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Maestros of Irish mandolin: Macdara, Marla, and Sean.

Wednesday session in Cork

It took a week and a half on the waitlist, but I’ve now got new Siri AI enabled on my phone. Seems to work so far. Not totally sure what to use it for yet.

When writing code with Claude you really have to be skeptical when it says it just found the problem, but you have no idea what it's saying, chances are pretty good it's just a word salad excuse for not reading all the code necessary to have an opinion that matters. Actually debugging software isn't about opinions, it's about proof. When you start clutching at straws until one works you just added another level of bug that will eventually bit you in the butt and you'll still have to solve the original one. Uncorrected I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to trust the code it writes, but I guess that's why people have two or more instances playing different roles? For now I'm the one that questions its sanity, more politely though. ;-)

"In philosophy, we have a term for this: a logical fallacy. And right now, journalism is full of them."

A throwback from 2007: a local Bay Area a cappella group called The Richter Scales made a Webby Award-winning viral video about how that bubble felt. Hat tip: Toni.

Yesterday was the hottest Broken Arrow Skyrace 23k of the four I have run. And the hardest. Sometimes you give it your all and your all is not quite enough. Made it much farther than last year, under worse (hotter, dryer, dustier) conditions.It was already in the mid-70s Fahr...

The Spring issue of Etcetera: Journal of the Typewriter Collectors’ Association arrived in the mail today! Just in time to celebrate National Typewriter Day tomorrow on June 23, 2026. 

The unusually long sentences criminalize being an anti-fascist activist, reading the wrong zines, and using the wrong communication apps. They're incredibly dangerous.

I took a screen shot of this post, gave it to Claude, asked it to write a short paragraph summary. Then I asked it to rewrite with using no more than 300 chars, the limit on Bluesky. Now I can post the summary there, but I won't, at the moment of truth I had to disclose this wasn't written by me, and it was 290 chars and there wasn't enough room for that. And here's a screen shot of the conversation with Claude.

There was a long discussion last night on Bluesky about whether twitter-like apps should show blog posts in addition to tweet-size things. Should it have a character limit, allow titles, links, bold, italic, editing, enclosures, markdown, etc? This is a permathread, it's bee...

Updated the Inkwell app for Mac this morning. If you haven’t tried it yet, I think it’s a very nice version of our Inkwell feed reader. Includes subscribing to blogs, of course, but also making text highlights, viewing conversations, and replying to Micro.blog posts.

I am continuing to experiment with writing some fiction on this blog. Here is a story I wrote today. Where were words when you needed them the most? Lena had been searching for the answer to that question for her whole life. For Lena, telling a story to light coming from a ...

I still have “wow” moments with AI. Codex Security was one of those… It reviews the Micro.blog backend source regularly and not only flags potential bugs but also drafts patches. Today another one: I asked for a draft of release notes and it guessed to put them directly in the edited appcast XML.

As we get closer (next year) to the 10th anniversary of Micro.blog, I’m thinking about whether our strategy with indie blogging is still relevant for the next decade. What is true now that will continue to be true years from now? Some thoughts… While there will be a lot of ...

I’m hosting July’s IWBC and the timing is perfect since I split my reading year into to halves, which means I’m starting with an empty shelf in July. The book I picked is “To Have or to Be” by Erich Fromm.

I read this book now more than 20 years ago, and I remember having a great impact on young me. And so I started wondering what current me would think of it. And the IWBC is a good excuse to pick it up a second time.

If you decide to read it and post a review on your blog, make sure to send me a link and I'll be more than happy to link it here on the blog.

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The seventh episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 7, I chat with Ana, the author of ohhelloana.blog. We talk about, among other things, the growth we see in our websites over time, finding an in-person indie web community, and connecting with people using 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.

Vacation is winding down.

There’s a new iOS app for Micro.blog! MicroSphere from @marc0janssen. Looks great, I’m playing around with it today.

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