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I think the shape of the intellectual world will be vastly different after AI, and that its impact will overshadow the web as the web made card catalogs irrelevant. I'm pretty sure whatever comes next won't look very much like what we're using now, but it will probably evolve from what we have, although it's impossible

We had the world conned into taking our “dollars” and giving us cars, food, nice vacations, drugs, a huge military, all kinds of manufactured stuff for nothing, and we thought they were ripping us off! So we blew it up. The would-be “Art Of The Con” mastermind undid the biggest con in history.

Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

While testing something this morning, I made a careless blunder with one of our servers, causing some sporadic downtime. I’m very sorry. A couple things are slow right now but will be returning to normal shortly.

I don’t think I realized that you didn’t need to be in the EU to distribute apps via AltStore PAL. If Apple relaxes their notarization review in the future, I might use this to ship early iOS builds to the EU.

The great thing about sports is that a lowly software developer can be richer than a fantastically rich team owner, if the developer's team is the Knicks.

[Mike Caulfield in The Atlantic] A smart analysis and suggestion about the current state of AI by Mike Caulfield: "I would propose a simple rule: no answers from nowhere. This rule is less convenient, and that’s the point. The chatbot should be a conduit fo...

I have to say the latest Baseline theme looks great! Here's a blog post I just wrote, in the WordLand editor, and the writing experience was excellent. It took a long time and a lot of work to get it there, but it is there now. But as the post says, it's not just a blog pos...

There are many challenges for the web and web publishers as AI upends search, but the only way to believe that the open web itself will be destroyed is to no longer believe in web browsers. As big as AI is, it’s not as big as the web. We’ll navigate through this.

“What we make stands testament to who we are.” — Jony Ive, in an interview at Stripe Sessions

This is the 89th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Anh and her blog, anhvn.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every Friday...

Going to Namur. brb

I have a bookmarklet called “Edit” which, when clicked, takes me to the editing page of GitHub that corresponds to the page on my website that I am viewing. I described how the edit bookmarklet works in my post “My static site editing bookmarklet” earlier this year. Since th...

The crew installed the antenna tower on the roof today and ran the conduit into the cabinet inside! I can't wait til I can start loading it up with gear!

Acquired 2024-09-04. In generally good shape. The case is in exceptional shape given that these usually aren’t extant or have been shattered into pieces. There is one piece broken off, but it came with the machine and should be able to be fused back onto the case. Came without the hubs or covers. It’s slightly more … Continue reading

Bill Gates writes about accelerating his plan to give away his wealth, winding down the Gates Foundation in 20 years:

People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that “he died rich” will not be one of them. There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people.

Funny how people change. In the 1990s, I was a teenager learning to program the Mac while complaining about Bill Gates and Microsoft. Now I admire Bill and complain about Apple.

Reading through Apple’s motion to pause the external purchase ruling. A quick comment on this part:

A federal court cannot force Apple to permanently give away free access to its products and services, including intellectual property.

No one said that. Developers have been paying $99/year for this privilege since the beginning of the App Store.

Apple lawyers can spin this however they want. It will always come back to this: it’s absurd to take a cut of developer revenue that is not processed by Apple just for adding a website link in an app.