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Reminder: Sept 18, one week from today, is the 3rd anniversary of the 20th anniversary of the release of RSS 2.0. I often forget to mark that day. It's not an event that's marked by others very often, but in my humble opinion, it deserves more respect than it gets. I decide...

Realizing that we never officially documented the new support for passkeys, so a lot of people missed it. Just added a new help page with the basics.

At this week’s Homebrew Website Club, I was introduced to the Live Share extension developed by Microsoft for Visual Studio Code. The extension lets you start a collaborative editing session to which you can invite others. Excited to learn that this extension exists, and cur...

I had a great chat with Matt Cromwell and Zack Katz on WP Product Talk today, mostly about the intersection of AI and WordPress, give it a watch!

Finally investigating why SMS stopped working. Now that we have Passkeys in Micro.blog, I think I’m going to scrap SMS as an option, and clear all the phone number data we have for users. It clearly wasn’t used much anyway.

Sitting out on the porch feasting on peel’n’eat shrimp, corn on the cob, and tomato salad.

In 100 things you can do on your personal website, I shared ideas for what you can do with your website. Most of them were ideas that can be worked on yourself. With that said, I find myself increasingly delighted by the collaborative spirit of the web. Indeed, one of the wo...

I know a $200 difference isn’t nothing, but if you’re already $800 in for the iPhone 17, I think almost everyone should spring for the iPhone Air. 12 GB of RAM instead of 8 GB. That is going to start mattering with on-device AI models. Having said that, I’m keeping last year’s phone for a while.

Rob has redesigned his site and it’s looking gorgeous.

I really like the categories he’s got for his blog.

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Sometimes you need to make a web page about an air fryer. At least, this was the intution underlying my musing Maybe I should start an air fryer blog. in a Discord of which I am a member. It all started with a discussion about dinner and then website talk ensued. With my din...

Stumbled on this post a moment ago—on a lovely colourful blog, I might add—and I have thoughts on the subject: I'm low-key mad about this! So we just can't use em dashes anymore? We let the machines take them from us?? And we didn't even put up a fight or anything??? Altho...

Today's song: When you awake.

“Happy” March 2020, 2020. Year 5½ of “two weeks to flatten the curve”. 🫠

I was able to get the updated COVID-19 booster, today. Nice to see some systems are working.

Stephanie Booth, an OG blogger of great renown, now has a FeedLand blogroll on her blog. It is I believe going to make her blog feel less lonely. If anyone else wants to get one going, I have more confidence that it's pretty do-able. Screen shot.

When I started blogging, early on, I had a different system for discourse. Here's how it worked: 1. First each post would go out via email to a group of eleven people. I was cc'd. 2. The group was randomly chose each time, so you might not know anyone in your group, or you ...

Stormy weather

I read something on Brent's blog the other day that changed my thinking. He said

Brent said he cares about desktop software but not about phone and tablet versions of same. I found that liberating. It's always been a pain in the ass to do something beautiful on the desktop only to have to destroy its utility by squeezing it into a space with no keyboard or pointing device that's more accurate than my finger (I have huge fingers, and a normal size phone). I found it liberating, but -- I'm working on the design of an app that should work well on either a phone or a laptop, and I've had that in mind the whole life of the product. But now I realize in a new way that it's a choice. It always was, but it didn't feel that way.