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A NYT article from last year about 34th Ave in Jackson Heights where "a stretch of 26 blocks, running east to west, has been closed to cars from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day since 2020." Before we moved to Flushing when I was in 5th grade, we lived on 92nd St and 34th Ave. What a difference that must make. I love it when cities take chances like this, and the people in the neighborhood seem to love it.

Some sad news. The San Francisco Chronicle (News+ link): The eight people killed in a sudden storm while boating on Lake Tahoe over the weekend were a close-knit group of friends and family members who had gathered for a birthday celebration, according to a spokesperson ...

I tried an experiment, go back as far as I can in archive.org on scripting.com and see where it gets me.

There are lots of paths to try out.

The one I went for is the December 3, 1996 scripting.com home page.

This was where my blog home page was then.

Then to DaveNet, and in the left margin Nerd's guide to this website.

I love the screen shots that show what a good match the Frontier object database was to the way a website is organized.

Podcast: Holding your nose, the aftermath.

A preview of a WordLand linkblog works, which is of course a WordPress site, viewed in my blogroll. When I clicked on the link, I was surprised that it goes to Poynter, and not to the linkblog. But then I remembered that's the point of a linkblog. And it flows through to the feed, and the blogroll software understands. So now I have an end-to-end linkblog. Now we also have to do some work to make the theme make sense of it when you view the site in WordPress.

Another reason to love WordPress. Every freaking WordPress site had great RSS support. They did more to keep feeds alive than anyone else. Google tried to kill RSS in a particularly humiliating way. WordPress kept it going.

Stephen Hackett: Our 14-day national nightmare is over. As of Developer Beta 2, the Finder icon in macOS Tahoe has been updated to reflect 30 years of tradition: I’m going to strongly disagree here. The Tahoe beta 2 Finder icon is slightly better, but seeing it this...

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The decades-old doctrine of “Web traffic in exchange for permission to crawl” is over, writes Fred Vogelstein in his latest feature for our newsletter, Crazy StupidTech, and as a result, the Internet in the age of AI will be filled with much-needed “tolls.” This change has come quickly. “Google essentially invented the business of crawling in exchange for …

From iyO’s home page: The iyo one is a revolutionary new kind of computer without a screen. it can run apps just like your smartphone. The key difference is you talk to it through a natural language interface. Like I wrote yesterday, I’d never heard of iyO before. But ...

Jeremy Herve is a developer at Automattic. Here's what he said about yesterday's podcast. He liked the idea of WordPress as the OS of the open social web. Glad that resonated. It has so much more than the other possible platforms. The others couldn't even realistically claim...

Juli Clover, MacRumors:

Apple today provided developers with the second betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming two weeks after Apple seeded the first betas following the WWDC keynote.

MacOS, tvOS, WatchOS, and VisionOS too. All sorts of good stuff in these second betas — an option to have a real big boy menu bar in MacOS Tahoe, a much better-looking Control Center, and more.

Brooks Barnes, writing for The New York Times: Pixar knew that Elio, an original space adventure, would most likely struggle in its first weekend at the box office. Animated movies based on original stories have become harder sells in theaters, even for the once-unstopp...

A great scene from The West Wing. Use your imagination, something similar is probably happening right now.

This weekend I decided to bite the bullet and embrace the “betas” released by Apple at the recent WWDC. I wanted to try out all the new features that Apple had announced and separate the wheat from the chaff.  No, I didn’t download the beta on my main machines. My every day iPhone, iPad, and Mac Studio have been untouched. The only everyday …

If you think it has been quiet around these ramparts, then it is intentional. I decided to take a break from everything,including writing and social media. Instead, I picked up my camera, packed my bags, and went on a photo trip to Svalbard.  I have not been on photo adventures for almost a year, mostly because I was losing my …

Hayden Field, reporting for The Verge: OpenAI has scrubbed mentions of io, the hardware startup co-founded by famous Apple designer Jony Ive, from its website and social media channels. The sudden change closely follows their recent announcement of OpenAI’s nearly $6.5 b...

Podcast: WordPress and me.

Dan Knauss, one of the organizers of WordCamp Canada, wrote a post on their blog using WordLand. This is wonderful! Look at the screen shot at the top of the page. That's the whole point of WordLand. It gets out of your way and let's you write for your WordPress site.

One more thing about the linkblog, it no longer cross-posts to social media sites. I want to see if I miss having the links there. It also won't have the limits. Maybe it'll be better if my accounts are a bit more quiet. Also the RSS feed is in a new location, I want to wait a bit to make sure it works before distributing the URL.