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Continuing with this year’s theme, today I completed my first sprint triathlon, finishing with a time of 1:55:55 (and coming 155 of 157). My only goal was to complete the event, but got a PB in the pool and now have a baseline to improve upon.

Thinking about John Gruber’s post about AI as a technology, not a product:

Does AI “threaten to disrupt the entire iPhone ecosystem”? It’s possible, but it doesn’t seem nearly as likely to me as Levy asserts. Changing the iPhone ecosystem? Sure — that’s already true. Obviating the iPhone ecosystem? I don’t see it.

To his later point about wireless networking, it’s true that wireless enabled a whole bunch of new mobile apps. But AI is not just a supporting technology. It’s inseparable from the new products that it enables. Makes sense to build new devices around AI assistants in particular.

Listed an item on Facebook Marketplace for the first time last week. May not do this again, it’s a lot to manage messages from dozens of people. Perhaps worse for something free because there’s no commitment, no follow-through. Kind of interesting view into Meta’s business, though.

Sunday session

Today Claude found a problem that would only be uncovered if you knew that assigning to location.href didn't happen immediately. If it decides to redirect and then do a bunch of other stuff including making network references, the whole thing could (and did) come crashing down. I would have found that problem, but the actual error message the browser emitted made me think the problem was on the server not the client.

Timothy Snyder made an important point. Trump sees his cause as a religion and sees himself as god. So when someone who is unfairly punished by Trump says they're still glad they voted for them, because (I guess) if god is on the ballot, you have to vote for him.

I envision a network of twitter-like systems built out of the components of the web and nothing more. Every part replaceable.

i'd wait till a fresh start tomorrow.

but then i realized claude has all the code, so i could just tell it my problem.

can you find it, i asked, realizing i had not given it info on what the problem is.

there's a very weird mistake in the code i wrote just now, and there was a lot of it, i said to claude.

can you find the problem.

had no idea what to expect.

no more than 3 seconds it said I got it!

it was a typo. where i meant to type x i had typed prefs.

juggling a lot of bits in my head, my brain skipped, i didn't notice.

i would have found it quickly in my next session. but now i can think of anything but that problem until then.

sometimes claude can be totally frustrating, but other times the power makes such a huge difference.

Just released an update to Epilogue for iOS with some fixes and a better posts list, which now includes your movie and TV show blog posts.

Yellow flowers and crape myrtle. Yard work today for one of the last visits to my mom’s house.

This is my entry to this month's Bear Blog Carnival, on the topic of our favourite thing in a niche hobby. Thank you for hosting, Kami! This was a fascinating topic to think about. Alternative Text My favourite typewriter is the one I have: a Royal typewriter, likely decades...

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I documented the optional source:inReplyTo element for RSS 2.0.

Working on server upgrades. Hosting costs have ballooned out of control again, good opportunity to rethink the right balance of memory and storage. Some servers have really high uptime and can be replaced.

What happens after the feed? And how can publishers remain independent?

The New Yorker on the border wall in Texas around Big Bend:

The construction strikes many locals as both unreasonable and unstoppable. “You’ve got desert and high mountains and rugged, rough country and no water and no roads,” Bill Ivey, the president of the Brewster County Tourism Council, told me. “The easiest part of getting to the United States would be scaling the wall. We just don’t see people cross the border out here.”

If you have not yet fired up Junior Senior’s “MOVE YOUR FEET” today this is your signal to do so. (YT) Sydney Sweeney was apparent giantized in the show Euphoria and it hit my transom and so I updated my Giant Women page. I am too old to watch the show Euphoria. I won’t think...