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I've started calling ChatGPT boss as in OK boss.

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ChatGPT is great at SVG. Describe the icon you want and in a few iterations you have it, even if it's not in Font Awesome. I would have killed to have this a few years ago, before FA came out. This is the best of both -- use FA if they have the right icon, design your own if they don't. It also makes me think that now perhaps SVG-based user interfaces are within the realm of possibility. CSS is no way to design UIs. I have a podcast in the pipe about this. If you want to know what I mean, look at the docs for QuickDraw.

To people who read my blog. If you have a quick thought about something you read here, it's ok if you send me an email. It should be short and not personal, if it adds some info or perspective that might be interesting, or if you just agree feverishly (not so much if you disa...

Now would be a good time for everyone to watch this movie. This is where we are now. It's not in the future. Getting this info will help. Spread the word. Download a copy too. It's a great movie.

Happy #8bitday yesterday! It was the 256th day of the year.See last year’s post for why the 256th day is 8-Bit Day: https://tantek.com/2024/256/t1/happy-8bitday-binary-byteSince last year, the related Wikipedia article on “Programmer’s Day” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prog...

React is no longer winning by technical merit. Today it is winning by default. That default is now slowing innovation across the frontend ecosystem.

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I read recently read two books that had writers as their main protagonists: Death Of The Author by Nnedi Okorafor, and Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang. They were both perfectly fine. But I found it hard to get really involved in either narrative. The stakes just never fe...

I noticed that just like Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein in All the President’s Men, Chevy Chase portraying the titular  Fletch (Universal Pictures, 1985) has a Royal HH typewriter not only at his Santa Monica apartment, but he also has a matching one at his office at the Los Angeles Globe.  Fletch’s Apartment Office Fletch’s … Continue reading Fletch and his Royal HH Standard Typewriters

Andrew Chen has a great post on retention.

Finished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. A short book, but it’s something special. 📚

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My textbook for Dr. Miller’s class Introduction to Hilbert Spaces: An Adventure In Infinite Dimensions has arrived.

I'm in the homestretch on the next release of WordLand. This version has approximately twice as many features as the last one. Because, like Radio UserLand from long ago, it does both reading and writing. But the UI is different. It's patterned after all the twitter-like pro...

Podcast: WordLand, the timeline and checkboxes.

Monday night

A heads-up for Micro.blog theme developers: I’m revamping our experimental Open Graph support with more advanced features. If your theme doesn’t have its own Open Graph image, I recommend adding the og:image tag based on the page’s .Params.opengraph.image, which we’ll fill in automatically.

Paul Frazee blogging on Leaflet about whether Bluesky’s AppView should be renamed to more clearly convey what it does:

At this point, it seems better to just call it an App and then explain that the data gets stored in the PDS, like a kind of universal cloud filesystem or datastore.

While age-gating often creates new problems, I like the fallback in this New York law:

Under the proposed rules for New York’s SAFE For Kids Act, social platforms must serve unverified users or kids under 18 only chronological feeds or posts from people they follow, as well as ban notifications from 12AM to 6AM.

Fair intro in Jason Snell’s macOS 26 review:

macOS 26 Tahoe is two things at once: It’s the broadest and most productivity-focused update for macOS in years, while also taking collateral damage from Apple’s broader design ambitions on its other platforms.