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Lately my MacBook Pro has been burning through its battery really quickly. I picked up Apple’s 40W / 60W charger. It’s not a lot of power but I like the size to always have something with me when I’m out of the house.

NetNewsWire is 23 years old.

We’ve gotten some great long-form post submissions via this form. Still putting things together for where and how to highlight these. 🐢

It’s wild to see the communities that have sprung up around OpenClaw. There are actually two meetups in Austin tomorrow night: MoltUp and Clawstin. Both look fun. I’ll be at Clawstin. 🦞

I just watched Life on Our Planet on Netflix, loved it. Lots of takeaways, but this one will surprise you probably -- I think the AIs are our successors. We should at least try to preserve them so they can run on the Moon if we're in the 6th Mass Extinction, which of course we are. There's been a lot of criticism of the show, but it got me to think about evolution not necessarily in the terms they offer, but the scale of it. And the CGIs were fantastic.

From the NetNewsWire blog:

NetNewsWire 1.0 for Mac shipped 23 years ago today!

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I’ve blogged about NetNewsWire many times over the years. I switched to it in 2002, which must’ve been NetNewsWire Lite or a beta of the full version. I wrote:

It’s good software, and it’s been fun watching how quickly it has matured. I have about 40 RSS subscriptions, but I migrated to NetNewsWire in just a few minutes by dragging the XML links from Radio into NetNewsWire’s subscriptions pane. The app has really embraced interoperability.

Docker version of FeedLand. Scott Hanson has it working, and would like help with testing. Thanks so much to Scott.

"Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes." The question is: what's on them?

Excellent post about communities:

When a platform dies or degrades, its community does not simply migrate to the next platform, it fragments, and the ones who do arrive at the new place find that the social dynamics are different, the norms have shifted, and a substantial number of the people who made the old place feel like home are gone.

Finding that I have a surprising amount of forgotten email replies in my drafts folder. A few need to be deleted. A few maybe sent. ✉️

BTW, Twitter started in July 2006. I was an early user, and a fan.

Found this excellent review of Twitter by Anil Dash in early 2007. I'd be interested in reading other early reviews of Twitter written by bloggers.

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...