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This really gets to the heart of one of the biggest benefits of HTML web components: composability. You can nest your regular markup inside multiple custom elements; something that is can’t do.

The other exciting approach doesn’t exist yet: custom attributes. Again, they’d be a great way of using composability to turbo-charge your existing HTML in all sorts of ways.

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Go Spurs Go! Excited for game 5. 🏀

Only just realized that SNL UK is available on Peacock. The full show, not just the selected clips that are on YouTube. 📺

Picked up at thrift for $2.39. What can I say? I’m a sucker for card index boxes… I can’t make out the smudged black-stamped bottom of the box to determine the manufacturer who used a sphere and a triangle in their logo. 

On a more serious note… My last post is such a cheap shot, I sat on it for 15 minutes and almost didn’t post it. Would’ve scrapped it if it was anyone else but Elon Musk. Which isn’t fair, but also he’s created a social presence that draws chaos. Easy to get pulled in.

You kind of get a sense when the platform vendor is going to compete with you instead of work with you, and I've had that feeling for Automattic for a while. That's how big companies work with independent devs. There is a bigger picture, developers who might build on WordPres...

There continue to be interesting quotes from The Verge’s liveblog of the OpenAI trial. Elon Musk:

We did talk about establishing a for-profit or Tesla providing some of the funding — there were a bunch of ideas that were brainstormed — I was not averse to a small for-profit that would provide funding to the nonprofit as long as the tail didn’t wag the dog.

I will be surprised if Elon convinces the jury. This story is almost like Walter White feeling bitter he was left out of the success of Grey Matter. Except Elon didn’t turn to selling an addictive, unhealthy product… Oh wait, X. 🤪

Finished reading: Luminous by Silvia Park. About robots, humanity, and memory…. A beautiful and sad view of the future. 📚

We just released the 2.2 update to Epilogue for iOS. Android to follow later. I’m happy with this update. One nice improvement to book search: if you search in e.g. “Want to read”, it will find book matches in the current bookshelf and show them at the top.

All bloggers eventually want to build their own blog software. All feed reader developers want their own sync platform. All blog hosts want a feed reader.

In 2026, I predict approximately thousands of niche open web apps, each with a small number of users who wouldn’t want to use anything else.

Tacos tacos tacos.

Reading through Codex’s MEMORY.md file. Fascinating. Includes a bunch of random things that Codex has learned about my projects and previous tasks.

Claude unlearns things that we had settled a long time ago. It fumbles around with a process, making it worse with every iteration, the same fumbling it did five days ago when it initially learned how to do what it can't do now. Usually when I regress in software, I am responsible for it, i did something to break it, but here's a tool that's capable of derailing us with me doing nothing new. In that way it behaves more like an imperfect human than a GIGO machine.

New version of XML-RPC package for JavaScript. It now handles POST messages that don't have a body.

Neat new service called Sourcefeed from Terry Godier to publish RSS feeds:

RSS-only. No website, no inbox, no algorithm. Subscribers read it where they choose, in whatever reader they already trust.

My first feature request: let the title field be blank for short posts. 🙂

There are some surprises in the NBA first round, but maybe no greater than the Pistons. ESPN answers a question I had:

The Pistons are the third team to win 60 games in the regular season but trail 3-1 in its opening series, according to ESPN Research. Each of the previous two teams – the 2011 San Antonio Spurs and 2007 Dallas Mavericks – extended its series but lost in six games.

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A question I'd like to put out there. Maybe AI needs the massive data centers now, but they could definitely get more efficient over time. There might be another Moore's Law in there. And the work is going very fast, and maybe they're leaving other optimizations for later. T...

This week is being spent, among other things, teaching Claude how to write code that fits in with my library of apps. I like this. It's like a painter telling an assistant the rules for adding to the sculpture. Art has been practiced like that for a long time. Anyway, here's...