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This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Stephanie Stimac, whose blog can be found at blog.stephaniestimac.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Andy P...

What comes after the AI hype cycle; new community platforms; and more.

One of my favorite hobbies is home networking and wifi, and once you go down that rabbit hole one of the best companies you can follow is Unifi. They’re such a cool company in so many ways, from having a 4-person board of directors, as a public stock. You can clearly tell they delight in … Continue reading Unifi 5G →

Watching some of the Nexus livestream. Brandon and Emily Sanderson are announcing a free coin for people struggling with depression, as a physical reminder to keep going and get help. Seems really well thought out, with resources and a letter from Brandon:

I challenge you to recognize that the experience you have gained through your struggles with mental health is also a strength. The stronger person is not the one who has never struggled; it is the person who has developed, step by step, the power to keep walking.

I watched Train Dreams last week and I’m still forming an opinion about it. I like this review in The New Yorker:

This is craftsmanship of an undeniably majestic order, and it has a way of both dropping your jaw and raising an eyebrow; you begin to wonder, at a certain point, if the film’s visual splendor has begun to outstrip its meaning.

I have the novella on hold.

Under a new State Department memo, people who keep online spaces safe are now ineligible for H-1B visas.

Louie Mantia blogging about Alan Dye leaving Apple, and more generally the trend away from user-centered design:

Not to put too fine a point on it, but they started making products that appealed to themselves. Because since Steve Jobs died, Apple, its executives, and its corporate employees got significantly wealthier. It wasn’t just Jony who took an interest in luxury.

Thursday session

In software I design, I like to have multiple ways to view the same data. In one context it's an outline, then flip a switch and now it's a graphic. MORE was a product we shipped at Living Videotext for the Mac in 1986. You start with an outline and flip a switch to turn ...

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).