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Enjoying a nice tapas crawl through Madrid.

This Apple developer page has a screenshot of what the new App Tracking Transparency screens can look like in the EU. Apple should make this change worldwide. It’s more clear. The “Ask App Not to Track” button is just too long anyway.

The feeling of fresh air after having been in an art gallery — the feeling of the natural light after being in a room without windows and also a room with many windows, windows through time and to the feeling of home and to impressions of Nature — to the sea and the sky, the...

Switching gears to do some server maintenance. It’s always tempting to put off, because I could be using every minute to make the platform and apps better instead. But inching closer to a forced reboot of some servers on Linode in a couple weeks.

This week I was writing a story and noticed something strange: I didn’t give the document a title, but, after saving it, the document had a title that I did not expect. If I don’t have a name for a story yet, or if I am doing free writing, I will often not give a document a ...

For the first time, I’ve actually run out of tokens on my OpenAI plan, with a couple days in the week remaining. Maybe a reminder I need to slow down.

Very cool to see Anil Dash announced as the keynote speaker at next month’s FediForum. Should be a good one! I try to join every FediForum, at least to lurk, and whenever I pop into a discussion it has been really valuable.

Milestone in Atlantis development, the new version of Frontier that runs on modern OSes. I'm going to start showing what's going on in the development of the product. To kick off, here's a screen shot of my blogroll displaying the latest new part. The updates flow through an RSS 2.0 feed, which is new for Frontier. It used to require a server that managed updates and responded to XML-RPC calls. But once RSS was part of the web, it was a better protocol for releasing code parts. Truly a milestone. There will be lots more little things we can do now that we couldn't do before. But under it all -- it's Frontier.

Going to Madrid. brb

I feel kinda stupid for even saying this, but it’s probably worth saying anyway: companies are not people. Companies don’t make decisions. Companies don’t decide who they want to donate money to. Companies don’t feel shame. Companies don’t learn from their mistakes. Companies don’t have political orientation. Because companies are legal entities, they're a bunch of papers, letters and numbers. That’s what companies are.

When you’re mad at a company, figure out who is actually responsible for the things you’re mad about, and be mad at them. Because people can be held accountable. There’s a reason why, in 1789, it was people’s heads that were rolling on the ground.

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My website has now moved to its new home in Virginia. Time for a lot of quality of life upgrades, as I migrate every 4 years or so.

OmFest is coming together quite nicely! The new website is beautiful and highlights some of the experiences available throughout the day. I think Om would be very impressed by the attendee list. We’re doing it at the Swedish American Hall, the same venue as the first WordCamp, where Om, of course, spoke about Blogs and … Continue reading OmFest: A Celebration of Curiosity, Connection, and the Future →

It’s official in SF Standard: Stewart Brand sells his seaworthy Sausalito houseboat to tech CEO. Ahoy!

I often see typewriter enthusiasts “debating” over which is the prettiest or best typeface, and often, they’re making their judgement on one machine they happen to have or really wish they had. Rarely are these judgements made with multiple typefaces on the same page for easier direct apples-to-apples comparison, so I threw together a small … Continue reading What is the prettiest typewriter typeface?

WordPress has a product that could be shaped into a Substack competitor. With a beautiful user interface for writing. WordPress is its OS, but most users never see it, the same way most web users never see the command line. But technical users can get under the hood and tweak things. And unlike Substack, it lets their users write with different editors, thus forming a coral reef for a new platform. Wordpress could be the OS the web never had. I still believe this as I see Automattic and WordPress flail. If we were starting a new future for the web, no one would have time for corporate intrigue. Look at how far from the idea of blogging we've strayed. How far should this go before I comment? Well, I decided it's time.

BTW, this blog is one of those periods where there are a few mind bombs every freaking day. What's a Mind Bomb? An idea that's so strange or powerful that it explodes in your mind. And that's a good thing!

I got some pushback when I compared Muse to ChatGPT Work, where I was mostly thinking about having access to a server in the cloud to run agents from your phone. That comparison wasn’t quite right. Feels like there’s a lot that is OpenClaw-inspired in it too.

Wednesday session

Xserve ready to make a comeback? 9to5Mac blogs about a report from The Information about M8 servers. The Information says they might use NVLink:

Apple has considered connecting the M8 chips in the server using an Nvidia set of products called NVLink Fusion, which includes switches, chiplets and software that help chips communicate with each other in data centers.

If Apple has to build these for themselves, they might as well sell them. Quite the leap from selling Mac minis to AI enthusiasts.