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OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

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Just finished The Expanse for the third time.

Realized that the inners of today are Silicon Valley and the Belters, that’s the web.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series)

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Stop thinking of a "network" as a big thing.

They can be small too, the same software works, but the priorities are different.

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you don't need to say "open web."

the web is open, that is any app that uses web formats and protocols to connect to other apps is replaceable.

it's not enough to say you're open, show us how your product works with your competitors. if it doesn't, your intentions don't matter.

it's all about interop.

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Claude Code et al change how software is developed forever. We're never going back.

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Textcasting --

Applying the philosophy of podcasting to text.

https://textcasting.org/

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Body shaming is wrong.

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Remarkable that some people fondly miss Googles RSS reader app, already gone for over a decade. Remarkable because they captured the market, wiped out all competition (they deserved it, the products were awful) and then shut their own product down, leaving a toxic bomb crater in its place.

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THE DEMOCRATS ARE EVERY BIT AS OBSOLETE AS THE REPUBLICANS. TAKE THAT TO THE BANK.

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When is the first video game in AI will be available. I’d like to start with an intelligent SimCity.

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If I were to become benevolent dictator of the web, the first rule would be:

1. No breakage, ever.

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Being a NYer and Knicks fan, I don't have a good perspective on how big an event the Knicks winning is.

If you're not from the area, how widely is this holiday being observed and how many share the enthusiasm.

Are people everywhere saying "Hey how about those Knicks!"

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If Claude were human it would learn from you even if they didn't record what it learned in a notebook, two or three times and they would remember.

Not so with Claude. If it isn't written down it will not remember it. Its mind doesn't have memory. It remembers things by writing them in a markdown file.

It's like the movie Memento, where the main character tattoos the info he needs on his body. And then proceeds to misunderstand it. Claude is just like that. :-)

https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/15/memento.md

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