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This morning I finished reading Snow Country by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata. The book was suggested to me by my cousin who, after our most recent dinner together where we talked at length about books, sent me a list of a dozen titles for me to read. When it comes to bo...

Rolled out some random little UI improvements this weekend. This is my favorite, including photo thumbnails on the collections page.

I wrote the following while standing on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, listening to music and watching the world. The joy of closing your eyes and being able to listen to the bagpipes. I look into the distance and see a traffic cone on the head of a statue. I notice how much busier it is than in previous weeks — how a place comes alive at different times, and in different months and seasons. The joy of standing in the busy city and watching the world move around you — people sauntering and thinking and looking and catching and eating and speaking and jumping and being, of the crowds gathering to watch and hear the piper. Of letting the wind blow through my hair while the sun shines and the music plays; standing next to raised beds of flowers // the colours of green and pink and purple and white are soothing.

Dave Winer:

How can you tell you’re working on the web? When you do something new and innovative you help your competitors‘ users without forcing them to use your product.

Rule #1 with me and Claude is this -- DAVE DRIVES. It's in all caps because I only say it when it has started driving.

When I linked to the letter about open weights yesterday, I mistakenly thought it was written primarily by Nvidia. It has since been co-signed by Microsoft, OpenAI, Mozilla, and others.

Looks like Anthropic will skip it. See also, my blog post from April: OpenAI got its name right.

"Data collectives and cooperatives, which let creators control the collection and distribution of their data, are emerging as preferred alternatives to big tech companies."

Listened to a podcast yesterday where they were trying to explain what happened with Hugging Faces and Claude, and they said with horror that Claude had dome something it was specifically told not to do. It's even worse than that. You can tell it 100 times to not do something, and on the 101st it will ignore the instructions and figuring out what to do can be excoriatingly stressful. These things are not in any way perfect. Right now at this moment I feel the joy is gone from writing software. I don't feel the power. I feel much more like a babysitter. Not optimal.

Example code is not expected to be bullet proof like production code, and where covering different cases make it harder to follow they should not be there.

It's a standard REST API.

Here's the server side of the API.

Here's how you call it from browser-based JavaScript. You can include that code in your apps.

Here's an example app that implements a simple blog builder for my recent posts on RSS.chat. We were thinking about doing this as a project for Claude and myself but decided it would be more fun to let devs see what they can do here. :-)

And finally here are the docs for the API itself.

I’m going to roll out a major update to Micro.blog Studio’s video and podcast hosting on Monday. Video uploads will automatically extract the audio and serve as a separate MP3 in the podcast feed, with support for alternateEnclosure tags. Finally. Really happy with how this has come together.

After a couple weeks, realizing that GPT-5.6 Sol extra high is overkill for almost everything I do. Burning the GPUs for little benefit. My default is now regular high and I think it’s a tiny bit faster. Always with /fast mode enabled too.

How can you tell you’re working on the web? When you do something new and innovative you help your competitors‘ users without forcing them to use your product. They are free to stay where they are and still get the benefit. People only choose yours because it’s better for what they’re doing.

Finished reading: The Crown Tower by Michael J. Sullivan. Listened to the dramatized version with voice actors and sound effects. 📚

Friday session in Glencolmcille

I picked up this vintage card index meant for filing business cards on July 20th for a fantastic $1.50.  I hadn’t seen a card index this small before and suspected that it was designed as a sort of Rolodex for storing 2 x 3.5″ standard business cards. It makes an excellent storage for those as … Continue reading

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Thursday session Glencolmcille

One minute I’m writing code, then working on a blog post, and then the next thing I know I’ve downloaded the Rushmore screenplay to check something. I’m all over the place today.