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The panorama from today There were a couple on the edge of the small cliff that overlooks PB. It’s a part of the landscape that collapses. There’s signage that says “UNSTABLE CLIFFS.” Something about where they were situated prompted me to tell them “you don’t want to be there.” The dude in the couple didn’t...

They did a great job with the in memoriam this year at the Oscars. Longer and more personal stories. So many incredible people to highlight.

Inkwell for Mac will ship tomorrow. It’s my first Mac app that is sandboxed. I have to admit it is nice to do things like delete files without being extremely paranoid about deleting the right thing. It can’t do much damage, and Inkwell is well suited anyway for minimal access to the system.

Looking forward to the Oscars tonight. Managed to see almost all the best picture nominations, and a handful more in other categories. I wonder if the Oscars being later than the Golden Globes, etc. means there are more surprises because it would be “boring” for the same films to win again.

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.