The fifteenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:
In Episode 15, I chat with Zoe, the author of zoeloukia.bearblog.dev about, among other things, writing on personal websites, making art from whatever is around, zines, and more.
I hope you enjoy the episode!
Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
Another busy day programming with Claude on Frontier. I still have to come up with a codename. But we got to a milestone today. I was able to create, edit, publish and revise a web app using the new version of the app still running on the old machine. When it's done I will get to retire this old Mac, keep it around so we can test the new code to make sure it does what the old code does, incredibly important when porting a development and runtime environment. Claude works on its stuff at night. The workload it's going to do tonight is the equivalent of several months time for a skilled human developer who manages their time well. As people get used to working this way, I imagine the AIs will learn how to better work with humans, if that is their destiny. I still can't believe we're doing what we're doing.
We just sent a new Micro Monday email update out! Still getting our bearings again with email. I also built a new system to manage and send the emails. Learning a lot, as always. 🤞
I’ve got two improv shows coming up! Can you believe it? Is it to be believed??
Saturday Aug 22nd @ 9pm at The Magnet Theater: The Level Up
Monday Aug 24th @ 9:30pm at The Rat NYC: Bizzo! & Friends
If you are in NYC or nearby, go ahead and come on out and do an lol or two!
Saturday Aug 22nd @ 9pm at The Magnet Theater: The Level Up Monday Aug 24th @ 9:30pm at The Rat NYC: Bizzo! & Friends
Monday session
404 Media put an AirTag in a used book to track it to an Amazon scanning facility. (Clever investigative reporting or legal gray area?) Not sure how much we can read into this because Amazon has been scanning books for over 20 years, ever since the “look inside” feature.
Listening to the latest AppStories podcast about how to grade Siri AI. I like the way John and Federico approach this. Siri AI can be both way better than old Siri and also not nearly as capable as frontier models. Who after using GPT-5.6 Luna for free is going to use Siri instead?
Reading Paddy on the Hardwood by Rus Bradburd
He hadn’t posted in several years until today, so I didn’t realize that Greg Brockman had a blog. It’s powered by Svbtle. Some interesting posts in the archive, including one about OpenAI’s mission from 2019 co-written by Ilya Sutskever:
Just like a computer today, an AGI will be applicable to a wide variety of tasks — and just like computers in 1900 or the Internet in 1950, it’s hard to describe (or even predict) the kind of impact AGI will have.
GitHub is struggling this morning. It’s slightly interfering with my work, so hopefully they get it under control soon. I’ve become quite dependent on it as a bridge to deploys and code review. Replacing GitHub is not currently worth all the integration hassle it would introduce.
We’re bringing back the Micro Monday email newsletter! Meeting with @BonnieRue today about it.
I’ve built a custom workflow this time. It will only be sent to active users from the last couple of months who never unsubscribed from older emails. That way we don’t bug people who have lost interest.
Wavelength 2.0 for iOS is now available! I’ll have more to blog about this later, but for now check it out on the App Store.
This is a major update with a new design. Great for recording and editing short podcasts. Included free with all paid Micro.blog plans.
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Just hearing about this upcoming 6-part series with Barack Obama discussing his favorite books! I’ll definitely listen. But sounds like the “podcast” will be exclusive to Audible, so not actually a podcast.
