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Poetical Works of Scott read one of the titles on the shelf in the Poetry section. The word “Poetical” stood out to me; we would say “poetic” now. Language changes over time., I thought to myself. We simplify words; we make new ones; some words fall out of fashion; some are m...

Whenever I go to an art gallery, I strive to make sure I have time to see any Impressionist exhibits. Impressionism is my favourite type of art. Today, with no plans for the afternoon, I went into the National Museum of Scotland. I have been a few times, so I headed directly ...

The sky is wonderfully blue. I can’t see a single cloud. I wrote as I was walking through the park this morning. When I see the sky so blue, I cannot help but crane my head around to see whether I can spot a cloud. I couldn’t! Maybe there was one hidden behind the tall green ...

This morning I woke up early. I like to wake up early on weekends and do some reading. I usually go to a coffee shop. There is nothing like reading a book with a coffee in hand. I’m reading Before Tomorrowland right now, which tells the story before the world in which the Tom...

[Khari Johnson in The Markup] The Republican legislature is working on ensuring that AI is unencumbered by regulations or protections: "The moratorium, bundled in to a sweeping budget reconciliation bill this week, also threatens 30 bills the California Legi...

When I started working on the new version of blogroll.org, one thing I knew I wanted to do from the get-go was to highlight all the wonderful people who are supporting what I do here in the digital world. And the reason why I wanted to do it was not to make them stand out am...

[Mike Monteiro] Such a great piece about language, discrimination, and how we can avoid limiting our own thoughts. It's all delivered through the lens of the MSG scare in the 1970s, which turns out to have been pretty racist: "Monosodium Glutamate is a flav...

Look at this, for an idea of what a product says to the prospect. It makes you laugh. When you laugh inside an idea forms. "Ain't it the truth." That gets you ready to read the pitch, which is stuff you wouldn't have read or even considered if they hadn't said something so ...

The Knicks did actually win last night. I didn't dream it.

I remember when the Knicks sucked.

In my heart I believe they still do.

But here we are, my Knicks actually have an approximately 1 in 4 chance of winning the championship.

I hope it's Minnesota we end up playing.

All in the family. 😀

Finished watching videos and reading about OpenAI’s Codex. Pretty wild. The design they’ve come up with (based on pull requests) is both powerful and encourages human review. I could see using this at least for a narrow set of tasks.

today's cargo haul

This is what my WordLand blog looks like now. Quite a transformation! Sooo pretty. We're going to keep tweaking it up, so it's even more beautiful and more and more useful, but it's going to take some time. As the Supremes used to sing. I need love love love to ease my mind.

May 9-16, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Americas Wednesday, May 14 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, May 14 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club - Nuremberg/Germany Wednesday, May 14 at 6:00pm NÜRNB...

Nice updates for the next FediForum: keynote by Cory Doctorow and a what’s new on the open social web session by Laurens Hof of the Fediverse Report.

Didn’t realize until this week that the RSS.app feeds support RSS and JSON Feed. Very cool. I’m starting to use it to follow a couple Twitter / X folks from the AI industry. Hate giving X any attention, though.

Curtis Herbert is back with another Slopes Diaries post, making the argument that Apple’s 30% cut is worth it, but that external payment links will also open new opportunities. I think the perspective on this topic varies between developers partly based on whether you expect...

Sometimes when someone is talking I will hear a word and think I haven’t heard that one before! If I hear – or read – a word I haven’t heard before, I usually look it up. I wonder what this word means!, I think to myself. If I read a fun word, I used to make it my “word of the day” which I would share with friends. I don’t do this much anymore, although I had a lot of fun doing it – listening and spelunking for words in the veritable caverns of English to find a cool word. With that in mind, I have a word of the day for today! The word of the day is: haar. The Cambridge Dictionary defines haar as: a cold mist coming from the sea to the east of Scotland or northern England: Besides being a useful word to describe a weather condition common to Scotland – fog! – it is also fun to say. Haar. Said like a pirate would say arr, except with a “h” at the start.