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Today was a good day, I think, for finishing a little guy that I’ve been carrying around incomplete for a couple of weeks.

📗 Want to read Landscapes of Fear by Professor Yi-Fu Tuan ISBN: 9780816684595

📗 Want to read Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee ISBN: 9780316399272

📗 Want to read Metagaming by Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux ISBN: 9780816687169

📗 Want to read Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez ISBN: 9781419735219

Another great game from Wemby. Unreal. 5 blocks, 5 assists, 6 3s, a bunch of points. This season is so much fun. 🏀

The story of what Bending Spoons has built is very impressive, and I’m a customer of theirs through Evernote, WordPress uses Meetup a ton. I think Automattic’s Noho office used to belong to Meetup. They’ve built an incredible engineering and product culture that can terraform technology stacks into something much more efficient. I think their … Continue reading Bending Spoons →

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BTW, if you have a question about source:markdown, or want to raise an issue, this is the place to do it.

Scripting News' feed now supports source:markdown.

📗 Want to read Texture and 3D Effects by Amber Hards ISBN: 9780719842382

Tim Berners-Lee is the guest on the latest episode of Decoder:

You want to have control of your own destiny. We call it digital sovereignty. In the old days, the early days of the web, anybody used to be able to make a website. So that feeling of sovereignty as an individual being enabled and being a peer with all the other people on the web, that is what we are still fighting for, and in fact, we need to rebuild.

Now that Cory Doctorow has put enshitified into our vocabulary, I find myself looking for evidence of it in AI, and finding it everywhere. There is a common thread. Amazon Alexa has a really nasty habit of finishing a song by asking me if I want to listen to some other version of it. I'm sure that seems like a nice friendly thing to the product people at Amazon, but please -- I'm grooving on the energy of the song, and the last thing I'm thinking about is some asshole robot interfering with my train of thought with a question so stupid only a machine could think of it. Okay I think that qualifies for enshitification right there. Can we have a rule that AI bots must by defalt behave like a computer. I, your human overlord, the one who is paying the bills, will ask the questions. And you will not speak until you are spoken to.

Before I was so rudely interrupted, I was going to write a short post about how I never thought about how good Credence Clearwater is, until Andrew Hickey did a whole longish episode on them. The story isn't that interesting, but the music is great, lots of fun. Never realized it. Right now I'm listening to Born on the Bayou, lovin it.

I figured since I'm out there asking everyone (nicely I hope) to add source:markdown to their feeds, it kind of sucks that my own feed didn't support it. Now it does. I've started a thread on GitHub to report problems, and I can see that there will be some. If your feed reader prefers markdown, you will see the problems right off, I think.

Starting to roll out the new Micro.blog Studio subscription plan. I blogged last week with an overview. I just created a help page with a few more technical details.

There will be tweaks and improvements as we go, based on feedback.

"I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time."

Good morning sports fans!

Cold morning in Austin. Lots to do. Working at the coffee shop but accidentally left my headphones at home! I know, life is hard. 🤪

"You have some serious thinking to do about what you intend to trust to the Apple stack altogether going forward, even things like passwords."