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As with the previous podcast I asked Claude.ai to write the show notes. It makes mistakes, so you have to listen to the podcast if you want to know what I really think. This time it wrote it in the first person, not third person which I would have preferred. At the end I hav...

Take a look at this. The text is purposefully opaque. Don’t try too hard to read it. That’s my senior photo. I went to University of San Diego High School. It’s does not exist today. Condos replaced the campus a few decades ago. It’s an incoherent juxtaposition of photo and text. I wish 16-year old...

RIP Scott Adams. Early Dilbert was the first cartoon I fell in love with, and early dilbert.com was one of the first websites I remember visiting. My dad would print out cartoons and put them on his cubicle wall. Between the Dilbert comics, books, 2600, and Wired, I was swimming between what felt like a … Continue reading A Better Writer →

Went to see Marty Supreme. Wild, much different and better than I was expecting. Loved it. 🍿

TIL: Moon+ Reader Pro has RSVP technology hiding in it’s settings! This is going to dramatically help my inspectional reading this year.

Kitty, the session dog!

Rob’s farewell session

Fascinating drama in Elon Musk’s court filing against OpenAI. OpenAI’s web response is well done, with color highlighting of passages from Greg Brockman’s journal.

Always good to take notes. I wouldn’t be able to remember these kind of details from 8 years ago without writing them down.

Last night's email didn't go out at the appointed hour, and I didn't get a chance to look until early evening. So last night's mail went out at about 6PM Eastern. Hopefully today's email will go out at roughly midnight tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience. Still diggin!

Is there any circumstance where "Sorry for the inconvenience" isn't the wrong thing to say? Maybe I didn't even notice, or if I did, maybe I didn't care. And what if the results were more than inconvenient? What if someone died! Sorry for the inconvenience. I'll say. I like still diggin the best. It says yes we suck, and we know it, but we're trying to suck less. With emphasis on trying.

January 9-16, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #044 Thursday, January 15 at 10:00am Online! Zoom! Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks of th...

Rewrote some WebSocket code this week and it seems to have made a dramatic improvement not just for Nostr (which uses it) but general stability with hung Sidekiq processes. Reviewing Nostr, I still find it an elegant protocol. Just not sure how it fits in the modern social web.

Ads are coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI is attempting to head off some of the inherent misalignment with ads and users by outlining some ad principles:

Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. […] We keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers, and we never sell your data to advertisers. […] We do not optimize for time spent in ChatGPT.

The problem is once you’re making money with ads, it’s hard not to optimize for more ads. I just hope ads will remain a small part of their business compared to Plus and Pro subscriptions.

This announcement from Wikipedia seemed to spark some debate. I think it’s only good news. If a company is significantly benefiting from Wikipedia and is able to help offset hosting costs, they should. From the announcement: Tech companies that rely on Wikipedia content mus...

I blogged briefly this morning about the W3C. Connected Places has a much longer post today about the new working group and participation.

I’ve submitted my name as an invited expert. I think they will have plenty of ActivityPub experts, but I’d like to help with testing LOLA and updating Micropub.