FeedCity

I’m submitting Wavelength 2.0 to Apple and Google today. I blogged a few screenshots earlier this week, and I think it has turned out really well. It’s also open source on GitHub.

If you run your own RSS.chat instance, you can now add a menu of commands to the menubar. Details in the worknotes for today. I added a DW menu to rss.chat or demo.rss.chat.

Reuters says that three months after the Australian ban, “8 in 10” teenagers are still using social media. It’s still very early, so I don’t think we need to read too much into it yet. There has been a shift:

Children’s continued social media use ​took place even as account ownership declined to 42% from 52%, with “statistically significant” reductions across YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok in particular, the report said.

A new validator for RSS.chat-compatible apps. Examples. The everyone feed on rss.chat. A user's feed. The user list. A feed with issues. Docs.

Dave + Claude is far more powerful than either on their own.

Claude, as we're finishing a project: "The diving is what makes it a test of the network, not just the file: it doesn't take the feed's word for anything, it goes and knocks on every door the feed points to."

Change is fractal; data ownership can be collective.

♫ These Alarms by Snow Patrol & Kylie Minogue

Don’t give into loneliness when everything is such a mess.

Rewatched Dune: Part Two tonight, and hoping to start reading Dune Messiah soon, before the new movie comes out.

Apple is still drowning in cash. One thought after looking at the numbers: services revenue gets its first quarter-to-quarter dip in several years. Don’t worry, ads in Maps will fix this. 🤪

Friend is certainly a unique product that some people will hate, but I find the decisions fascinating. Each device is randomly assigned a voice and personality that you can’t change. Is it a real product or an experiment? I guess both!

Wired has a story about the new Friend 2.0 pendant and its creator, Avi Schiffmann:

That analog component is important to Schiffmann. He says he doesn’t have an internet connection in his home. He listens to music on a record player. He’s shooting a documentary about himself on Kodak Ektachrome.

This video posted on X about OpenAI’s mission is very good. Feels personal and real. Jason says:

i wanted to capture what it feels like to work here, what our mission means to me, and why you should join us.

OpenAI should run some version of this as an official ad. Even some of the companies that I dislike the most (like Meta) have thousands of people who believe in their work and are trying to do something meaningful.

Jason Snell getting ready for Apple’s quarterly results later today, when Tim Cook will appear on his 90th financial call for Apple:

That’s more than two decades of talking on the phone once a quarter to financial analysts. He’s probably earned a break.

At Automattic, we don’t have customer service or support, we have Happiness Engineers. 🙂 There’s also a #ceo Slack channel where anyone can drop in and request a meeting, which my esteemed colleague Damianne President did, and this morning we had an interesting chat that set my mind racing about how we might engineer happiness … Continue reading Possible Futures of Happiness →

This flow:

1. Have a thought.
2. Start writing a short post about it.
3. It’s not working. Expand into a full-length blog post.
4. Still no good. Delete the draft and copy the text into a note.
5. Months later, pull the draft into a better blog post about a larger topic.

In other words, always write things down.

in change, new
beginnings – of
stories and; what
if.

Thursday afternoon session in Belfast

Had fun last night hacking on a new gadget project with my son. Still a long way to go… Hoping to take apart this iPod and 3D print new guts for it. It might not work! Next step is soldering the microphone to test.