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We went to a candlelight vigil for Alex Pretti tonight, organized by nurses at Seton. They also played the new Bruce Springsteen song, Streets of Minneapolis.

Apple’s notorious secrecy really hurts them when leadership needs to comment on something important. I know Tim Cook is busy, but imagine if he regularly blogged or wrote essays to share his perspective in a more human way? We might still be disappointed, but it would at least feel authentic.

I’m always a little pleasantly surprised when someone actually reads my book. Jatan Mehta blogs about one chapter in particular focused on the intersection of blogging and the fediverse.

It’s funny how prevalent favicon.ico still is, many years after we’ve had better ways to specify icons in HTML tags. When building backend systems or native clients, there’s really no way to avoid pinging a blog to check for favicon.ico as a fallback.

Apple TV acquires rights to the Cosmere! From The Hollywood Reporter:

The streaming giant has closed what has been described as an unprecedented deal to land the rights to the Cosmere books, the fictional literary universe by fantasy author Brandon Sanderson.

This lines up with what Brandon has said before: Mistborn as a feature, hopefully a theatrical release, and Stormlight as a series. Also:

Sanderson will be the architect of the universe, will write, produce and consult, and have approvals. That’s a level of involvement that not even J.K. Rowling or George R.R. Martin enjoy.

"There is no advantage that I can discern for creating a new format that only works in Bluesky." I put that at the end of a post the other day and as they say in journalism, he buried the lede. "Only works in" means silo. And it always results in stagnation because big organizations suck at shipping new ideas. For that you need a lot of people with laptops and a net connection and lot sof spare time to be able to replace small pieces, and join them up to the network, try out new ideas. When you're in a silo the owners place severe limits on what you can do. If you think you found a benevolent one, the exception -- there is no such thing. You're waiting for a "some day" that will never come.

Beautiful essay by Terry Godier about RSS reader UI and software creating obligations:

An interface that shows you an unread count is making an argument: that reading is something to be counted, that progress is something to be measured, that your relationship to this content is one of obligation.

TechCrunch on the Snap / Specs spinoff:

Later this year, Snap is expected to launch the latest consumer version of its AR glasses, Specs. In anticipation of that big event, the company has launched a new subsidiary, Specs Inc., focused solely on further developing the glasses.

Makes sense. Specs felt like a weird experiment inside Snap.

Appealing to data as the ultimate authority — especially when fueled by engineered desire — isn’t neutrality, it’s an abdication of responsibility.

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Some neat CSS from Tess that’s a great example of progressive enhancement; these book covers look good in all browsers, but they look even better in some.

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An idea I read in this blog post is one I hadn't considered, is super important. AI is going to be part of programming forever. There's no way to go back. This has made StackExchange obsolete, because it basically aggregates everything that was there, and it was worth it beca...

DNS fix: pagepark.scripting.com now redirects to the GitHub repo for PagePark. Somehow I lost the pagepark.io domain, but I don't really want it, so it's kind of ok. But there are some broken links. I recall there was a nice site with menus and stuff that was built from the GitHub repo but archive.org isn't able to find it for some reason. Moral of the story, don't buy so many domain names thinking you're really clever. But of course I still do. Someday they'll all be gone, of course. Will they have a ceremony for the last domain to be turned off, kind of like the last Blockbuster was. Does anyone remember Blockbuster.

One of the blogs I’ve been paying closer attention to over the past few weeks is patrickrhone.net since he’s doing a great job in commenting and sharing both the awful things that are happening in Minnesota, where he’s based, but also some of the positives that are coming ou...

Toby Ziegler: "They'll like us when we win."

Interesting thread between Jake and Ted Howard about Frontier.

Jenny Lawson blogging about how easy it is for us to lose our cool right now:

We are not meant to be able to handle this level of constant stress that comes from seeing people being brutalized and hurt. The fury boils over into so many places because it often has nowhere else to go.

Also if you’re ever in San Antonio, Jenny has a wonderful bookstore there called Nowhere Bookshop.

Kristen Radtke writes at The Verge about her childhood friend Alex Pretti:

There is something destabilizing about having known someone only as a child and then hearing they were gunned down in the street. The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I’m sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see.

Heartbreaking. The world is smaller and more connected than we sometimes realize… Everyone is someone’s friend, son, daughter.

NetNewsWire 7 is out with a UI update for Liquid Glass. Don’t worry, it fits well on macOS 26 without going too far with the design. All the menu icons are also hidden, which I like.

I was looking at some of the first posts in in 1998 in discuss.userland.com and came across this post that talked about my decision to stop doing the Mail Pages, now that we had the discussion group.