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Now a personal comment. What pisses me off most about Bluesky is the environment all this is happening in. We need an open social web. They've got a lot of people convinced they are it. They are not and they know it. And they keep leading people on. They should either deliver, now, or get out of the way.

Regular readers of my blog know that I've been calling out Bluesky and people associated with it for saying they're an open platform, and part of the web, when they are neither. Why don't people, esp journalists, call them out on this? We've been around this loop over and ove...

It’s literally three minutes into CSS Day and I’ve already learned about some CSS I didn’t know about.

At Homebrew Website Club last night we got onto the topic of chaos and websites. I asked What is the most chaotic page on your website? To my surprise, everyone had a slightly different answer: from pages with an “earthquake mode” to a web page whose background colour changes...

When I design web pages, I usually start with an idea or concept I want to explore. Here are a few examples of things I have wanted to play with: A two-column layout that uses black, white, and grey A site that only uses two colours A web page that uses text with unusual spa...

On my way to California, the slow route. 🚂

I can’t help myself. I’ve loved every moment of the rebooted Doctor Who on Disney+, but it appears to have hit a bit of a pause while Disney considers whether to renew its co-production. With its future unclear (although I’m certain it’s coming back before too long), I’ve b...

If I was Doctor Who showrunner ...

This might be a bit dark, but for day 4 of the photo challenge, I was stuck in traffic and looked to my left at this cemetery off MLK. So many stories here.

I've been enjoying the new David Frum podcast. He's very good at thinking and does a lot of it, and expresses himself very well. I read all his columns and have read two of his books, even though I don't share much of his pre-Trump politics, I find it interesting to hear how...

Wednesday session in Amsterdam

Eugen Rochko on the phased rollout for Mastodon quote posts:

When we released post editing for #Mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We’re taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the upcoming 4.4 version of Mastodon will begin displaying quote posts from other servers and software. Once this is widely deployed on the network, 4.5 will bring the long awaited ability to quote posts.

I blogged about the Mastodon proposal earlier.

FediForum is a virtual conference that starts tomorrow. If they had asked me to keynote, this is roughly what I would say. Imho this stuff is pretty freaking simple, esp since there are well over 20 years of prior art to use, and not that many ways to do what we're trying to...

And btw one of these days I'm going to clear the time to write a useful and up to date RSS feed validator. The one the W3C uses is a total embarassment. I'm not even going to link to it it's so awful.

Why doesn't Walt Frazier have a freaking podcast. Come on. (Jon Stewart did a series of podcast-style interviews with him.)

I can’t remember exactly how I felt when I was watching the original Aqua demo for Mac OS X, but I’m sure I was excited. Now we’re on the verge of another major redesign for Tahoe, and I guess I’m old, because I’m sort of dreading it. It’s going to create a lot of work for developers.

This is a great point on Tao of Mac:

Spotlight has been a complete mess for years, and Apple has done nothing to effectively fix it on any of its platforms–and it would be a perfect place to start integrating AI in a way that would actually make sense and be useful to users.

Spotlight has needed attention for a while. Sometimes works great, sometimes feels like it lags or gets confused about its search index. Finder search is also clunky, could be scrapped and unified with Spotlight.

If everything goes well, the RSS feed for Scripting News will now have a channel-level image element because it's part of a network that requires an avatar-like image. This required me to go through some very old code that my system still depends on. Fingers crossed.

After I drafted this blog post, the part that follows the horizontal rule in a moment, I wasn’t sure I would publish it. Then I read this post by Thomas Ptacek. This line resonated with me: Extraordinarily talented people are doing work that LLMs already do better, out of s...

I now have the special ChatGPT function I've been waiting for. Codex. Give it access to my entire GitHub collection and let it go. I stopped myself from authorizing, wanting to sleep on it. I know I'm going to do it, but.. Gulp. Do I really want to dump all my thinking for Sam Altman?