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"It’s no accident that US political operatives have been singling out Bluesky as a target for political control and retribution for months." But the result puts protocol developers and the users of their networks in opposition.

Nick Heer blogging about Atlas:

OpenAI wants to be everywhere, and it wants to know everything about you to an even greater extent than Google or Meta have been able to accomplish. Why should I trust it? What makes the future of OpenAI look different than the trajectories of the information-hungry businesses before it?

One word: ads. Google and Meta are ad-supported and so will always be misaligned with users, prioritizing engagement above all else. OpenAI (for now) is supported by paid subscriptions. If their business changes, it will be cause for concern for sure.

You know how the AI companies are all doing browsers. Why don't they have a local url that I could put into an <a> element that pops up the result of a question asked of the chatbot. Something like this. When you click on the link you find out what the Mets did.

Still looking for more great WordPress news sites.

I'm okay with Trump destroying the White House step by step. We're going to need a lot of new things once he's done. There's going to be a lot of broken stuff that needs fixing. Feces covered monuments. Probably a new cemetary somewhere for his victims. But you know how when...

Every engineer eventually overbuilds something. You think you’re being smart. You’re thinking ahead, building for growth and before you know it, you’ve created a system ten times heavier than your actual problem. That’s the trap. We keep designing for imaginary futures for scale that may never come and call it engineering. But it’s not engineering. It’s over-engineering.

The industry rewards it too. Nobody gets promoted for keeping things small and sane. You get promoted for complexity.

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Journalists report conventional wisdom thread on Bluesky.

Question came up on TPM as to whether the blogosphere might reboot in Substack. The author concluded it can't, and I agree. Here's why. "One thing the blogosphere had that Substack can’t have is all parts were replaceable. You could use any blogging tool, and any feed reader and still be part of the world. Substack is a single company that has raised VC money. Vastly different incentives." And this has been tested. You have to use their editor to publish in their enviroment. They're unable to let you see their product as part of a toolset, it has to be the whole thing.

Yesterday, OpenAI announced Atlas, its AI browser. To the surprise of literally nobody, it’s Chromium with AI slapped on top. Perplexity also has a browser: it’s called Comet, and it also is Chromium with AI slapped on top. Then we have DIA, which is, you guessed it, Chromiu...

Google has turned 25, which is wow, and they made a cute video about it: Of course I tried to visit the original howtocutapineapple.com site, and unfortunately saw a database error connection. From Archive.org it looks like whoever had that domain made a nice WordPress site.

The mini-rustoid is among the delightful horrors waiting to be exhumed in Animal Crossing New Leaf.

Barely any time to work or blog the last couple of weeks because of family stuff that maybe I’ll write about later when I can get my head together. I’ve enjoyed shipping the movie and TV show features. They are a nice distraction. The video improvements are close… Need some space to ship them.

Great blog post about why people like 37signals:

They write books, give talks, maintain strong Twitter presences, and share their opinions on everything from work culture to F1. I don’t always agree with their opinions. I might disagree with a good deal more than 50% of them. But I know where they stand, and I know why.

37signals has created a unique business over 20+ years, and I think this post explains why it will persist even as there is controversy from time to time, such as recent disappointment with DHH’s political posts.

A few initial thoughts on ChatGPT Atlas… Good name. I thought about naming a product Atlas recently. Dia still feels like a more complete design, but Atlas can be more tightly integrated with ChatGPT history. I don’t use Dia’s AI features mostly because it feels too separate from other tools.

Five years ago, I wrote about AVIF: A New Image Format (back then). Since then, I’ve implemented WebP and AVIF support on numerous client sites for considerable performance improvements – but my own site was still serving JPEG, PNG, and GIF images only. So it was time to fix...

This is a product i created a few years back but it went off the air when Twitter exploded for app devs, now it's back and still lovely.

Here’s a handy little tool for generating CSS with :has() selectors in order to do quantity queries.

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I’m very happy to announce that the one and only Jake Jaffa-The-Cake Archibald will be speaking at Web Day Out! Given the agenda for this event, I think you’ll agree that Jake is a perfect fit. He’s been at the forefront of championing user-centred web standards, writing sp...

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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