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Monday session

John Gruber blogging about the end of Apple’s Clips:

Edits, Meta’s new-this-year video editing app for mobile, has a clear use case: it’s meant for editing videos destined for Meta’s popular social media networks. Clips had no clear target destination. It could have, but never did.

More slides done since yesterday, having a great time. We all went through the same thing. Twitter comes online, we try to work with it. Unless your ideas fit in 140 chars, don't use links, or style, and you never make mistakes that need correction, it just doesn't work. Th...

I don’t get out to gigs as much as I’d like. But for some reason, the past week has been packed with live music. On Tuesday I saw Ye Vagabonds. I’m particularly partial to their nice mandolin playing. It was a nice concert that felt like being in a Greenwich Village folk cl...

Expanded the movies section of Micro.blog to add searching for TV shows, including browsing seasons and episodes. Here’s a 30-second video of how it looks:

I’ve had some incredibly productive moments with AI design tools. But I’ve had at least as many slogs, where I can’t get it to do some basic thing I should’ve done myself 45 minutes ago.

My hunch: vibe coding is a lot like stock-picking – everyone’s always blabbing about their big wins. Ask what their annual rate of return is above the S&P, and it’s a quieter conversation 🤫

This, in my opinion, is how we end up with a firehose of AI hype, and yet zero signs of a software renaissance. As Mike Judge points out, the following graphs are flat: (a) new app store releases, (b) new domain names registered, (c) new Github repositories.

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A framework for newsroom build vs buy decisions.

If you appreciate golf at all, the story of how Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach without knowing he was down to his last golf ball because of arcane rules is pretty interesting.

📕 Finished reading In Defense of Dabbling by Karen Walrond ISBN: 9781506487656

I picked this copy holder up at a thrift store in early 2025 for about $2. Along with a binder clip or some small magnets, it’s great for transcribing notes using one of my typewriters.

One Thursday in May, I was sitting in a slightly delayed train, heading home from Düsseldorf after three days of meeting good friends and making new ones at beyond tellerrand, my friend Marc Thiele’s wonderful conference. As usual, after visiting a conference, and beyond tel...

Great news! my candle dealer bugs rock is back with a new line for spoopy season! Order now and get these monstrous creations:

• bad apple (plus baby sample powerful enough to spoil somebody’s bunch)
• a sweet hex (feel like Pandora (not the streaming service) as you open the lid! then instead of hope you are left with a sweet candle to burn)
• mischief nite (this moon cannot be obscured, knows what you did)
• evil side up (I guess Sam I Am wanted the ham)

Plus some bugs rock matches and stickers and maybe some little plastic scaries and a temporary tattoo!

As a bonus you can guess which of these made me sneeze a bunch when I opened the box! (I’m fine, my allergies and I have come to an agreement. Thanks for asking!)

https://bugsrock.online/

Working on my slides for WordCamp Canada next week.

I don't think I'll actually use the F-word in the slide.

But it makes me laugh when I see it.

I'm getting ready for a trip. And part of that is getting my laptop set up so I can post to Scripting News. If you're reading this, it worked.

Exhausted last night and fell asleep during SNL. Watched Weekend Update this morning and it was hilarious. 📺

I am getting ready for a trip. And part of that is getting my laptop set up so I can post to Scripting News. If you're reading this, it worked.

In 1986 – when I was four years old – three researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) were working on an idea that would change the world of technology forever: they figured out an efficient way...

Bummer about Apple abandoning Clips. No surprise that they don’t have time for it, but it was a nice app that maybe could’ve been successful as part of someone’s indie business.