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You can probably tell by my blog posts that I prefer OpenAI to Anthropic — more open, more affordable, less doomer — but I’ve gotta hand it to Anthropic for their focus. Doing fewer things, like just Claude Code and the new Claude Design, makes the products more ap...

Joanna Stern launching her new website and YouTube channel:

Every word you read here—every review, every story, every bad joke—is written by me or by a human on my team. […] Don’t get me wrong, we’re using AI all day over here. In fact, we hope to introduce you to our intern agent soon. But the thinking, the reporting, the voice, the calls about what’s true and what’s worth your time—that’s all human.

For instance and community operators, "copyright’s “statutory damages” regime allows for massive, unpredictable financial liability. That’s why it’s important to limit your risk." This guide helps you to get started.

Making a lot of careless mistakes this morning. I blame the Spurs loss last night, still lingering. I edited an old post, then accidentally deleted it… Happy to remember that Micro.blog now has a trash can and restore feature.

I like reading Joost's blog. I'm subscribed and it's in my blogroll.

Yesterday I threw a question out there. "If the web were a platform for writers, how would it work?" I left out specifics, because any specifics I provide might cut off interesting answers. There are three elements in the question: web, platform and writers. The answer must say something about all three. Another way of saying the same thing -- "You're using the web to make the platform to serve the writers."

This is a first for us. Inkwell for Android is available now, before the iOS version. Apple has rejected the iOS version for various reasons, including not paying the in-app purchase tax.

In a previous post, talking about the church of San Nicolò, I wrote: It’s part of a trail that I do want to walk that is designed to touch 44 votive churches scattered around the valleys. I’m gonna visit that church again because yesterday I walked the first of the 10th se...

4th quarter. Close one for game 2 in San Antonio. Wemby out. Let’s go! 🏀

I watched the fascinating documentary Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal (Magnolia Pictures, 2015) last night. An hour and thirteen into the picture, William F. Buckley Jr., who is known to have used a Royal HH and an Olivetti Lettera 32, can be seen abusing what appears to be a Hermes 3000 portable typewriter.

I’ve expanded my index card database storage by 30 new drawers of 13 3/4″ of space each. This model appears to be a Gaylord Bros. card index, but is missing explicit badging. It has the appropriate size for the modular Gaylord system and seems to be missing a few pieces including some of the dovetail … Continue reading

BTW the "open" web has a chance to come back around the AI rewrite of all our software that's underway now. If we build the new systems entirely around web connections, with each part replaceable, we can have as much "open" as we want. Products like Bluesky will look like they bet on the wrong horse if we all have choice everywhere. It's not as strange as you think. Opportunities come along every time things change as radically as they are changing now.

I gave the new ChatGPT image maker a whirl, it's supposed to be more thoughtful and realistic.

The prompt: “A turkey in plastic with supermarket label with text and fine print. The branding is Really Simple brand Turkey. The motto, ‘turkey for simple people.‘“

If the web were a platform for writers, how would it work?

ChatGPT Images 2.0 seems to be a big step forward. Neat gimmick in the announcement blog post to use text layout on images for the post text. (Bad for accessibility, but great as a demo.)

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...