The first Spurs preseason game is tonight! They’ve changed the streaming provider yet again, now on DAZN. 🏀
I pay for a NYT digital subscription. Now they have a new upsell technique, they want me to buy a family subscription. I don't want that, no use for it. And I read so little of the NYT I think the whole thing is a ripoff. So now they make me validate by email every time I click on a link to read a NYT article as if I haven't been subscribed for basically my whole adult life. I think this is because I read on a laptop, desktop and iPad. That's not really a family.
Recorded a short video to explain a new batch selection interface for uploaded photos, just rolled out today in Micro.blog.
Poking around in WordPress because I wanted to see how they handle something in the UI, and I just noticed the “Create AI Podcast” sidebar menu item:
Pick a date range or a few specific posts and we’ll generate a two-host conversation, complete with narration and a ready-to-publish draft. Edit, refine, and hit Publish when you’re happy.
I want more people to podcast, but creating a podcast with multiple fake hosts (for what is likely a solo personal blog) is weird and unnecessary. This is why so many people hate AI.
Love this Apple video of embroidery for the logo to announce the October 13th event. 🧶
Thought maybe I wouldn’t bother downloading the latest Xcode 27.1 from a coffee shop, but I’m glad I tried. Actually getting 300 Mbps.
Before long we’ll have Ukraine style drones raining down on American cities. Meanwhile we have built a military designed to fight WWII. We’d better hope Ukraine wins their war with Russia, and they’re still our friends. Journalism is letting us down bigtime here. The world is at war, it's going to get worse, and the US isn't preparing. We should be defending Ukraine with everything we have, we are still powerful enough to determine the outcome. But of course we are totally asleep at the wheel, gloating over Trump's approval rating, and how the Dems might win the Senate or whatever. Music to relax by. Bedtime stories.
Web of Markdown, part 2
The tech industry kicked the web out of the web.
scripting.com is your canary in a coal mine.
If you can read it then your browser is a real web browser.
If it can’t it’s phony baloney.
That's the big picture behind the Web of Markdown, an idea that has generated surprising...
The people holding up the internet | Data Drop
Bringing receipts for xkcd.com/2347.
A Place Among the Fiddlers - Longreads
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An in-depth report from Galax, the Old Time equivalent of the fleadh.
If programming languages don’t matter much anymore, but reviewing code matters more than ever, can we resurrect RubyCocoa? Ruby is still one of the most elegant, readable languages. Wish I could use it everywhere.
BTW, Mets fans do not root for the Yankees, while Yankees fans are happy to wear Mets caps when we're on top. They have no philosophy. And the Mets' philosophy is incomprehensible (I hear) to Yankees fans. Our philosophy is to have a philosophy. The Yankees philosophy is "We ...
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I stayed in the water past sundown today, enjoyably so.
Andrew Shell actually built a Markdown browser:
I quickly realized that much of this was already present with sites like mine that serve markdown for LLMs.
I knew about /llms.txt, but didn’t realize there were so many people using HTTP content negotiation with text/markdown.
Nick Heer has a blog post about Meta charging if you want to link outside their silos:
Instagram has never supported links of any kind in individual posts, so that is a new feature with two links per month permitted for free, and more enabled by this pricey subscription — starting at $50 USD per month for four posts per month containing external links
How the turn tables… Remember when Australia and Canada wanted Facebook to pay newspapers for linking to their articles? This is some twisted karma. In both cases, paying for links is fundamentally anti-web.
Coming up with solutions and new ideas was an adventure. Dedication and commitment were a given. Mutual respect was across the board. Because software was a mystery, a black box, upper management gave us total freedom and trust. We had to find a way, and we did.
There’s an amazing photo of her standing with print-outs of code for Apollo missions. Rest in peace.
Reading Dave Winer’s notes on a hypothetical Markdown web browser. I don’t think we need to reinvent the web or HTML, but it would be neat if web browser’s had built-in Markdown preview by default. Why not? Browsers render PDF and all sorts of files.
32 is a lot of years. How much longer can this madness go on!
Do you know why people like Markdown? You can't hide the bullshit. It's all there for you to see. Thus the bullshit never gets added. It's so simple, I swear people are desperate for simplicity. I know I am. Where is the universal theory of the web? Actually I do know where it is. Go back to the roots, strip out all the crap, and let's make a Mardown-only web. Great for blogs, to start. Simple, fast, easy.
I don't care for podcasts that begin with 15 minutes of giggling between the hosts who I don't know so I don't get how cute it is. Esp if the title of the episode is something I'd like to learn more about. Why is giggling and non-funny supposed humor. The laughing I hate the most is when their cracking up over something tragic or ominous. Stop and think about what you're laughing about. Someone should do a podcast like the Markdown-only browser I'm thinking of doing.