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Thanks Dave for the kind words. There’s a lot to do but I know we’re on the right path. Still digging! 🙂

Not a great time for my car’s A/C to start failing, driving back from Dallas. Way too hot out. Wish I was back at the beach.

Village Burger Bar. Ginormous onion rings.

It's remarkable that some people fondly miss Googles RSS reader app, already gone for over a decade. Remarkable because they captured the market, wiped out all competition (they deserved it, the products were awful) and then shut their own product down, leaving a toxic karmic bomb crater in its place.

As a writer I've stolen lots of ideas. All writers do it. How do you think we get our ideas.

Which is why it's so weird that they object to having their ideas stolen en masse.

We go through this regularly, basically you make a living doing something, and you aren't paid enough.

So every subject in every context arrives at the same place. Why aren't they paying me. I must be paid.

It is a permanent obsession with writers.

I try to be honest and admit that I steal from other writers, but I only steal from the best! :-)

My focus is making Micro.blog a great blogging platform. But on the social side, I also love that it’s maybe the last social network that is ambivalent to metrics and engagement. Every other platform — even Mastodon — has algorithmic feeds or trends. That’s fine for them, but not what I want to do.

I’m not much of a meme person, but this Frog and Toad + Claude is hilarious and true. “Cookies” is an all-time great story. 🍪

BTW, I was just contacted by a developer who's implementing all the protocols I mentioned yesterday. And I should mention that Manton Reece, developer of micro.blog and a longtime friend, going back to the Frontier days on the Mac, has inbound and outbound RSS and he covers ...

I've never given a commencement speech, but if I did, I'd run through my mottos and explain what they mean and who I stole them from, and how they are a distillation of what I've learned in life. The one I'd mention first, which isn't even on the freaking list, is this one --...

I loved seeing this: Why Inkwell is so useful while on vacation. Inkwell tries to have an interface that works for staying current with everything today but also for skimming through things you might have missed that are important. Good for vacations or taking breaks from the internet.

I’m a broken record on the futility of TestFlight beta approvals, but I was reminded of it again when I considered doing a new beta for Epilogue over the weekend. If it requires Apple approval, now I have another thing to manage, in addition to all these apps. Might as well just ship to everyone.

John Gruber in a comment linking to more Om Malik blog posts:

If you’re going to get into something, you ought to pursue it to its full extent. If you’re not interested enough to do that, don’t bother getting into it. Find the few things you love; don’t waste your time on the many things you merely like.

A right-wing media chain bought local papers, replaced their journalists with AI, and died. Now their communities are left to plug the gaps.

Claude Code is a Dave-amplifier.

Just had a great idea for the Democratic Party. It's time to review past governing decisions made by Democrats that resulted in the collapse of democracy in the US in 2025-26. Can't do anything about the Repubs, but we sure as hell can whip the Dems into shape. My first contribution, Obama should have installed his Supreme Court choice after waiting three months for the Senate to advise and consent. If the Repubs can invent a new practice so can the Dems. That would make the Supreme Court a lot more funcitonal now, just that one thing. Democrats must not be so freaking afraid of stirring things up. We would have all respected that, esp the Repubs. This would be an incredible campaign process, would allow us to say that this is what the Democrats, going forward, will always/never do.

Of course I read Josh Marshall's piece about how the web is dead. Now let's go back to when it started and do it again, using everything we know from experience, and try not to make the same mistakes. Josh was there.

I noted a few weeks ago that Markdown has a format for outlines.

Yesterday at the QWERTY Typewriter Festival in Carson, CA, Bryan Mahoney of The Typin’ Pint released Issue 01 of his new zine Clack!  I’ve just finished reading it this morning (from cover to cover, though I admit I haven’t finished the crossword yet) and it is truly fantastic! There’s so much to love inside its … Continue reading Clack! Analog Attitude for the Digital Age – Vol. 1 – Summer 2026

I stopped tracking books using apps or services, even though there are good ones out there. I have two little shelves in my bedroom, on the left I put books I want to read, on the right the ones I have read. The plan was to empty the one on the right halfway through the year...

Rush. 🎸