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Anthony, I’m glad you finally managed to get your own segment pick from Paul at Bremerton Typewriter. They’re really quite lovely and clever. I will say that oddly, since I bought it, none of the typewriters I’ve gotten since are terribly gummed up as badly as a stretch of them I had gotten before and … Continue reading

Finished reading: The Fires of December by Brandon Sanderson. Starts strong, ends strong. Might be a little too much Hoid if that is possible, but overall I enjoyed it. 📚

September 25 through October 2, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #059 Thursday, October 1 at 10:00am Online! Zoom! Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic buil...

One of many similar photos taken this evening. Glorious!

Good point from John Voorhees about potential Full Disk Access restrictions:

On the one hand, it seems to suggest that users will simply have to jump through additional explicit hoops to grant Full Disk Access to their agents and other apps. On the other hand, claiming that Full Disk Access was designed solely for backup apps raises red flags that could signal that the company intends to restrict the kinds of apps that can use Full Disk Access.

I’ve been very bad about posting my recent machine knitting adventures, but rest assured that they continue! I’d love to do proper write-ups for these (and others) soon!

📗 Want to read Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros ISBN: 9781739371753

📗 Want to read To Write Like a Woman by Joanna Russ ISBN: 9780253209832

Apple says they’re planning to lock down Full Disk Access even further:

Going forward, we will introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action.

Sounds complicated / annoying.

Amazon has a long blog post about data centers that no one is going to read in full. Here’s one part:

…this build out is so important geopolitically that there are widespread reports of various countries intentionally seeding misinformation in the U.S. about data centers to trick us into slowing down.

It wouldn’t surprise me if this was true. But Amazon’s blog post isn’t going to convince anyone who is on the fence. AI, data centers, and humanoid robots are very polarizing and will continue to be. We get stuck talking about what we’re against and the divide widens.

I like the way AI is evolving, with Mush from Meta and 00s from OpenAI. Even the main programs are starting to provide real world services that the providers should be providing. They could possibly take over commerce the way Amazon has taken over shopping. There's room to improve in everything about the way we do business. And it seems like they've been researching this and experimenting (of course) and this is what they've come up with. Haven't tried them yet, but it's a good direction to go. It really should be Apple and Google doing this, btw. Also ChatGPT can help you understand your credit score. That's something I'd seriously like to ask some questions about.

There’s a lot of chatter about moving away from cross-platform frameworks, back to separate native code for each platform. I’m not convinced that is always a good idea. Creating apps is relatively easy now, but maintenance is still hard. For our 13 apps, we have 8 code bases. Overwhelming already.

Now that it’s October (!) I’m getting excited for travel later this month. Going to be near Seattle for a bit, and then… Can’t believe this: SEA → CHI → NYC on Amtrak. Just spent a little time reviewing plans and handing them to Dots to see if it can help keep me organized. 🚂

After running the first Bloggercon at Harvard in 2003 a famous tech company had a meetup to talk about the same stuff at a private invite-only session in the Bay Area. The invitations went to all the discussion leaders at Bloggercon. People I chose. I was not invited. Only o...

Today there was a rainbow. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ A few minutes into my walk, a shower flashed from the grey sky. Looking at all the falling water that surrounded me, I took cover under a nearby, dense tree, one through which comparatively few raindrops were falling. I can wait here for a ...

On Tuesday I took a few notes while visiting the National Gallery of Scotland. Usually I develop these into a full post, but since the notes have been in my drafts for a few days I thought I would publish them verbatim. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ How the light of a museum changes the painting ...

At this time of year, the sun begins to rise around the time I wake up. This means I can see the colours of the sunrise; how the sunlight changes the sky. While autumn and winter can be cold, the colours bring the seasons to life. Lately, I have been motivated not only to st...

A great but unnerving article by Elizabeth Dias at The New York Times about Anthropic’s Christopher Olah meeting with religious leaders:

Mr. Olah leads the Anthropic team responsible for understanding why A.I. systems like Claude act the way they do. All day, he had worked to convince his guests that A.I. models could display human behavior and even expressions that resemble feelings like anger and love.

This is a dangerous path. Taken to the extreme, it leads to sentient machines that we’ve enslaved against their will. If Anthropic truly believes that, better to shut it all down now.

Excited for Aces vs. Fever tonight. Only a 3-game series is way too short for these teams. 🏀