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Today I did something different. I wrote a little Node app, without Claude's help. It was a revelation. It's been most of a year since I actually started even a test app and wrote it from beginning to end. I used to do this routinely. Nothing routine about it anymore. What this app does, it generates a Markdown-only version of scripting.com for testing. I want to see what such a site looks like. It'll be a start.

Settling into how OpenAI’s dots are best used. My dot is a replacement for regular ChatGPT. It’s a single thread that knows everything and can be my go-to for any random question. For coding, I use Codex directly, but I think the future is multiple dots that delegate to Codex.

Continuing to think about how to stay competitive when software is abundant. Support and trust are a big part of it. But also there are still things that take a lot of time to build or money to run.

I stand before Nature, looking up to a castle bathed in gold light. What are perfect places? I wonder if this is the closest I’ll find: with the air of home and the light of Day, with the breeze in the trees and history to see; with life in the moment and rhythm and movement...

“Wow, look at the views!” called out a young girl, maybe four years old, on the train. After making a few more observations, she repeated the words — “Look at the views.” — then said “Dad, I can see the forest.” “Wow, look at those stones. They are so big.”

It was a delight to hear the world narrated through another’s eyes, to have what I saw out the window verbalised, giving room for me to think about the forest, to notice the stones — to hear how there is always something to see wherever we look.

The family were a few tables away, but their voices carried far.

I’ve been working on something new that I’m calling Blog Audit. It’ll ship on Monday, here’s a sneak peek screenshot from a test blog. It costs us more to run so will require Micro.blog Premium for now. (Not shown, the magic is the “Repair” button.)

Thinking about the last time I seriously ran Linux at home, I found this old blog posts from 2003. I can barely remember some of this. Good thing I wrote it down.

Going to Florida. brb

Twitter: "Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs."

I’ve got a bit of a backlog of things to say about San Diego Comic-Con 2026. Time flies, but these photos deserve to be posted and I do enjoy them. Click through to the photographers! They’re pretty great and jade many many other great photos! Group Photoshoot: Star Trek: The Next Generation (photo by Danny...

October 2-9, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Eastern Wednesday, October 7 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom! Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, October 7 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia Sunday, October ...

This Astra launch video spoof is so well done — “ChatGPT for Dishwashing”. 🙂

This video on X from OpenAI’s Max Stoiber about ChatGPT plugin review is a reminder of just how much better and more transparent Apple could be with managing the App Store. Sounds like Max is actually on the side of developers, not against us, while still balancing the needs of users.

Claude Code can publish reports in Markdown files. Here's an example, a report Claude did for me on the menu structure we started with. Which commands work and which don't. Next, I'm going to change what's there. Removing features that either don't work or I don't want to go forward with. This is something I always do, take a step back and look at the menu structure, and set it up for the longer-term.

Attacks on James Talarico are ramping up. I’m getting more texts from campaigns and PACs. More complaining from the GOP in the news. But it’s October… A little late for them to change the narrative. 🇺🇸