Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki (@jannis.io) has added support for @socialspec.org to @magicpages.co! 📈

Apple opens Siri AI to developers starting today with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3 betas.

The consumer AI agent arms race will probably be won by the company with the best personal context solution. After all, agents are only as helpful as the context we give them. So much of our personal contact lives in apps. This could play to Apple's App Store advantage, but only if developers buy in. That makes these OS 27.3 releases particularly interesting.

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My favorite thing about the open web, and so-called "open web advocates", is that they get very grumpy when people show up with new ideas. 😅🙃

Adaptive dark mode looks neat!

TL;DR:

For websites that signal support of dark mode with <meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark"> in HTML or color-scheme: light dark in CSS, Adaptive Dark Mode does not change a thing.

I love these posts by the @webkit.org team. In many cases they don't just explain how new features will work, they also share some good best practices. For example:

Just posted about @sodir.org on @socialspec.org. I'm loving all the activity around #SocialSpec. 📈

Next up: @pfefferle.org's SocialSpec plugin for Wordpress should be available in the Wordpress Plugin Directory (any day now). 👏

Let's go! 📈

I've been meaning to post this for a while: @brianschrader.com has created a @socialspec.org validator. Check it out:

https://brianschrader.com/other-projects/social-spec-validator/?domain=brianschrader.com

I love these early stages of an open source software project, when people start showing up and filling in obvious gaps around the project. This is how a community is formed!

I've been meaning to add validators to all of the SocialSpec websites, but in some ways this is better than an official validator. Seeing these projects pop up around SocialSpec is a form of social validation or social proof that we need something like SocialSpec. ❤️

Thanks, Brian. 🙏

I'm doing some research about .well-known URIs today and TIL about the hosting-provider URL.

https://nasa.gov/.well-known/hosting-provider

Is anyone else besides @automattic.com using this?

TIL about @tart.run, a virtualization toolset to build, run, and manage virtual machines on Apple Silicon Macs. It supports macOS and Linux VMs, and it uses Apple's Native Virtualization Framework for what appears to be blazing fast performance in my first few tests.

The team behind @downread.com have created a new profile browser and @socialspec.org for website profiles!

Very cool! 📈

I sneezed in an audio call with my @openai.com Dot today, and then I kept talking. It interjected with "bless you" while it continued to listen to me ramble. I mentally registered that this was a delightful little design detail, but it only just now occurred to me that it's not obvious whether this was a hard-coded feature (via a system prompt?), or a legitimately non-deterministic response from a multimodal model.

Fascinating! 🧠

@manton.org has already shipped a @socialspec.org plugin for @micro.blog! 🤯

The next major release of @hypertexting.com is now available in the App Store.

I'm excited about this one!

Introducing @hypertexting.dev - the new home of the #HyperTexting CLI and developer documentation.

#MakeHypertext

Introducing @socialspec.org: APIs for social engagement on the World Wide Web (of websites). Built on open standards. 🌎

I had the opportunity to visit @vanportstudio.com last week. Amazing view. Even better people.

A modern take on the iPod Classic with USB-C and Bluetooth? Yes please! 🤤

Who knows if this will ever see the light of day, but a boy can dream! 🎵

I spent some time kicking the tires with my @openai.com Dot today. It was a brutal onboarding experience. Maybe I'm holding it wrong?

RIPSS 🪦

Did they call it "dots" because it rhymes with "bots"? 🤖🤔

Sneak peek of the new @hypertexting.dev landing page (coming soon). 🚧

I feel like it's pretty unusual to place a terminal window alongside an iPhone screenshot. Is that intriguing or distracting? Does seeing an HTTP preview server running on iPhone pique your interest as a developer? Is it immediately recognizable as a static-site generator? 📐

Let me know: comments@calebhailey.com 💬

I'm bummed to be missing @omfest.co. I bought a ticket but it snuck up on me and I couldn't get down to SF in time.

TIL about @spacefast.com, by @automattic.com.

Looks like another "publish first, sign up later" service, like Cloudflare Drop. I hate that it took AI agents to get us here, but I love that these exist now. This is going to be huge for @hypertexting.com.

HyperTexting is not your grandpa's RSS reader.

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If you are seeing this post in your RSS feed reader, send me a note or just say hello:

comments@calebhailey.com

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I'm in the "it's time to start drafting some blog posts" phase of the next big @hypertexting.com release. Which means it's time to record some screen captures and edit some video.

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@exe.dev launched Pools today:

A pool is a collection of VMs that share a set of resources. Before pools, a VM’s resources came directly from your plan. You could scale VMs independently, but you couldn’t define a production or staging stack with its own resources in its own region.

Pools also give you predictable pricing. We don’t want to send you a surprise invoice because one VM had a burst of traffic.

I love what these folks have been building. A cloud provider with predictable pricing? Yes please!

Remember MarsBot? M.G. Siegler (@spyglass.org) asked a question yesterday that got me thinking: "Where is the 'Where I've Been' Service?" He took a trip down the SoLoMo (social, local, mobile) memory lane with apps like Foursquare, Swarm, and Gowalla. H...

Say it louder for the people in the back! 📢

Take a break. Click this link. Thank me later.

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I love this story about middle school kids hanging out in the comments section of an @npr.org podcast episode. Why? Because they weren't allowed to use social media.

Life finds a way. 🦖