invite you to (re)watch the film “Tomorrowland” (https://movies.disney.com/tomorrowland), with an optional prequel book reading assignment!“Before Tomorrowland” (https://books.disney.com/bo...

In Reboot!, a blog post from September 25, 2009 I wrote: i have been a poor system administrator. sorry. Like a an Windows machine, if I don’t get system updates and regular reboots I get infested with viruses and malware and all manner of bad behavior. This hardware is flaky. In the past 96 hours...

[By Sarah Gilbert, Michael Zimmer, and Nathan Matias at the Coalition for Independent Technology Research] A strong statement from the Coalition for Independent Technology Research: "On April 26, moderators of r/ChangeMyView, a community on Reddit dedicated ...

We could follow the clues in the TrumpLand with more gusto. They know their numbers are bad and likely to get worse, they did the things that made it the numbers bad. And at the same time they don't seem to care? If this were a mystery show, like Dallas or Succession or Severance, Lost perhaps, what would you think?

Watched some more highlights from last night’s Bucks / Pacers. Bucks should not have lost that game. Feel bad for them. 🏀

NPR has an article on whether the Google search remedy should include somehow crippling Google’s growth in AI:

In his opening statements last Monday, David Dahlquist, the acting deputy director of the DOJ’s antitrust civil litigation division, argued that the court should consider remedies that could nip a potential Google AI monopoly in the bud. “This court’s remedy should be forward-looking and not ignore what is on the horizon,” he said.

I’m still at a loss for what should be done. Splitting off YouTube would be good too, but it doesn’t really fit the crime.