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On August 16, I attended Connect + Reflect: A CreativeMornings Mixer and I really enjoyed it. It was co-hosted by Head of Community at CreativeMornings, Exa Kutler and FieldTrips Team Member Lauren Deborah. I am usually on the… obstinate side when it comes to writing prompts. The structure was great. Rather than a single giant...

Chris Young, who is otherwise famous for being a co-author of the 2,438-page cookbook Modernist Cuisine or centrifuging steaks and drinking them, is one of the friends who, over the years, has told me I have to watch Breaking Bad, the TV show. When I was in Marrakech for a few weeks earlier this year, and it was a … Continue reading Breaking Ribs →

In San Clemente California TRUMP DON’T SURF is as spitting as insult as I can possibly imagine. 2018 2019 Vietnam draft dodger Trump ain’t no LTC Kilgore anyway.

Cat’s Paw Marina, Saint Augustine, Florida.

In AppKit, for some reason I always forget about content hugging priority. I usually fiddle with the constraint’s priority first, scratching my head why it’s not working. (Nope, never heard of SwiftUI…) 🤪

From the statement on better discourse between the ActivityPub and AT Protocol communities:

We do not build a better open social web for everyone by fighting and arguing about protocol superiority. That is not how we achieve a better open social web. Instead, we must work together, cross-pollinate and share ideas, and participate within each other’s communities with respect and mutual understanding.

Co-signing. This came out of the Social Web Community Group meeting yesterday, which I wish I was participating in more often.

Finished reading: The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown 📚

There's a new version of FeedLand, v0.7.0.

Here's the thread where we discussed the testing of the new release. It worked everywhere we installed it, so it seems fair to open it up to people running their own FeedLand instances.

You don't have to do this yet, the only features it has are ones that are needed to use it with the new version of WordLand, coming soon now. But if you have the time, it requires an update to the database, so it's not the usual thing. It explains at the beginning of the thread what the change is to the database.

Here are the instructions for doing the upgrade.

If you're installing a new instance, the instructions are the same as always.

If you have trouble, post a note on the thread.

Thanks to Scott Hanson for validating the new version. It's always important to have someone to check my work.

Yesterday's note on scripting.com about feedland.org was not the whole story. In the end I thought it made more sense to start the database over from the start. There were a lot of users who subscribed to feeds that were constantly updating, and they never came back to use...

While clicking through my RSS feeds, I found my way to Jay’s post titled “Do blogs need to be so lonely?”. It’s an interesting post, especially interesting for me since I love blogs. Betteridge's law of headlines tells us that the answer to the question Jay is posing is “no”...

Dr. Miller has tipped me off that the suggested text for his upcoming course An Introduction to Hilbert Spaces will be:  Berberian, Sterling Khazag. Introduction To Hilbert Space. Oxford University Press, 1961. Reprint Literary Licensing, 2012. He’s not happy that it ignores measure theory as a means to introduce the Lebesque integral, so he’ll be … Continue reading

August 29 through September 5, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Pacific Wednesday, September 3 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, September 3 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club Edinburgh Tuesday, Sept...

I think everyone is floored by this $1.5 billion settlement. Anthropic essentially won on fair use, so I just assumed the pirated books settlement was going to be a little more low-key than this. Hope the authors see most of the money. Never a dull moment in AI land!

Sarah Perez reporting on a Common Sense Media assessment of Gemini:

Common Sense also said that Gemini’s products for kids and teens ignored how younger users needed different guidance and information than older ones. As a result, both were labeled as “High Risk” in the overall rating, despite the filters added for safety.

This is part of what is probably a major shift underway at AI companies to worry less about helping create biological weapons and more about kids and psychological safety. Maybe futurists think too much about the sci-fi inevitabilities and not enough about today.

If my calendar is correct, one of the OG bloggers Anil Dash is turning 50 today! His blog, which I believe has been active since 1999, inspired me with how he effortlessly transitioned between his top-tier fandom of Prince and his thoughtful commentary on the nuances and second-order effects of what we were doing with blogging, micro-blogging, … Continue reading Happy Birthday Anil →

This is great. James Dempsey’s Liquid Glass song:

I made the lyrics as intelligible… as Liquid Glass controls are legible. Come on everyone, sing along! You don’t know the words, but neither do I. 🎶

Kagi News looks good! First they define the problem:

Driven by relentless ad monetization, news has become mental junk food - an endless stream of clickbait that destroys our ability to think deeply and clearly.

I’ve only watched a few clips of last night’s dinner with tech execs at the White House. Is it possible to accept the invitation and not grovel? This is my first draft at a comment: It is great to be here with so many leaders in the industry. <nodding to others around th...

Back in March 2024, The Browser Company—a name I still find hilarious, all these years later—published a website called “We Might Not Make It”. They described it as: A limited series that breaks down the top 5 reasons our company might not make it to next year. (And why we ...