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It’s that time of the year again for a new version release. Forty-two is a fun number, of course, famous from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I’m in Miami, where I’m attending a conference by Richard Saul Wurman. I decided that it would be a great way to fill my brain on my birthday. … Continue reading Matt 4.2 →

A browser-based RSS reader that stores everything locally. There’s also a directory you can explore to get you started.

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Back from NYC, here’s a short video from some time in the city.

Dan Moren makes a great point at Six Colors about the ongoing Grok is still in the App Store controversy:

It is absolutely unconscionable that, as of this writing, X is not only still on the App Store but is ranked #1 in “News” and that Grok is the #3 free app.

With trending lists, the platform owner cedes discovery to an algorithm. If Apple and Google aren’t ready to ban Twitter / X, the very least they could do is stop recommending the app to new users through these lists.

Matt Birchler on AI-assisted bespoke apps:

I’m calling it now: if 2025 was the year of “vibe coding,” 2026 is going to be the year of “micro apps.” It’s the year a meaningful number of people begin to solve their own problems by building custom software tailored specifically to their needs.

We're recommending that people running their own instances of FeedLand create another index for the items table, on the whenCreated column.

So my new obsession is a Ukrainian-born musician, Alexander Hrustevich, who plays a type of chromatic Russian accordion called a Bayan. He plays incredible transcriptions of classical pieces, replicating the parts of an entire orchestra with just two hands. If you’re familiar with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, you know the Presto for Summer is one of … Continue reading Classical Accordian →

Finished reading: Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb. Starts slow, took about a third in until I really got into it. Fantastic. 📚

As I listened to the mayor of Minneapolis speak I thought he was going say "get the fuck out of Minneapolis" but of course he couldn't say that and then he said it.

Today's song: Playing in the Band.

What’s happening with ICE is like January 6 four years later with billions of dollars behind it and many months of planning and studying history for prior art.

Bob Weir is gone.

John Johnston, a longtime friend of UserLand and my newer products, asks how WordLand connects with FeedLand. Two ways. 1. FeedLand has an API, still working on it, but it will be public. 2. FeedLand has an outbound websockets interface, which is already public, so any can use it as their feed reader, and get notice of new items and updates to existing items as soon as FeedLand has the info. And if the site uses rssCloud, as WordPress does and has since 2009, the notices are instantaneous. So to the extent people thought RSS is a slow protocol, it's not. It runs at the speed of the internet. And FeedLand is all about RSS, as you know.

I'm doing little demos of stuff I'm working on in WordLand, here's a narrated demo that shows how instant updates are going. As often the recording level is too low, so turn up the volume if you want to hear the comments. A productive Saturday session.

Wikipedia “Edited” 2025 year in review, summarizing from Wikimedia XTools queries, and Wikipedia itself, curated manually for my personal site:* 7 articles created (new personal best), with several firsts for me. In creation order:  * "Take California" (https://en.wikipe...

The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. … Continue reading Mad Ones →

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