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It's just dawning on me how thoroughly the AI apps are building on Markdown. People love Markdown because it's simple and its virtually impossible to screw it up, unlike HTML which got a lot of crazy-ass features in the 90s when Micosoft was trying to run the world, and then...

A cartoon by Dan Morgan that illustrates the role Markdown plays in AI. Text is central to how AI works, and the text we use in AI is Markdown all the way.

It's very nice to not be working on CSS. I hate CSS. I now have a slave that does the CSS for me.

I didn't invent RSS, I adopted it.

I took Edward Tufte’s online course on analysing and presenting data. It lasted four hours and was a mixture of reading from his books and listening to lecture material. The course was terrific and I learned so much. As I was taking the course, I took down a few quotes that s...

In the age of AI, Markdown is even more the default choice for text, something I heartily approve of. And that's why I think now is a good time to sneak some new open non-silo'd technologies in there, like for example, WordPress. Open source is not the only reason WordPress is valuable, it also supports all the standards of the web. It means WordPress can tie together text on the web in a way nothing else can, and it works really well with Markdown.

One of the great contributions of AI is that you can quickly research prior art for any design decision you need to make. You don’t have to relearn every lesson that people who came before you learned. Study history or repeat mistakes.

My father was a professor at Pace Univ in NYC. When he retired, he used my blogging software to create a book for his students at mbatoolbox.org. Over the years the site moved a few times, and the http protocol was hacked by Google. I used Claude yesterday to get it working again. I'm glad to get this off my todo list. He put the work in because he wanted to leave this behind. My job is to make sure it survives as long as I can. And Claude makes short work of it. I put a copy of the website in a spare folder, and opened Claude Code in the folder, said what the problems are. We worked together and in about an hour it worked again. It could certainly look better, but that was his thing not mine.

I went to the beach Saturday. We washed Gwen Saturday. She was delighted. We watched Groundhog Day and it was–as always–excellent. Again. My art piece Galletas de Mar pero no comer sold Sunday. (Previously) My name is Art. On impulse, today I bought joespartydepot.com. It felt great. My name is Joe. I said to Kelly...

Watched: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 📺

Another trip north, this time to Durham, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Edinburgh and the Berwickshire coast.

I have a single page site with all the WordPress news. Bookmark it. Here's the OPML subscription list, import it into your feed reader, get the news as you like it. WordPress is an amazing platform with a blogging community that we just can't see. And once we're listening, more will appear. It's a great idea exchange platform. So -- are there any great WordPress news feeds we're missing? Please share here.

"web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website.During the beyond tellerand conference this past week, someone mentioned “responsive web design” and ...

4 conferences across 3 cities in 10 days:* 4/20 W3C AC Meeting (Huangzhou) “Challenging how we see the web” future of web browsers panel participant (remotely from San Francisco, on the evening of 2026-04-19)* 4/21-23 Mozilla Leadership Summit (Boston)* 4/25-26 IndieWebCamp D...

Everyone is working on something with Claude.

Heard on the internets ad nauseum. "I know how to do what you do much better than you do."

I was just marveling with Claude about how well all the pieces are fitting together, two databases, connected by an RSS 2.0 feed and a websocket pipe had to agree on how to communicate the same object. Worked the first time. Small pieces loosely joined.

Losing my patience after another rejection for Inkwell. This is a nice app for people to read blogs. I’m not trying to trick anyone or take over the world. Apple is out to lunch with their tight control.

I don’t even want discovery in the store. I just want to let my existing users install an app.

With the higher GPT-5.5 pricing, I wasn’t sure if in practice it would matter, so I preemptively disabled /fast in Codex. Seems like a non-issue. I can’t get anywhere close to using half of my tokens. Whenever I check it’s at 80% or higher remaining.

I’m now back to running “high” and /fast for everything. If I think a problem is difficult, I’ll bump to “xhigh” and won’t think twice about it.

Michael Tsai quoted this from X:

I have a friend in apple.

He has over 200 dollars credit on claude everyday to spend.

I find this difficult to believe. Even though Claude Code is more stingy with tokens than Codex, $200/day seems outrageous. If this is even close to true, it’s no wonder Anthropic is making so much money. But the popular opinion about Claude might be a trailing narrative, before everyone notices how good GPT-5.5 is.