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. 🐢

It’s wild to see the communities that have sprung up around OpenClaw. There are actually two meetups in Austin tomorrow night: MoltUp and Clawstin. Both look fun. I’ll be at Clawstin. 🦞

From the NetNewsWire blog:

NetNewsWire 1.0 for Mac shipped 23 years ago today!

🤯

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. 🏀

Back in 2007, I blogged about working on a painting for a Halloween-themed art show, but I never shared how it turned out. Here it is! Still makes me smile. It was inspired by my kids and the crab plush toy from IKEA.

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.

I wonder if any feed readers have experimented with hiding or shrinking pointless header images. For example, the big “Windows” image at the top of this post on The Verge. Because of social timelines and Open Graph, these headers are overused now.

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.