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No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s “terms of use.”

I’m genuinely disheartened and angry that the Google Chrome team have done this. Never assume good faith from them again.

This is, hands-down, the most insultingly transparent attempt at web standards bullying I’ve ever seen, including past ones from Google, which is — and I cannot stress this point enough — a company that sells advertisements. This is miles more eyeroll-worthy than AMP, where you’ll recall that a legion of tight-smiling dorks wearing Alphabet lanyards tried to assure us that the only means of survival for the web itself was to funnel all of it through Google’s servers, and only use their very good advertisements instead of those bad other ones.

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Wish I was in San Antonio tonight. Game 2, let’s go. 🏀

Every so often I have an idea for a feature that might be interesting in a web reader. I write down my ideas in my notes. Sometimes, an idea makes its way into Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. Other times, the idea stays in my notes where it can breathe, mature, and m...

Amazing line from Helen Toner’s testimony while describing the ousting of Sam Altman, about Mira Murati:

She was waiting to see which way the wind would blow, and she didn’t realize that she was the wind.

I’ve recorded a short video on YouTube to demo the new features in Inkwell for Mac, especially the new post window.

Stephen Hackett blogs about the Anthropic + SpaceX / xAI news, with more questions:

Colossus 2 is believed to be up and running, at least to some degree, and xAI may no longer need the first site. Has xAI moved Grok there, leaving the original data center and its yet-to-be-built water treatment plant open for lease? How much is Anthropic paying xAI for the site? Was this a move to help bring some sanity to xAI’s books as SpaceX plans to go public?

Also with the OpenAI trial on my mind, there’s a certain perspective to the story where both Elon Musk and Dario Amodei were frustrated at OpenAI and left, at different times and for different reasons, and now they’re partners.

Michael Tsai blogging on the Siri delays settlement:

If you really did buy an $800+ iPhone because of advertised features that never shipped, getting back $25 doesn’t seem like much consolation.

Right, because tech company class action lawsuits are now rarely about the customers. They’re about the lawyers skimming some of the money. The settlement doesn’t appear to outline the fee yet, but 25% for these things is common — and matches the Apple battery lawsuit a few years ago — which would be $62.5 million here.

Anthropic has announced a major deal with SpaceX to help relieve pressure on Claude’s current infrastructure:

We’ve signed an agreement with SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at their Colossus 1 data center. This gives us access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity (over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs) within the month.

Colossus 1 was famously used to train Grok. My reading of this is that Anthropic now has access to essentially all of the GPUs, since 200k GPUs had been previously announced for the data center. Maybe they’ve left a handful for Twitter / X.

I have been working on a few new features for Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. You can read a summary of what’s new below. See, sort, rename, and delete folders You can now view a list of the folders you have created, specify in what order folders should appear in you...

There’s a good discussion on the latest AppStories podcast about Codex for Mac and related tools. Federico Viticci:

I was very skeptical of the idea of a super app. But it turns out, a super app for productivity makes a lot of sense.

It also need to experiment with skills and automations more.

As I get deeper into the Claude-O-Verse, I get that it doesn't remember anything about the code. The code actually serves as its memory of the project. There are comments in the code of course, put there by Claude. Managing my own memory when I've got so many different bits of software is the bain of my existence, esp as I get older and older. But I'll turn it all over to Claude as fast as I can, to relieve me of the responsibility to remember all that stuff. Its brain works much better at this kind of stuff. I can conceive of things worth doing. And I know how to build the features, but I don't have the skill of immediately understanding some code by reading it not top down but all the lines at the same freaking time. If this isn't us learning how to work with an aliens species, it's a pretty good imitation.

In my last two blog posts, I discussed how I use greyscale mode on my phone and night shift on my computer. These blog posts were inspired by discussions happening in the IndieWeb community about greyscale, and now, more generally, how we use our phones. My phone, an iPhone,...

I really like the thinking that goes into this approach. It seems so counter-intuitive at first, but there’s no arguing with the snappy resilient results.

Turns out, if you have a website and you think of the browser as a way to navigate documents — rather than a runtime to execute arbitrary code and fetch, compile, and present them — things can be a lot simpler than our tools often prime us to make them.

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There’s going to be a lot of new web software in the coming months. The competition changes from managing complexity to who sees the best way to remix the web. There are a lot ways to do it.

Major new version of Inkwell for Mac today. Now you can start a new blog post directly in the app, or use the built-in new post window to quote a post you’re reading. Here’s a quick screenshot.