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Last we shipped Inkwell, our new feed reader for Micro.blog. Today I’m releasing a native Mac app for Inkwell.

You can download Inkwell directly here.

I also recorded a 3-minute video demo of the Mac app. That’s the best way to understand the app. I’ll be updating documentation and other things soon.

Just heard the sad news of Dolores Keane’s passing.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.

60 Minutes should do a segment on what you have to go through to get a birth certificate in any random state. It's a lot of work, I've had to do it twice in the last few years. You'd have to be a pretty committed voter to be willing to do all that work. I imagine it would be even harder if you're black, and it's going to be hugely hard for married women who changed their last name when they got married. And how much you want to bet they don't accept birth certificates from Muslim countries? It is the biggest scam ever, and if the journalists don't cover it that way, always, with no both-sides-isms, then we should all know this is the end of journalism in the US. And btw also the end of real elections in the US too. The Repubs these days like to say they're against the "deep state" -- well my friends this is about the most deep state bullshit ever.

Simon Willison is building a great, ongoing, work-in-progress guide for understanding agentic engineering.

Wooden rollercoaster at the Kemah Boardwalk. Walking around earlier before dinner.

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.