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I was just catching up on tweets and saw an announcement earlier this week that Matt Mullenweg is going to lead a town hall discussion at WordCamp Canada next Friday in Ottawa. A week from today. I find that exciting. I'll in the room for sure, and blogging it. Why not? ;-) ...

I know so many people around my age that were never told this simple truth that I heard Steve Jobs say in a video the other day. Paraphrasing -- the people who made the rules you think you have to live by weren't smarter than you. Once you accept this as fact, then if you can find the leading edge you can make it work the way you want it to. You can be one of those people.

It’s a good summary of where my head is that I asked ChatGPT when MySQL started supporting a certain feature, and it said 25 years ago. I often joke that my tech skills are stuck in the early 2000s. 🙂

Today's song: Oh My Love, by John Lennon. I was trying to remember this song. It kept eluding me. It's not one of his most famous ones. It is the clearest theme for what you experience when you fall in love. Clarity. Endless possibility. At home in your life. For the first time.

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Linda Ma, whose blog can be found at midnightpond.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Lou Plummer and the ot...

The Delaware River begins as two branches, before converging into the main river and continuing 282 miles to Delaware Bay. The West Branch begins in Schoharie County and flows down into Delaware County, passing the Cannonsville Reservoir before paralleling Route 17. The East Branch runs from Delaware County through the Pepacton Reservoir before convergence. The “Wedding of the Water”, the convergence of the east and west branches of the Delaware River is near Hancock, NY. The closest view that is easily accessible by car is the New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservations Junction Pool…which is a small area with picnic tables popular with fly fisherman because of its relatively safe position to wade into the river. In fact, I saw several people doing just that.

This is a nifty initiative:

This site lets you rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which proposals should be taken on for 2026.

For the record, here’s my top ten:

1. Cross-document view transitions
2. Speculation Rules API
3. img sizes="auto" loading="lazy"
4. Customizable/stylable select
5. Invoker commands
6. Interoperable rendering of HTML fieldset/legend
7. Web Share API
8. CSS scroll-driven animations
9. CSS accent-color property
10. CSS hanging-punctuation property

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One fairly common concept you’ll inevitably stumble upon if you spend any modicum of time reading discussions on the web is the idea of “two sides”. Some will tell you that the two sides are not the same and one is clearly better than the other, others will argue that not ta...

I was reminded today of the profound marketing influence of Kathy Sierra, who was a pretty prolific blogger and speaker back in the day. I would summarize her thesis as such: Your best marketing and communication should talk about how you make your users awesome, not how you’re awesome. If you’d like to check out … Continue reading Kathy Sierra →

The IETF OAuth Working Group has adopted the Client ID Metadata Document specification!

Working on approval from Google for YouTube API access, Google is setting very low expectations here:

The Trust and Safety team has received your form. They will reach out to you via your contact email if needed. The review process can take up to 4-6 weeks.

I prefer my tools to help me with repetitive tasks (and there are many of those in programming), understanding codebases, and authoring correct programs. I take offense at products that are designed to think for me. To remove the agency of my own understanding of the software I produce, and to cut connections with my coworkers. Even if LLMs lived up to the hype, we would still stand to lose all of that and our craft.

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This is what I point to when I want to say "Heh not likely."

I’ve been very down the last few days, but I just spent some time skimming through random posts on Micro.blog, including from some blogs and people I hadn’t even seen yet. Warms my heart.

The open web has made progress in recent years, even if social media often feels in crisis. We’ll get there. ❤️

As usual, Ben Thompson’s framing is quite good:

…OpenAI’s wrenching transition from research lab to consumer tech company is now complete. The next goal from here is world domination, and we’re all, for better or worse, along for the ride.

AI is so big and so complicated at this point, that I’m confident there will be better and worse. There will be useful tools, like for coding and medical research, and there will be slop and negative outcomes. Our task is to minimize the harms without throwing away the positive breakthroughs.

"[An] archipelago of high-trust communities [is] where journalists are uniquely capable of building thriving businesses."

Gregory Scott, founder of Kush Audio, shared an interesting insight about mixing music the other day: Sometimes, to bring something forward in the mix, instead of turning it up, it can be more effective to actually turn all the other things down. Let’s say you realise that ...

Note this is for the 0.8 release of WordLand coming soooon. Not in the current released product.

A friend asked for this feature a few months back, before we had a Markdown mode in WordLand.

As I'm reviewing the product for first beta I realized I could now implement the feature he asked for.

Here's how to.

1. Put a URL on the clipboard.
2. Go into Markdown mode by clicking the M icon. It turns green.
3. Select the text you want to be a link.
4. Paste the URL copied in step 2.

A video demo.

It creates the link for you, in Markdown syntax of course.

To see it in HTML, just flip the Markdown button off.

I call this feature Cute Paste. :-)

I’ve worked in the tech industry for close to two decades at this point. I’ve seen how difficult it is to build quality products, but I’ve also seen that it can be done. It just feels like no one gives a shit anymore, beyond a handful of independent devs and small shops. It’s wild.

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