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Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Going to London. brb
Reading Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler.
The automatic backups introduced in Micro.blog for Mac earlier this month are working pretty well for me. But I’m going to adjust how many backups are stored from 5 to 3, or maybe configurable, because for blogs with thousands of photos the backup files can get pretty big.
Just some bedtime reading of the appeals court decision from December in Epic vs. Apple. I really hope we’re almost at the end of this mess. It has dragged on way too long.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
It appears that the winner of a short story prize was generated with AI. But how was it selected?
Podcast: Wrapping AI in the web.
Just finished No Country for Old Men, the book by Cormac McCarthy. I have seen the movie many times, it's one of those movies that if you're looking for something to watch and you come across it, you might as well go for it because every scene in the movie is a performance. I didn't realize that they used most of McCarthy's dialog, literally -- in the movie. Near the end, Bell, the sheriff tells a story about old age. "There wasnt a whole lot good you could say about old age and he said he knew one thing and I said what is that. And he said it dont last long. I said well, that's pretty cold. And he said it was no colder than what the facts called for." I love truths that hit hard. He's such a great writer. And I love that I can write like all the characters if'n I get a mind to.
Thursday session
Om Malik with a little late-night reading of the SpaceX prospectus:
The SpaceX IPO is a masterpiece of financial engineering. The prospectus is a perfect blend of reality, sci-fi, and skullduggery.
Along with other improvements today, I updated the home page for Inkwell so it’s a little less plain. Now includes a screenshot and download links for all the platforms. For iOS, still linking to the TestFlight version while we wait for Apple.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
I stumbled on this piece of code recently that made me laugh, cry, sigh in despair, and think of poor Sara doing her best to make the web a better place.
<div class="action-button button of-h mh-effect"
onclick=" window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=redacted@email.com','_blank',)">I guess people have forgot that mailto: is a thing that exists.
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Marc Andreessen said programmers aren't disoccupied, we haven't become obsolete, quite the opposite, we're all working around the clock. It's true. Everyone is doing it. We got a new brain that can do all kinds of amazing things. You don't get a new super powerful brain organ every day.
“No servitude is more disgraceful than that which is self-imposed.”
I'm going to release the Claude-generated code that enables it to work with me on projects that are written and managed in outlines.