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I had a thoroughly enjoyable three days of hosting UX London this week and met such lovely people at the event—thank you to everyone who came!

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Barry Hess, whose blog can be found at bjhess.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a Month" club members. ...

Another screenshot from the upcoming Micro.blog 4.0 for Mac. I don’t edit blog categories often, so I was always fine with this as a web-only feature until now. Adding it to the Mac version is handy for filtering posts. Lots of small UI improvements in this release.

Minor bummer that I wasn’t expecting when doing more local LLM work in my app: the mlx-swift package adds quite a bit to application size on disk. Micro.blog for Mac jumps from only 10 MB to about 50 MB. Still relatively small for 2026, though.

Thursday session

Reviewed my ChatGPT memories after OpenAI updated dreaming today:

In contrast to saved memories, dreaming leverages a background process that allows ChatGPT to learn from many conversations and synthesize ChatGPT’s memory state in order to always provide the freshest, most relevant context to your conversations. Dreaming also makes it easier for memory to include context that occurs naturally in conversation, without relying on explicit requests to remember something.

Claude has dreams too. Codex and OpenClaw use lots of Markdown files to update memory, which makes it fairly transparent.

I have been thinking a lot about categories over the last week or so. It started by Thomas sharing the work he has been doing to build a category index page, whose design I love. I started to realise that I like to put a lot of my blog posts in one of few categories: moments ...

Amazing idea: Cash App launches a wand for tap-and-pay. 🪄

Having fun rolling stuff out on Elon Musk's X.

The day after a Spurs loss, expect all of my blog posts to have a tinge of anger to them. 🤪

Apple has published another one of their reports about all the money that is even loosely related to the App Store. It’s misleading and maybe even dishonest:

Apple today announced the global App Store ecosystem facilitated over $1.4 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2025, according to a new study by economists at Analysis Group. For more than 90 percent of the billings and sales facilitated by the App Store ecosystem, developers did not pay any commission to Apple.

Is my Micro.blog revenue “facilitated” by the App Store? Ridiculous. App Store policy is a sunk boat.

I didn't write about the Knicks prior to last night's game because I had no idea what to write. The Knicks in the Finals is something I had a hard time understanding, even thinking about. To me the Knicks are soulful losers. They're like once-future hall-of-famer Carmelo An...

The Artemis reading interface consists of a section tag for each day for which there are blog posts to show. Each section contains a h2 denoting the date the posts were published, and a ul that lists each post published on that date. Here is what the interface looks like: Th...

It’s amazing how much life can improve with the help of 20 milligrams of chemicals a day.

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This is amazing. I could hardly contain my excitement. In one moment, I held James’ latest story in my two paws. In the next, the story was published on the web. “This is the web,” James said; “it’s where dreams can come true.” In that moment, I knew I was in the right place....

Some ideas about how to encode our values into the tools we use

Jason Snell has developed a tool for podcasters called Double Ender. He blogs about what’s possible now without coding:

Whatever you call it, whether it’s being a producer or product manager or something else that isn’t a programmer, creating good software in the AI era still requires the power of a human brain: being creative, solving problems, and making decisions.

I also agree with Jason that Apple should be rethinking Xcode for how developers actually work. I still use Xcode but I’m using significantly less of it. A streamlined Xcode with half the features would pair well with Codex.

Argh. Great game but that loss hurts. Feel like that offensive rebound by the Knicks with a couple minutes left just flipped it, otherwise that might be a Spurs win. Hope we can bounce back in game 2. 🏀

Counting down the hours… NBA finals, game 1. I really don’t know what to expect. 🏀