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The sixth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 6, I chat with Cory, the author of coryd.dev. We talk about, among other things, the role of community in the indie web, a day in the life with his website, and music listening and community as it relates to personal websites. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

Claude added the close box I asked for yesterday. Bravo!

Everyone wants to know things humans can do better than AI systems. The answer — relate with humans. The machines have no clue how our minds work. They act as if we're just like them. They could tell you all about it, from books they read, but they've never related with humans as humans. There's a great speech by Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting, where he explains how reading about something isn't the same as living it.

I'm gorging on NBA podcasts this week. So much fun for a Knicks user to hear how much-loved the Knicks are. Basketball is most an intimate sport for fans, it's like five consecutive boxing matches. We get to know the players' personalities, forming an idea of who they are, b...

Stephen Hackett has a rundown of some of the xAI data center news:

SpaceX and the NAACP are in a legal battle over the use of turbines in Southaven, Mississippi for powering the Colossus II data center in Memphis. This week, the Department of Justice got involved…

DOJ says Grok, but Anthropic is also now using Colossus II.

Happy Sussex Day, Bloomsday, and Valentina’s Day!

I’m still slowly getting over the Spurs losing in the finals. What an amazing season and playoff run that was. 82 games is hard, no guarantee a team can get back there, but can’t wait to see what this team does next year. 🏀

Don’t eat the yellow snow.

—Frank Zappa

Don’t tap on the sparkle emoji.

—Me

The valuation of SpaceX is wild. When it comes back down to earth, what impact will it have on the market? I don’t worry too much about an AI bubble, but I do worry about the market imploding because so much of the S&P 500 is concentrated in a small number of tech companies.

Finally watched Hoppers last night. Really fun. Used to be that I would see every animated feature opening weekend… So many movies now and it’s harder to keep up. 🪵

Simon Willison blogged more on the Fable shutdown drama:

This whole situation is such a mess. Non-technical decision-makers have been hearing that models that can “craft cyber attacks” are uniquely dangerous for months. Now they look ready to ban any model that can help us secure our code.

Anthropic spent months telling everyone that their model is dangerous. Now they’re annoyed that we believed them. Maybe this is an argument for open weights. Less centralized control, more transparent development.

Several months ago I blogged that we wanted to have more integration with WordPress and Ghost in Micro.blog. I’ve now rolled out the first part of that, with an option to add a WordPress blog to Micro.blog’s web interface. New posts and edits sync back and forth between Micr...

People of Dublin: I’m giving a talk on Thursday evening at Na Píobairí Uilleann on Henrietta Street—come along if you want to know the story behind TheSession.org

Reading The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff.

CSS Grid Lanes has started to ship in browsers. It’s in Safari and behind a flag in Chrome and Edge. It enables masonry layouts, where items get packed together in the most efficient way possible. Unsurprisingly, I’m a fan of a layout tool where the browser does all the ha...

Tonight, I noticed you can’t spell typewriter in German without IBM: SchreIBMaschinen. Surely that ran across someone’s mind before in an advertising campaign, right?

Sometimes you have to just start with beauty. Listen to Jon Batiste’s Beethoven Blues, then relish this interview, where he plays and talks about it. I can’t wait for Black Mozart, which is already starting to trickle on Spotify. Forget all that Ferrari stuff, what Jony Ive did with his LoveFrom Sailing Lantern is divine. … Continue reading Assorted Links →

The first Day One journal turned out so well that I ordered another one. They make it so easy.

Brent Simmons blogs about what he’s been up to with NetNewsWire over the last year. I also created a PR for Inkwell sync in NNW, but the work stalled because I wasn’t confident enough in the codebase to definitely say it’s ready to ship. Need to dust that off and try to get it into an update.