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It’s been a week and all my gear dried out. Rain and wet forced me out of the water. I broke out the sewing machine and fixed my wetsuit bag. Today I got back in. The berms are coming down and Spring is coming away. The inexorable march of time continues. My blog turned 25...

This year at Automattic has been intense. We kicked it off with two weeks of in-person AI enablement training, and there’s a great post about it now. I’ve been so impressed and inspired by my colleagues leaning in to learn and grow together in the most consequential time in software development in the past 40 … Continue reading Enablement →

Just got bitten by a dog, which kinda sums up this Thursday.

“Choice. The solution is choice.”*You should download Firefox 148 (released today!) and explicitly set the new "AI Controls" to your preferred choice.* https://www.firefox.com/Disclosure: I work for Mozilla, but this post, like all on this site, represents my personal thought...

Happy Twin Peaks day to those who celebrate!In Agent Cooper’s first appearance in the show, he’s driving a car, right hand on the steering wheel, left hand holding a small black box (a microcassette recorder), that, if you don’t look too closely, could easily be mistaken for ...

Play bad title pun games, win bad title pun prizes. The Chattie hat continues to tempt and taunt me. After my first test Chattie came out OK despite some major issues during construction, and my second Chattie didn’t work out. Producer Amy has ultimately adopted the “test” C...

This upcoming book about Steve Jobs during the NeXT years sounds really good, via John Gruber:

With unprecedented access to unbroadcast footage of Jobs in NeXT meetings, private company documents, and interviews with his closest colleagues, Cain offers the definitive account of how failure transformed a brash wunderkind into a true business genius.

I got my first Mac during those years. Steve was legendary, NeXT machines felt almost mythical, and I’m not sure I ever considered that he would return to Apple. What an extraordinary life.

Sometimes when I’m walking and look up at trees or buildings moving past me, I imagine the world in layers like an old multiplane camera, or as seen through Tarzan’s deep canvas. If this programming and AI thing doesn’t pan out, I need to find my pencils. My brain is still wired for animation.

Kiki’s Delivery Service back in theaters next month:

More than three decades after it first enchanted audiences, Kiki’s Delivery Service is returning to North American cinemas in a newly remastered 4K presentation, heading exclusively to IMAX theaters on March 13.

One of my favorites. 🍿

If you want to heal the country, watch out for ways you add division, and stop. It's probably the biggest power any of us has.

Decided we should do a beta for the new RSS thing, starting this weekend and running about a week. If you’re interested, sign up on this form. You’ll get an email tomorrow. So excited to share this.

Recommended: When ICE buys a warehouse in your town.

Also: New Yorker interview of Conan O'Brien. I love that both O'Brien and Remnick agree that podcasting liberated them as artists. That was the point! When you think about decentralization, the most successful protocol we have is podcasting. By design it was hard for silos to usurp. Now think about how you would repeat that pattern with text. I've been working on that for almost three years, and it works now. We'll be testing it soon on my blog, and then everyone's. This should be the grand slam home run of my career. That's how it feels to me now. And O'Brien tells some great stories including one about his father, who noted that Conan had found a way to get paid for his insanity.

You can tell from the OpenClaw meetups how much this thing has captured people’s attention. There are of course a lot of dude programmers out there using it, but maybe it’s reaching more people… On the How I AI podcast, an interview with Jesse Genet who has bots helping organize her homeschool.

Thanks Jatan Mehta for reviewing my book! His post includes some quotes and commentary.

“To send my rhymes out to all the nations
Like Ma Bell, I got the ill communication”

Especially in an age where generating words is cheap, when you come across truly great writing, it really stands out. I want to pull two quotes from The Economist’columnist Charlemagne’s article Luxury goods are Europe’s global tax on vanity. Flogging luxury goods is one of the few fields of business in which Europe excels (if … Continue reading Great Writing →

How many Jeffrey Epstein’s do you think there are?

I’ve been going back and forth about how to price the new RSS thing. It’s one of the best things I’ve built in a while. There are new costs, but it’s confusing to require Micro.blog Premium. Pretty sure the basics will he included for all Micro.blog subscribers, with one feature just for Premium.

Reading through the proposals for Growing the Open Social Web, which is on Monday. I think the best suggestions are actionable. Real ideas that can be implemented.