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A new philosophy for travelers called digital silence, to avoid sharing exactly where you were, via Kottke:

We have stopped traveling to feel. We now travel to prove we were there.

Only wish this was a blog post and not a series of Instagram photos.

Search is one of my favourite disciplines in computing. In 2024 I spent a lot of time working on a NoSQL engine that I called JameSQL. This tool now powers the search engine on my website. Designing search engine ranking systems is tricky to say the least. When I use my blog...

When I announced Artemis in 2024, I titled the announcement “Artemis, a calm web reader, is available (in beta)”. So central to the philosophy of how I build the software is the principle “calm” that, when I write about Artemis, I still use the phrase “a calm web reader” to d...

For some weird combination of factors, I ended up answering questions to three different people for three entirely unrelated projects, and all three interviews went live around the same time. I answered a few questions for the Over/Under series run by Hyle. Love the concept,...

Recently, a feed a few users – including myself – were following with Artemis published a “bookmark”-like post. The markup in the corresponding feed was a bit different than expected, so Artemis ended up linking directly to the bookmarked post rather than to the author’s post...

Finding all sorts of things as I go through my mom’s house, especially old photos and books. But also a few favorite toys. I remember having to put Optimus Prime on layaway at the store in our neighborhood.

Search is one of my favourite disciplines in computing. In 2024 I spent a lot of time working on a NoSQL engine that I called JameSQL. This tool now powers the search engine on my website. Designing search engine ranking systems is tricky to say the least. When I use my blog...

When I announced Artemis in 2024, I titled the announcement “Artemis, a calm web reader, is available (in beta)”. So central to the philosophy of how I build the software is the principle “calm” that, when I write about Artemis, I still use the phrase “a calm web reader” to d...

Recently, a feed a few users – including myself – were following with Artemis published a “bookmark”-like post. The markup in the corresponding feed was a bit different than expected, so Artemis ended up linking directly to the bookmarked post rather than to the author’s post...

Showing art and giving away beach toys and and trading art sharing affirmations at @_woca_ and hanging out with pals like @chrisgreazel and @northone_art and new friends too. Much love to @radiantbeerco for hosting on this chilly night. (–IG) I had fun. Kelly came with me. Typically when I’ve gone up to WOCA I will...

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...

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...

Hi! Candle expert here, this is not funny. Candles only do this when they’re in extreme distress.

To be clear, I think AI will be ultimately extremely helpful. I still am using it on my projects. I am going to use it at my next job. I, personally, don’t hate AI.

But I can’t deny that the vibes right now are awful.

Not just bad, awful. It’s not just the “chat we’re cooked you’re the permanent underclass” stuff influencers say. It’s not just the “everybody is fucked” hyperbole CEOs sprout. It’s the actual, day-to-day experience with the technology. I’m a programmer—AI actually helps me a lot. But for normal people, their interactions are profoundly more negative, and none of the people behind this technology seem to care.

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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...

Miloš Miljković blogging about his blog manager for Emacs:

It took me less that two hours with Google Gemini to create microblog.el, a micro.blog manager for Emacs which can edit old posts, create new ones (even with images), auto-complete tags and perform lightning-fast full text search. What a time to be alive!

This isn’t only about AI. With open platforms you don’t need permission. Just build things.

You know my thoughts on generative tools based on large language models, but this example of personal empowerment is undeniably liberating.

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This superb essay by Anil Seth won the 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition.

The future history of AI is not yet written. There is no inevitability to the directions AI might yet take. To think otherwise is to be overly constrained by our conceptual inheritance, weighed down by the baggage of bad science fiction and submissive to the self-serving narrative of tech companies laboring to make it to the next financial quarter. Time is short, but collectively we can still decide which kinds of AI we really want and which we really don’t.

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Streetwise

What Micro.blog traffic looks like when we see bots go crazy trying to find vulnerabilities. Very annoying.