A couple of little tweaks to Daytona. It now has a history menu which it saves in local storage. It's useful to be able to come back to a recent search. It remembers the last 50 searches this way. Also had to add a little hack that turns off other copies of Daytona when another one launches. Use a local storage trick, save a random string to a fixed location, and every second check to see if its value has changed. If it has, another copy of Daytona has launched, so I redirect to the home page of my blog.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Built up the courage to run Redis’s MEMORY PURGE in production this morning. Sadly made no difference. This week I’ve been running a cleanup script that has trimmed nearly 10 GB of memory usage, but still lots reserved by the system.
Crazy week for AI
I used to pride myself on being able to keep up with almost everything. New programming languages, frameworks, APIs, just tech in general. Micro.blog is a unique platform in part because it weaves together so many different things. But the pace of AI is too much. I can barel...
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📗 Want to read All Fours by Miranda July ISBN: 9780593190265
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📗 Want to read Death of the Author (Deluxe Limited Edition) by Nnedi Okorafor ISBN: 9780063391147
Has Harvard considered opening a satellite campus outside the United States? If the Trumps keep making demands, like demanding that they stop admitting students from outside the US, the students the US government rejects could still go to Harvard, be taught by the same teachers, collaborate and socialize with other Harvard-quality students, without interference from Trump. I imagine there are a few countries that would be willing to help. If you want to really make a point, open it in China.
Manuel Moreale
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P&B: Seth Werkheiser
This is the 91st edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Seth Werkheiser and his blog, sethw.xyz
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Reading Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor.
Reading Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor.
Tools
One persistent piece of slopaganda you’ll here is this:
“It’s just a tool. What matters is how you use it.”
This isn’t a new tack. The same justification has been applied to many technologies.
Leaving aside Kranzberg’s first law, large language models are the very antithe...
When someone breezily tells me how they’re using a large language model, I can feel myself channeling Luthen Rael. “How nice for you” I say, the words seething with contempt.
When someone breezily tells me how they’re using a large language model, I can feel myself channeling Luthen Rael.
“How nice for you” I say, the words seething with contempt.
Landing a trick
An unfortunate sea lion As I left OB today I spotted a sea lion lying down up the beach. I approached it. It eyed me, its hindflippers twitched. I could see its ribs retracting as it breathed. It was in trouble. Before the session. Starfish and mussels on the pier. Before that? It was a...
Chris Aldrich
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What are the “Rules of Typewriter Club”?
at Amber India
With Pocket shutting down, I’ve updated Micro.blog’s bookmarks import for Pocket’s latest export format. Also supports Instapaper, Raindrop, and Pinboard. Happy bookmarking! 🔖
Where AI fits in
The Beatles
Personal computers
The web
Napster
AI
at Okta
The first Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf Schepp and I co-organised turned out well. We...
The first Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf Schepp and I co-organised turned out well. We gathered at Düsseldorf’s central library inside its “Xafé” café. We had 7 participating adults and 2 children. ;) The meetup was more exchange and discussions than actual work on one’s websites. Discussed topics included: “I want to build my own website” Opinions on tooling RelMeAuth Podcast metric aggregation WebSub Personal publishing workflows and tools Image hosting ...
Stephen F. Austin State Park. Short hike on a trail near the Brazos River.
Write.as creator Matt Baer wants to focus more on writing for 2025. I can relate to a lot of this:
Our apps have always been built to help you get your words down with nothing in the way. That’s why Write.as always opens to our editor — so you can start writing immediately, and not get distracted by notifications, comments, and superfluous things like how many “likes” you received.
Oh no! Oh no. 😿 https://blog.glitch.com/post/changes-are-coming-to-glitch/
Oh no! Oh no. 😿