FeedCity

A few days ago I asked Manton Reece, the developer of micro.blog, if he could add a feature that gave me a feed of replies to all my posts on his service. I post a lot of stuff to micro.blog via my linkblog RSS feed. Every one of those items can be commented on. But unless I...

In Drummer, when I get too many tabs open from things I haven't looked at in a while, this is what I do.

1. I choose Add Bookmark from the Bookmarks menu
2. The menu opens with the new bookmark at the top of the list
3. If it's the first time I press Return and enter "Tabs I Closed Recently"
4. Then I drag the new bookmark under that headline.
5. Close the Bookmarks tab.
6. Remove the tab I just bookmarked.
7. Voila! Clutter Reduced.

My Twitter account has been hijacked. I can't log on, or change the password. I can't communicate with the company, so I'll try here. Please shut down my account, davewiner. To my friends who have Twitter accounts, if you see a post from davewiner on Twitter, please reply and let the people who see it know that it isn't from me.

A position statement for FediForum's unworkshop

Watched: Song Sung Blue. Good movie for a lazy Sunday night. Enjoyed it. 🍿

One term that keeps coming up in discussions about thriving in the AI era is “high agency.” This 30-minute longread by George Mack is a great way to get you thinking about how high or low agency shows up in your life.

Peter Steinberger hinted on a podcast last week that something like this might happen. Peter is joining OpenAI, and OpenClaw will stay independent in a new foundation. From Peter’s blog: When I started exploring AI, my goal was to have fun and inspire people. And here we ar...

Good first game at the all-star game(s). Wemby’s upset! He wanted that one. I had to root for World too. 🏀

Simon Willison blogs about Adam Leventhal coining “deep blue” to refer to programmers who are feeling a loss of purpose with new AI coding agents.

Sunday session

Proud to finally have a new version of Omnibear available that improves login security and allows replying to mastodon and bluesky posts! Posted via Omnibear v2.2.0

Knitting is the future of coding. Nobody knits because they want a quick or cheap jumper, they knit because they love the craft. This is the future of writing code by hand.

— Alice Bartlett

Shoutout to Tower version 2.6.7 which is still solid even though it hasn’t been updated in years. I decided not to update to the newer subscription-based versions, even when they sponsored @coreint, because “if it ain’t broke”… So rare to have an app that just works nearly forever.

Switzerland rejected Palantir on security grounds after independent journalism shed light on fundamental issues. Now the company is suing to tell its side of the story.

When Manton or Doc show up in my blogroll, and they do update fairly regularly, I always click the wedge to see what they say. I can see the first 300 chars of each post in a popup. If it's interesting I click the link to read the full post and any comments. Now I want it coming back to me. My linkblog is cross-posted to Manton's site -- micro.blog, which has thousands of users. I have no way of knowing if anyone has commented on them, but if there were a feed I'd add it to my blogroll. So it would be great to have a feed of all the comments on my posts on micro.blog. Would fit into my flow perfectly. This goes all the way back to the beginnings of RSS, where we called it "automated web surfing." I don't know where people are talking about my stuff, but a well-placed feed can make up for that.

News must be better defended, decentralized, unownable, all parts replaceable. The current situation was preventable. Same problem the social web has.

Braintrust query. Every once in a while I get reports from people who looked something up on my blog's Daytona search engine saying that where they expected dates they see things like this: NaN. The reason you see that is that the archive has a mistake in it, where there was...

BTW: NaN stands for Not A Number.