FeedCity

From earlier today, McKenna Park in Denton. 🌳

Some pre-dinner testing. That was correctly recognized as a new item.

All I’ve ever wanted from life is a genuinely great SVG vector illustration of a pelican riding a bicycle.

— Simon Willison, What happens if AI labs train for pelicans riding bicycles?

Technology isn’t destiny, no matter how inexorable its evolution may seem; the way its capabilities are used is as much a matter of cultural choice and historical accident as politics is, or fashion.

— M. Mitchell Waldrop

I’m definitely going to be sent on a side quest.

Finally got my local Android build setup working again. Had to nuke everything. This has been really holding me up on testing and bug fixes.

Now that I have two whole videos of me talking to the camera, time to make a Videos page for my blog. Having a place for anything is actually an encouragement to do more of that thing.

Here's what I'm doing. I want to get all my blog posts together in one place. I still want to use Electric Drummer to write stuff for scripting.com, there's a whole system built around it being where it is. But, I want all the posts on scripting to also appear on the daveverse site, so that they first version of my discourse module can be simple to create, debug and use. So I've got the first half working, I've got a script that hooks in via WebSockets to FeedLand and is notified every time Scripting News updates. It mirrors the updates to a site on WordPress (for testing) and once it works, I'll have it send the stuff to Daveverse. That part remains to be done. Not sure if it'll be a desktop app or a server-based app. But now I need a break. ;-)

One more before lunch.

This is a superb way to deprecate a little JavaScript library. Now that you can just use HTML instead, the website for Pikaday has been turned into a guide to choosing the right design pattern for your needs. Bravo!

Pikaday is no longer a JavaScript date picker. Pikaday is now a friendly guide for front-end developers. I want to push developers away from the classic date picker entirely. Especially fat JavaScript libraries.

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I am interested in art—we are interested in art, in any and all of its forms—because humans made it. That’s the very thing that makes it interesting; the who, the how, and especially the why.

The existence of the work itself is only part of the point, and materializing an image out of thin air misses the point of art, in very much the same way that putting a football into a Waymo to drive it up and down the street for a few hours would be entirely missing the point of sports.

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"As an innovation leader, it is your job to ensure that your organization has explicit norms that enable your people to do deep work." Meeting culture is one place they often fall down – this is a great way to better support your teams.

The hits keep comin! ;-)

Neat cups at Communion Coffee with the Richardson water tower and skyline.

As promised here is another test post. I will now add another sentence to the post...

The new Nostr-based video app Devine also includes an archive of original Vine videos. Rabble spoke to TechCrunch about it:

“So basically, I’m like, can we do something that’s kind of nostalgic?” he told TechCrunch. “Can we do something that takes us back, that lets us see those old things, but also lets us see an era of social media where you could either have control of your algorithms, or you could choose who you follow, and it’s just your feed, and where you know that it’s a real person that recorded the video?”

"As generative AI content starts to fill our social apps, a project to bring back Vine’s six-second looping videos is launching with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s backing."

You will probably see a series of test posts here, as the day goes on.

Good morning. I like how things are going in FeedLand and WordLand today. The dots are starting to connect.

Hanging out with Coco.