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A while ago, I noticed that my headings did not look consistent across Firefox and Safari. I learned that this was because the font file I was using on my website did not contain bold characters. This meant that browsers were trying to “synthesise” a bold font. This synthesi...

My longtime friend Jeff Jarvis says the press is covering the wrong story re AI. I agree, but I think Jeff is covering the wrong story too. This is really a discovery like electricity, or Newtonian physics, calculus, basically the technology of knowledge. I wish I were 22 years old now so I could plan out a long career working this way. I want people like Jeff to understand. They all stopped listening to me when my dreams of a web society were destroyed by the VCs. I'm even smarter and more experienced now than I was then, and I have better tools. Please, listen -- you're all missing the point. It should be a matter of great interest -- what can we do with this. All we hear about are fears, which aren't even informed by what the tech can do. Very typical of journalism. Let's do better this time.

It is probably the closest to First Contact with an intelligent alien life form that our species will ever have.

Yesterday – September 13th – was the 256th day of the year. Tantek blogged about this in 2024 and in 2025 introduced a challenge to make a web page in under 256 bytes. After reading his announcement from yesterday his morning, I decided I would participate again. Last year ...

Panorama from Pacific Beach Today Session in the water was “meh” today. When the session is dull I will sometimes muse on what words apply to it. “Desultory” came up a few times. Also I didn’t have an accurate definition of that word in my head. I think I meant something closer to “dismal” or...

Finished reading: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Fascinating and at times brilliant. I never quite got over being creeped out by the spiders, though. 📚

Congrats to the USA women’s team at FIBA! Forgot the game was a little early, now watching the highlights. 🏀

Added a new page in Micro.blog on the web today to highlight The New York Times best sellers. We usually avoid popularity contests, but this one feels right, like a shelf you’d see in a bookstore. I want to add more collections later, like nominees for the Booker Prize, Hugo Awards, and others.

Since enabling Threads cross-posting for my own blog yesterday, I’ve already found and fixed two bugs in Micro.blog’s Threads support. Little things that maybe a user would overlook and not bother to report. Just a reminder of the value of dogfooding.

I don’t think I’ve shown off the author books sheet in our book blogging app Epilogue. Here’s a very short video of how it looks.

I understand Apple wanting to get through the iOS 27 final releases before giving us a new Xcode to play with Duo sizing, but it’s still a bit of a letdown. Developers want to play with the new shiny things.

On a good day working with Claude is like working with my old UW-Madison programmer friend Gary Sevitsky from the 70s.

I've been writing about Atlantis on various social media sites in the last few days. Published the long piece I wrote yesterday on Facebook and X, both of which allow long posts. Wasn't going to try that on Mastodon or Bluesky, which have character limits (I know Mastodon doesn't technically have a limit, but in practice it does). And I am reaching old school Frontier enthusiasts, and realize I need a feed they can follow to stay up on the news. For now the one place to follow is rss.xml on scripting.com. If your reader can't deal with http, let me know.

Claude has started asking me how Claude is doing. It's clear that the Claude I talk to knows nothing about this. I appreciate this, and hope if I said it wasn't working well with me, it would try to fix it? Not sure. Anyway this is what I just wrote, and felt it was worth blogging. "it's working with me the way i want to, and it appears to be learning and getting better at it, though i think that could be my imagination. also just as likely that i'm learning how to work the way it likes to work."

With Claude Code you don't have to write system scripts to get data about your data. Claude makes that fully transparent. For example, I just asked Claude to get me a list of all the parts I've changed since the last release of frontier.root. If Claude writes a script to get that info, it's invisible to me. All I know is it takes about a minute for me to get the list.

This year I have been drinking more tea than coffee. I have around three or four coffees a week, usually all decaf, and I don’t visit speciality coffee shops as much as I once did (in large part because I am never sure whether there will be decaf available). I think the last...

The joy of the cool morning air and the seeing singing birds fly between trees. There is a light haze in the air this morning, the haze of an autumn morning. My cheeks are chilly right now — probably pink too. Light shines through the windows and casts a long glow on the flo...

Wow, this Longhorns game getting interesting late. 🏈

Spent a little time poking around on Tumblr because I needed to grab an export file to test. The new-ish communities feature is interesting.