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Now that Jony Ive is done with the Ferrari, I hope he and OpenAI get to shipping the AI assistant hardware. I don’t think it’s a distracting side quest like Sora was. A new device could be one of their most important products. Few companies have the design talent and infrastructure to pull it off.

Continuing to work through the upgrade to our books database in Micro.blog. We now have metadata for over 30 million books. Next up is a rewrite of the search, and more code to self-heal book records and covers from other sources.

On the 23rd anniversary of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg writes an emotional and personal blog post about the ongoing WP Engine saga:

Silver Lake, you have already extracted all your pounds of flesh. I missed my Mom’s knee surgery. If you wanted me to suffer for my sins, I have, and probably deeper than you will ever know.

See also: from the end of 2024, my blog post about the mad king. It might hold up even better today than when I published it.

I’ve read several big sections of Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas — magnificent humanity. The whole thing is essentially a book at 40k words. It’s fascinating and at times even great. Some of the most interesting parts of the text aren’t really about AI, but more about wh...

Now that we have Inkwell 1.0 through app review, Apple doesn’t seem quite as picky. Hopefully. 🤞 They’ve approved 1.0.1 with some fixes and restoring the ability to save highlights in text. The plan is to roll out a couple more minor releases that bring the app forward to what we expected for 1.0.

OG was playing so well one night he was invited on Inside the NBA, which is a big moment in an upcoming NBA player's career. He sounded kind of irritated, in the OG way. At the end Charles Barkley asked what OG stood for, kind of a smirky question (probably to see if he could get him to smile), but his irritation level went wayyy up, and then Chuck didn't pronounce it right and OG told him. Didn't smile. But that's who he is and it makes the great photo of him ecstatic with happiness that much more of a big deal. Loook everyone even OG is impressed! :-)

Signing in solidarity with Wiki Workers United:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWorkersUnited_solidarity#Signatures

Data centers are the new factories. How we think about the precedents they set matters.

I came across this photo of the Knicks celebrating, with OG Anunobe in the center. The thing about OB is that he's a deep thinker and he never smiles, under any circumstances. Except right here. This is such a great photo I made it the header graphic for the day, week and maybe month, unless we get another one to replace should by some weird event they win the next series. And there isn't another series after that one. At that point this Knicks team goes down as one of two legendary Knicks teams over the decades, comparable to the 1973 Willis Reed, Walt Frazier, Earl Monroe, Dave DeBusschere and Bill Bradley team.

If you love the Knicks, or even if you're just fascinated with this year's team, listen to today's Bill Simmons podcast, it's all about the phenomenon of the 2026 Knicks, and Simmons is a Celtics fan, definitely not a Knicks fan.

I know I have to write about the Knicks. It just hasn't sunk in yet that they won the East. And next week we'll be watching them in the NBA finals. It's the team that matters. Brunson is great, despite what I wrote after they went down 2-1 vs the Hawks. But the other players are great too in different ways. And there are so many of them, not just the starters. Every one with a distinctive personality and all of them super smart and committed to the team and each other. What makes it work? You can see it in how they play -- trust. They trust each other. Their fates are intertwined. And they knew it before they had this amazing streak of wins in the post-season. I love the Knicks even when they lose. I'm not sure how you love them when they are champions. We'll figure it out.

Have you noticed that sometimes Claude is great and other times an idiot. Maybe it's me. I have to remember that Claude is not a computer. It's something else.

There is beauty in the moments between arriving and reaching your destination. I felt this yesterday in the moments before attending an event in Edinburgh last night. I had an hour before I needed to arrive and, the day being so warm, I decided to slow down and listen to the ...

I am half-way through my first year of university. I am studying toward an art history degree (although part of me wants to do art history and creative writing, which I would have the option to do starting next year!). The first year of my degree is an introduction to study...

Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while the aforementioned album is one of the five I would take to a deserted island, he has so many other good ones like The Cutting Edge which also has bagpipes, or Sonny Side Up with Sonny Stitt and Dizzy Gillespie. … Continue reading RIP Sonny Rollins →

At the beginning of the 4th quarter, I thought the Spurs might come back, but just not their night. Wish there were a couple days off before game 6. This series has been amazing but exhausting. 🏀

Wandering around Half Price Books yesterday, flipped to the current day in this reflections book, Sunset Gratitide. Good day for books, also stopped at First Light and picked up a copy of Homebound. 📚