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Rolling out a few improvements to Micro.blog today, including a new “trash” for deleted posts, an “x” button to hide the publish pane, Typepad import, and other tweaks. More to come!

A few years back, Craig wrote a great piece called Fast Software, the Best Software: Speed in software is probably the most valuable, least valued asset. To me, speedy software is the difference between an application smoothly integrating into your life, and one called u...

Rough morning for the Micro.blog servers. Woke up to a major problem with hung connections tripping up a few things. I have a few nice feature improvements ready to go, though.

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Story. I'm on a mail list for Berkman, where I spent two years at Harvard. Alumnae of all generations are on this list, and it's interesting. Just got an email that someone was proud of having their picture taken with Susan Landau. I didn't know who she was, so I looked her ...

Thanks to Matt Mullenweg for the boost to yesterday's post. Glad to finally get the whole plan down in one place. Each piece of the puzzle took a while to come together in concept and then in implementation. I'm still working on all levels, last week I added a feature to Fee...

An open source project aimed at making medical research easier.

This is the 105th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Courtney and his blog, netigen.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox ever...

This week I have been making several small improvements to Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. First: the website now has a footer that links to important pages, from the privacy policy to the API documentation. Many of these pages have been added over time and, until no...

Everyone has heard of WordPress, right? I'm going to be introducing a very weird idea about WordPress, one that's going to bend your mind a lot, especially if you're a member of the WordPress community, but also if you're a developer who has used WordPress in an application s...

It’s been real nice chatting with ya, kiddo! That’s the best part about camping… Makin’ new friends!

My current concern with iOS 26 is not any of the developer stuff, it’s the Phone app! I consistently see caching problems where the UI is out of sync with the notification badge, and missing voicemails until I force quit. Never seen this many problems in a core Apple app before.

Pretty heads down at WordCamp US, which has had amazing energy and talks so far. I wanted to take a moment to note two things, first being a great essay from Dave Winer asking people to Think Different about WordPress. I’ve done this before — asked people to think differently about things, like public writing, … Continue reading Think Different →

Thursday session

Brent Simmons reminiscing about Frontier and why modern development environments aren’t as good:

I’m not saying apps these days need to be Frontier-like in any details. But it seems absolutely bizarre to me that we — we who write Mac and iOS apps — still have to build and run the app, make changes, build and run the app, and so on, all day long. In the year 2025.

I also used Frontier a lot during that time. It was great. Personally, instead of Swift, I would’ve loved to see RubyCocoa taken to the next level. And with React Native we do have some of the quick iteration Brent blogs about.

Threads is testing long-form text attachments on posts. Not good. It would centralized blog-like content that should be on someone’s own site.

AI might eliminate some programmer jobs. It’s also going to create new programmers, people who don’t have a traditional CS background. I’m not convinced the sky is falling on work.

The greatest challenge is not to the economy but to a fractured society, with AI becoming as divisive as politics.

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John Gruber blogging on RFK vs. the CDC:

We really needed the CDC five years ago. We’re in big trouble if we need them again before the US electorate ousts these wingnuts.

There are new vaccines approved by the FDA but the guidance is really confusing. Going to differ to my doctor rather than RFK.