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The New Yorker has put their 100-year archive online in a really nice way. I’ve poked around on a few old issues.

Over the last year I’ve scaled back my news reading… Cancelled the NYT, Washington Post, Atlantic, everything. I read blogs, tech news, and for long-form The New Yorker. And novels.

Laurens Hof at Connected Places wraps up the Threads / fediverse experiment:

My take is that Meta and Threads have played the game well. They immediately capitalised on the moment in 2023 when decentralisation and Twitter-alternatives got large-scale attention, and knew how to say the right buzzwords to ride the wave.

Threads with even partial ActivityPub support in maintenance mode is still better than a completely closed platform. But it is disappointing that Meta didn’t take this further.

Updated the Mac app today with a few little improvements, including a right-click context menu for Movies. I’ve wanted this a few times to copy a link to a movie or TV show. Most menus also support holding down the option key to switch to Markdown.

We don't need to educate our audiences to fit our needs. We need to educate ourselves to fit our audiences.

I missed that iOS 26.2 in Japan allows developers to replace Siri from the side button. This seems like a big deal.

I usually only drink iced coffee, even if it's cold outside, but lately I've been craving a single cup of hot coffee esp when a basketball game is about to come on. I'm one of those old guys who falls asleep watching their favorite team kick NBA ass. So anyway I decided to treat myself to one of those fancy new-fangled Keurig single-cup coffee makers. I'm drinking my first cup. Works as advertised. Took a few tries before it woke up. I am now drinking a fresh cup of hot coffee and thinking now I finally have everything I could possibly ever want.

Also from @timapple, blogging on returning to Micro.blog:

I have come and gone quite a few times over the years, but all that moving around has convinced me that this is where I belong. I am ready to hang up my coat and stay awhile.

Welcome! It makes me happy when people come back after trying something different. Micro.blog gets better every year.

Brand new app for Micro.blog from @timapple, for Android and Linux users. It already has support for notes, books, and more. More details and download links on this page. For Android, you’ll have to sideload until it’s in the store.

TikTok has finally been sold, sort of. New partners include Silver Lake, the private equity firm that owns WP Engine. It’s almost like Silver Lake doesn’t care much about the open web.

John Gruber’s one-sentence take on Apple adding more ads to the App Store:

I have a bad feeling about this.

Yep. Even ignoring that Apple shouldn’t be in the ads business, the problem with App Store search ads is they take up half the phone screen! It’s a lot of junk to scroll through.

I asked Claude.ai to do the show notes -- something I really don't enjoy or have time for. So if this doesn't adequately describe the podcast, blame the AI. ;-) There's tired frustration among web developers who remember Firefox's heyday. This podcast is for those who experi...

Podcast: What Would Firefox Do?

For day five of the photo challenge: beard.

I learned about a feature in Inoreader that's like a river in my earlier feed readers and in FeedLand Their feature is called HTML clips. Here's a link to an HTML clip I created for my podcast list. Not exactly sure what it's doing, it appears to show news in reverse chronologic order like a timeline, as in a river. Otherwise Inoreader seems to be a mailbox style reader. Thanks to Randy Lauen for the tip.

You have been warned, spoilers follow... The whole thing is the book Carol is writing, about writing a book, inside the book she's writing another book. The book I'm speaking of is the one where it's all about Carol. Everywhere she goes people stop and say hello, and address...

1997: A big tree falls!

Going to Arizona. brb

I have a page on my site, /post, which lists all of my blog posts. For at least the last year, the HTML document title used on the page has been Posts in the Post Category. This is because the page uses the same template as my other category pages. Posts in the Coffee Catego...

1997: When a big tree falls, sunlight shines on smaller plants and they get a chance to grow.

Billy Crystal: "There is a line from one of Rob’s favorite films, It’s a Wonderful Life, 'Each man’s life touches so many other lives, and when he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?' You have no idea.