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It’s weird how there’s a subgenre of time-dilation folklore in Japan and Ireland…

Urashima Tarō: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urashima_Tar%C5%8D

Oisín in Tir na nÓg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ois%C3%ADn

This weekend I started work on rewriting the static site generator that I use for this website, Aurora. I was looking over the codebase and wondered if I could make the code a bit more efficient and easier to understand. I had ideas for new abstractions – things I could do to...

On March 12th, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted Information Management: A Proposal. This would form the basis of what became the World Wide Web. On March 12th, 2026, Web Day Out happened in Brighton. Coincidence? Yes. Yes, it is a coincidence. But it’s a pretty nice coinci...

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh, a chairde!

Brian takes us back twenty years (which is when we first met):

To gather so many like-minded, energetic people in once place and not have it ruined by corporate greed felt unique.

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Matt has some smart reckons on the relationship between time and technology:

The factory bell, the railway timetable, the telegraph wire, the always-on smartphone — each imposed a new temporal discipline, each produced its own characteristic form of exhaustion, and each was eventually (partially, imperfectly) domesticated through a combination of regulation, design, and collective action.

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An animation offered up to me on iPad to tell me about the milestone. It’s a ubiquitous and highly problematic platform. YouTube remains useful to me. My account is at youtube.com/@artlung The first video I uploaded was this Bauhaus animation I created using Cinema4D. I wrote a bit about my experience with 3-D software in...

Interesting to see u/joe_skidiachi_irl‘s experiments in baseball score cards with typewriters show up on Joe Van Cleave’s YouTube Channel. Links to past experiments that appear in the video:   https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1l9alpy/experiment_with_typewriter_scorecards_also_rays_1/     https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1lflsw8/end_of_tickertape_typewriter_scorecard_experiment/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1lp0m9y/typewriter_experiment_2_also_cin_6_bos_13_6302025/   https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1m4p6ih/typewriter_experiment_3_the_codex_also_bos_1_chc/   https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1mt1cuz/typewriter_experiment_4_the_index_card_multiple/ cc: u/lou_sprito, u/Informal-Writer-1140, u/oogieball

Opening day of baseball is coming. ⚾ I’m finishing the adjustments and final coats of polish to my 1957 Royal FP standard typewriter in Dodger Blue. It was manufactured the same year that the Brooklyn Dodgers announced their move to Los Angeles, so it will be a fantastic machine to score the 68th Los Angeles … Continue reading

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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.