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Sunday evening session

"Two in three employers that reduced headcount because of artificial intelligence are already rehiring laid off staff, as most express regret over how they handled the AI-led retrenchments."

Critics say Brendan Carr is positioning himself as a national censor. His threats to broadcasters covering Iran fit the bill.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die starts with a madman raving at the Norm’s on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles. That’s the same Norm’s where I first and clearly understood and internalized the difference between a vector computer graphics element and a raster graphics element. It was a technical book whose title I can’t...

They've been having intelligent and clear-thinking guests on CNN and MSNOW on the coverage of the Iran War, unusually good discourse. But the best coverage I've heard has been from Frontiline podcasts. There's a new one out, haven't listened to it yet, but the one I heard yesterday was very informative and probably a better briefing than our president has been getting (or paying attention to).

Sunday afternoon session

I’m in New Orleans for the first time in 7 years for a beautiful wedding. My Mom’s side of the family emigrated here in the 1860s, and there’s a deep comfort in the art, traditions, and weirdness of Creole culture. Good music and food are ubiquitous. I met up with WordPresser Blake Bertuccelli-Booth to catch … Continue reading Song Creation →

Cracking up watching the emoji bit on SNL tonight. I lost it at orange square. 🚡

An example. This isn't all the data that WordPress keeps for each post, it's just the stuff that WordLand uses. We add some of our own metadata, that's how it is extensible. It's open source, and it's evolved for 20+ years, with a strong ethos of not breaking devs. It could have been twitter, or masto or even bluesky, but they don't show through enough features to be useful as "web text." We want to use all the features of text on the web. I may be the only one who sees this but I predict in a couple of years if we aren't subsumed by AI everyone will say they always knew this is what WordPress is for. 😄

I added Paul Graham to my blogroll at scripting.com. Another massive oversight.

Parker Ortolani blogs about the Neo:

The MacBook Neo is the first Mac that is truly, in every sense of the word, a bicycle for the mind. It’s the first Mac that almost anyone can buy and it’s going to unleash a whole new era of creativity because of it.

Writing the app is easy. Configuring Sparkle to verify updated app signatures… Impossible! 🤪

Reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

The thing that we all missed is that WordPress is the best candidate for a standard for what an individual social network message is.

Patrick Rhone interviewed for the People and Blogs series:

…that’s exactly what a blog should be — a reflection of one’s interest and attention over time. A reflection of who one is right now and where they’ve been. Blogs are living things that should grow at the same rate we do.

Researchers who study online safety are being censored and denied entry to the United States. It's having an unconstitutional chilling effect on independent research and advocacy that a lawsuit aims to correct.

AI use can lead to burnout - but how you use it really matters.

If I knew how AI would work with software, I would've done things differently to prepare for this. I find myself wanting to ask questions about my code that I don't have proper tools to answer. I have to get all my code managed with the new system, but not sure that's even the right way to go. Once I started using it to build full bits of deployed code, not to just answer questions about the work I'm doing one day at a time, I've become confused about planning my own work.

Buzzfeed pivoted to AI - and now finds itself circling the drain.

I picked up Rick Rubin’s book a couple years ago. It sat on my bedside table for months and one day I will actually finish it.

I just recently discovered his podcast Tetragrammaton. There are two episodes with Greg Brockman that are excellent. (Yes, I’m aware Greg gave a bunch of money to Trump and I’m disappointed by it.)

The full interview is 3 hours long. The first episode has the best insight into Sam Altman’s firing that I’ve heard yet, especially around letting internal drama brew instead of resolving conflicts early. Highly recommend both episodes whether you love or hate AI.