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Cool to see Patrick Rhone on the latest Mac Power Users, talking about Apple tech and especially how we can be more intentional with our phones. On notifications, it’s so easy to be distracted by everything on the internet. Gotta deliberately turn off most of the ways our phones can interrupt us.

The kitchen was scattered with rainbows as the sun shone through the frosted glass. Maybe the glass was put there to make rainbows; what was the architect thinking when they designed this place? I saw the shadows of my head and my hair cast onto the cabinets. Can I make a sha...

Shoutout to Matt Birchler’s App Store Images web app. I don’t have the patience to sort out Apple’s rules on screenshots. Now I just throw any size in this little app and use whatever it spits out.

“Waiting for Review”… <reload>… “Waiting for Review”… <reload>… Sigh.

Here’s another nice progressive web component for your forms, this time for showing error messages.

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Compression made the information age possible by stripping things down to fit the pipes. Expansion made the AI age possible by blowing data back up again. Both operations leave marks; we’ve learned to spot compression artifacts, but we’ve only just begun to reckon with expansion artifacts. Until we do, there’s a lot of risk to manage.

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The next FediForum online conference is next week. I’ve missed the last couple of events because of travel, even though I registered for them! Hope I can attend this one.

Here’s an excellent progressive web component from Aaron—wrap a custom element around your exising form and your good to go:

At its core, form-saver is a small web component that wraps a form, keeps an eye on it, stores values in localStorage, and restores them when the page loads again. Better yet, it clears out saved data after a successful submission so you’re not accidentally resurrecting stale information the next time someone stops by.

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Trying to get my AI spending under control, I’m having the server randomly switch to the “flex” pricing tier in GPT-5 when there’s background work that doesn’t need to be instantly fast. So far so good.

It’s actually happening:

The InfoWars of tomorrow will converge into a swirling vortex of content about content, talent acquiring talent, rings of concentric media mergers processing all human artistry into one endlessly digestible slurry. This will be a dank, sunless place, one where panic and capital feed on each other like twins in the womb of a hulking, unknowable monster—a monster known by many names, but which I like to call modern-day America.

TIL: ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i ":0" /tmp/dictation.m4a

Rain falling at the pond at The Village, behind Epoch. Looks like it’s going to be raining most of the week. 🌧️

Tim Cook in a letter on Apple’s website about stepping down as CEO and welcoming John Ternus:

A new person will be stepping into what I know in my heart is the best job in the world. That leader is John Ternus, a brilliant engineer and thinker who has spent the past 25 years building the Apple products our users love so much, obsessed with every detail, focused on every possible way we can make something better, bolder, more beautiful, and more meaningful.

Heck of a run leading one of the greatest tech companies of all time. Our discussion of Tim’s legacy on Core Int probably still holds.

Part of the motivation behind some of my top-level pages like my ideas lists is that I feel some things should have a URL. Giving something a URL gives it a place on the web. One area where I feel this could be applied more is in newsletters. I wish email newsletters had corr...

Victor Wembanyama when asked whether he feels the weight of legends like Tim Duncan, David Robinson, and Gregg Popovich in the building:

I wouldn’t say weight, no. I would say it feels safe. It feels like… If you trip, you know there’s a lot of hands that are ready to catch you. From day one it’s felt that way.