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To people who do WordPress plug-ins -- have a look at the feedlandSocket repo. It sends notifications of news items to any subscriber, via websockets. News items are simple JSON, and contain information in the feed item, and system info like id and when it was received. This makes it easy to stream news to a plug-in running in a WordPress site, that can then do anything with the news they like. It's incredibly simple to use, and we provide all the JavaScript code you need to embed in a browser-based app. Here's a place where you can ask questions.

Democrats swept yesterday's election. A reminder that you should ignore pundits when they say what they've been saying about Democrats since Trump won last year's election. They assume people are stupid and aren't paying attention to the prices in the supermarket. And the price of health insurance. And the mask-wearing storm troopers occupying Los Angeles and Chicago. Heather Cox Richardson said at the end of last night's piece that "politics will be a whole different game." Republican incumbents now know that there better be big change, or they'll all be losing next November. They may find themselves more on the people's side than Trump's, now that they know for sure the two things are different.

Most interviews I watch at 1.5-2x speed, but among my friends, we joke that there are a few people for whom we really enjoy their thoughts at 1x (shoutout to JT). I’m an unabashed fanboy of Andrej Karpathy (blogged nanochat Oct 13), and his interview with Dwarkesh is excellent. It’s very dense; I marinated it … Continue reading Andrej on Dwarkesh →

Tim Sweeney on Twitter / X welcoming a Google proposal to fix exclusive app distribution and payments:

It genuinely doubles down on Android’s original vision as an open platform to streamline competing store installs globally, reduce service fees for developers on Google Play, and enable third-party in-app and web payments.

Epic’s lawsuits were derided by many, years ago, but there’s no question now on how consequential their approach has been. We’re finally seeing real progress.

Another excellent article about AI in The New Yorker: The case that AI is thinking. It captures both the fear that we aren’t that special and the inspiration for what might be possible. I continue to find AI clarifying — a signal to focus our work and lives on what are uniquely human strengths.

After many years away, I have returned to in-person IndieWeb events, for IndieWebCamp Berlin 2025! In past years, I have tried to capture my experience for each day and session in a long-form blog post, with thoughts on sessions, project ideas, progress made, ideas for the f...

In addition to technical debt problems, when using AI for coding we have to be careful of feature creep. If there’s hardly a cost to adding a feature, it’s too easy to add all the wrong features.

Voting desert. 🇺🇸

Now that we have more confirmation that Siri will be powered in part by Gemini, I think Apple should address the other weakness in their AI strategy: the yearly update schedule. Decouple the cloud improvements so that server changes can be rolled out any time, not only at WWDC or a major iOS update.

If you’re subscribed to my From the Summit newsletter, you might recognise this church. It’s the same one I wrote about in the most recent missive, only this time there was a lovely sunny day and the whole place was not engulfed in the fog.

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Can you ship AI-generated code without creating a maintenance nightmare six months from now? Can you debug it when it breaks? Can you modify it when requirements change? Can you onboard new engineers to a codebase they didn’t write and the AI barely explained?

Most teams haven’t realized this shift yet. They’re optimizing for code generation speed while comprehension debt silently accumulates in their repos.

One team I talked to spent 3 days fixing what should have been a 2-hour problem. They had “saved” time by having AI generate the initial implementation. But when it broke, they lost 70 hours trying to understand code they had never built themselves.

That’s comprehension debt compounding. The time you save upfront gets charged back with interest later.

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Sneak peek video of next Mac version of Micro.blog with new Movies sidebar item. This will ship later this week.

Last week I posted a short survey to get some feedback on what features people are using in Micro.blog. The response was great. I’m reading through the freeform answers and they’re especially helpful. I also wanted to hear opinions about the new Movies feature we recently added on the web, and better understand how people might use better video upload support. Here are charts from a few questions. Where should the new Movies page go in the apps? Do you want to post your own videos to your blog? If you post video, how long will most clips be?

UX London will be back in 2026. It’s on June 2nd, 3rd, and 4th: Each day features a morning packed with inspiring talks followed by an afternoon of practical hands-on workshops. It’s the perfect blend! As with last year, each day will be themed: 2 June 2026: discover...

Election Day. There are lots of propositions on the Texas ballot. Kind of feel if you can’t easily memorize your vote choices, there are too many. 🇺🇸

There was a time when I thought Dick Cheney was the worst possible person to be vice president of the United States. His corruption led to what we have now. I will never love his memory. But I do remember that he voted for Kamala Harris. So, if you go deep enough, we shared the same vision for the country. As corrupt as he was, even he had a limit. We need more Republicans to do what he did. And I thank him for setting that example.

📍 Checked in at b-ware! ladenkino, Berlin, Berlin.

Wind turbines, driving back from Corpus Christi.

Mia Elvasia has a great article about how they realized they were spending $635/yr across various plugins to get things that Jetpack offered bundled and often free. Save money! Jetpack is frequently overlooked as one of the most underappreciated plugins in the WordPress universe. This is partially our fault, as the article notes, because the … Continue reading Jetpack Saves →