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The previous post appeared on my daveverse blog which is something I'm especially proud of because it's the result of a fantastic collaboration between my codebase and Matt's codebase. Could not have happened without the wpcom api. That single bit of software imho is going to spark a rebirth of web applications and with that, the blogosphere. That is, if I have my way. Now one thing I still have to fix is the problem of posts appearing in more than one place without copy/paste. Have not conquered that yet.

Stephanie Booth asks about yesterday's post about dynamic OPML in Pocket Casts. I responded with a few comments, and a promise to write a post to show how this works in FeedLand, which already has the feature, but unfortunately is not a podcast client.

​AI changed the basic capabilities of computers. Some technologies will do fine in the new world, like SQL databases. But the stuff we do — that's going to change radically. Will anything be left? No one knows, imho. Best thing we can do is keep going on the path we were on, and look for ways to involve AI tech in a way that will bring the power of AI to writers.

How often do we, as frontend engineers, overlook the URL as a state management tool? We reach for all sorts of abstractions to manage state such as global stores, contexts, and caches while ignoring one of the web’s most elegant and oldest features: the humble URL.

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We’ve arrived at an industrialised process, one that’s like an assembly line for applications. Frameworks like React have become the machinery of that assembly line. They enable us to build efficiently, to build at scale, to build predictably. But they also constrain what...

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Robb Knight, whose blog can be found at rknight.me. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Seth Larson and the other...

📍 Checked in at Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin, Berlin.

Thursday session

I’m often on the other side, but it’s such a delight to be an interviewer, I really enjoy it and put a lot of work into coming up with questions and shaping a conversation I think will draw out something novel from the person. Besides the Distributed Podcast, I’ve had a chance at at events … Continue reading Conversation with John Borthwick →

There’s so much interesting to like in this post, but of particular interest to me is Gloria Steinem’s use of Wilson’s Memindex as her diary/to do list in 1960! Special thanks to my new friend Julian O’Shea who tipped me off to this little bit of history.

Watching the Wicked special on TV. I’m fine with it being one long commercial for the movie. Can’t wait. 🧹

My blog has always been a mix of personal posts and business topics. It’s not a collection of press releases. It’s not perfect and it’s not everything. I think where we often go wrong is judging people harshly from a snapshot of their life, mostly out of context. Much better to look for the good.

Staying busy this week. If I stop to let my mind wander, I can start to feel grief inching closer, like a dark fog coming over the water. Gotta stay on ground away from the coast, with things to do, for now.

Unwired.

From the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI depositions, there are a couple more details around the firing of Sam Altman, but it appears mostly the same drama. Smoke but no fire. However, there was this fact that I did not know:

According to the deposition, during Altman’s ouster, Anthropic reached out with a proposal to merge with OpenAI and take over leadership of the company.

I posted a couple months ago about improving Micro.blog’s video hosting. Not just fixing the existing problems but greatly expanding what it can do. I’ve been thinking about how this impacts current and future customers, and I’m ready to share the next step. Technical plumbi...

Listening to the final episode of Under the Radar. Congrats to David and Marco on a great 10-year run!

Leaning heavily into the YOLO mindset for travel planning right now.

The second of three big things for today: updated Mac app! This has the movies and TV show search that I previewed earlier this week.