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Ben Thompson blogging at Stratechery about the Pixel 10’s trade-off to prioritize AI above everything:

That Google is clearly sacrificing traditional CPU and GPU performance isn’t a flaw: it’s a very rational approach to a market where it is a big underdog, particularly given it is the company best situated to delivery truly integrated AI, from chip to model to cloud.

Jeremy Keith announcing a new conference in Brighton:

Web Day Out is all about what you can do in web browsers today. You can expect talks that showcase hands-on practical uses for the latest advances in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript APIs.

Also specifically calls out that there won’t be AI talks.

I’m going to cut right to the chase: Clearleft is putting on a brand new conference in 2026. It’s called Web Day Out. It’ll be on Thursday, March 12th right here in Brighton. Tickets are just £225+VAT. You should be there! If you’ve ever been to Responsive Day Out or Patter...

It’s funny because it’s true

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Enjoyed the discussion about automation and AI tools on the latest AppStories podcast. I’m not a Notion user, but I can see the appeal of something that does so much. Just prefer Markdown everywhere and open formats.

Worked on core platform bug fixes and a new feature today, plus preparing a new version of Epilogue. I’ll probably submit to Apple tomorrow, Google later this week. Feeling pretty good about the recent improvements.

Cool update to the mnml theme for Micro.blog: pinning a blog post from a category to the top of the home page.

Whaddaya mean I’m not excited enough? It’s my day off, OK?

A motto for WordLand. "All the tools you need right where you write."

The New Yorker is always good, but they’re having a bit of a victory lap as they celebrate their centennial. This article on the vaunted fact-checkers is such a delight, with so many in-jokes and back references it’s hard to keep track. When I started WordPress, I wrote down five publications that I hoped someday … Continue reading Fact Checkers →

Monday session

I spruced up my mixtape lists. The earliest dates to 1984. 14 yr old-me who cared a great deal about the levels, taped stuff from the radio and from my uncle’s record collection. I was only chewed out about messing with the tonearm balance once. I’m still making mixes. See them all at artlung dot...

A nifty interactive 3D map of our solar system

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Herman Martinus blogs about changing the license for his Bear blogging platform from MIT to a license that disallows hosting, partly because it’s so easy for people to spin up competing services now: We’re entering a new age of AI powered coding, where creating a competing ...

A new kind of spam or phishing email. Appears to be a challenge by Twitter of one of my posts there as a copyright infringement, which it most definitely is not. You have to look closely at the URL it takes you to, which is on this domain. assents-x.com. Hmm at first looks legit, but look more closely.

I like this post from Allen Pike about pivoting from an indie business to a more VC-inspired, ambitious project. That’s not my path, but he’s going in clear-eyed and purposeful.

I've been watching a lot of baseball recently. Over the years I've developed as a programmer, and they've radically changed the way baseball is played. Pitchers used to try to pitch a complete game, but now that never happens. Sometimes they take a pitcher out in the first in...

Earlier this year was drier than normal here in Scotland. If I recall, there was a period of about two weeks where barely any rain fell. That’s not right, I thought. In May, I was curious how dry it was relative to previous years. I discovered that the Scottish Environmental...

I want my blog on the same network as my social media.