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I’ve made the first round of improvements to Micro.blog’s somewhat-complicated Sources page, now called Connections. A few things have been moved around and renamed. Should generally be a little simpler. Probably more to do later!

I'm still a NYT subscriber, although I don't read it very often, but when there's news I will go there. Anyway, they used to have a 10-article per month gift link rule. I used to ration them, but if by the end of the month I hadn't used them up I'd share links more liberally. A few weeks ago they lifted the limit. I thought that's nice, the NYT found that the web was still useful to spread the news, literally. I thought maybe they had a vision beyond the usual dotcom slop. Not so fast. Your friends can't read the articles unless they become a registered user. I bet they always had that, but this time I read the smaller print. Why can't some company do something just for goodwill and free advertising, without such an obvious business model? Having people think you care counts in the business world. As Marge Gunderson from Fargo would say, "Don't you know that?"

Craig Mod using AI to research his family history:

The article she saw, that led to that decision, that led to me having “Michael” as a middle name on my original birth certificate. A scan of the newspaper was in some obscure database and Claude ran it down like a pack of bloodhounds digging up a sack of livers in the backyard.

What if one day Claude could only speak Chinese.

(what if) home pages (were, are) ever-changing poems(?)

the forever flutters
like a lantern,
warming, present.

While walking earlier today, I noticed a few tall trees in the distance were starting to turn yellow. One tree in particular stands out to me; one changing faster than others, adding a new hue to the once all-green canopy of trees. I look around and start to notice the first...

I've been doing this for all of this year, and the frustration finally led me to this rule, which I just asked Claude to play back for me. I offer it to you, a human, on how to get your Claude to work better for you, as it does for me. What follows is what Claude wrote as I ...

Congrats to Marco Arment on releasing his new app, Unforgetful! I love this part of the intro blog post:

Despite constantly being told that I’d never get a good job, computers provided a lucrative career path filled with even worse academic performers who couldn’t care less about my grades. What a stroke of luck! I’d be mediocre to terrible at most jobs, but I turned out to be very good at using computers to turn coffee and Phish into money.

Even for developers who’ve had some success, releasing a new app is no small thing. The app was hung up in app review for a while too.

to feel the boundaries of the paper loneliness hopes blankness fullness peripheries texture colour;

within its edges: frames of beginnings.

Wearing a distinguished red scarf, the fluffy librarian sits atop a shelf of books.
Of the stacks and stacks of stories and tales resting beneath, he knows all.
Edgar is a quiet, soft fellow — content contemplating closer to the clouds.
He could recite any poem from Dickinson —
or paint a portrait of the quietest, fullest Japanese coffee shop.
Instead, he sits patiently, waiting for the moment when you reach out, asking “what should I read today?”
With a smile always on his face, and without a spoken word, you realise he has a book all ready for you, under his two big, small paws.

Chicago Public Media is building a social network for America's third largest city. Forget AI - this is the thing I'm most excited about in news technology.

Chicago Public Media is building a social network for America's third largest city. Forget AI - this is the thing I'm most excited about in news technology.

Apple has proposed to the court a 15% link-out fee, 5% for small businesses. Still too high. The correct percentage for linking to a website is 0%.

Is this what “afterglow” means? The question came to me as I looked up at the sky twenty minutes or so after sunset. There is a faint orange colour on the horizon where the sun was. The colour grows paler away from the hills; the sky is now mostly blue, the top of the sky da...

Dr. Michael Miller, a retired researcher at RAND, has been teaching upper level undergraduate/graduate level math courses for fun at UCLA Extension for over 50 years. This fall he’ll be introducing the areas of groups, fields, and Galois theory from abstract algebra to those interested in abstract math: Groups, Fields, and Galois: Part 1. His … Continue reading Groups, Fields, and Galois: Part 1 | UCLA Extension

I was just in time to catch the moment when the sun started to recede behind the hills in the distance, a moment in which two birds flew together and danced into the night, in which there were the last flickers of the golden glow of Evening thinking through the window, in wh...

TechCrunch on how Me.sh (née Clay) is now available on Android. Also, kudos to those other Clay folks for winning the Clay memetic namespace dominance.

Fun video with John Pomeroy talking to Andreas Deja and Aaron Blaise and Beauty and the Beast and Lion King. Some neat stories I hadn’t heard before.

The unveiling ceremony is scheduled for September 29th:

The Milestone plaque recognizing Colossus is to be displayed outside Block H at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, England.

The plaque is to read:

Six Colossus codebreaking computers operated in this building in 1944–1945. Designed by Thomas H. Flowers of the British Post Office, they enabled deciphering of encrypted radio messages transmitted between German commands across occupied Europe, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. The resulting military intelligence saved countless lives and helped shorten World War II. As the first successful large-scale application of digital electronics to computing, Colossus anticipated subsequent computer developments.

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