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I started blogging on October 7, 1994. Thirty-two years on Wednesday. The longest running blog, and it's still even worse than it appears.

Until last week I was mostly using an old version of Chrome, so had never seen the gate it puts in front of my blog, scripting.com. Here's a screen shot of their awful dialog. An easy FAQ of what they're doing wrong, why you should care. So far no response from Google or t...

Codex has an interesting Markdown editor. It shows styling and links inline, but when you move the cursor into the style run, it then expands to show the markup. Here’s a quick recording I made of how it looks.

FediForum starts tomorrow and runs for two days. Keynote from Anil Dash, talk on AT Proto from Daniel Holmgren, and other unconference-style sessions.

I want to give all my breath to the song, listening to every transcendent, liminal, spooky note, accompanied by intertwined tracks of coded and pure voice. I want to sing out the words I know loudly, and read all those I don’t know so that I may sing as much as I can with al...

Google app reviews are so fast now, and Apple so consistently a full day, that my new routine is I submit to Apple at night before going to bed. Then the next day, if Apple approves it, I submit to Google. Feels like the best use of time, including while I’m asleep.

Today we finally put up my animation drawings of Scrooge from Mickey’s Christmas Carol! Here’s a short video showing them in sequence on the wall. I was also comparing these to the final frames and uploaded that scene to a separate page on my blog.

OpenAI still has UI cleanup to do, but one thing they got right is not having a model picker for Dots. It just uses their best model and you don’t need to think about token usage or level of thinking. Eventually more AI will be like that, with maybe only programming as an exception.

Interesting tidbit of news in Mark Gurman’s Sunday post, about upcoming MacBook Pros:

The new MacBook Pros are lighter — significantly lighter. Apple has reengineered the machine’s interior, miniaturizing parts and rearranging components to make the computer much easier to carry.

Sunday session

Added the bookshelves calendar preview to the new Mac app. I like how this turned out. Easy to publish as a page on your blog. The web has some more options too.

Claude's biggest most amazing strength is its ability to inhale a lot of source code and understand what's going on, any language, any OS, anything, in an instant.

In 2004, I married Leah and instantly had 7 brothers and sisters-in-law. And spouses. And I became an uncle. And Leah and I had been dating for several years before that and visited them and been visited by them in California. For 15 years to do I was in the family. Christmases and Thanksgivings and...

BTW now that I have Frontier back and am using it for most of my work, I'm having a lot more fun writing my blog. Can you tell??

Great scene from The West Wing. CJ and Josh, on the street outside the White House. The president was hiding serious disease, and it’s about to come out. Back in those days such a revelation meant the president has no chance of being re-elected. Anyway, the kid has an idea ...

Twitter with its relaxed character limit is getting pretty close to being a blogging platform. I wrote the first draft of this post on my iPad, that's how useful it is. Imagine if a real blog platform created a super simple way to write posts, no need for Gutenberg, just Mar...

Watched: Digger. Well, that was insane and unexpected. Just got home from the theater and kind of stunned. Really good. 🍿

Once again the app that bridges from scripting.com to daveverse.org went down for a couple of days. Just noticed it, kicked the server to get it running again, and all is good, except a couple of pieces show up today that were really posted on Thursday or Friday. The problem as often is the case goes back to PagePark, the server that runs my Heroku-like server crashed and it doesn't work well from then on, even after it's automatically restarted. Then the thing to do is to reboot the server. It doesn't happen often but when it does it makes the server behave badly. It's up and running again. One day I'll get a few days to fix the problems in PP.

People really liked the RSS tip I posted the other day, so here's another one, also related to the channel-level title element. Consider the screen shot below, and the Thinking about... blog. Part of a blogroll with limited info about a great blogger, Timothy Snyder. I c...

Experimenting with a new transcription feature in the notes API. I originally wanted this for making a dictation gadget that creates Micro.blog notes, but it’ll show up in other apps too. It uses the same OpenAI model as our podcast transcriptions.