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I find the trend of people posting about the way they use generative AI to be fascinating at an anthropological level. I do not remember the last time a piece of technology pushed so many different people into writing about the way they use it, or not use it, or abuse it, or...

I published Indie Microblogging on the web a few years ago, continued to tweak it a little, but I had to solve a couple layout issues before I could print it and send to backers. The book includes 400+ links, which I’ve converted to footnotes for print. Here’s an example page.

Google announced a million things at Google I/O yesterday. I thought it was interesting that Demis Hassabis closed the keynote, putting everything in context. A small part of it:

AGI is now on the horizon, and it will be the most profound and impactful technology ever invented. If built right, it could propel human progress and flourishing beyond our imaginations. We’re in a moment of immense promise, but also enormous responsibility. […] When we look back at this time, I think we will realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity.

Claude Code doesn't know anything about the "users' perspective." Part of the software we're working on is totally fenced off, I only use it, I don't read code in there. This is an important technique. I'm thinking I'm the first person coming through here with my codebase and product mix.

I couldn't not say anything about the Knicks win last night in the opening game of the NBA Eastern Conference finals. The Knicks were losing, then winning big, then fell apart, and by midway through the 4th quarter they were down by 22, and the Clevelands were completely in ...

I made a new mix the other day. Mellow Drama. Today in the water phrases from some of the songs kept coming to me. The waves were fine. Unextraordinary. Still would not trade this random Tuesday with most other days.

Love to see another OT game! Knicks come back big in the 4th quarter. I thought they were toast. 🏀

I’m coming around to not wanting any Tahoe-style icons in my menu items. Not sure yet if it should be a preference for my Mac apps, or always hide them in the way that Brent Simmons and Rogue Amoeba have done.

I’m fine with unified Mac toolbars that have a few buttons in the title bar, but some apps take this too far, introducing friction in just figuring out how to drag a window around. There should probably be at least 50% of the window title bar available in the middle for average-width window sizes.

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. 🤪

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. ;-)

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.

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.