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Expanding items on a FeedLand blogroll should be consistently fast now. Just switched to a different server on the backend.

Masto: I'd like to come up with a list of formats, protocols and products that have become defaults for AI work.

I love a nice compound word (real or made up) for product names. Some of my current and previous products: Sunlit, Wavelength, Inkwell, Watermark, Clipstart. They often invoke just the right feeling. So hat tip to OpenAI on their latest name, more or less perfect for cyber defense: Daybreak.

Good morning sports fans!

Yesterday I learned about JSONL, and was of course intrigued. It's a really simple thing, even simpler than RSS, and does basically the same thing. And even better, it's the way the AI industry hooks streams together. So If we can get RSS to serve as a source of JSONL feeds,...

Some mornings I see my Apple Watch sleep score and think, “Ah, makes sense.” Other mornings it feels like a random number generator.

Something different catches my eye, my ear – all my senses – on every walk. I walk through streams of thoughts and feelings and sensations. Today, what first caught my eye was a bird perched on a tree along a path lined with trees and bushes. The song of the bird eased me int...

If you have ever spoken to me, you may have heard me express a meandering interest in doing something with audio. I think the heart of this interest is that I love conversations and storytelling. I love hearing people talk about the things that make them light up. I love aski...

Recycled Books in Denton. I’ve been there a dozen times and only realized this weekend that they have a downstairs. Surprisingly large section of train books. 📚

I’ve made progress with Apple on getting Inkwell approved, but there’s still a lingering issue that I’m appealing. Drafted a letter for the appeal. I’m trying to resist ending it with “Thank you for your attention to this matter!” 🤪

Along with Ron Rosenbaum, Steven Levy, Patricia Highsmith, and the fictional Frank Navasky of You’ve Got Mail fame, I have joined the Quiet Cult of the Olympia Report de Luxe Electric Typewriter. I acquired this at thrift for $21.95 on 2026-10-10 for Mother’s Day in immaculate condition! It’s as if someone used it to type … Continue reading

AI writing reminds me of Tennyson’s description of the beautiful Maud in the titular poem:

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null
Dead perfection; no more

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Handy! I’ve added this header to The Session.

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You cannot kill a federated thing by killing one node, the way you can kill a platform by changing one company.

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Fixed an issue on iOS and iPadOS where datalist suggestions were presented directly over the associated input, obscuring it.

Phew!

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"When you all give us your hard-earned money, we feel a deep responsibility to use it as well, and as efficiently, as possible." A responsibility A New Social lives up to in spades.

"Substack faced talent drain in 2024 linked to its platforming of Nazi newsletters, but now it’s not just the platform’s stance on hate speech that’s driving away creators."

Brian Schrader mentions the A Very Short Introduction books in a blog post about learning:

The books are, as expected, very short (~100 pages) and cover a quick survey of the topic at hand and its various sub-disciplines. They’re approachable, quick to read, and the chapters are organized by discipline.

I’ve seen these little books many times and sometimes flip through them in a bookstore. I think I will pick up a couple of them. Great idea to have approachable books that are longer than a blog post or AI prompt, but not as long or dry as a textbook.

Hanging out with Sandy in the sunshine.

I settled on once a week backups for the new Mac app because it seems the best balance of usefulness and manageable strain on our servers. Downloading a large blog with tens of thousands of photos introduces a little extra load and bandwidth use.

It’s enabled by default because good backups are a perfect fit for our emphasis on domain names and content portability. When you use Micro.blog, you should never have to opt in or pay extra for something that is a core part of our mission.