All I wanna do, is see you turn into, a giant woman… A page I made last year. Giant Women
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• Joe Crawford
The Church at Varengeville by Monet
I am writing about a few paintings to help me build my description skills. My analyses are not formal or comprehensive. If nothing else, I hope that you enjoy the painting that I feature!
The warm colours in Monet’s The Church at Varengeville (1882) stood out to me the mome...
State of the Browser 2026
State of the Browser was electric. This is how I summarised my experience at the annual State of the Browser event in London in my notes. I like to capture moments as they happen, then write about them later. The note is the essence of a blog post; the starting point. The no...
How to change the Duolingo app icon
I am using Duolingo to learn a bit of German. I have been using the app for a while and enjoy the exercises. With that said, I am not a fan of Duolingo’s changing application icons on iOS.
I don’t like that an application can set its own home screen icon without my permissi...
I wish there was a (simpler) way to highlight text in inputs
When I was building the search engine for my blog, one feature I wanted to implement was syntax highlighting within the search input field. I wanted special operators (i.e. has:noalt, which shows posts that contain one or more images without alt text) to have a different bac...
Girl on a Divan by Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot’s Girl on a Divan, displayed in the National Gallery, London, caught my eye as soon as I saw it. The painting was the last one I saw in the Impressionist room in the Gallery, but despite having been on my feet for hours before I stood for several minutes looki...
Monday session
Monday session
Philly Homebrew Website Club 7 Recap
I'm tuned into the Fediforum
11:35AM
I wrote some stuff in the comment section thinking I'd paste them in here, but that didn't work. But if you've been reading my blog you've heard it all before.
11:14AM
They have a new format which includes "tables" for up to six different participants.
It's a go...
Ben Thompson’s article about Anthropic and the Pentagon is worth a read, although not everyone is going to be satisfied with it. Anthropic is an interesting company because it feels like they don’t fully believe in their own product. Like Dario Amodei kind of wishes he was working on something else.
Very happy to welcome my old friend, John Palfrey, back to the web. I added his feed to my blogroll on scripting.com. His first new piece is about his experience at the AI Action Summit in February, in Delhi. He was executive director at Berkman when I was there in the early 00s. It feels like the old band is getting back together. ;-)
Good morning, Atlanta.
How are we preparing for the Long Web?
The state of State Of The Browser
I went to State Of The Browser in London on the weekend. It was great!
I mean, it’s always great but this year the standard felt really high. All the talks were top quality. I’ve been at events with ticket prices a literal order of magnitude greater but with quality nowhere...
Reading A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Reading A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin.
local.html: Social Discovery by Browser-Based Crawling
The nature of the job
Large language models help you build the thing faster, which is the primary end goal for your company but only sometimes for you. My primary goal might be to build the thing faster, but it also might be to learn something durably, to enjoy the work, to look forward to Monday.
I don’t like the mental fragility of not fully understanding how my own code works, where AI-generated code is “mine” in that it’s attributed to me in the git blame and I’m its maintainer going forward.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Replacing the Body Shell Rubber Bushings on an Olympia SG1 Typewriter
Steve Troughton-Smith blogged about the projects he worked on over the last month with Codex 5.3:
It didn’t just blow away my expectations, it showed me the world has changed: we’ve just undergone a permanent, irreversible abstraction level shift.
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• Joe Crawford