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The other day, as I was driving home, I had the bad idea of listening to the most recent Waveform podcast, where they were discussing vertical vs horizontal tabs in browsers (and many other things). The whole discussion was truly painful to listen to, you’d hope people who t...

This profile of Sam Altman in The New Yorker is extremely long. I read it on the train and while standing in line at Disneyland Paris. But for all the research the reporters did, it’s essentially just a rehashing of the “not consistently candid” argument against Sam from ove...

First coffee back in Austin in about a month! Glad to be home. Still miss Europe a little too.

In the winter of 1898, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor arrived at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Pennsylvania with a stopwatch and a conviction. Taylor had been thinking for years about why industrial work was so inefficient, and he believed he had found...

Just heard the sad news about Moya Brennan passing. Some of the first records I ever bought were by Clannad—Macalla, Magical Ring, Legend.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.

Internet Archive quietly continues to do great work. TechCrunch reports on digitizing Aadam Jacobs’s personal collection of taped concerts:

Within the collection, you can also find previously unknown recordings from influential artists like Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Phish, Liz Phair, Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, and a whole bunch of other punk groups.

So cool to see this kind of thing preserved.

Another very good analysis of the AI market from Ben Thompson. OpenAI has invested heavily in compute, which will help them, but they are also squeezed by Anthropic on the enterprise side and Meta on the consumer side. It’s hard to compete with everyone.

Back in the United States after my extended trip across the ocean by ship, around Spain and France by train, and back to Malaga for Release Notes. Had an incredible time. I feel very lucky to be able to do this.

I also got a bunch of work done. Inkwell for mobile is looking great, beta this week.

Monday session

Written in Gutenberg: With great respect for Claude.

We reached a milestone this morning, we completed the project to add a Gutenberg version of the wpEditorDemo app. Claude did the programming on the new version. It required changes to the server app, which I made. It took 2.5 days to do the work, which was more than I thought it would. A lot of was learned. Now I'm figuring out what my next project will be.

Screenshot of the Gutenberg demo app.

Heard a report on NPR re why the Dems might win the mid-terms in November. They mentioned gas prices but not concentration camps for immigrants. They mentioned inflation but not the military occupation of Minneapolis and DC. They also forgot to mention that he keeps threatening to nuke Iran.

Early morning in Madrid. The moon still out and train station on the left.

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The logic of Cory Doctorow's enshittification model applies to government too. Both parties view the electorate as sources of money or people who are manipulated by ads and PR bought with the money. The wants and needs of people, in both government and social media, have a...

BTW one thing you haven't heard is that as you get deeper into the AI environment the user gets smarter. Not just better informed, that's what the web has been doing for us. Can it help us work better together? Remains to be seen. Perhaps each of us is forming our own multi-billion dollar company, and training the people we want working for us.