The page for WWDC 2025 is vague enough that Apple could still do a live keynote. Not holding my breath. But it feels out of touch to not bring back a couple live demos. OpenAI is doing live streams every couple weeks (there was one today). It shows faith in your product.

Zac Hall blogs at 9to5Mac that Apple should acquire Mira Murati’s new company, Thinking Machines Labs:

Let Rockwell make all the repairs and changes needed to allow Siri to meet the baseline performance that Apple should expect. Tap Murati to focus not on the baggage but instead on the future.

Watching a couple of the videos from ATmosphereConf. The videos are up on YouTube in this playlist.

Putting the final touches on a nice improvement for our blogging friends across the pond… I’ll announce in a blog post later today.

Pete Docter:

AI takes something and sands the edges down, so it makes the blob average. And that could be very useful in a lot of ways. But if you really want to do something brand new and really insightful and speak from a personal angle, that’s not going to come from AI fully.

Got my copy of Dragonsteel Prime in the mail from the last crowdfunding. 📚

Federico Viticci on mobile app development becoming more accessible to many more people, just as blogging opened up web publishing:

Those who wanted to have an online writing space 30 years ago had to know some of the basics of hosting and HTML if they wanted to publish something for other people to read. Then Blogger came along and allowed anyone – regardless of their skill level – to be read. What if the same happened to mobile software?

Great historical data for WWDC dates from David Smith. Should be announced soon!

Generative AI can be both good and bad, just like us. We’re capable of kindness and cruelty. Society, government, and even companies should amplify the best in what we create and do.

Not sure why I didn’t think of this earlier, but there is now a simple weekly email newsletter for all the posts on news.micro.blog. You can subscribe here. We post small and big changes throughout the week that are easy to miss.

Nice profile of the Internet Archive on NPR:

The Internet Archive is among the few efforts that exist to catch the stuff that falls through the digital cracks, while also making that information accessible to the public. Six weeks into the new administration, Wayback Machine director Graham said, the Internet Archive had cataloged some 73,000 web pages that had existed on U.S. government websites that were expunged after Trump’s inauguration.

I didn’t realize that the Internet Archive did public tours. I’d love to visit the office someday. Amazing building.

Sounds like ATmosphereConf went really well in Seattle this weekend. So cool to see community events spring up around the social web.

Finished reading: Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas. Slowly working my way through the series with breaks to read other books in between. 📚

Since Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth was announced a few days ago I’ve been trying to figure out how I feel about it. Blocking misbehaving bots is good, but creating fake pages and hidden links reminds me of other hacks to trick crawlers that I think could be detrimental to the web. Just not sure yet.

Heading home. Texas / Louisiana border visitors center. 🤠

Durafan.

Adding another server in Europe today. 🇩🇪

At a memorial service my mind drifted to what makes us human. I believe in AI as a tool to help us, to learn, to create. But AI cannot feel. Focus on that. The sound of our voice, imperfect. The stories, from life we have experienced. The art, with meaning because it comes from a place only we know.

Carolina Jessamine… I think.

While out walking today, listened to this great interview on Stratechery with Sam Altman, going over early time at OpenAI and where things might be headed. I know Sam can be a divisive figure, but if you’re fascinated with AI there’s a lot of interesting background here.

This shakeup of Siri leadership is surprisingly close to WWDC. Makes me think we won’t see major changes this year, just a refinement of last year’s strategy with Siri and AI.

Had a good run for a few months on uptime until today. I’ve upgraded one of our servers to prevent this particular meltdown from happening again.

Bad timing, had a major server failure this morning. Micro.blog is back online and I’m restoring a few things now. 😔

Really positive reaction to my post about adding European web servers for Micro.blog. Thanks everyone! This is the first step, excited to explore more.

Starting today there is a new option for customers who want more flexibility for where their blog is hosted. When Micro.blog publishes your blog, it runs your blog posts through Hugo, creating static HTML files that are hosted outside of the main Micro.blog platform. Those f...

I avoid deploying new code to servers in the evening. It’s better to make changes when I’m awake for hours and can monitor for problems. But it’s kind of a bummer for Europe and the rest of the world because new features always go live while they’re asleep. Might break that rule tonight! 🇪🇺

Dave Rupert on ads, enshittification, and taste:

I can feel it in my bones when an app or website has prioritized revenue over user experience. A person without taste or high emotional intelligence broke the unspoken contract we had built on mutual respect.

Simon Willison attempts to clarify vibe coding:

I’m seeing people apply the term “vibe coding” to all forms of code written with the assistance of AI. I think that both dilutes the term and gives a false impression of what’s possible with responsible AI-assisted programming.

If you ran into a problem sharing photos from Google Photos to Micro.blog on iOS, check out the latest TestFlight beta. Still have another fix to editing to finish, then will release to everyone.

Wow, the Swarm app has been completely redesigned. I don’t think it changed a single pixel in the last 5 years. Looks pretty good, now combining some of the explore functionality previously in Foursquare.