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Holy wow!!

https://www.thingiverse.com/blog?p=thingiverse-joins-the-myminifactory-family

Thanks Michael for the heads up!

Ruben, after responding to the sandwich questionnaire that Zachary blogged about, added a few more questions. When I saw the blog post, I thought: these questions are exactly what I need today. Below I have responded to the delightfully-named “second helping” questions that R...

Matt Shumer writes that something big is happening. It’s a long post. Some good points and some things that might be framed a little too dramatically. If you are firmly an AI skeptic, I doubt you will be convinced by Matt, but his post is comprehensive and got me thinking. I...

I like this post from Justin Jackson about the impact on RSS if browsers remove XSLT support, which some bloggers use to make RSS more accessible. There has never been a good answer to “what do normal people do with an RSS link?”… We really need to solve this.

Daniel Jalkut blogging a story about getting a job at Apple in the 1990s:

The moment I got my foot in the door, I let management know that I was really after an engineering job. “I’m going to be the best QA engineer you’ve ever seen, but I really want to write code for the Mac.” Or something like that. Having the gall to say something affected things.

We’ve talked about Daniel’s time at Apple a bunch over the years on Core Intuition, but there are fun details here I didn’t know about.

If you're a FeedLand user and have the technical ability to install a Docker app, even just on a local computer not on the net, you could help the project by trying the new Docker version. Think of FeedLand as something like Mastodon or WordPress. I want people to have an excellent experience installing and sharing their own instances. I am doing that now, with the blogroll on Scripting News and various news sites. That's all running on an instance of FeedLand I installed myself. Scott worked really hard to make that easier. It's an open source project, so you can feel good by helping. And if you have a few hours to give it a try, maybe much less, you would be doing a good thing.

When I was a kid I had a penpal in Scotland. It was kind of interesting but after a while it became tiresome. One time I got a letter from my penpal with the usual stuff, school, sports, the Beatles, other kids, but this time there was no mention about how stupid the adults were. I found out why at the end in a PS. "Sometimes my mom writes these for me." Obviously I never forgot this.

I no longer even think of debating whether the AIs are intelligent. I might as well argue about your intelligence, or even my own. We have no idea what intelligence is or how to test for it. So if you think you're so intelligent and you say things like "AIs aren't intelligent" as if it were an indisputable fact, well I'm pretty sure that proves you are not actually very intelligent, which indicates how intelligent I am (not). And if you're worried about what happens if you stop insisting that AIs aren't intelligent, you can relax, nothing depends on what you or I or anyone else thinks about that, or pretty much anything. Have a nice day.

BTW here's proof that ChatGPT, intelligent or not, actually listens to me. Which is something very few supposedly intelligent humans can say. This may be one reason why we like being fooled by these machines. 😄

I’ve been using (and enjoying) NetNewsWire for quite a while now…

https://adactio.com/journal/350

Fuck me, the conclusion to season 2 of The Night Manager was quite unexpected. Wow.

Only 8% of respondents believe individual Americans have a responsibility to pay for news. "I don't think that information should be a privilege," one respondent said.

Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren’t paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were going to restaurants and shaking hands and planning trips. If … Continue reading Something Big →

Mark Gurman reports that the new Siri is delayed again, from iOS 26.4 next month to 26.5 or later:

As recently as late 2025, internal versions of the new Siri were so sluggish that people involved in development believed the company would need to delay the introduction by months.

Apple is very set in their old processes and release cycles. But OpenAI ships major new features multiple times a month. I don’t see how Apple can be competitive in AI unless they rethink how they work and release software.

I got the Day One printed journal in the mail. Opted for a boring cover, just wanted to see how everything looks. Love that they provide this service.

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. 🦞