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The hardest part about typewriter restoration is that you’ve got the machine taken apart and in pieces and you’re three-quarters of the way through cleaning it when you’re instantaneously struck with the irresistible desire to quit cleaning so you can rush it back together so you can type on it right now.

July 25 through August 1, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: 🌌🏄🏻‍♀️ Shanghai | HTML Day Friday, August 1 at 4:30pm Zhongshan Park Front End Study Hall #033 Thursday, July 31 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom! Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group m...

I don’t often share personal things about my family here on the blog, but I was reflecting on something last weekend that’s also relevant to Micro.blog. My mom has been in the hospital for a week and a half. I’ve been back and forth to the hospital every day to visit her. Mo...

Podcast. It's time for things to change. Two examples, Wired and Harvard. Change was always coming, but now you can't turn away from it very long before it re-appears.

I've been thinking a lot about Harvard lately, and a revealing podcast interview with the top editorial person at Wired.

Elon Musk wasn't over-exposed, he burned out. If he hadn't saluted like a Nazi, boasted about putting USAid in a wood chipper, pranced around on stage with a chainsaw, and done so much damage to the US government, we still don't know how much, he could have chilled out, sold a fleet of Teslas to Trump, and gone on to his next adventure. We would have all been glued to our sets.

Twitter elected a president in 2016. We looked the other way. Jan 6 failed, we went back to sleep for four years and woke up in a way we never have.

Big change was coming, and now it has arrived at the door of Harvard. A university that was home to the American Revolution.

Lots of ideas in this podcast.

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Welcome to August. More than half the summer is behind us. We're still here. The shelves in the supermarket are full of good stuff to eat. We've had about the normal amount of hot weather, and a good amount of rain but not too much. The Mets are doing OK, all things considered. They opened a Pho restaurant in Bearsville and it's good. Health, not too bad, all things considered. Still diggin!

Friday afternoon session in Belfast

That Epic vs. Google decision yesterday seems big. Google Play may become more open even than the EU’s App Store. Meanwhile, Apple continues to print money with a record quarter.

"In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder."

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This is the 101st edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Emma Goto and her blog, emgoto.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox ever...

How to think about vendors, technology, and power

Tonight I watched Nye at the National Theatre, a play about the life (and death) of NHS founder, Aneurin Bevan. Beautiful and haunting, the very last scene completely broke me. Forget ten year plans; Nye had a vision, and he absolutely delivered on it.

Thursday night session in Belfast

Thursday evening session in east Belfast

OpenAI announcing a new data center in Norway:

The facility will run entirely on renewable power and is expected to incorporate closed-loop, direct-to-chip liquid cooling to ensure maximum cooling efficiency. Additionally, excess heat from the GPU systems will be made available to support low-carbon enterprises in the region.

I’d still like to know how much of Abilene’s data center will run on solar and wind. I assume a percentage, but not “entirely” like in Norway or they would’ve said so.

Looks like the time I spent integrating with ID.me’s API was wasted. Micro.blog is too small to get approved for production access. The open web is so ingrained in me that I see an OAuth API and assume I’ll be able to use it in some form.

Thursday afternoon session in Belfast

Nick Heer: “The Cook era is now as long as the Jobs renaissance era.”