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Not doing a full What’s In My Bag yet, but I do want to highlight I’ve been really enjoying the Sennheiser HDB 630 Wireless Over-Ear Headphones. Hat tip: Philip Kaplan aka Pud.

I would like to offer some free business advice to people who are considering selling something they’ve created. First, if the buyer insists you don’t talk to any other bidders, you are being screwed. They only do this because they don’t want you to find the market-clearing price. Do you think when Microsoft called LinkedIn … Continue reading Selling Your Company →

For a brief period, Tumblr was unavailable to the 115M+ people in the Philippines because the government had blocked it. To their credit, the Philippines CICC quickly reviewed and corrected their block after mass public outrage from the Filipino Tumblr community. Let the people tumble!

With the rise of GLP-1 drugs, there’s a trend that magnums are being ordered at clubs to meet minimums but left unfinished. I think there’s a space for an ultra-high-end wellness drink at clubs. Imagine Erewhon meets Magic Mind meets Kin,  maybe with some effervescence. An elixir that comes out with sparklers but makes you … Continue reading Popping Bottles →

I worked downtown earlier today at Lazarus (☕️) and you can already start to feel the SXSW vibes. I’m going to miss all the events this year, but I wonder how AI will change it? Just checked the ClawCon page and there are 750 RSVPs! 🦞

Sun-kissed evenings in Porto never fail to impress.

Try entering this into Claude or ChatGPT: "debugging an app that uses wordpress rss feeds and noticed that guids are http but other addresses in the feed are https. this causes trouble." A while back Matt was giving me grief, in a friendly way, about how scripting.com still uses http addresses, the reason apparently is the same one that keeps them from using https in the guids in their feeds. It would break a lot of things that I don't want to break. I'm not suggesting they change it, but somewhere in my codebase somehow the http addresses are getting converted to https, and I haven't (yet) been able to track it down.

Here's a screen shot of the Claude response.

Atlassian lays off 10%, about 1600 people. They employee a lot of folks in Austin, hope friends here are not affected much.

What a fantastic bunch of speakers! Thank you all for making #WebDayOut so great!

Thinking of AI and how it relates to software development, I'm working in the old mode and the new mode. The old mode is I build a project over a few years. I try to bury bits of functionality behind interfaces, either APIs or UIs, and hope I can forget how they work and just...

Jon Hays:

I just released a new version of Silverleaf, my new RSS reader that’s built around Inkwell syncing. It’s free, so check it out!

Available in the App Store.

The first Rivian R2 off the assembly line will be the higher-priced $60k model. I’m not in the market for a car, still love my old Honda Element that I’ve put way too much money into. But maybe 5-10 years from now when the price is a bit lower, this will probably be my car.

Just added Daring Fireball to my blogroll. What a huge oversight. Glad to get this fixed.

Tim Cook writing on Apple’s 50th anniversary:

From the first Apple computer to the Mac, from iPod to iPhone, iPad to Apple Watch and AirPods, as well as the services we use every day — the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV — we’ve spent five decades rethinking what’s possible and putting powerful tools into people’s hands.

What strikes me about this list is that it’s dominated by products in Apple’s very recent history. All of the products except the Apple and Macintosh were created in the last 25 years. Even the iPod is not quite 25 years old.

Bluesky is actually pretty close to being on the web. The biggest missing piece is inbound RSS. They already support outbound, it could use a review and tuneup, but that half is mostly there.

Why doesn't Substack have inbound RSS? Every time I look at their home page I think what a freaking waste. They are the web's printer. But you have to use their editor.

A WordPress instance that's entirely hosted in your browser opens up interesting possibilities for self-hosted personal apps.

It’s fine. Many people do it, and you decided to do the same. That’s ok. But don’t attempt to use some wishy-washy argument to justify your actions. You either believe in something and you’re willing to power through, or you don’t, and you do what everybody else is doing. It’s fine to pick option B, but at least have the courage to admit it and don't use some bullshit argument to justify your actions.

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