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Going to Amsterdam. brb

It feels awfully retrograde to me that the season finalés of both Andor and Dr. Who depict women staying at home to mind the kids while the dudes go off to work.

Tuesday session

On today's Bill Simmons podcast, their Knicks expert, Van Lathan said they shouldn't fire Thibs, but they probably would. I listened to that about an hour before the Knicks fired Thibs. I don't think it's good or bad, it could work out great. No one knows if this was The Season the Knicks were meant to go to the Finals, but if it was, maybe next year will be too? There's no right answer. Maybe this was Dolan's call. I hope not.

"Courtesy" calls from health insurance companies aren't courteous at all.

Identiverse IPSIE panel

Screenshot of a couple blog post drafts I might publish this week. You can tell I primarily wrote these on my Mac, because whenever I compulsively hit command-S, Micro.blog saves another version. Every few months I need this feature to restore some deleted sentence.

I tend to write about whatever is most fascinating at the time. In the 2000s, that was blogging itself and the transition to Mac OS X, in the 2010s that was the rise of closed platforms, and now it’s indie blogging and AI. If our robot overlords don’t destroy us, the 2030s will be something else. 🤪

A heads-up to Mastodon folks, I’m disabling the fediverse posting from my blog for a couple weeks. You can always follow me on Micro.blog or via RSS. This feature can help quiet the timeline, great for traveling and thinking and working.

Changing my profile photo on Micro.blog for the first time in forever. The last one was a selfie from Disneyland years ago, and the bad cropping always annoyed me a little.

If you followed the Knicks through the playoffs as I did, I recommend the latest episode of the Bill Simmons podcast. It began with talk about the fan base and that got me thinking. We don't know what would happen if the Knicks were in the Finals. Honestly. It could be the antidote to the crazyness. Maybe the reason things are so fucked up is that it's been 52 freaking years since the Knicks won the title. Something happens every so often, the energy field around the Knicks shifts -- Patrick Ewing, Melo, Linsanity and now Brunson. It'd be interesting to map that out against events in the world at the corresponding times. We won't find out this year. In the same way I sensed that New Orleans was doomed when I went to school there, I have a strong feeling connecting the Knicks to something not sure what, but it feels big.

Great post from David Smith about his latest hiking trip:

What I kept coming back to was that in order to have a true “Adventure”, there has to be a high degree of likelihood that you won’t complete it as planned. If the outcome is all but a foregone conclusion when you begin, then you aren’t exploring, you aren’t finding the edges of your abilities.

I also love what has become his yearly routine of taking time away to reflect in the weeks leading up to WWDC.

Speaking of spam, I’m starting to get a lot more emails from people wanting to invest in or buy Micro.blog. Not sure what changed or whether these are sincere. I used to respond to these kind of emails, now have to ignore them.

Junk phone calls have been out of control the last week. I’ve re-enabled “silence unknown callers” on my phone. ☎️

The joy came flooding back to me! It turns out browser APIs are really good now.

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Jeremy Herve of Automattic responded to yesterday's suggestion about when to set the og:image metadata in a page. His response is persuasive, but there may be a way to work around it. And a hat-tip to Jeremy, he's helped us so many times getting WordLand ready to market. When you're fitting a product to another product as a platform, it's so important to get help from the vendor, and usually you don't get much of that. Much appreciated! 😄

Recently Paulo philosophically asked me, a typewriter collector, “Why another typewriter? I haven’t been able to find an answer yet.” (My attempt at a translation/synopsis from his Portuguese.) In addition to answers from the collector’s perspective, bonus points for answers that are also directed to answering this question which comes from your significant other who … Continue reading Why Another Typewriter?