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Dave Rupert is swearing off APIs, frustrated with building on someone else’s platform:

That’s a hard stance, but I need a backstop at the idea phase to prevent me from wasting limited life force. If I don’t have the data, or can’t generate the data, or it’s not an open protocol… it’s not worth building or even thinking about.

I think some platforms are safe to build on. They should be permission-less and ad-free. (One of his abandoned apps is a historical marker app, which I’ve wanted to build for a long time too.)

I was tinkering around with Clawdbot but it’s a little overwhelming. What do you use an app for when it can do everything? Started to get worried that I was opening up a huge security risk, so decided to scrap it. Will watch how these tools evolve.

Panorama From today at Pacific Beach It was a quiet weekend. But a positive one. I have some interesting things coming up this week. I’m hoping for the best. The world… is frustrating. I keep adding new videos of me riding waves at /videos. They’re mostly for me. I can see some progress but mostly...

Just a few hours ago, Faye shared some sad news. Most of us might only be able to recognize his voice, his patient hands, and his preference for lacquer thinner, but all of us are richer in typewriter knowledge because of Duane Jensen’s kind sharing of his craft by way of his spectacularly helpful Phoenix … Continue reading Rest in Peace: Typewriter Repair Legend Duane Jensen (August 21, 1961-January 25,2026)

The Level Up is an indie improv showcase. Join us as we watch amazing New York indie improv talents gain XP on the Magnet stage, unlock new achievements, and reach new milestones. Or do comedy.

Come support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for three exciting indie teams!

• BIZZO (IG: @bizzonyc)
• AM 2 PM (IG: @anthonyjulian_improv)
• UP TO NO GOD (IG: @uptonogod)

I’ll be playing with Bizzo, as well as with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!

Looking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)

Saturday January 24th, 2026 @ 10:30pm
Magnet Theater
254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)
New York City, NY 10001
Tickets $10: https://magnettheater.com/show/tickets/60293/

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Mark Gurman pulls together a bunch of Siri AI news for Bloomberg:

The company has been planning an announcement of the new Siri in the second half of February, when it will give demonstrations of the functionality.

Also more details about cloud-based models. On-device just isn’t good enough yet.

This site Bugs Apple Loves might be a little unfair, but the iCloud photos part is good:

You took some photos. iCloud says ‘Uploading 847 items’. You wait. Next day: ‘Uploading 847 items’. Week later: ‘Uploading 847 items’. Is it stuck? Is it working? Is there an error? There’s no progress bar. No ETA.

In my experience, Apple tries to optimize when it syncs based on battery life or network or some other hidden criteria. In practice this just makes photo sync slow and unreliable.

They should host games on ChatGPT.

They couldn't have chosen a more ideal liberal state to own. I don't think any of this is an accident. Next time they will kill two, American citizens of course. And we'll protest. And then 25. It's starting to sink in that this is not just a bad dream and it's not going to end.

Gonna try to watch all the Oscar nominations this year. Over the weekend caught up on Bugonia (what the heck?) and The Smashing Machine (not much plot, but really liked the characters). 🍿

Michelle Obama was wrong when she said "when they go low we go high." There is a difference. We always try to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is pretty damn low.

Nominated for best picture of 2025, ranked by Metacritic rating.

• One Battle After Another. 95
• The Secret Agent. 91
• Marty Supreme. 89
• Train Dreams. 88
• Sentimental Value. 86
• Hamnet. 84
• Sinners. 84
• Frankenstein. 78
• Bugonia. 72
• F1: The Movie. 68

Random ramblings with past experience dealing with tech bullying. As I think about next steps for building out from WordPress to create a network of users and their writing, I wanted to review how XML-RPC came to be, so I did a podcast, and found some real gaps in my memory....

As I think about next steps for building out from WordPress to create a network of users and their writing, I wanted to review how XML-RPC came to be, so I did a podcast, and there were some real gaps in my memor. Then just a minute ago as I was browsing around the discuss.us...

BTW, promising to support the W3C version of your work in 1998 was what you did when the BigCo's said they're gunning for you. One thing you can be sure of is it'll take more time for them than it did for you. Also it'll be more complex, and take more work to support. And y...

Another BTW, I think perhaps just for fun we should create an XML-RPC implementation of the wpcom API. I have just the thing to base it on.

At some point we're going to want to make it as easy to set up a WordPress site as it is to create a new Bluesky account, because the two things will be basically the same thing. Either one will get you access to a network of bloggers.

"Red flags that both job seekers and employers should watch for, in an era of AI slop and application scams."

People use “enshittification” to describe platform decay. What I’m describing here is one of the mechanisms that makes that decay feel personal. It’s the constant conversion of your attention into a KPI.

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A fascinating talk looking at the history of the intersection of knitting and stitching with wartime cryptography and resistance.

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