FeedCity

One feature I am working on is being able to follow Mastodon feeds via ActivityPub in Artemis 1. I am working on this because there are a few low-volume accounts whose content I would like to see in my reader. In doing so, I have been asking myself the question: how do I wan...

The view from my hotel room this morning…

Copying some data from an old tweet. Pancakes could bring up Sequel Pro …but the string was not in the bundle or in the binary Many people appreciated this… For some reason I can never remember the name to the Sequel Pro app, so l always type in Pancakes to Alfred/Spotlight and it shows up....

Fantastic article at The New Yorker about how far we’ve come with solar energy in just the last few years. I’m only halfway through but it’s already hitting on so much progress. I was feeling this last year when I bought solar panels for camping. When the costs finally work, it changes everything.

I met a pelican yesterday at Ocean Beach. The pelican, I think, was trying to steal my handplanes. There’s a video.

Vandalism at the Apple Store for climate change. While I’m very disappointed with Tim Cook’s support for Trump, I’m filing this one under “we attack our friends because our true enemies won’t listen”. Apple is more environmentally conscious than any other big tech company.

Session in a shop

Pipes and fiddles

Earlier I wrote this post: The worst thing about Claude and ChatGPT is that you can't get them to work with you the way you want them to. They always run off and do the things I asked about. So if I say "what if the middle column must be at least 600 pixels wide? What I wan...

Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Twitter / X. No hint of ill will in her goodbye tweet, but Grok losing its mind this week probably wasn’t the ideal backdrop for a graceful exit. I can only imagine how frustrating this role was with Elon Musk micromanaging it.

Session in the cowhouse

The worst thing about Claude and ChatGPT is that you can't get them to work with you the way you want them to. They always run off and do the things I asked about. So if I say "what if the middle column must be at least 600 pixels wide? What I want is literally an answer to t...

Stephen Hackett blogs about FireWire’s history and importance. It reminds me that I first used FireWire with a third-party PCI card, right before Macs had FireWire… or before I could afford a new Mac? Doing hobby animation and video editing, I used it with a MiniDV deck, and then from that to VHS.

I've been asked by a number of people why I want a bridge from RSS to ActivityPub. Fair question. Here's why. WordPress has demonstrated that most of the features of the web in regard to documents also work in Mastodon, via ActivityPub. To demonstrate here's a WordPress po...

How did they get soldiers to do this? American soldiers? We are truly lost. Were they masked too? What happened to their honor? Why the fuck would an American soldier need to hide their identity? Anywhere, but esp in America? Why don’t they put down their weapons?

Usually I avoid quoting something from the end of an article, but this line is a great summary from John Gruber’s latest on Daring Fireball about Jeff Williams retiring:

Six years after Jony Ive’s departure, today’s announcements leave it less clear than ever whose taste, ultimately, is steering the work of the company into the future.

Good rundown today by Ben Thompson on Apple’s dilemma of whether to outsource a next generation Siri to OpenAI or Anthropic. I’m curious about private cloud compute. Will they limit it to only Apple chips, or port the private cloud to architectures that are already running bigger frontier models?

Wednesday afternoon sessions at the Blondes

Wednesday morning session in the back of Friels

Thursday night session at Spanish Point