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Had a fun evening “ragging on The Telegraph” with Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt at the magnificent Union Chapel.

In 1999 in answer to a comment that read: Check it out if you don’t believe me. I thought that cross-browser compatibility meant that everything looked the same in both browser, but I guess not. Here’s what I wrote: Cross-browser compatibility does NOT mean that everything looks the same everywhere. It means that I have...

The blogging tools for Bluesky should be able to publish on Bluesky.

Obama should have seated Garland if the Senate wouldn’t have a vote to advise and consent. assume they consent. And the governor of Kentucky should appoint a successor to McConnell unless someone can prove he’s actually alive.

Starting to see the gold Tesla Cybercabs in Texas. I don’t plan to ride in one, but to their credit it sounds like the cameras might be better than the ones in a normal Tesla. I just don’t get stubbornly ignoring LiDAR when the technology is right there.

Of course Waymo ageees. From a Waymo blog post:

Cameras are incredible, but they aren’t enough.

Cybercabs can probably drive a little better than the average human, but not much better.

Tuesday session

Years ago, Facebook's lack of care for global communities made them complicit in a genocide. AI companies risk making the same mistakes.

Kind of love the all-lowercase “hello” as John Ternus’s first X post. Maybe we’re in for a new, more informal style. Or maybe I’m reading too much into it. Still holding out hope for a CEO personal blog one day, to offset all the opaque corporate-y communication.

One way to read the OpenAI vs. Anthropic rivalry — and Claude Code’s success — is that while OpenAI was off in the weeds playing with Sora, Anthropic was training Mythos. OpenAI spent 2026 catching up. Reading about Astra rumors, I expect OpenAI to have a significant advantage through the fall. 🤖

I noticed when I quit Twitter in 2013 that my blog posts became more my own, less influenced by my old online community. I think it’s a good idea every once in a while for us to poke our heads outside whatever the current filter bubble is. The web is a big place. That diversity is a strength.

If you View Source on a fatpage, scroll to the bottom, you'll see the code. Example. The idea is that the docs for the code are what you see in the browser. Maybe that's the way feeds should work too? Something to think about.

I begin the month of September for some reason, not feeling like working. And rather than succumb to the work ethos, I'm allowing myself to goof off with the same determination that I worked my ass of for so many years. I think the last time I felt like this was when I was a...

Creative computer people, consider consolidating all the different OSes and programming languages. Give humans a fair fight in competition with the AI's who have no trouble deeply understanding every syntax human designers have come up with, where it totally disadvantages us, who have much more limited memory.

OPML archive for August 2026.

CSS finally gave the web its own grain.

And the real crazy part is that my bad decades-old code still renders fine in today’s latest web browsers! I would be sad if it didn’t, but I also wouldn’t be surprised. How is this stuff still backwards compatible!?

How much of your software from 20 years ago runs on your devices today

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This is my contribution to the September 2026 IndieWeb Fiction Carnival on the theme of "Moonlight". “Fields glisten under the moonlight.” This is what John used to say whenever anybody asked why he liked to walk so late at night. “You can see way more stars if you are outs...

When you close your eyes and think of moonlight, what do you see? An author typing a story on an antique typewriter while burning the midnight oil? A musician who is perpetually unaware that there is moonlight outside because they are playing in an underground club? A person...