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Kind of odd if someone has a link to schedule a meeting on their website, but they don’t share an email address or any other contact info. Is email a lost art? It still works. Simple, everywhere.

I’m seeing more and more companies referring to their tech stack as using “traditional machine learning” …presumably to distance themselves from the slopaganda of “AI” grifters before the bubble pops.

If you’re on the iOS 26 beta and use Micro.blog, you may want to try switching to our TestFlight beta. It is updated with very minimal Liquid Glass support. Nothing drastic, most of the app is going to stay flat and non-squishy.

There are many levels to the excellent Scott Alexander satire of God, Iblis (Islamic word for devil), and Dwarkesh Patel, one of the best new podcasters of this era. There are people who have gone their whole lives without realizing that Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and the ABC Song are all … Continue reading God & Devil Debate HI →

Sounds like things are moving forward on a possible Gemini-powered Siri. Mark Gurman reports on an agreement between Google and Apple for testing, and a bunch more about Apple’s plans and new Siri architecture:

Apple is rebuilding Siri around three core components: a planner, the search systems for the web and devices, and a summarizer. The planner interprets voice or text input and decides how to respond; the search system scans the web or user data; and the summarizer pulls it all together into an answer.

Thought about burning an expedited review request with Apple. It has been many years since I asked for one. But also, reviews are consistently 24 hours, so don’t want to risk making things worse than just waiting.

Wednesday session

I was pretty excited about the new Epilogue release until we released I had messed up signing in for new users. Bug fix submitted to Apple. 🙁

I wrote a blog post last week about WordPress and the open web, and what I want to do there. It's the first time I've laid out in one place my plan for rekindling the open web, with my new editor providing a really easy way to write for the open web that does not otherwise e...

Podcast: Last chance for the open web.

I'm going!

It’s been a while! Excited to return to IndieWebCamp, in Berlin, no less!

Oh wow, the smaller reMarkable tablet looks really good. I think they’ve got a winner on their hands. Might still be a bit too pricey for me, but I love the size and design of it.

Bookmark: anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/hat...

I want to start reading a bunch of WordPress community blogs.

Epilogue 2.0 for iOS out now. I’ve also submitted the Android version to Google for review, so that won’t be far behind. It seemed right to bump the version to 2.0 because of the new private notes support. The app won’t look very different if you don’t enable notes. With notes enabled on the profile screen, you’ll see a new “Add Note…” button when viewing a book you’re reading. Here you can add a note about your reading progress, and it will be saved to the Micro.blog backend, encrypted along with other Micro.blog notes. I blogged more about book notes in Micro.blog yesterday. Notes are available for all Micro.blog or Micro.blog Premium subscribers, but not Micro.one. If you need to upgrade from Micro.one, click on the Plans page on the web.

Stratechery covers the Google antitrust remedies, largely arguing that the judge did not go far enough. (“This is a waste of time.") I think sharing the search index is a big deal. When OpenAI builds their own search engine and Google drops to second place, we might view this decision differently.

Jeremy Cherfas blogging about the linkrot that will hit when Typepad shuts down:

Links are the foundation that supports the world wide web, and I take them seriously. I correct broken links when I come across them, archive my own stuff (and support archive.org), and generally try to get to the original behind anything I choose to link to.

This is why Micro.blog has a feature to automatically archive everything you link to. (Seriously! Here’s a video explaining it.) But I think Micro.blog is probably too new to contain a large number of Typepad links.

Good morning! Sunrise over MLK Boulevard. Too many trees and power lines in the way, but still was nice to see coming up over the horizon, on the way to coffee. ☕️

Walking the walk with https://webdayout.com/

Useful tips on creating an unlimited PTO policy. I used to think these were more accounting hacks than real benefits - but I've changed my mind over time.