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P&B: Watts Martin

This is the 90th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Watts Martin and his blog, coyotetracks.org To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your in...

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Proposal to rename language model benchmarks to Top Of The Slops.

Proposal to rename language model benchmarks to Top Of The Slops.

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Yellow Royal FP typewriter on a wooden table next to some index card notes and a crystal glass containing a Negroni.
Spent some time tonight typing up notes from the type-in on Saturday for the typosphere. Should have a post about it all soon.

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Next Thursday, May 22nd at 6 pm, there’s going to be a Homebrew Website...

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Next Thursday, May 22nd at 6 pm, there’s going to be a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf. Co-organised by Schepp and myself, we plan this to be the first HWC event in a series of regular events.

I quote from the IndieWeb wiki page to explain what an HWC is:

Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities & content, or just want support with blogging!

So, ...

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Scuffle between hippies in the parking lot at OB today before I went out. Left me feeling weird before my session.

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Jony Ive & Patrick Collison

A really beautiful interview.

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Sheldon Lake State Park. The ponds used to be part of a fish hatchery, then closed in 1975 and let nature take over. We saw some alligators. 🐊

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How feeds work in WordLand.

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Thursday session

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Web Accessibility. A follow-up.

The other day, I wrote about my quest to find a good web accessibility course because that’s an area I wanted to get better at for a variety of reasons and also because it’s important. Many of you emailed me and the overwhelming majority suggested Practical Accessibility by ...

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The mentor who changed my career (and might help you too)

Point C helps leaders build extraordinary lives and lead cultures of innovation.

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The mentor who changed my career (and might help you too)

Corey Ford just launched his new consultancy, Point C, and I couldn’t be more excited. He’s changed my professional life — more than once — through a kind of empathy-driven coaching I’ve never found anywhere else. He didn’t ask me to write this post, but I feel compelled to....

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Great Art on Bluesky is back. A beautiful work of art every hour.

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The Democrats need an entrepreneur at the top. Stop doing things as they’ve always been done because the media has changed. The old rules no longer apply.

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Microsoft shuts off Bing Search APIs and recommends switching to AI

[Tom Warren at The Verge] File under: beware proprietary APIs. "Microsoft is shutting off access to its Bing Search results for third-party developers. The software maker quietly announced the change earlier this week, noting that Bing Search APIs will be r...

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The Democrats need an entrepreneur at the top. Stop doing things as they’ve always been done because the media has changed. The old rules no longer apply.

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Awareness

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day: The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than One Billion people with disabilities/impairments. Awareness is good. It’s necessary. But it’s not su...

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Trump State Dept. Leaned on African Nations to Help Musk’s Starlink

[Joshua Kaplan, Brett Murphy, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski at ProPublica] From my colleagues on the newsroom side at ProPublica, a story about how the State Department pressured Gambia on behalf of Elon Musk's starlink: "Starlink, Musk’s satellite inte...

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With OpenAI adding 4.1, I’m having to think a little too much about which models I should be using. I generally use o4-mini for coding, 4o for simple, fast questions. What now? I expect GPT-5 will help consolidate some of these choices.

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RSS-based podcasts are built-in and not going anywhere. Here's why. As long as there are lots of good podcasts available for listening to via RSS on phones, every competitive 'caster is going to want to be there, because their competitors are. And as long as I can get a good...