The killer app of AI is customer service. A podcast about just that.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
The web is where we belong
When I designed podcasting, I could have invented a better way to record and play radio shows, but MP3 already existed, as did recording and playback hardware and software, so it was the no-brainer choice. No one ever asked why we are using MP3.
TBL did it when he designed ...
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
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Step aside, phone: week 2
Halfway through this enjoyable life experiment, and overall, I’m very pleased with the results. As I mentioned last week, I was expecting week two usage to be a bit higher compared to week one, where I went full phone-rejection mode, but I’m still pleased with how low my usa...
Chris Aldrich
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Spurs in Austin. 🏀
Chris Aldrich
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ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
“To the greater glory of god”
I’m not really a theist. Like, there’s no fella with a beard. That dude is only in single panel cartoons. But I vibe with the notion of humility before the universe. One can’t help but know that there are forces greater than oneself. If you’ve been a debtor you know this. If you’ve been to...
Grouping threaded posts in Artemis
Artemis lets you subscribe to ActivityPub feeds (i.e. accounts on Mastodon). To do this, you can type in an ActivityPub handle like @jamesg.blog@jamesg.blog [1] on the “Add a website” page.
When you subscribe to a feed using an ActivityPub handle, Artemis can use the informa...
Graduating between mediums of communication
The IndieWeb community chat has a feature that lets you create a wiki page from a chat interaction. You can say “what is {term}?” in the chat and, if there is a definition on the community wiki, the definition will be returned by a bot. Otherwise, the bot, Loqi, will say that...
Artemis dense layout
This evening I added an idea I have had for a while to Artemis: a "dense" layout.
By default, the Artemis interface appears in a single-column layout. The dense layout creates several columns. Each column from left-to-right shows posts for a given day. You can scroll down to...
The killer app for AI
As with previous podcasts I asked Claude.ai to write the show notes based on a machine-generated transcript. It makes mistakes, so you have to listen to the podcast if you want to know what I really think. But it's pretty good, and will help search engines find this.
Dave W...
New podcast episode where I explain how I lost my Twitter account and how this is exactly the kind of thing that AI can do economically, esp for people who pay actual money for your service. I can't buy anything from you if I can't use my account.
Thinking; walking
Earlier this week I started to feel something I haven’t felt in a while: I felt lost. I started to look ahead and feel disoriented. Where do I want to be in a few years? What do I want to work on? What is my dream? I have never looked too far ahead in time, as long as I have ...
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Updated thoughts on People and Blogs
This is a follow-up on my previous post. After talking to a few friends and getting feedback from the kind people who decided to email me and share their thoughts, I decided that I will stop once interview number 150 is out, on July 10th. 150 is a neat number because it mean...
Rediscovering drop shadows.
I managed to go Monday through Friday without any posts about AI. So now it’s time to catch up! The Verge:
OpenAI’s first hardware release will be a smart speaker with a camera that will probably cost between $200 and $300, according to The Information. The device will be able to recognize things like “items on a nearby table or conversations people are having in the vicinity”…
I think the key things to watch will be latency and memory. Building on ChatGPT, they don’t even need to innovate that much for the product to be better than the Echo and HomePod.
Snow freaking tired of snow
Oy it's going to snow again. Hellllp.Poll: Do you have a blog?
Query: I have not done any vibe coding and have a question for those who have. Suppose you request a change in an app you've been working on with the AI for a while, adding features, changing things around based on learning and testing, which is generally what happens after you've been working on something new. Here's the question. What happens when you ask for a change that requires the codebase to be reorganized. How did that go? Do the AIs even know that's possible or do they just pile on special cases?
What happened to polling? I had a poll app for a while, then Twitter came out with one and I switched to that. I don't know if Twitter still has it, but it would be bad form to require something at Twitter to engage with me here. How do you do polling, or do you?