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Hypertension notification is fantastic in theory, but I’m skeptical that this can be done without a new sensor. Seems impossible with heart rate data alone. But I guess if it only sometimes works, it still has the potential to save lives.

My cousin, who I wrote about recently, has been discharged. This is the best and most significant news for my circle lately. I have been listening to CMAT lately. I first started listening when I came across Jamie Oliver Petrol Station and now EURO-COUNTRY is on heavy rotation for me. It apparently has stopped a...

Met this little cutie on the beach.

Every one of these five proposals is worth a vote.

Mind you, Rich’s cynicism is understandable.

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Reading Nobber by Oisín Fagan.

Dave Winer posted notes from his recent recording about why blogging lost to social networks. I’m smiling at the Radio WordLand name. My blog started on Radio Userland! (Then Movable Type → WordPress → Micro.blog.)

iPhone announcement day. I do not need a new phone, but I am curious about the iPhone Air. Years ago, I switched to the iPhone 5C just for a change, and actually liked the color and plastic. But I can’t see giving up the best cameras now. 📱

WWND. What Would Navalny Do? Think about it.

The Dems are terrible at politics. They should be running ads on TV saying that no workers in the fields means food prices soaring as we'll have to import food because all the American crops are dead because there was no one to harvest them. It's true. Why didn't anyone see this coming, people would ask in disbelief. Well we did see it coming, but the Dems were too dumb to do anything about it. They're supposed to be the "woke" party, isn't it funny that they're so un-woke about something like keeping Americans fed!

I asked ChatGPT to provide bullet points for yesterday's podcast. I thought this time it did a really good job. It did misunderstand some things I said, I just deleted those, below. Blogging lost to Twitter because Twitter had one-click subscribe. Subscribing in feed reader...

A few interesting reads or listens:

I’ve never been a Snapchat user and can’t relate to most of what’s in Evan Spiegel’s note to employees, but the part about AI use actually sounds true. It’s not wildly inflated like some quotes we’ve seen from other CEOs:

Engineering is already seeing momentum, with AI now generating about a quarter of all code and new agentic infrastructure underway to further boost developer productivity.

One of my main goals with learning machine knitting is to replace the electronics on my Brother KH-930e with AYAB (All Yarns Are Beautiful) to create multi-color patterned knits of whatever sicko stuff comes to mind. But home knitting machines aren't a fire-and-for...

I’m on beta 9 of iOS 26 and there’s still a voicemail tab caching bug. Maybe I notice more than folks at Apple because I have almost no notification badges enabled, so it really stands out? Have to force quit the Phone app about once a day. I don’t usually complain… Surprised this hasn’t been fixed.

I feel like I can call myself a real typewriter afficionado now. My new pen typewrwiter-pal Tom Hanks has written me a letter on some fascinating letterhead.

It’s so hard to get people to take a second look at a product. Rabbit has continued to work on improvements for over a year, and now they’ve wrapped it up in a rabbitOS 2 update. Overview video on Twitter / X.

I'm starting to roll up the user interface of the new product, and so it's time to start talking about the features that are coming, and also let's talk about the mistakes we made last time, almost always caused by people not working with each other, and let's not do it this time. If you care about this stuff and you're a developer, please have a listen. This is a good time for us to start really working together. All I can do is put out the invitation, it's up to others to show up.

I cover a lot of territory in this podcast, I don't have time to write it all up. I have however asked Google to make a transcript of it. Maybe that will help. ;-)

And if you're a developer and have ideas about this, why not write a blog post about it and send me a link. That's the first step in really booting up the blogosphere -- actually using it.

Still diggin!

I’m sure the people who stayed in Omelas had lots of earnest discussions about harm reduction.

My first book was published twenty years ago:

https://domscripting.com/

Back then, I never could’ve imagined that it might one day be ripped off to train a hallucinating autocomplete.

Follow your dreams, writers!

Podcast: Why blogging lost to Twitter and other folk songs.