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Post-Williams, Apple’s operations will clearly remain under excellent, experienced leadership under Sabih Khan. But the company will be left with its design teams reporting directly to Cook, leaving it less clear whose taste, [ultimately], is steering the work of the company into the future.

On Bluesky: "The web is still there under all this michegas, ready to be magical again any time we want it to."

There I said it. To ChatGPT. i find flexbox too confusing for me to use at this time. maybe in a year or two, after some more learning. i hate css, everything about it. so it's hard for me to learn new stuff. i grew up using quickdraw on the mac, where i could do everything...

New thread on Mastodon: OK, i give up for now on getting a team of nerds together to build a bridge from RSS to ActivityPub along the lines of what Automattic has done to bridge WordPress to ActivityPub.

Yesterday I wondered if the open web is a lost cause. A few minutes later, I saw my name in a tweet on Bluesky from Aram Zucker-Scharff. In it was a message that can be summarized as follows -- don't give up yet Dave. AZS has a linkblog which he calls an amplifeed. Same thi...

I wrote this on Bluesky this morning. Most of what passes for discourse on platforms like Bluesky amounts to spam and abuse. Makes expensive moderation necessary and who’s going to pay for that on an open system. It’s why this approach can’t lead anywhere but to yet another...

Here’s the full statement, given by Apple to the media, including Daring Fireball: “Today we filed our appeal because we believe the European Commission’s decision — and their unprecedented fine — go far beyond what the law requires. As our appeal will show, the EC is ma...

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I wrote this early this morning as a test post for my WordLand site. Happy to report that my linkblog routine is back to normal. I really shook things up there, and it probably wasn't a great time investment. I had been using a custom front-end to FeedLand, which has a buil...

A longish thread that probably isn't going anywhere. My final thoughts, cc'd here to get on the record. anyway it's feeling like a lost cause. to be really blunt, i don't think AP or ATP are the answer. and i also don't care so much about this style of conversation. and i ...

Rebecca Rubin, reporting for Variety: When it comes to Apple’s biggest films, F1: The Movie has officially moved to pole position. I will allow this pun. F1 has generated $293 million at the global box office after 10 days of release, overtaking the entire theatric...

I can see the argument that Apple’s answer is “Yes, it’s potentially confusing for many users”. But I can’t see the argument that the answer is “Yes, it’s potentially confusing for many users, but only if they’re trying to buy in-app content or subscriptions, but not confusing at all if they’re trying to buy, say, movie tickets.”

I've been playing a little game, trying to answer the question -- if I had a modern implementation of Frontier that ran on Linux and new Macs, just as it was in 1992 when we released it for the pre-OS/X Mac, what apps would I want to hook up to it right away? What would the ...

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Kos is moving to WordPress. This is very cool. It means people who write for Kos probably will be able to use my writing tools. I am sold on the idea of WordPress being the OS for the social web. That's the point of having a platform, we used to call it "users and developers party together." Hopefully without too much interference from the platform vendor, even better if there is no platform vendor. 😄

I asked ChatGPT for two sentences on the Innovator's Dilemma -- "[It] describes how successful companies can fail by focusing too heavily on sustaining innovations—improvements to existing products for current customers—while ignoring disruptive innovations that initially serve smaller markets but eventually overtake the mainstream. These disruptions often seem inferior at first, so established companies dismiss them, leaving space for new entrants to rise and dominate."

I saw that Matt backed off from porting Tumblr to run on top of WordPress, basically turning WP into an OS. I thought it was a brilliant idea, but probably overwhelming in complexity. But it was the right idea. We need fewer runtimes. If you can merge two runtimes, go for it. Anyway, this is all related to the "open social web" -- in fact it's central to it. We've got all these philosophically compatible platforms that are technologically unable to work with each other. But what if they all were really on the web? What could we build then? Everything. We would go back to the potential the web had before Twitter and Google Reader split the blogging world in two. I swear the answer is make it so that all these networks can do inbound and outbound RSS and build on the reality of the open social web, not just the hype.

tinyFeedReader is a hit. But the docs aren't clear enough. It has no user interface, it's a package you can include in a Node app that calls back to you when a new item comes in from one of the feeds you've told it to watch. It's a totally teeny little framework for a feed reader, you get all the standard stuff tucked away out of site, you write the functionality you want to implement. It would be a good thing to turn over to your AI programming partner. It's for people who want to add a feed reader to something else.

An improvement in WordLand on the server, we now post metadata to WordPress, along with the HTML rendering so that code that runs on the server can now access and possibly in the future even talk back to WordLand. You never know where this stuff can go if the developers take advantage of opportunities to interop.

WordLand v0.5.19 -- Lots of little fixes.