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Of Day
I stand at the bookshelves — art and Nature and biography and memoir — and ask myself what story I want to tell. What do I want to write?
What I do know is I want to write something. And so I begin.
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My adventure began with zines. I packed four zines to read: three p...
Federico Viticci has an exhaustive review of the new Mac Studio with M5 and 256 GB of RAM. Lots of cool charts on performance. It sounds like a great Mac. The problem is that config will set you back $9k! For me, a $100/month subscription for frontier AI over many years is still better.
EuroBSDCon 2026: conference notes
If any of your communities use Slack, especially the “free” version, once in a while Slack seems to temporarily upgrade your “Slack team” to their “PRO” version (for 30 days).In the Slack mobile app, you may see a dismissible banner like:“PRO: Your team is on a free trial”Thi...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Glints on the water at the intertidal zone
A man is in the hospital after being shot by ICE in Austin today. I watched some of the press conference… APD and the Texas Rangers are going to investigate.
If and when Democrats take the House, there is a long list of things to do. Oversight of ICE and pressure for reform has gotta be in the mix.
Elon Musk today again teased a hyperloop tunnel between Austin and San Antonio. Doesn’t seem likely to me. And it’s a major failure that we still have no usable train connecting literally any combination of Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Whenever there’s small progress, it stalls.
Servers getting hammered today by hackers. Sigh. Whenever I noticed this, I add some more blocking rules, but it’s such a waste of everyone’s time.
We’re starting to find the networky-ness of the web coming back to life.
Atlantis screen shot
Here's a screen shot of a new verb we just added, to facilitate nightly backups. I want to save off a fresh copy of frontier.root every night, as well as my guest databases. This is how that will work.
fileMenu.saveNamedRoot
Frontier news. I have been working on a repo for Frontier pioneers, I started with a few friends, including Brent and Jake who were both on the UserLand team, and have added people very slowly. This is a good time to start showing progress in the project. Still very early for a public release of the software. And I want to do even better than we did with rss.chat a few months ago. And Frontier is a huge thing, all kinds of docs, and archives, and example stuff. It really was 15 years of work done by as many as 5 people.
New verb: string.addressToString. This is how I'm releasing examples.
Chigurgh: "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" Frontier must've lived by a good rule. The Atlantis version has tons of bugs but it works. It defied death. I just spent a session updating my nightly backup code, and there were awkard moments. The debugger isn't in yet. The Find command doesn't work. But I have hobbled my way to working code, and I have help debugging with Claude, and it is amazing at that. Frontier didn't know that Claude was going to save its life. More proof that you never know what is just around the corner.
Another shot of Austin, a little later in the morning from the Lamar pedestrian bridge. Love this city and don’t actually go downtown often enough.
On Disowning Your Data
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If you want to get an idea of the kind of user interface you can create using Claude Code, with a driver (me) who has ample experience developing such things, have a look at demo.rss.chat. The UI was entirely done by Claude with me directing, very fine-tuning stuff. Claude can't really grok user interfaces because it is not visual and it is not a user. It might be able to test them, to some extent. Anyone can create an account on the demo server, that's what it's there for. And if something interesting breaks out there, that would be even better. I even tolerate a small amount of spam, and testing is definitely allowed (that's why it's there). ;-)
The real AI security issue
There are problems people aren't talking about, that are immediate, and go against all the security practices the web has been built on. Here's a story of what happened in my setup in mid-August.
First fact, Claude Code (CC) is different from regular Claude in that it is us...
Morning in Austin. From the bridge looking east.
On stage in Cáceres.
On stage in Cáceres.