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The Internet Archive is a treasure! It cares about the longevity of the web. It cares about history. It cares about GIFs. “GIFs, seriously?” asks a person I just made up who underestimates the value of a GIF. Yes, “GIFs, seriously.” I reply to that made-up-person. They released a search engine for animated GIFs a...

📕 Finished reading The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djélí Clark ISBN: 9781250767042

I tried an experiment, go back as far as I can in archive.org on scripting.com and see where it gets me.

There are lots of paths to try out.

The one I went for is the December 3, 1996 scripting.com home page.

This was where my blog home page was then.

Then to DaveNet, and in the left margin Nerd's guide to this website.

I love the screen shots that show what a good match the Frontier object database was to the way a website is organized.

A long time ago, back when I was a young developer, happily using Google Chrome as my daily driver, I spent a few hours messing around with Chrome extensions and coded myself an extremely simple extension that replaced the new tab with a minimal clock. That extension has bee...

Podcast: Holding your nose, the aftermath.

A preview of a WordLand linkblog works, which is of course a WordPress site, viewed in my blogroll. When I clicked on the link, I was surprised that it goes to Poynter, and not to the linkblog. But then I remembered that's the point of a linkblog. And it flows through to the feed, and the blogroll software understands. So now I have an end-to-end linkblog. Now we also have to do some work to make the theme make sense of it when you view the site in WordPress.

Day 24 of the photo challenge, although a day late… Bloom.

Another reason to love WordPress. Every freaking WordPress site had great RSS support. They did more to keep feeds alive than anyone else. Google tried to kill RSS in a particularly humiliating way. WordPress kept it going.

CSA haul

The case for moving AI down the stack

Stephen Miller and at least a dozen other Trump appointees own stock in Palantir, the company that provides "mission critical" services to ICE.

I know I said I’d stop blogging about AI for a while, because it has become so divisive, but this court ruling on fair use is too fascinating to ignore. From federal judge William Alsup: …the use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly trans...

A federal court agreed that using copyrighted works to train AI is fair use - but that pirating them to do so infringes creator rights.

Stephen Hackett reminiscing on the Aqua introduction from 2000 and what we’ve lost without live demos:

This all makes me miss live keynotes. I know Apple likes the control it has over pre-recorded introductions, but its announcements deserve live demos, off-the-cuff remarks, and the humanity that was once more prevalent at things like WWDC or iPhone introductions.