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And another retroactive post. After this one. Actually written on 2 June but with a date of 28 May. Figure it out, historians! Love, Joe

Are you a member of the IndieWeb webring? Or you wanted to be, but you couldn't sign in because of obscure-looking IndieAuth errors? Turns out when I hastily re-added support for sign-in with indielogin.com I introduced a bug that would end up always using indielogin.com as ...

[Sahil Lavingia] I personally don't think his decision to join DOGE was defensible, but there are lots of interesting details in Sahil Lavingia's diary of the 55 days he worked there. For example: "I was excited to help in-source VA's software, but I was al...

[Sahil Lavingia]

I personally don't think his decision to join DOGE was defensible, but there are lots of interesting details in Sahil Lavingia's diary of the 55 days he worked there.

For example:

"I was excited to help in-source VA's software, but I

Federico Viticci provides an early look at the new LLM-powered automation tool Sky:

The real strength of Sky lies in its ability to mix and match the non-deterministic nature of LLMs with the deterministic approach behind scripts, combining the two in a new kind of hybrid automation that is smarter, more flexible, and more accessible.

Looks impressive. The preview right before WWDC seems like significant timing too.

Matt Mullenweg on how a thought goes to idea to writing to blogs:

Once you publish publicly, you open yourself up to the beauty and chaos of the wider world. The best reason to blog is comments, the people who find you and add to your thoughts, who you never would have imagined.

And btw, that's why I wanted Chris Lydon to do interviews with people in his audience who are tripping out on all the new power they're getting from AI. How is it augmenting their work? I know Chris well enough that he probably thinks it's not for him, too technical -- but th...

I love this piece about Anthony Edwards and how the OKC's guard against him by double-teaming, so he can't have the ball, and that allows them to steal the ball more often from other Minnesotan ball-handlers, and also limits Edwards opportunities to shoot, but it does make it...

Bono was great on Jimmy Kimmel last night. I was lucky enough to see his show a few years ago, but still excited to watch the filmed version when it drops on Friday. And hints at a new U2 album! 🎶

This is probably a dumb, self-inflicted privacy leak, but as an experiment I asked ChatGPT to look at the last 5 months of bank transactions. No major surprises: we spend too much on eating out, cell phone plans, and streaming services.

It seems like the misguided perception of needing to use complex tools and frameworks to build a website comes from a thinking that web browsers are inherently limited. When, in fact, browsers have evolved to a tremendous degree

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I’m rooting for The Browser Company folks, because it’s good to have competition in browsers, but their messaging has been all out of order. They could’ve quietly maintained Arc without making a big deal about it. Also, wait until Dia is available so people focus on the new stuff. (Posted with Arc.)

Letting go of Core Intuition has created a podcast void in my work. Today, I just posted a new episode of Timetable. Just 2 minutes, remembering how to podcast. Tomorrow I’ll have another new episode — an interview with Vlad Prelovac.

the joy of: Evening conversations with friends. Making someone laugh while waiting for a coffee. Hearing a song that you haven’t heard yet written by an artist whose music you love. Someone waiting and holding the lift door open for you. Being reminded about an old project while chatting with a friend. Seeing art in surprising places. Humming a song you love. Hearing the birds sing on a warm spring day. The first coffee of the day. Hearing someone say “have a great day!” Seeing a fuschia-coloured car. Eating a good cookie.

I heard you like divs…

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AI is, of course, at the center of this moment. It’s a mediocrity machine by default, attempting to bend everything it touches toward a mathematical average. Using extraordinary amounts of resources, it has the ability to create something good enough, a squint-and-it-looks-right simulacrum of normality. If you don’t care, it’s miraculous.

In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.

In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it.

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[Lauren Egan at The Bulwark] If I was Substack, this is exactly what I'd be doing. But then again, if I was Substack, I wouldn't have paid Nazis to post on my network. "The company sees an opportunity. Its employees have been meeting with congressional staff...

[Lauren Egan at The Bulwark]

If I was Substack, this is exactly what I'd be doing. But then again, if I was Substack, I wouldn't have paid Nazis to post on my network.

"The company sees an opportunity. Its employees have been meeting with congressional