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Podcast: AI should behave like a computer.

Now that my laptop is completely full of stickers, moving on to pins on my bag. Starting with just Mickey.

Just read my credit card number, expiration, and 3-digit code to someone over the telephone in a crowded coffee shop. YOLO! 🤪

This week we’re announcing an improvement to photo storage and photo scaling for Micro.blog Premium subscribers, our $10/month plan that also includes up to 5 blogs, email newsletters, bookmark archiving, and highlights. For years now, we’ve scaled photos down to about 1800x...

It would be interesting if Pocket Casts had an API. I would love to be able to one-click subscribe to a podcast in my feed reader. I mention Pocket Casts because it's the podcast client I use on my phone, but I would obviously like to see them all support an API, ideally a common API.

"Behave like a computer. That's where we start." ChatGPT is not a programming partner, it's a very fantastic improvement over search engines. That's reality. Having used ChatGPT and various other AI tools for over two years now, and using it in my programming work every day...

Google Zero is slightly misunderstood. The problem is not that Google is nefarious in no longer sending traffic to your website. (They probably don’t care very much one way or the other.) The real problem is you’ve depended on Google for your business. You’ve been obsessed w...

Good perspective from Om Malik on Mark Zuckerberg’s superintelligence post and similar past statements:

Most CEOs defend their existing moats. Zuckerberg systematically abandons them. He understands that Facebook’s real asset isn’t the blue app. Instead, it is the graph of human attention and relationships.

As I’ve written about before, Mark is pretty good at what he does, and it’s just a shame that he’s dedicated his company to ads, attention, and AI slop.

Feeling a little verklemt at Belfast Trad Fest …thank you to everyone from thesession.org who made this possible!

To announce and celebrate the incredible engineering achievement of the Beeper team launching local bridges and their premium model we hosted a fun event in Automattic’s space in NYC. The app side of Automattic does some amazing work, and the applications themselves are pretty well known and reviewed, but many don’t know they’re part of … Continue reading Beeper and Automattic 20 →

The Vision for W3C has been officially published as a ratified W3C Statement: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-w3c-vision-20250729/As one of the editors, along with Chris Wilson (@cwilso.com @cdub@mastodon.social), I’m both proud of this multi-year W3C Advisory Board (AB) effo...

In Mark Zuckerberg’s post today about superintelligence, I assume we’re getting a glimpse of the pitch he used to hire AI researchers away from other companies:

We believe in putting this power in people’s hands to direct it towards what they value in their own lives.

This is distinct from others in the industry who believe superintelligence should be directed centrally towards automating all valuable work, and then humanity will live on a dole of its output.

Game Boy Advance, e-Reader, and a pack of cards. These photos don't really convey the excitement of the moment, haha. Had a blast with Retro Dot Cards Series One for the Nintendo e-Reader from retrodotcards.com, created by Matt Greer. That's right, new ...

Wednesday night session in Belfast

I abhor body shaming even if it's of someone whose ideas I find unacceptable.

John Gruber blogging about the app Tea that is near the top of the App Store despite security problems:

I strongly suspect that, although Google hasn’t removed Tea from the Play Store, they’ve delisted it from discovery other than by searching for it by name or following a direct link to its listing. That both jibes with what I’m seeing on the Play Store top lists, and strikes me as a thoughtful balance between the responsibilities of an app store provider.

This is a great way to handle it if true. Developers (like users on social media) are not guaranteed amplification by an algorithm.

Disclaimer: I own zero stock in AI companies, except for mutual funds and some Apple stock I've held for decades for sentimental and tax reasons.

Wednesday evening session in Belfast

The calendar on the wall is reminding me to remind you that if you like a (dailyish) #affirmation to support you and your spirit and mental health– I run automated, parallel Mastodon and Bluesky bots for that purpose. Feel free to follow and share, if you care to: https://thisbot.day/@affirmations https://bsky.app/profile/thisbot.day

After the experiments of June and July, I say it’s time to switch gears, do something a little bit different and take my ass away from the screen and up the mountains. As part of my year-long plan to get back into proper shape, I decided to take hiking seriously again and wh...