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See also: Rules for standards-makers. Language is a very similar to protocol design.

I was looking for old photos and diagrams of Robert Mueller airport and found this progression of satellite photos of Austin. Wild to watch time pass as the airport becomes the Mueller neighborhood.

Must-read: “It’s extremely difficult for decent people to accept that there are some people who simply do not share their values about truth and basic human kindness. This is what the sociopath counts on.”

Earlier efforts to diagram software with LLM assistance weren’t fruitful, but this time around things went really well. I ended up with exactly what I needed to explain the architecture of a browser extension, and along the way I learned a lot about a couple of formats — Mermaid and Graphviz — as well as … Continue reading How To Create Software Diagrams With ChatGPT and Claude

Programming language design should follow half of Postel's Principle, be conservative in what you send. There should be one way to do anything, not many. That way I can include your code in mine and vice versa. I can understand what you're doing. Tools can be developed that ...

Another photo from Oklahoma City a few days ago, the statues commemorating the land run of 1889. I learned a surprising amount of history from reading Boom Town. Still thinking about it.

I kept waiting for Kamala to say what we're not going back to is Trump. We've paid our dues. He's had enough of our attention.

Government should do its work quietly, making things better for the people and that's all, and until there's a crisis that demands our attention, stays out of the way.

The most depressing thing last night for me was reading that a longtime friend voted for the worst candidate they've ever voted for because the other one was worse. They wouldn’t say who they actually voted for. This is what we’ll be left with as a country when all this is done.

I gave another $100 to Harris to compensate, and of course voted straight Democratic on Thursday. Unlike my friend I was proud to vote for her. The alternative, after what we lived through between 2017 and 2021, to choose to go through that again, hard to imagine the horror.

And of course that’s assuming he voted for Harris.

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

The Battle Over Prop 1 on the NY Ballot (First) | The Nuts and Bolts of Voting in New York and New Jersey (Starts at 52:29) | Why Do You Run the NYC Marathon (Starts at 1:17:34)

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On Wednesday I had a great chat with Connie Loizos, the editor in chief of TechCrunch, you can view the video here: Then yesterday Automattic filed its legal responses to the spurious lawfare from WP Engine, Silver Lake, and Quinn Emanuel. It’s a bit long, but if you have time give it a read, it’s … Continue reading Disrupt Interview →

To take Mullenweg’s argument about “bastardized simulacra” to its logical end, Mullenweg must believe that millions of customers have been wrong all along—they’ve somehow been duped. The product they’re using isn’t WordPress, even though that’s what they’re buying. And, what’s more, the changes WP Engine has made are so bad, so egregious, that virtually every major WordPress host does the exact same thing… including Automattic’s WordPress.com and WordPress.com VIP products, which both limited revisions before Mullenweg’s September 21 blog post, and all heavily modify WordPress through custom code, whether direct or via mu-plugins.

What the early voting numbers and final polling say in the last days of the 2024 campaign.

“Post Reports” co-host Martine Powers and senior political reporter Aaron Blake talk with Amy Gardner, who covers early voting for The Post, about what early voting data can and can’t tell us right now about the election results. They also talk about whether looking at polls this weekend is helpful, and what to make of burned ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington. 

Today’s show was produced by Eliza Dennis. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy and mixed by Sam Bair. 

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Glad to see the return of the Day One podcast. I guess I had subscribed years ago and then they stopped doing the show, but today it popped back up in Overcast. On the new episode, Paul Mayne talks about how things have gone since the Automattic acquisition and what they might do with AI.

I’ve driven around a lot of Texas this week. Democratic candidates have raised so much money this year, would it kill them to sprinkle a little advertising in rural America? It’s a small thing, but small things win or lose elections. 🇺🇸

Go to:

Settings → Search Engine → Manage search engines and site search → Site search → Add new

Enter details from the screenshot below. Then you can type chatgpt.com + [tab] to start a new ChatGPT Search

Figured out how to make a search shortcut for the new ChatGPT Search feature in Arc / Chrome 👇

So you keep whatever default search engine you prefer, but have ChatGPT search only a [tab] away:

A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a trademark infringer that was also distributing nulled plugins. I said “Not illegal. Legal under the GPL. But they weren’t changing the names. They were selling their customers Pro Plugins with the licensing stuff nulled out.” I want to … Continue reading GPL Clarification →

As our centennial series continues, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics, university professor at Columbia University, chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute, and author of The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society  (W.W.Norton, 2024), reviews the history of American capitalism and the ebb and flow of regulation.

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Ahead of the New York City Marathon on Sunday, listeners call in to share why they are running, what they get out of it and shout out who has supported them in their journeys.

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