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Morning in Malaga.

New ways to write with WordPress as the back-end. Build an API that combines what wpcom does and storage. Recruit devs to create products for this environment. Anything that might require text editing is a good idea. Gutenberg will be one of these editors. I will provide W...

In yet another surprising turn of events, today I joined a library. And borrowed a book of fiction. To read.

In 1958, Mao ordered every village in China to produce steel. Farmers melted down their cooking pots in backyard furnaces and reported spectacular numbers. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Thirty million people starved.

In 2026, every other company is having top down mandate on AI transformation.

Same energy.

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Interesting points in this blog post by Andrew Murphy (via Nick Heer) about how writing code faster isn’t the problem. But most of it is really about large teams that have bureaucratic delay fish.

AI can be empowering for small teams. I’m probably shipping software twice as fast with half the bugs.

I will start a new job on Monday. In the lead up to that I suspect posting to my own site will slow down–somewhat. But then again, maybe not. I’ve done a good job updating how my site works to an extent it’s super malleable for me. But things have been updated. I’ve made so...

I’m fixing several things in the iOS app for Micro.blog… If anyone wants to get on the beta, you can join TestFlight here. Will ship to everyone and Android in about a week.

Today has been utterly barmy, and not only the weather.

Times are tough out there. I know that a lot of people are looking for work, which can be a very stressful experience. One of the things that can make the job search stressful is uncertainty. There’s a real taboo around talking about salaries. This taboo ends up benefiting ...

I was inspired by, of all things, a video monologue by a Scottish surfer [1] who said that the future for them was challenging themselves in new ways. My guitar was close by and I thought maybe I should give myself a bit of a challenge too. I picked up my guitar and looked up...

"There is a fixed amount of scarce attention to go around, and too many people want it. The metagame becomes: secure attention by any means necessary."

While walking around Disneyland Paris yesterday, I was thinking about the parks I’ve visited and the others around the world. So today on the train I decided to make a list on my blog.

It was a good excuse to use Micro.blog photo collections too. See this GitHub Gist for the source.

I don't know about you but I thought there was a pretty good chance Trump would detonate a nuke somewhere yesterday, and the fact that we did not get him out of there in time to prevent it, says we went along with it. You can decide what that means. I've had several friends...

The conference circuit is in a slump these days. That won’t change as long as people don’t buy tickets. And a good conference circuit is typically something that you start to miss only when it’s too late.

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Kimberly KG reflects on the latest from our president:

And yet, he’s still in office. Still not being held accountable. Who are we?

To keep our sanity, over the last year we’ve gone from outrage to mocking. Watch how late night TV makes fun of the ridiculous and dangerous things that Trump says. But surely with the Iran war this has turned a corner from the absurd and mostly bad just for our country to the potentially catastrophic.

He must be removed from office as soon as possible. See also this video predicting exactly that from James Carville. 🇺🇸

Really enjoyed my short time in Paris. I generally think that Europeans have gotten so many things right that we Americans are still struggling with. But… what is with all the smoking, still, in 2026? Someone should tell them it’s bad for you. 🚬

Today I read Tom Zylstra’s post human.json, in which he said (in response to two other posts: AI Policy and Human.json, Adding human.json to WordPress) the following: Claudine Chionh and Terence Eden both mention human.json, a data file that lists people and sites you know are written by humans, as opposed to generated by AI....