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Tree and stained glass at Lazarus on Airport. ☕️

We’re planning a winter-y, holiday challenge for this month. Announcement coming on Monday! 🎄

Talking to Alexa+ this morning, I do think it’s an improvement. More conversational. It took them a while from announcement to now to get there, but seems fairly solid to me. I would use Siri if it was that good.

I’ve been wanting to make this change for months, finally rolled it out. When you’re on the pages for your managing your blog, the header looks better now, less clutter and fewer lines. Required a surprising amount of HTML and CSS restructuring.

On December 13th and 14th of 2025 the third San Diego IndieWeb Camp will occur! The information is on the events.indieweb.org website. The last two: 2023 and 2024 have been great fun. It’s a two-day affair: Day 1 is about brainstorming and Day 2 is more about creation. The nature of what gets made depends...

Puzzle is starting to come together.

Dario Amodei takes some shots at OpenAI in a DealBook Summit interview:

Let’s say you’re a person who just kind of constitutionally wants to YOLO things or just likes big numbers, then you may turn the dial too far.

There’s a world where Anthropic has an IPO next year and keeps growing in the enterprise, while OpenAI is all-in on everything and collapses. But I think a lot would have to go wrong for that to happen.

Dr. Michael Miller, a retired researcher at RAND, has been teaching upper level undergraduate/graduate level math courses for fun at UCLA Extension for over 50 years. This winter, he’ll be introducing hypercomplex numbers to those interested in abstract math: Fundamentals Of Hypercomplex Numbers. His courses are thorough and rigorous, but geared toward lifelong learners and beginners … Continue reading Fundamentals Of Hypercomplex Numbers | UCLA Extension

I have re-watched Die Hard and can confirm: it is a Christmas movie (no matter what the British public may think).

Alan Dye is leaving Apple for Meta, with Stephen Lemay taking over design. Nice that he goes back to 1990s Apple. I’m not sure what Apple needs, but I don’t think looking outside the company would help.

Wednesday session

Jason Fried blogging about the Fizzy launch, which is free as open source or $20/month hosted:

If you’d prefer not to pay us, or you want to customize Fizzy for your own use, you can run it yourself for free forever. Have a great idea? Submit a PR to contribute to the code base and improve the product for everyone.

37signals is very opinionated, so I wonder if too many PRs will clash with how they usually grow a product.

My mind boggles at the thought of using a generative tool based on a large language model to do any kind of qualatitive user research, so every single thing that Gregg says here makes complete sense to me.

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Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Jay Hoffmann and Jeremy Keith about Shadow DOM’s backstory and long origins

I enjoyed this chat, and it wasn’t just about Shadow DOM; it was about the history of chasing the dream of encapsulation on the web.

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I was out in the water yesterday while they were putting up and decorating the Christmas tree in funky Ocean Beach and as usual it leans a bit; in the background, waves crash into the (retired, long story) pier. Thanks Ocean Beach Community Foundation for arboreal joy! it leans a bit decorating with a cherry...

Quick video demo of a new feature to change the poster frame of a video you’ve uploaded. Testing with a Mickey Mouse short that will go into the public domain in 2026, the first appearance of Pluto, so I’m a few weeks early.

The options we pass to FFmpeg in a variety of cases is now so complicated that I can’t really understand or edit it without AI.

They should make a version of bash on Linux that also accepts ChatGPT commands. As always they is someone other than me.