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Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

“I think the most powerful thing that the new Alexa+ has done for me is it has made me forgive Apple for not shipping anything with the new Siri.” — Casey Newton on Hard Fork

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

Find My has always been too slow for me. It feels like Apple sometimes caches a user’s last location on their servers, but either for not very long or just infrequently. So you fire up the app, and it appears to ping each phone to get the latest location. Gotta be a better way that is still private.

This Week in the IndieWeb Supports Webmention Valid

This Week in the IndieWeb

August 1-8, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Pacific Wednesday, August 6 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, August 6 at 7:00pm Philly Homebrew Website Club Sunday, August 3 at 6:00pm PHILADELPHIA, ...

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

Updated to Tahoe beta 5. No problems, pretty much the same for me as beta 4. I don’t actually use many of Apple’s built-in apps, so until more third-party apps are updated for Liquid Glass, it’s not a very jarring upgrade. I use Xcode, Terminal, Photos, and then all other Apple apps only rarely.

Chris Aldrich Updates instantly via WebSub Supports Webmention Valid
• Chris Aldrich

Close up of the front of a cleaned vintage 1971 Olympia SG-3 standard typewriter
On Wednesday the 6th, I finished up most of the rest of the clean/oil/adjust of my new (to me) 1971 Olympia SG-3 standard typewriter. The carriage was probably more involved than the main body, though the main body seems to have made the most difference to have been cleaned out.  Surely there will be a … Continue reading

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

Just noticed this new Micro.blog theme: Bothy. Looks good!

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I want the web to be like Harvard

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 ...

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UI in AI is the next frontier

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...

Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed Valid
• Manuel Moreale

P&B: Alexandra

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...

ArtLung Supports Webmention Valid
• Joe Crawford

Colors

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...

Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed Valid
• Manuel Moreale

Sticking with it

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...

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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.