Watched the 3-point contest and dunk contest. Carter Bryant had the best dunk of the night, just couldn’t quite finish the last dunk. Can’t wait for the season to resume! 🏀
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Hope folks are having a nice Valentine’s Day. A big thank-you to everyone who hosts their blog on Micro.blog or participates in the community. ❤️
Dave Winer blogs about not hiding RSS feeds from users:
I always objected to browsers trying to hide the feeds. I come from NYC and rode the subway to school every day in high school. The things you see! It’s all out there for the looking and breathing.
When you click on an RSS feed, your browser should preview it and offer a list of apps and services to subscribe to the feed in. I don’t think we’ve made much progress on this in 20 years.
Usually my Git branches are for a specific feature or bug fix, but sometimes it’s a mood. Just created branch fix/rainy-saturday-changes to work on a few things. 🌧️
Austin skyline with the Capitol.
Now that I’ve been living with the new RSS reader for a while, I’m itching to post a screenshot or video preview. Still thinking through the best way to roll it out. I had considered making it independent of Micro.blog, but it relies on too much of the plumbing we already have set up.
Stunning quote in this report from The New York Times about Meta’s plans to add facial recognition to their Ray-Bans:
We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.
Spark is indeed fast. I don’t think I’ll use it often. I’m not usually in a hurry. I’d rather AI be more thorough.
I talked to a couple friends last night at Clawstin about the frenetic pace of AI-assisted development. We should probably slow down. It’s harder to be thoughtful at this pace.
This stuffed animal is my favorite thing to come out of the Mastodon project. Adorable. I want to order one but we already have too much stuff.
Trailing narrative
Thinking about how narratives build and collapse this morning. Not sure I can articulate it well, but roughly:
Someone has an idea and shares it; no one notices.
A few news stories pop up around that idea; it becomes the narrative.
Future news that is even remotely related ...
Some of us are hopeful. Some of us are terrified. Most of us are both, often in the same hour. And into that vacuum of uncertainty there is a torrent of speculation dressed up as prophecy.
Austin sunset behind buildings, from 26 floors up, at Clawstin. 🦞
Anthropic has another funding round and highlights their growing revenue for Claude Code. Not surprised. Claude Code was first, people like it, and Opus 4.6 is really expensive. I think Codex 5.3 will continue to slowly peel developers away.
It’s so unsettling watching our 250 year-old democracy decay into dictatorship while the most disruptive technology since steam power is evolving at superhuman speed. It’s like watching a locomotive barrel headlong into a tornado. I have a bad feeling about this.
AI and taste
Matt Shumer writes that something big is happening. It’s a long post. Some good points and some things that might be framed a little too dramatically. If you are firmly an AI skeptic, I doubt you will be convinced by Matt, but his post is comprehensive and got me thinking.
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I like this post from Justin Jackson about the impact on RSS if browsers remove XSLT support, which some bloggers use to make RSS more accessible. There has never been a good answer to “what do normal people do with an RSS link?”… We really need to solve this.
Daniel Jalkut blogging a story about getting a job at Apple in the 1990s:
The moment I got my foot in the door, I let management know that I was really after an engineering job. “I’m going to be the best QA engineer you’ve ever seen, but I really want to write code for the Mac.” Or something like that. Having the gall to say something affected things.
We’ve talked about Daniel’s time at Apple a bunch over the years on Core Intuition, but there are fun details here I didn’t know about.
Mark Gurman reports that the new Siri is delayed again, from iOS 26.4 next month to 26.5 or later:
As recently as late 2025, internal versions of the new Siri were so sluggish that people involved in development believed the company would need to delay the introduction by months.
Apple is very set in their old processes and release cycles. But OpenAI ships major new features multiple times a month. I don’t see how Apple can be competitive in AI unless they rethink how they work and release software.
I got the Day One printed journal in the mail. Opted for a boring cover, just wanted to see how everything looks. Love that they provide this service.
Lately my MacBook Pro has been burning through its battery really quickly. I picked up Apple’s 40W / 60W charger. It’s not a lot of power but I like the size to always have something with me when I’m out of the house.
We’ve gotten some great long-form post submissions via this form. Still putting things together for where and how to highlight these. 🐢
From the NetNewsWire blog:
NetNewsWire 1.0 for Mac shipped 23 years ago today!
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I’ve blogged about NetNewsWire many times over the years. I switched to it in 2002, which must’ve been NetNewsWire Lite or a beta of the full version. I wrote:
It’s good software, and it’s been fun watching how quickly it has matured. I have about 40 RSS subscriptions, but I migrated to NetNewsWire in just a few minutes by dragging the XML links from Radio into NetNewsWire’s subscriptions pane. The app has really embraced interoperability.
Excellent post about communities:
When a platform dies or degrades, its community does not simply migrate to the next platform, it fragments, and the ones who do arrive at the new place find that the social dynamics are different, the norms have shifted, and a substantial number of the people who made the old place feel like home are gone.
Finding that I have a surprising amount of forgotten email replies in my drafts folder. A few need to be deleted. A few maybe sent. ✉️
It looks like Lex Friedman now has over 1000 episodes of his daily podcast! Congrats @lex, amazing. Hosted on Micro.blog. 🎉
Spurs / Lakers game tonight is ridiculous. Wemby with 25 points in the first quarter. Steals everywhere. Dunks off the backboard. So much fun to watch. 🏀
Noticing the Monterrey Oak we planted a few months ago has lost some leaves. We covered it during the freeze, but I think the cold and ice still got to it. Hopefully it pulls through.
Blog posts are often a self-fulfilling prophecy. Ever since I wrote the post about reading code AI generates, I’m paying even more attention to the code.