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"Now, nearly two years and more than 250 assassinations later, I can count the names of the living journalists in Gaza I follow on one hand."

This is the 103rd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Loren Stephens and his blog, ldstephens.net To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your i...

I never want ads in the software I use to get things done, so this interview with Nick Turley of OpenAI was reassuring. Between what he said and what Sam Altman has said, their company seems very aware of aligning their business with users’ needs. Something Meta will never be able to get right.

"Open Source runs much of the world's critical infrastructure. It powers government services, supports national security, and enables everything from public health systems to elections. This means governments must help fund Open Source."

I’ll let you in on a little secret, OK? THE SUIT IS TAKING OVER MY MIND.

Safari on iOS 26 is bugging me enough — especially the extra taps for tab bar items like closing a tab — that I’m switching over to Kagi’s Orion for a little while. I’ve been meaning to try it.

Jason Snell on how long it’s taken for Apple to bring back the blood oxygen feature:

I’m still surprised that it’s gone this long and this far, but Apple seems to be a company that will leave no legal stone unturned and will fight to the end when it feels it’s in the right.

So true. It feels like increasingly they aren’t right, but I’m on Apple’s side for this one, because it was holding back a legitimate health feature.

I made a change today that seemed right, but something about it was nagging at the back of my head. So before I deployed it, I asked our robot overlords… It correctly pointed out that I had forgotten the old code worked that way for a reason! A snippet from its analysis:

Original behavior likely intentional: archive_site previously only ran prepare_plugins(…, full_themes: false) so “small” plugins could contribute assets/includes, but it avoided full theme overrides and didn’t layer the user’s theme on top of “archive”.

As part of fixing the Mac app on Sequoia, I’ve switched builds over to Xcode Cloud. Gotta admit, it’s better than my old workflow. Maybe one day I’ll automate the appcast RSS feed. (I’ve been editing it by hand since 1.0 shipped in 2017.)

Great news for Apple Watch fans: blood oxygen feature coming back to recent watches. Sounds like they’ve worked around the patent by doing more processing on the iPhone.

I always try to avoid new preferences in Micro.blog because it can add a lot of clutter to the UI. Harder to use, harder to maintain. But adding better date and time formats this week, might be unavoidable. The “just do the right thing” defaults only get us about halfway there.

There should be a connection between DC residents and Kiev residents. They could teach us how to do this. They have decades of experience.

I was thinking about something I wrote yesterday when I was talking about styling underlines on links:

For a start, you can adjust the distance of the underline from the text using text-underline-offset. If you’re using a generous line-height, use a generous distance here too.

For some reason, I completely forgot that we’ve got a line-height unit in CSS now: lh. So if you want to make the distance of your underline proportional to the line height of the text that the link is part of, it’s easy-peasy:

text-underline-offset: 0.15lh;

The greater the line height, the greater the distance between the link text and its underline.

I think this one is going into my collection of CSS snippets I use on almost every project.

WordPress.com offers two modes of WP: WordPress and WordPress MS. For free and lower-priced accounts it runs a version of WordPress called WordPress MS, or WordPress Multisite, which is designed for super-efficient multi-tenant usage, which is what has allowed it to introduce hundreds of millions of people to WordPress and run at a huge scale. … Continue reading WP.com Simplification →

I’ve written a bit about and colored the work of Shawn Kerri before. I first learned about her–I believe–from Scott Shaw. Shawn Kerri is a comics creator, cartoonist, musician, punk rocker with an amazing history. San Diego Comic Con 2025 Friends of Shawn Kerri panel Celebrate the work of legendary cartoonist and San Diego local...

"Artificial-intelligence startup Perplexity offered to purchase Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion as it works to challenge the tech giant’s web-search dominance."

Hey, I can’t be a terrifying symbol of doom, darkness, and despair 365 days a year, you know?

Long-time users of Micro.blog won’t believe this… We are rolling out 24-hour time and more localized date formats today, many years after it was first requested. Visit the Micro.blog timeline on the web and it should detect your settings, then start applying them everywhere.

The first thing I would write in my notebook at the start of a class in school was the date, followed by a title. The date was among the only text that would occupy the margin. Dates helped me find information. Memories of writing dates in notebooks came to me this week when...