FeedCity

"A framework to move your subculture from the Anxiety Zone to the Learning Zone" - and provide a way for everyone on your team to contribute and experiment safely.

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...

If you’re dyslexic and just trying to communicate more clearly in writing, or you’ve got a bullshit job and you just want to get your bullshit job’s bullshit tasks out of the way so you can move on to more meaningful endeavors, or at least move past the day-to-day slog that permeates your workday and serves no real purpose other than to pay the bills, then I cede; I cannot fault you.

But if, say, you’re a “writer” and you’re using an LLM to “help you” “write” or “think” because it’s easier and takes less time and thought, then I stand my ground; I can and do fault you.

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What if friends treated their friends as nicely as they treat dogs. When you sensed they needed a little support, you'd look them in the eye and say "Who's the good girl?" Rub behind the ears. When they sit give them a treat. Inside of us, everyone, including you, is a little pup who just wants to know they're in the right place doing the right thing.

This is coming out next week on the 11th, and totally unrelated: my birthday is coming up…   h/t to Joe Crawwford (#)

Trafalgar Square is a special place. The architecture and views are breathtaking. The National Gallery, the church of St. Martins in the Fields, Canada House, and more, all surround the Square. From the right place you can look down Whitehall and see Big Ben. In the heart of...

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...