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Irgendwas geht los in Koblenz 🤔

A few weeks ago, I was at my brother’s place, watching NBA, and amongst other things, I was teasing him about the fact that he’s putting up weight. Which is just a fact. But he’s also in his 40s, so that’s understandable. He pointed out that I’m also gaining weight (but I’m ...

Even though I tell myself I’m getting old and jaded, with more complaints about Apple than hopes, it’s an hour before the keynote and I’m excited. Most of us are developers because we believe in what might be possible through technology.

I’m heading to Amsterdam for CSS Day. It’s one of those events I try my best to get to every single year. I have no doubt that this year will be brilliant as usual.

There’s another event the day before CSS Day: The Web You Want:

What would the web be like if it was up to you?

There’ll be workshops and talks, all absolutely free.

I’ll be giving a talk. It’s supposed to be about the web I want, but I’m going to do my usual shtick of looking back at the history of the web to see what kind of things we wanted in the past. It’s called The Web You Wanted.

Register your attendance and I’ll see you there. Or maybe I’ll see you at CSS Day. Or at the session in Mulligan’s on Wednesday night.

Said to Claude just now -- btw, it's very good we're using the outliner back and forth. we're going to build on that.

I can't convert scripting.com to https. If I moved the site to an https server, all the archives would break, and that's where the value of the site is, in the archives, where I've kept a history of the various things I've worked on. I'm still working on new stuff, but if this is all that was left to do, I'd move to the tropics and make pottery, I would not spend my last years on such an enormous stupid bullshit project. It's just not possible. But if you want to read the new stuff on my blog in https, you can. I have a mirror on a WordPress site. We even have the blogroll ported.

For the beta of Micro.blog for Mac, I’ve decided to follow the lead of Brent Simmons, Rogue Amoeba, and others to hide Tahoe menu icons. It’s just too much clutter. There’s a secret preference “ShowMenuIcons” to get them back. I’ll document this somewhere before we ship.

While it’s certainly not good to be down 0-2 and lose home court advantage completely, nothing in this series yet suggests the Spurs can’t win games. Up 14 in game 1. And game 2 was theirs until the final seconds. 🏀

Daniel Jalkut:

Forever the optimist, I think that the next several years will be an era in which opinionated, competent developers are able to run circles around projects that are overly-invested in AI. Dip into AI, maybe even let it be your first mate, but never let it be the captain.

The familiar sounds of the espresso machine never cease to calm me – the joy of the familiar, but also the potential of the variable: of sounds at new tones, of different cadences. Watching as the barista makes sure to stop pulling the espresso shot at 33 seconds — precision at every step. Classical music, quiet conversation, and the awakening of the day permeate the cafe, illuminated by the light passing through the tall windows, and accompanied by the smell of freshly brewed coffee. I hear one of the baristas make their colleague laugh, bringing a smile to my face.

Today I’m releasing a beta of Micro.blog 4.0 for Mac. It’s a big update and I’d like to get some feedback before finalizing it. You can download the beta here. The first thing you’ll notice is that we’ve updated the design with a bunch of little improvements. The sidebar and...

Got all my geeky tech shirts packed for WWDC.

I wrote a blog post on Twitter this morning, sort of a version 0.4 of the talk I want to do at WCUS in August in Phoenix. I want to offer cross-posting to twitter in an upcoming product, but I think the user should pay for the service, not me, a one-person independent devel...

Is the day before WWDC a terrible time to release software that has a brand new on-device AI model, or the perfect time? No idea what Apple is going to release for developers tomorrow, but maybe it says something about my low expectations.

For the next Micro.blog for Mac, I also updated the movies pane a little, adding profile icons and the blog (or Letterboxd) domain name. Nice thing about a major new version is it’s an opportunity to go through the entire app looking for improvements to make.

All the news reports about AI tools repeat the same hallucination story they've been running for years. That's another huge bug in the news process. They only report on a small number of angles that might have been news a few years ago, and have no insights on what else is going on. They did this with the web too. They always pick an item that their narcissistic view of the world finds tasty. It's a huge bug in the system, and why "news" isn't valuable for news, it's mainly useful for a relaxing reassurance that nothing has changed, the world is fucked up in exactly the same way it was fucked last week, month, year, etc. It's a form of bedtime story.

Star City is very good. It's good enough that you have to watch each episode at least twice to get the idea of what's really going on. I stopped watching the show it is a sequel for, For All Mankind, because it got incredibly juvenile and sitcom-like. But Star City is serious, at least in the first three episodes.

Enjoyed this post from Cory Doctorow: Refining humanity:

Computers don’t just clarify what we know and how we organize our society: they also clarify what we are.

Today I attended my first Magic the Gathering (MtG) draft: a “secret draft,” where players did not know ahead of time what series of the trading card game would be played. The event was held in a breathtaking church building, now used as a community centre. The building is al...

Notus reporting:

Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies about the potential for the federal government to acquire some shares in their firms…

Sort of says something about the potential bipartisan response to AI that Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Sam Altman all generally agree that the public should own a piece of AI. Separately, I think there should be public AI just like there are public libraries. But maybe you do that and a system of dividends.