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It looks like Lex Friedman now has over 1000 episodes of his daily podcast! Congrats @lex, amazing. Hosted on Micro.blog. 🎉

I made a mistake last month that hopefully others can learn from.

There are rumors that ICE is turning its attention to the Philadelphia area, where I live. I’m a natural-born American citizen, but based on accounts from Minneapolis, I’m not excited to run into them,

A fair number of people make a stop at news.scripting.com every day. I want to make some improvements, I think it can be made a bit faster. And I want to make it easier for anyone to create a site like that, for others to use. I think every news org should have one of those, to tell your readers who you read. Work together, we need it as we reboot the news industry. This is will be an alternative to twitter-style news readers, which took over the leading-edge from RSS feed readers, twenty freaking years ago. I think there should be a new paradigm every few decade, don't you? Long overdue.

Each podcast shownotes page now has a link, at the bottom, to the home page of the shownotes site, which has a list of all podcasts in the series. There's a lot of good stuff in the previous episodes.

In “Build a search index in Python”, I walked through how to create a search index using the “inverted index” structure. This structure is commonly used in document search. This week I was thinking about “inverting” data is more broadly applicable in software engineering tha...

Artemis has been open for registration with an invite code for over a year. In that time, many people have signed up. With that said, not everyone who signs up will end up using their account. This is par for the course with software. Signing up for an account doesn’t mean so...

As I have been building Artemis, I have learned that the account deletion flow requires constant review. For example, whenever I add a new database table, I need to make sure that table is in the account deletion flow. I may also need to create an index in the database so I c...

«Not sure if this can turn into a blogger's challenge», he said. Well, we can certainly try:

1. Blogs that don’t have a contact email.
2. The smell of cauliflowers when they’re cooking.
3. Drivers who do not respect safety distances.
4. Loud people in public places.
5. Loud people in general.
6. All the bros: crypto-bros, ai-bros, gym-bros.
7. When you go buy something online, and only your size is sold out.
8. People with no spatial awareness at the supermarket.
9. Green shield bugs.

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Some time in January, I was going through my browser tabs and came across an Artemis tab that had been opened a while ago. But it took me a moment to realise that the tab might be out of date. My eyes went first to the posts from authors to which I have subscribed, then to th...

Spurs / Lakers game tonight is ridiculous. Wemby with 25 points in the first quarter. Steals everywhere. Dunks off the backboard. So much fun to watch. 🏀

Two interesting posts today, first is Nick Hamze, who ponders the case on his delightfully avant-garde site for how WordPress fits in when everything is coded up on a whim, Nobody Rips Out the Plumbing. Separately, I was delighted to see that legendary investor Brad Feld has hooked up Claude Code to post to his … Continue reading AI Disruption →

Back in 2007, I blogged about working on a painting for a Halloween-themed art show, but I never shared how it turned out. Here it is! Still makes me smile. It was inspired by my kids and the crab plush toy from IKEA.

Noticing the Monterrey Oak we planted a few months ago has lost some leaves. We covered it during the freeze, but I think the cold and ice still got to it. Hopefully it pulls through.

Blog posts are often a self-fulfilling prophecy. Ever since I wrote the post about reading code AI generates, I’m paying even more attention to the code.

I wonder if any feed readers have experimented with hiding or shrinking pointless header images. For example, the big “Windows” image at the top of this post on The Verge. Because of social timelines and Open Graph, these headers are overused now.

Last year, I worked on a bookmarklet for editing pages on my website. When clicked, the bookmarklet would open the page in GitHub that corresponded with the page I was viewing. I used the bookmarklet so much I turned it into a browser extension, which I still use regularly to...

Today's song: Eyes of the World.