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I have a plan for how to bootstrap WordLand 0.8. First I will introduce you to a new way to read my blog. It will be a timeline of items posted to many of my feeds. daveverse -- lives on WordPress and Mastodon. Great art on Bluesky -- daily version. links.daveverse.org --...

Om Malik really likes the iPhone Air:

I don’t tend to get smitten by something so quickly, but the “Air” is really up there. It’s so thin you think a strong gust of air could really blow it away from your hands. (These puns keep coming on their own. I swear I’m not trying.)

As a consumer, I never ask to reverse a credit card charge because I know how difficult it is for small businesses. If someone forgets they signed up for Micro.blog, misses the emails, a chargeback costs us $15. It makes it feel pointless for us to offer inexpensive $1 subscriptions. Frustrating.

NVIDIA investing $100 billion in OpenAI with plans to build 10 gigawatts of data center capacity. Sam Altman:

Compute infrastructure will be the basis for the economy of the future, and we will utilize what we’re building with NVIDIA to both create new AI breakthroughs and empower people and businesses with them at scale.

So much money, so many plates spinning in the air. I’m increasingly thinking that we’ll have OpenAI and Google for the mainstream, Anthropic carving out an enterprise niche, Meta doing the ads thing, open source models… and the rest of the industry is going to fade away.

Not sure why, but I shot a quick video going up the glass elevator at the hospital. Maybe because our photos and videos fill in details of visits when we don’t write everything down.

Updates to the feedlandSocket demo app.

I’ve been writing about the rebirth of WordPress in similar terms, on my blog, in podcasts, hoping people would listen. WordPress is a lot more than people think. We can have all this, a lot sooner than you think.

Love this. JJ, me, Shannon, Angel. We lost Eddie a few decades ago but he was there in spirit. Family is fraught. Family is awesome. All love. Hold your dear ones close.

Still waiting on bug fixes in our Android app to be approved. Apple’s review times seem consistently faster than Google now. I don’t want any review for bug fixes, of course, but gotta hand it to Apple for improving this so much.

Barry Hess on his blog:

What I wouldn’t give for all of us to be a bit more naive.

A bit less social media.

A bit less 24-hour news.

Today we’re announcing support for Mastodon quote posts in Micro.blog. This is a new feature in Mastodon 4.5 that has been in development for quite some time. It is live on mastodon.social and mastodon.online, the two servers run by Mastodon gGmbH, and it will be rolling out...

As mentioned in my first-hat and forbidden socks posts my Brother KH-930e knitting machine was unable to knit two-color Fair Isle patterning due to two cam buttons being stuck together. I didn't really know where to start with figuring this out. I remember doing some se...

Paul Frazee has another post about the relationship between a PDS and the app layer of AT Protocol. With diagrams! Good description of how moderation and migration can work.

A new doc for RSS nerds. WordLand is an editor for WordPress docs, which then of course appear in RSS 2.0 feeds. Each WordPress site has a feed, but WordLand has a shadow feed, with a few additions and differences which I document here for the first time, with examples. The main reason is I wanted to use Markdown as the default format for text in WordLand, and also wanted to be able to use it for linkblogging, which is not possible as WordPress feeds are defined. The idea is that you should use the WordPress feed for most things, but if you are using a reading app that understands Markdown, you should subscribe to the shadow feed, and if you are doing a linkblog, you must use the shadow feed, or the links won't be transmitted, kind of obviating the purpose of a linkblog.

Has the internet led to more polarization, or is this more of a great unmasking, where people feel more comfortable to share opinions they've always held?

Adios, Cáceres!

If you’re not playing music while you’re working, you’re missing out. It’s incredible how sounds can transform how our brain works. You can, on tap, put yourself into a different mode of being with music; you can change your drive, motivation, mood, and more. There are some apps that have started to hack this, such … Continue reading Work With Music →

I’ve been testing with Mastodon quote posts, which I’ll officially announce (partial) support for in Micro.blog tomorrow. Not gonna lie, a little surprised that my first pass implementation mostly worked. As I’ve said too many times, ActivityPub testing is tricky.

Mark Gurman writing about recent news and also next year’s foldable iPhone:

As for how the foldable iPhone will look, I am increasingly told that users should imagine two titanium iPhone Airs side-by-side. In other words, it’s going to be super thin and a design achievement.