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My blog has an offline mode that lets you view articles you have previously read on my website. This mode allows you to read something on my website even if you don’t have an internet connection. If the page you want to view has not been cached, you will see a custom page tha...

Apple’s pricing this week is interesting to me. Doesn’t matter the size or purpose of a device, everything is the same price:

• iPhone 17e: $599
• iPad Air: $599
• MacBook Neo: $599

Jason Kottke:

Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle for the mind. What does that make LLMs? An e-bike for the mind? A car for the mind? A jet plane for the mind?

Good question. I think bicycle still works, though.

Tuesday session

This month the topic for the IndieWeb Blog Carnival is “Museum Memories.” As I thought about what that prompt brought to mind, I was flooded with memory. I used to play hooky from high school and go to the San Diego Museum of Art. My friend Susan curated a show at San Diego Public Library’s...

My blog has an offline mode that lets you view articles you have previously read on my website. This mode allows you to read something on my website even if you don’t have an internet connection. If the page you want to view has not been cached, you will see a custom page tha...

i'll spend my whole life looking for the next best thing but when I finally find it, i’ll be too busy looking for the next best thing I had spent half of the day travelling and the other half looking at art. Whenever I am going anywhere, I like to arrive as early as I can and...

The days are getting longer and brighter. The bite of the winter air is being replaced by a delicate breeze. It feels like Spring is here. I have been trying to play my guitar every day, usually before I eat dinner. Over the last week, I have noticed that the time I play the...

I had to back the new Brandon Sanderson crowdfunding campaign. Opted for just the new novel.

I asked for a feature of the outliner from Drummer that it automatically opens a file in read-only mode if there's a URL parameter with the address of an OPML file. Like this.

Then I had to ask Claude.ai to write me a nice little outliner that runs in the browser. And it did. With a flourish. It was designed to make me the guy who designed outliners for most of a lifetime, and I have to say it was very nicely done, for a two-minute project. Even for a two-week project it's pretty nice. Then I asked it to do a priorArt outline, and it looks really good in the this.how template. The power of standards. And I had a full day of work even while Claude.ai was doing these mind bombs for me.

Brent Simmons blogged last week about why Objective-C. I still prefer Objective-C and plan to continue to use it. One change I’m thinking about making, though… Going all code for UI instead of XIBs or Storyboards, to make it easier to diff when working with AI.

Cosmic. Everything would be perfect about this morning except I just opened my AirPods case and… it was empty! Accidentally left them at home. ☕️

MacBook Neo! I love that Apple might be trying a totally new name.

Back in Austin, voted this morning. I had meant to early vote last week but too much was going on. James Talarico vs. Jasmine Crockett might end up being close! Very curious how it shakes out and if the party can come together united. 🇺🇸

I asked Claude.ai to "write me a nice little spreadsheet program that runs in the browser." Here it is. It looks like a spreadsheet app but it's missing most of the really good commands, like defining the value in one cell with the sum of two other cells using point and click. If you go down this path, ask it to keep a user's guide current, and then ask it to put in features, and just describe them in standard spreadsheet terminology. The trouble starts when you want to make something that doesn't have a standard terminology yet because it's new.

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 momen...