Sometimes I’ll switch Codex to Extra High and /fast. Yesterday for a long-running task (45 minutes) I came the closest to depleting tokens, hitting about 40% remaining for the first time. Must’ve been how Claude users feel, living on the edge all the time. 🤪
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Markdown support is a big feature for people who want to know what we're doing with their text and what we're not doing. ;-)
Why is Inkwell stuck in review
I submitted Inkwell for iOS to Apple for review on April 21st. It has gone through numerous rejections, code changes, resubmissions, clarifications, one phone call, and one appeal to the review board, which I’m still waiting to hear back on.
What’s the hold up? I’ve hinted a...
Fortnite is back in the App Store. From Tim Sweeney on X:
This is a critical moment in the battle against the App Store empire to win freedom for all developers and consumers, and we’ll continue the fight in every jurisdiction worldwide until competition is restored to digital stores and payment markets everywhere.
Upcoming accessibility improvements from Apple sound good. A natural use of LLMs. From MacStories:
Rather than requiring a defined set of commands that need to be memorized to control a device, the feature will allow users to invoke actions with natural language, such as, “Tap the orange folder.”
Nothing is better than listening to NBA podcasts the day after an epic Spurs win. What a game. 🏀
Opus 4.6 is much smarter than the other one. It feels like I'm working with someone from Bronx Science. I had been using Sonnet 4.6, which I switched to after reading somewhere that it costs less and it's usually every bit as good as newer models. I would never work with Son...
Someday you're going to tell your kids that we once used a social network that limited your writing to 500 characters and didn't allow styling, links or titles. What was it called Daddy? Bluesky. And people thought it was great. Why? They might have been taking drugs.
Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 2
The second episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 2, I chat with Alexandra, the author of xandra.cc, a founder and barista at the 32-Bit Cafe. We talk about, among other things, building indie web communities, communicating the possibilities of having a personal website to new audiences, and more. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
Absolutely incredible game. Spurs win in double OT. That long 3 from Wemby when they were down, the late block, dunk… Can’t believe that was only game 1. 🏀
In 2023 I started winding down use of the Twitter API after they moved to a $100/month developer plan. X has now switched to a $0.01/tweet pricing model for posting. I could add the feature back, with some limits, but not sure it is worth it. Somehow, X still trudges forward in some communities.
Debugging a glitch that only happens in WebKit, I briefly considered bundling Chromium into my app just to avoid the issue. But that would take the app from 10 MB to over 100 MB. Too many apps are so huge now.
The original Transformers movie from the 1980s is returning to theaters in remastered 4K. I will probably have to see this again. I’ll never forget the experience in the theater as a kid… It left quite an impression.
After all the drama, the jury decides that Elon Musk loses the OpenAI case because of the statute of limitations. Not quite as satisfying as a clear yes or no on merits, but I think it would’ve been the same.
From the judge: “There is a substantial amount of evidence to support the jury’s finding.”
The Mind of Claude
I have taught Claude Code to write software the way I do.
It has abilities that I don't, for example, I give them 1000 lines of code, highly factored, with lots of thought into making it readable and maintainable, and always falling short (our languages today fight against r...
Netizen | Derek Sivers
1993 shaped how I think of the internet, and I’m keepin’ on in that original spirit.
Like picking up trash where you walk, even if the rest of the world is full of litter. You keep doing what you can to make things better.
The value is in the difficulty - Annotations
We’ve seen this arc before, and music is the richest analogy.
Like Bruce Sterling always says:
Whatever happens to musicians happens to everybody.
Alexa+ can now generate audio conversations about any topic:
Alexa will pull together the relevant information, give you an overview of what it plans to cover, and let you adjust the length and direction conversationally before generating anything. Once you’re happy with the plan, Alexa creates a recording with AI-generated host voices.
Amazon shouldn’t call these podcasts. One of the strengths of real podcasts is the human connection we feel with the hosts. What Amazon has built is useful, to get an entertaining AI-generated report, but they should call it something else.
2024-era ChatGPT pictures, of which I created many are now like Comic Sans type was in 2010 or so, if you remember.
Listening to the latest The Talk Show with Adam Lisagor. Really fun conversation about using AI. But also a little painful whenever I hear how much someone is paying Anthropic… This is why the Zed + OpenAI news is a big deal, because it can use a ChatGPT subscription instead of paying per token.