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Found on Kev’s blog and originally started by Dave, here are my answers to this fun blog challenge: Do you floss your teeth? Sometimes. I’d say maybe a few times a week? I’m terrible at being consistent, and that includes flossing regularly. Tea, coffee, or water? Coffee in...

LLMs are useful when you need a compromise between fast and good. You will never get a good outcome fast.

I’m afraid we are settling into a status of good enough when using “AI,” which is especially hurtful for accessibility.

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The transcript of a very thoughtful talk by Frank.

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It’s the early nineties. Legendary comic book artist Frank Miller had just broken away from the major publishers, after creating titles like Daredevil: Born Again, Ronin, and The Dark Knight Returns. He was now working with the then-young Dark Horse Comics, when he decided t...

I have some “grand theories” of software engineering: I think there are two tribes of engineers that complexify things or simplify things, and they are in eternal conflict. Complexify: Jamstack, headless, Contentstack, Contentful, DXP, DAM, micro-services. Simplify: WordPress, Simplenote, Day One, djbdns, SQLite. Not enough engineers have studied under the code of Daniel J. Bernstein.

On my drive to Ottawa and back, I never had to wait for a charger, and it never took more than 1/2 hour to fill the battery to 80%. The chargers are often in places with restaurants or supermarkets. And it's good for my legs to get out of the car and walk for a bit.

I wonder if any established open source projects are converting to having ChatGPT or other AI manage the process.

AI at scale isn't scaling.

Turned on the TV this morning and they were covering the AWS outage. It doesn’t appear to have affected Micro.blog from what I can tell. I could use the small wins this week.

Cal Newport blogs about what Sora might mean for a business model shift at OpenAI:

A company that still believes that its technology was imminently going to run large swathes of the economy, and would be so powerful as to reconfigure our experience of the world as we know it, wouldn’t be seeking to make a quick buck selling ads against deep fake videos of historical figures wrestling.

Sora is a gimmick. OpenAI should build more tools like ChatGPT Pulse, which is one of the most amazing products I’ve ever used. Truly new and useful.

Frontier's Simple Cross-Network Scripting was one of my favorite features ever.

Took yesterday off, aside from a little blogging, which isn't work for me -- now on Monday, I'm going to do a few warmup projects, and figuring out which big item I should focus on in my post-WordCamp experience.

I wish WordPress had a "home" social network. The community is all over the place, on Twitter, Slack, Masto, Bluesky, GitHub, and probably a few other places. I hope to have a social network that is built on WordPress and RSS. That would be one I'd like to be the first user of. I'd make my account simply dave. And of course I'd offer "matt" to Matt. But it would be open to the public, and anyone could start their own, by running a very easy to install piece of software on a server.

Having a coffee with Mango.

Confession: I can never remember the actual name of the coffee shop so in my mind it’s Mango’s.

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