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I'm working on a feature for WordLand II where you can flip a switch to see the OG Metadata for a post you're reading, by clicking on an icon that looks like the flag on the side of an old fashioned mailbox. I remembered there was a desk accessory on the original Mac that us...

Something feels off about this Apple and Google statement on Siri and Gemini. I’m left with more questions than I started with, particularly around this Gemini “cloud technology” mentioned in the statement.

Salvatore Sanfilippo, the creator of Redis, wrote over the weekend about AI for programming:

It does not matter if AI companies will not be able to get their money back and the stock market will crash. All that is irrelevant, in the long run. It does not matter if this or the other CEO of some unicorn is telling you something that is off putting, or absurd. Programming changed forever, anyway.

I’ve blogged a lot about AI. Part of it reminds me of this particular post from June last year. I can’t believe it was less than a year ago… Feels like two years ago, so much has happened.

I’m glad this blog post from Norbert Heger is getting so much attention. I thought I was losing my mind trying to resize macOS Tahoe windows. Even keeping the rounded window corners, Apple should be able to fix this now that it’s so perfectly illustrated.

You can subscribe to get an email each Monday of all my blog posts from the previous week. Even if no one subscribed, I’d keep this enabled because it’s nice to skim through and reflect on the last week. What was I focused on? What’s next? I’m usually surprised how many posts or photos there were.

The Internet Archive has more about the legacy of Stewart Cheifet and the digitization of his shows. Rest in peace. Glad to see such a long-running effort to archive his work.

Ben Thompson with a critique of the first live NBA game on Vision Pro:

Here’s the thing that you don’t seem to get, Apple: the entire reason why the Vision Pro is compelling is because it is not a 2D screen in my living room; it’s an immersive experience I wear on my head. That means that all of the lessons of TV sports production are immaterial.

Apple is overthinking it. People just want more content. One camera at every game instead of multiple cameras at only a handful of games. Worse is better.

Today's song: He's Gone. We've barely had a chance to process the passing of Bob Weir, but now I realize that for the core of the Grateful Dead are now gone too. So I wanted to choose a song of the day that says a proper goodbye to Ron McKernen, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Ro...

Learning to appreciate different flavors is something that comes very hard for me. And yet, for some reason, tea is one of those things that no matter how hard it is for my tastebuds, I’ll constantly come back to.

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Toward the end of 2021, I wrote about working a four-day week. It really suited me. So much so that I’ve gone one further. For the past year or so I’ve been working a three-day week. I work on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. From Friday to Monday, my days are my own. Thi...

While I was writing “Publishing my citation preferences”, I consciously decided that the blog post should include a screenshot of the website feature described in the post – the new “Reference this post” section on my blog pages. I knew that I might change the design of the w...

I am reading Katy Hessel’s “How to Live an Artful Life”. The book has a single creative prompt each day to consider. I have the book – whose cover is beautifully designed, with a link typeface and a blue square so as to make the book stand out – in a prominent place. When I h...

I’m reading Station Eleven, finished a chapter and then checked the internet, my mind still halfway in the book. For a moment I wasn’t sure if I’d see people online talking about ICE, the federal reserve, or a new pandemic. Reality now as unsettling as fiction, and it all blurred together.

I had to do some work with Concord today, the open source JavaScript outliner Kyle Shank wrote for me in 2013. I used ChatGPT to help. It knew all about Concord. Amazing. If only through ChatGPT etc, my work will survive. That means a lot to me. I take the opposite view that some artists take. I like that it's learning about what we did with our lives. Bob Weir died yesterday. That didn't go unnoticed here.

I just posted something new on Scripting News, and thought -- that should appear on the new WordLand I'm working on, even though it's not a WordPress site. It did appear. Screen shot. The beauty of RSS. It's supported everywhere, so we might as well depend on that.

I wonder sometimes if we’re the last generation of humanoids for a variety of reasons.

BTW, look at all the links in my writing. Shouldn't every platform that says they're part of the web let users add links to their writing? Of course they should.

If I were making a Bluesky client, I would get together with the other independent developers who are creating those clients and agree on adding features that Bluesky itself doesn’t support and be compatible with each other. Comment here.

Textcasting: Applying the philosophy of podcasting to text.

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 →