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I think I’ve gotten enough feedback about the Micro.blog beta for Mac. Going to just release it to everyone. The local AI has high requirements so won’t be widely used, maybe until macOS 27 ships, but there are lots of other good improvements.

Quoted on Simon Willison’s blog, part of an X thread from Jeremy Howard about Fable:

Anthropic has chosen the opposite of the safe path: they are allowing themselves, the current top lab, to use their top model for frontier AI research. They’ve said they’ll sabotage others who try.

The morning after a Spurs lose, my mood is low and my cynicism is high.

As thrilling as the end was for this Knicks fan, as a friend (of a Spurs fan) I empathize -- because I had the feeling you have now for most of last night's game, only to erupt in one of the greatest group sports orgasms ever.

I have been praised for continuing to develop software long after most of my peers have retired. Why do I do it? I want to restore the power and glory of the web for writers. That's part of it. Another part is that software development is undergoing a huge revolution, bigger than the move to high-level languages that came about before I started writing software. AI tools are that big. Why would I leave now? It's like leaving the Garden last night because it looked hopeless for the Knicks. It ain't over till it's over.

The discussion worth fostering about the importance of networked society and new platforms that empower individuals is whether cyberspace can be considered a space of genuine inclusion and equal opportunity. On this topic, it will be essential to address the access agenda and the code of access, prerequisites for making that possible, as Panayota Gounari refers in her book A Democracia na Nova Era Tecnológica (Gounari, 2009). The first concerns citizens’ economic capacity to acquire the ...

The indestructible NY Knicks of 2026. What a game omg. The problem -- the Spurs started celebrating way too early. All of Weby's antics about being in Mitchell Robinson's head. Yeah probably, but somehow the Knicks got over it. When the Knicks were blown out, I just desperately hoped for a real game. But it wasn't until they were down by 2 or 3 that I realized holy shit they could win this. It was like Woodstock, or the 10th inning of the sixth game of the World Series in 1986. And Jalon Brunson right now at this moment is one of the greatest of the NBA for all time. The Knicks could still lose, but if they don't, well we'll wait to see how this turns out. As fans we have to have a similar approach as the players. Every moment begins with 0 to 0, not just game. And if our team should lose, it was still a great story. That's really what I want, and tonight, oh man.

Aaron Sorkin is great so I’m of course looking forward to The Social Reckoning. Great job capturing Mark Zuckerberg’s voice too. Only nitpick with the trailer is the music makes it feel overly dramatized, which shouldn’t be necessary because the truth is already pretty bad.

Stunned. Seriously cannot believe it. I’m torn between wondering if maybe this just isn’t the Spurs’ year to also believing they can win the next three games. 🏀

Spurs usually start strong but this first quarter is especially good. Opening a 20-point lead early gets the crowd out of the game. Let’s go! Gotta hold on to it. 🏀

Michael Tsai blogs about the EU not accepting Apple’s proposal for a Trusted Agent System that might take 18 months develop:

It’s not surprising that the EU would reject that proposal. The App Store doesn’t approve apps that flout the guidelines but promise to comply later. It doesn’t even entertain proposals of the form, “If I built this would it be approved?”

"The problem tends to show up when a CEO is handed an agentic tool like Claude Code, and has it create something, which will work just fine, and thinks “oh, wait, why do we need so many people, when I can just sit here and make things work?” This is a bad CEO."

Today I learned… Octopuses have beaks!

At Homebrew Website Club this evening we had a conversation about how to encourage people to make things together using the web. This could mean writing a blog post with someone, responding to someone’s blog post to continue a conversation, contributing to a wiki, creating a ...

Wednesday session in Amsterdam

Wembanyama is a really smart dude. Wow.

Last year’s event was fantastic, so I’m looking forward to all the things on “tap, tap, tap” for this year. Come and celebrate National Typewriter Day in Southern California.

After WWDC is always a good time to reflect on priorities. This year’s event for me was about refinements and focus.

On the technical side, I’m hoping to use Apple Foundation Models as a fallback when bigger models can’t be used. But since my Mac app is outside the App Store, I’ll be limited too, apparently without private cloud compute.

Congrats to Apple on a good week. The reaction I heard from folks seemed overwhelmingly positive. Onward! There’s a lot to work on.

Thinking about a point raised by Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel at The Talk Show last night, that regular people may not totally get the privacy of Apple’s private cloud compute. Will they trust it more than giving personal context to ChatGPT? All these years of Apple ads about privacy should help.