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This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival on the topic “Museum memories”. When I was 10 or so – maybe younger; childhood can be hazy – my grandparents took me to the National Museum of Flight in Scotland for a day. My memory starts as many of my earlier museum memo...

I am trading blog post titles with Sara. She gave me a few suggestions for what to write about. I chose the title “My favorite cosplay”. I like to dress up. And I like to dress up in costumes. Wikipedia tells me the term “costly” first appeared in print in Japan in 1983. I am...

I got an email that got past spam filters with the subject “Re: engineering collaboration (US)” today. It is depressing on several axes. This doesn’t appear to be an offer to subcontract which could be plausible. This email describes behavior that every workplace I ever worked at would consider breach of contract and grounds for...

Wednesday session

We're having a problem with one of the servers, spending pretty much all day trying to learn about the problem. It means a bunch of services aren't working. Will keep the blog updated, assuming that works. ;-)

White House press briefing on TV in the background while I’m working. They really have no coherent message for why we’re at war, or how to determine when the mission is over. 🇺🇸

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...

The Washington Post reporting on how Claude is being used for the Iran war:

As planning for a potential strike in Iran was underway, Maven, powered by Claude, suggested hundreds of targets, issued precise location coordinates, and prioritized those targets according to importance, said two of the people. The pairing of Maven and Claude has created a tool that is speeding the pace of the campaign…

On social media, we like to pick sides and oversimplify. OpenAI vs. Anthropic! But war is tragic and complicated. I have mixed feelings about all of this.

After a somewhat fraught Chattie hat commission I decided to go ahead and make one for myself! I think it came out ... fine! Lessons learned: Transfers: I'm still having a hard time using my transfer carriage to move ribbing stitches from the front ribber bed to the...

If you wanted to make a really crude approximation of project management, you could say there are two main styles: waterfall and agile. It’s not as simple as that by any means. And the two aren’t really separate things; agile came about as a response to the failures of wate...

An open source project that has already produced a great app for learning Irish—programmed in a language called Draíocht (sin “magic” as Béarla)!

I’m supporting this on Open Collective.

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Naming is hard. New Kickstarter for Build Awesome, the renamed Eleventy. Both names are a bit awkward:

With Font Awesome, we made icons easy. With Web Awesome, we unlocked framework-independent web components. With Build Awesome you can now quickly build and maintain your entire web site — the full (stack) enchilada.

The thing that's amazing about Claude.ai is that it understands how software works. I can talk to it about software the way a football coach would talk to a player about football. I gave it some instructions in English about how the outliner was going to evolve. I asked if i...

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...