I think I’ve figured something out that has been nagging at me for a year. Some people are only selectively empathetic. This sounds fine if you are “on their side”, so it’s easy to miss unless you look closer.

We should treat everyone with more respect, patience, and honesty. There are exceptions — people who have truly lost their way — but those are rare, far fewer than we tend to imagine. Most people are good, even the people we disagree with.

I haven’t done everything completely right over the last year, but I do think I’ve stayed pretty close to this ideal. I’ll keep holding myself to it.

Love this post from Lindsey Vonn on Instagram:

And similar to ski racing, we take risks in life. We dream. We love. We jump. And sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don’t achieve the dreams we know we could have. But that is the also the beauty of life; we can try.

Took a long walk from the coffee shop, following the trail along the Hancock golf course.

Thinking more about an idea I’ve had for a while, to publish my private journal entries to my blog after 20-25 years have passed. They’d get a special post design or background color. It might feel similar to my letters from Europe page. Not quite confident enough to go for it.

Simon Willison blogging about how AI-assisted coding can actually make us feel even more over-worked:

I’ve had conversations with people recently who are losing sleep because they’re finding building yet another feature with “just one more prompt” irresistible.

Multitasking ramps up because it’s tempting to work on another feature while the AI agent is off working. Probably while waiting we should stretch or read a book instead.

I would prefer if GitHub wasn’t down right now. 🙂 It has become such a critical part of everyday tasks like deploying bug fixes. Wishing good luck to the Microsoft folks who are probably scrambling to fix whatever happened.

Posted a video walkthrough on YouTube of the new full-screen editor in Micro.blog. It’s a big change and I expect there will be feedback. We’ll listen and adjust anything that we missed.

Great halftime show with Bad Bunny. They put so much into it, really enjoyed it. 🏈

Watching the Super Bowl. The Verge has a list of some of the tech-related ads, noting the minor change to Anthropic’s ad between last week and today. OpenAI’s ad is good, similar big picture feel as their ad last year. 🏈

Inspired by Lindsey Vonn the more I’m reading about her journey back to the Olympics. Heartbreaking crash, but we’ve only got one life. Go for it. 🇺🇸

Turnstile on Burnet Road. ☕️

This blog post by Nolan Lawson is giving me a lot to think about, but maybe not in the way he intended: We’ll miss the feeling of holding code in our hands and molding it like clay in the caress of a master sculptor. We’ll miss the sleepless wrangling of some odd bug that e...

Really happy with the new full-screen post editor that we’ve been working on. It’ll ship on Monday. I think it solves multiple problems at once: sort of a distraction-free mode for writing, and more control over the accessory panes like categories and cross-posting.

Wired reporting on a proposed bill to pause building data centers in New York for three years: Two New York lawmakers on Friday announced that they are introducing a bill that would impose a three-year moratorium on data center development. The announcement makes New York a...

I’ve noticed over the last couple of years that my shorter posts are often too tightly edited to come across clearly. My short blog posts from twenty years ago might’ve been better. Going to try to write more slightly long-form posts… Not really full essays, just a couple paragraphs.

I’ve seen a few posts recently about how developers will increasingly not even read the code that AI generates for them. Most famously, a blog post from Peter Steinberger: These days I don’t read much code anymore. I watch the stream and sometimes look at key parts, but I g...

NetNewsWire for Mac was updated for Liquid Glass, and now the iOS update is out too. Nice work. 2026 is shaping up to be the year of feed readers.

Andrea Bocelli singing Nessun dorma at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics is really something. Got chills listening to it.

The new Muppets Show is fun. Hope they make some more episodes. 🍿

Om Malik blogs about the greatest invention of his lifetime, the internet:

Like all great inventions of the past—the wheel, the steam engine, and the internal combustion engine—it has compressed time and distance. It is like a time machine. It has essentially made us question every premise.

I’ve been building apps for the Mac and the web for 30 years. In all that time, especially as an indie developer hacking away on side projects at night, success was largely about how much could be coded. Everyone had good ideas, but not everyone could put them into shipping ...

Behind the scenes in our GitHub comments.

A beta is starting for Terry Godier’s feed reader Current. I love his thinking behind this, but I’m going to resist trying the beta so I don’t get distracted or influenced on building my own RSS thing.

If you look at the news blog, we have shipped new features or bug fixes nearly every day until the last couple of weeks. It’s been unusually quiet because so much is going on in separate branches that aren’t quite ready. Two big things coming: the RSS reader and a redesigned full-screen web editor.

Spurs in Dallas. 🏀

Waiting at the 45th street crossing.

Not sure I’ve ever seen Sam Altman as upset as in this long Twitter / X post:

Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that.

I get his frustration because OpenAI is trying to avoid what is shown in Anthropic’s ads. But again, the problem is perception. Anthropic is making an argument that ads will have a corrupting influence on ChatGPT. Whether that happens or not almost doesn’t matter.

Jatan Mehta on exploring where to host his fediverse presence, from Mastodon to Ghost to Micro.blog. Whenever I read something like this, it reaffirms our decision to take a quieter approach to the social web. Less counting, less noise.

Logan Land blogging about IndiePub, in the same spirit as IndieWeb and POSSE but expanding to self-published books and other things too:

Now we’re facing something new, with the rise of AI-generated content, these platforms are becoming saturated with noise. Human authenticity is at a premium.

WordPress’s new Link Fixer is in some ways similar to the archiving features that we’ve had baked into Micro.blog for years. But I like their option to routinely fix broken links. I’ve been thinking maybe a report that makes it easier to do this, even if it’s not automatic.