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📕 Finished reading Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders ISBN: 9781250867322

Scoble asks on Twitter if there are successful companies that have an open source product. There are lots of them. There are markets where users and developers won't even consider your product or service if it isn't open source. It's a trust issue. I offered an example, WordPress, which probably wouldn't have launched well if it wasn't open source.

"Why, a funder asked me recently, do two intermediaries this funder saw as offering duplicative services both still exist? Because you—and your funder colleagues—let them, I said." But consolidation is a dangerous road.

Another review of the X3 e-reader, this time from TechCrunch. I keep seeing reviews of this and each time I come this close to ordering one. I love my Kindle but I don’t always have it with me.

Knicks will play the Sixers in round 2 of the playoffs starting Monday.

I've been teaching Claude why we favor Markdown. "We add support for Markdown editing wherever we can, because people like Markdown and they should. It makes things simple and guarantees a certain level of flexibility for their writing far beyond the standards of twitter-like systems with tiny little text boxes. If you don't really support Markdown people figure it out right away. But the character limits and stuff like that seem more technical to users. Markdown support says clearly -- you're really on the web."

Even though this article is from 2021, Roff Smith’s photographs of Sussex are so incredibly beautiful it still merits sharing.

The new image generation in ChatGPT is really good for iterating on app mockups. Like asking for visual ideas on dark mode improvements. I’m going back and forth with image gen, scribbling and color changes in Acorn, then pasting into Codex to update code.

Now 11 days since my initial Inkwell submission to Apple. By far the longest and most-rejected of any app I’ve worked on. Seriously considering a perpetual TestFlight or AltStore for Europe and Japan at this point.

My first thought was the field of pink petals. Day by day, petals fall from the tree as green leaves grow from the blossom. I wonder for how long the petals will keep falling. There seem to be a million dots of pink in spring, from which there is a new perspective to see ever...

Something weird happens as you get older, you walk into a room and see a friend but at first you don't get that this is your friend. Instead you see an old man or lady. Your attention goes away because like everyone you are programmed not to look at old people. Then you instantly realize this is your friend. You put on the virtual colored glasses that let you see them as you remember them, instead of what's there today.

"To labour out of love, and to choose to share their work freely in a market society, OSS developers find themselves in a position where they are vulnerable to exploitation and harm."

On Bluesky: I asked ChatGPT when weblogs.com peaked.

I've heard that Automattic is running a special deal where developers inside the company can take a month off to do their own project to make WordPress better for users. I would like to propose that in the spirit of interop and the web that we work together on a project. I ...

It’s so funny how much a creature like this silly dog can change someone’s life. He certainly change mine, for better or for worse, and he also changed me in the process. But physically and spiritually.

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Some people are moving away from GitHub. Kev Quirk is thinking about it too: It’s like leaving Facebook - when I was thinking about it, I was worried if I’d miss my friends or be out the loop. It’s been over a decade at this point and I don’t miss it one bit - no regrets wh...

Watched: The Devil Wears Prada 2. Fun movie. Before it started I had to quickly read a recap of the first one, it has been a long time. 🍿