FeedCity

Back in the beginning I wanted the web to be like Harvard. It's one of the reasons I went there as a research fellow in 2003. I wasn't satisfied with the web, the density of minds wasn't up to my expectations, so I thought if I brought the web to the minds, that might work ...

Yesterday I wrote a quick review of ChatGPT 5, after trying a simple programming exercise with it. It was an awful collaboration because it lied to me about its capabilities, leading me to develop a feature in my software to support the capability that it later admitted that...

This is the 102nd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Alexandra and her blog, xandra.cc To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every...

I’m somewhat obsessed with CMAT’s Euro Country. An opening verse in Irish and a blistering bridge that might single-handedly scupper Bertie Ahern’s presidential ambitions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SVNTv44C4g

Preamble I had been drawing for was long as I could remember. In the 8th grade I had earned an award as top artist in the class. But this was 9th grade. High school. I had chosen an elective: “Drawing.” I realize now, decades later, what the point of the class had been. I understand...

The plumber finished installing the meters and hooking up the fire sprinklers!

Thursday session

Contrary to what many people seem to be doing, especially in the digital world, I don’t often change the tools and services I use. When I find something that works, I’m happy to stick around for the long run. Well, at least unless something major happens that forces me to re...

That said, it got pretty far toward solving the problem I asked it to work on. Here's a demo of a page it put together for me of the top 25 articles in US news.

ChatGPT is even more of a bastard than 4.

I filled up some pitchers and pots of water since I knew the plumer would be disconnecting the water today and it did pay off, I was able to make lunch despite there being no running water in the house most of the day.

We *finally* got a crew willing to bring the fridge upstairs!

New version of feedlandSocket. It's now an NPM package you can include in Node projects. The demo is more useful, and there's a video of what it looks like as it scrolls through the JavaScript console. WebSockets + feeds. A fairly important component of an open social web system.

A summary of recent work via my WordLand blog.

One of those mornings. Working from the hospital lobby, with the GPT-5 announcement video on in the background but I forgot my headphones at home, so just glancing at the subtitles every once in a while. Please see: Micro.blog free for nurses. Also just deployed a cross-posting checkbox fix.

Added a new reading goals bar to the top of Bookshelves in the Mac app. Love the way it turned out, with little progress indicators for the goal progress. Here’s a video:

Dia adds $20/month subscription, with plans for other tiers later. I like Dia even without the AI features. Most people are not going to pay for either ChatGPT or Claude and a web browser. Wishing them luck because it is a nice browser.

Odd to see a Tim Hortons in Texas. ☕️

There was a time when you needed to make a native app in order to take advantage of specific technologies. That time has passed. Now you can do all of these things on the web: push notifications, offline storage, camera access, and more. Take a look at the home screen o...