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A great interview with Ted Chiang: Predicting the most likely next word is different from having correct information about the world, which is why LLMs are not a reliable way to get the answers to questions, and I don’t think there is good evidence to suggest that they w...

The new iOS is bad in so many ways that writing a post highlighting them all is quite pointless. By the time I’d be done typing, they’d have likely released iOS 27 (and hopefully fixed most of this nonsense). So I’m not gonna waste time doing that and simply focus on one sin...

1 week until Front End Study Hall 38 – we meet and talk and hash out code and try to solve and understand whatever folks bring with them: HTML-wise, CSS-wise, UX-wise, code-wise, web-wise. Come on down and spread the word. More: FrESH

Spent some time reading through Mastodon’s early draft for starter packs. Too soon for me to implement anything. We’ve supported browsing Bluesky starter packs inside Micro.blog for a while, so would still like to do more there.

Sorry Ron, but that is more likely a late 40s Underwood SS than an Underwood 5. But I too want to type up every word I know.  

When I have a blog post draft that has been sitting around for too long, I copy the text into a Micro.blog note and delete the draft. It’s surprisingly freeing not to have unfinished posts hanging around. (Yet still have the text if I ever want to bring it back into a new post.)

Thanks to Tanya Weiman for observing that this blog started 31 years ago. Probably the longest-running blog on the internets. Still making trouble. And as they say, still diggin. You can always tell how long it's been by looking at the bottom of any archive page, where it's constantly calculating, down to the second, how long this blog has been running.

One of those days when most everything is hard, yet there are still a few moments of clarity. The view out from Whole Foods. Took a little time for breakfast tacos and work in between visits to the hospital. 😞

Why we all should love RSS. It makes the web higher level without taking anything away.

Try as hard as I can I still have distinct flows and more than one place where I edit. I think that's a consequence of working on WordLand. I have to use it for serious writing, or it doesn't work. Maybe I can find a way to merge flows, but not at the moment. I still have to do some copy/pasting.

Fascinating blog post from Jason Shellen, tech entrepreneur, formerly with Blogger and Google. Here’s my perspective on part of the story he tells about RSS and Google Reader. Netscape gave us RSS 0.91 and it was good enough to create a new powerful layer on the web. Then Ne...

I was supposed to be in Cork over the weekend. Not only was it high time I paid my mother a visit, but the Cork Folk Festival was happening too. So I booked some relatively cheap plane tickets for myself and Jessica back in August and noted down the days in my calendar. We...

Anil Dash making a strong case for video creators to work on independence from TikTok and other big platforms. The algorithm is fragile. It might help you today, but tomorrow you’ve lost everything without a direct connection to your audience.

Federico Viticci blogging about the news from yesterday’s OpenAI DevDay and the impact of ChatGPT becoming a platform:

If I were Apple, I’d start growing increasingly concerned at the prospect of another company controlling the interactions between users and their favorite apps.

Ben Thompson: “OpenAI is making a play to be the Windows of AI.” Also, on the inevitable bubble and the infrastructure we’ll be left with:

The real payoff would be a massive build-out in power generation, which would be a benefit for the next half a century.

Big news from Riley Testut about AltStore PAL, integrating with the fediverse, and new investment to grow the platform and give back to other open web tools. Very cool, congrats to everyone involved!

Two of my favorite humans, Tim Ferriss and Pablos Holman, had a great interview together. Pablos has a great new book out, and Audrey Capital is a happy LP in his Deep Future fund. Of my many hacker friends, Pablos is probably the most public.

Beeper has a fun set of September updates, adding support for Google Voice, LinkedIn now runs on-device, typing indicators for Google Messages and Instagram, full Telegram custom emoji support, and more.