Tickets are available to The Talk Show Live from WWDC. No Apple execs as guests this year. John Gruber:

This year I again extended my usual invitation to Apple, but, for the first time since 2015, they declined.

I’m excited about this. It’s good to mix it up and get some different perspectives.

From yesterday, at the Texas State Capitol.

Looked at Threads for the first time in months. I haven’t missed it. I’m glad we have automatic cross-posting to Threads from Micro.blog, but I don’t personally need it and I rarely hear from people who use it. Maybe it works perfectly, or maybe other folks have lost interest in Threads too.

Steve Klabnik blogs about how AI views online have become extreme and frustrating to read:

What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized. This isn’t a “the middle is always right” sort of thing either, to be clear. It’s more that both the pro-AI and anti-AI sides are loudly proclaiming things that are pretty trivially verifiable as not true.

My interview with Kagi founder Vladimir Prelovac is now up! You can listen on the web or subscribe to Timetable wherever you get your podcasts.

In many ways I’m a terrible sys admin. For the last couple years I’ve been dealing with ballooning memory usage in Redis, confused, and only now have finally taken some time to understand it. I’ve been running a cleanup script for the last week that has trimmed memory from 45 GB to 16 GB. Whew!

Manu Moreale has some thoughts and skepticism about how AI and web browsers are going to mix: We all yelled and screamed because the web has too many gatekeepers, we all lamented Google search results going to shit, and we all celebrated when new search engines were coming ...

In an interview with Axios today, Dario Amodei warns about the jobs that will be lost because of AI: Amodei said AI companies and government need to stop “sugar-coating” what’s coming: the possible mass elimination of jobs across technology, finance, law, consulting and oth...

Federico Viticci provides an early look at the new LLM-powered automation tool Sky:

The real strength of Sky lies in its ability to mix and match the non-deterministic nature of LLMs with the deterministic approach behind scripts, combining the two in a new kind of hybrid automation that is smarter, more flexible, and more accessible.

Looks impressive. The preview right before WWDC seems like significant timing too.

Matt Mullenweg on how a thought goes to idea to writing to blogs:

Once you publish publicly, you open yourself up to the beauty and chaos of the wider world. The best reason to blog is comments, the people who find you and add to your thoughts, who you never would have imagined.

Bono was great on Jimmy Kimmel last night. I was lucky enough to see his show a few years ago, but still excited to watch the filmed version when it drops on Friday. And hints at a new U2 album! 🎶

This is probably a dumb, self-inflicted privacy leak, but as an experiment I asked ChatGPT to look at the last 5 months of bank transactions. No major surprises: we spend too much on eating out, cell phone plans, and streaming services.

I’m rooting for The Browser Company folks, because it’s good to have competition in browsers, but their messaging has been all out of order. They could’ve quietly maintained Arc without making a big deal about it. Also, wait until Dia is available so people focus on the new stuff. (Posted with Arc.)

Letting go of Core Intuition has created a podcast void in my work. Today, I just posted a new episode of Timetable. Just 2 minutes, remembering how to podcast. Tomorrow I’ll have another new episode — an interview with Vlad Prelovac.

We just released a new version of Micro.blog for iOS that adds two improvements:

• Redesigned the reply pane to be smaller, with a new username bar for adding or removing people from your reply. Non-modal so you can scroll the timeline behind it.
• Added a new publishing progress pane, to give better status of what’s going on with a new blog post.

Here are a couple screenshots showing the changes:

We’re wrapping up the Android version too. Hope to submit it to Google for approval later this week.

The Browser Company has a long post about why they’re working on Dia instead of Arc. On how chatbots and browsers will merge:

Our tabs aren’t expendable, they are our core context. That is why we think the most powerful interface to AI on desktop won’t be a web browser or an AI chat interface — it’ll be both. Like peanut butter and jelly.

Great article on The New Yorker about The Rehearsal:

The first season of “The Rehearsal” seemed to exhaust all possibilities for the conceit that acting—the science of the artificial—could provide a prophylactic for life. It did not. The second season is, somehow, even more berserk than the first, but it’s also more disciplined and coherent.

Do not read this if you haven’t seen season 2. It spoils everything in the show.

John O’Nolan celebrates 12 years of Ghost. Congrats to the team! Amazing success, and the revenue is an inspiration for much smaller platforms like Micro.blog to aspire to:

Fast forward to 2025 and I still have no idea what I’m doing, but we’ve come a long way nevertheless. What started as little more than an idealistic open source pipedream has blossomed into a business with $8M/year in annual recurring revenue and a full-time team of 34.

Nice guide for setting up Phosphor icons with a Micro.blog site, using the mnml theme.

Reminder that next week (Sunday) we’re starting a new photo challenge that will run through all of June. Follow @challenges for the prompts, which will be posted each day. 📷

The Rehearsal season 2 is a masterpiece. I can tell the final episode is going to be something I think about for a while, and again anytime I fly.

Gus Mueller blogs about being indie and Brent Simmons’s upcoming retirement. This is accurate:

Only crazy people are willing to put up with having to file business taxes, mess with social security, find healthcare, deal with all the stuff you have to handle to be indie. And you don’t even have to be a particularly good programmer. You just have to be persistent.

Also, congrats Brent! 🎉

Simon Willison has a fantastic, detailed look through the Claude 4 system prompt. Personality, safety, tools, and artifacts.

Enjoyed Mission: Impossible. A couple minor nitpicks, but I liked the throwbacks to earlier movies. Crazy that it’s been a nearly 30-year series. 🍿

We rewatched Star Wars episode 4 last night, with frequent pausing to think about the context with Rogue One and check Wookieepedia for random details. So fun. Also lots of nitpicking about the special edition changes.

Glitch announced they are shutting down hosting. Kudos to them for allowing redirects after everything winds down. That’s more than most companies do:

In the coming days, your dashboard will get a new feature to set up redirects for your project subdomains, so all your links will keep working. Make sure your redirects are set up before December 31, 2025. (We’ll make sure they stay active at least through the end of 2026.)

Built up the courage to run Redis’s MEMORY PURGE in production this morning. Sadly made no difference. This week I’ve been running a cleanup script that has trimmed nearly 10 GB of memory usage, but still lots reserved by the system.

I used to pride myself on being able to keep up with almost everything. New programming languages, frameworks, APIs, just tech in general. Micro.blog is a unique platform in part because it weaves together so many different things. But the pace of AI is too much. I can barel...

With Pocket shutting down, I’ve updated Micro.blog’s bookmarks import for Pocket’s latest export format. Also supports Instapaper, Raindrop, and Pinboard. Happy bookmarking! 🔖

Stephen F. Austin State Park. Short hike on a trail near the Brazos River.