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Clawdbot / Moltbot rebrands again, to OpenClaw. I actually liked Moltbot, it was unique and had some personality. But I can understand wanting something a little more normal sounding, and they can still lean on the lobster branding.

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Nikita Prokopov, whose blog can be found at tonsky.me. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Gary Online and the ot...

Going to Carlingford. brb

at the @CSSWG.org (@CSSWG) F2F (face to face) meeting^1, hosted by @Apple.com (@Apple) in Cupertino. Not counting at #w3cTPAC, the prior #CSSWG F2F meeting I went to was 2.5y ago, also in Cupertino, and before that 2019 in SF. Good to see so many longterm colleagues in-person.#W3C #CSS #webStandards^1 https://wiki.csswg.org/planning/cupertino-2026

Ordered my first Day One printed book. Still have some work to consolidate my hand-written journal to digital, then will be ordering a couple more.

Trying out Aeronaut for Bluesky. Very nice. I don’t actually visit Bluesky directly that often because I post to it and follow within Micro.blog. Good to have a dedicated app for things like feeds, though.

Yesterday I reported that I had remapped pagepark.scripting.com to the github repo for pagepark. But then later in the day it stopped doing that. Why? I have no clue. I moved it to another server and now it works.

The best description for the web I've ever heard is small pieces loosely joined. That really gets to the essence of it. The pieces stand on their own, up to a point, when they are joined to other pieces. And you can un-join and re-join them. I see a lot of things that say they're part of the web than can't do the arbitrary joining that's central to what the web is.

The great thing about the OG Web was that you could have an idea one day, have it deployed two days later, with a really ugly table-based UI, and everyone would know about it within a few hours. Then the reviews would come out, and a few hours later we'd know if it stuck or didn't.

As all our former allies pay homage to Xi in Beijing, I was thinking well at the least the whole world speaks our language, and that'll take a few generations to change, but then I realized I bet the Chinese have been preparing for this, and of course they have.

You know you're on the right track when all the questions have answers.

More important than code is the right place for the code.

Elizabeth Warren asks OpenAI to promise they won’t ask for a bailout if they fail:

In a letter to CEO Sam Altman, Warren says she is concerned that the company is preparing to fall back “on the classic strategy of privatizing profits and socializing losses” amid soaring spending and growing fears of an AI bubble popping.

I like Elizabeth Warren and voted for her in the 2020 primary after my other favorite candidates dropped out. But I think she’s wasting her time here. If OpenAI fails, they fail spectacularly, and no bailout will help. They have gone all-in… and might actually win.

I've learned a new self-management strategy. At the beginning of a day's programming work I set a specific goal that I feel I should be able to accomplish very quickly, in an hour, perhaps -- but probably less. If I get it done by the end of the day I will feel like I really ...

Towards the end of 2025, I wrote: I think I might change things up in 2026. Instead of waiting until the end of the year to write all the little reviews at once, I think I should write a review as soon as I finish a book. Instead of holding onto my reckons for months, I ...

More from Brandon Sanderson on why he chose Apple and his involved in the project:

I will be writing the Mistborn screenplay myself over the next 5 months, as my full time work. […] I promise not to get too distracted to do books. However, if I want this done right, I need to give some real attention and heart to it now.

Zeldman found the Google and HTTP post I wrote many years ago. Thankfully they haven't completely broken HTTP yet. I like to think they can't because so much of the web would break if they did. People might not notice the Not Secure message they post in Chrome for sites that...

Wednesday session