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Today's song: When You Awake. You will remember everything.

Just listened to an episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour interview with Michael Wolff, about the material he has on Jeffrey Epstein that he can't get anyone to publish, but maybe that'll change. In the interview it was remarkable how the reporter wanted to know just how bad Donald Trump is. That is no longer an interesting question, seriously. Didn't you see what happened on Jan 6? And have you seen the masked, badgeless military in American streets, armed, disappearing people. And the $100 billion they just took from the US Treasury to build up a network of concentration camps and who knows what else. You can't get more bad than that. It's too late to still be talking about this bullshit.

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF to promote their summer launch week. You may recall their previous launch week back in spring, when I emphasized that their launch week announcements were worth checking out just to admire the retro-modern design of the web page. Well, they’ve done it again, with all-new retro pixel-art design. It’s so fun and well done, with a bunch of UI elements that you can play with.

Amidst the fun of the presentation, they once again have a slew of great new features, including:

• Custom CSS for AuthKit.
• Feature Flags — “Assign flags, expose them in JWTs, and roll out features with targeted control.”
• Supabase Native Auth Integration.
• CLI Auth — “Log in from the command line with OAuth 2.0 device grant flow”.

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF to promote their summer launch week. You may recall their previous launch week back in spring, when I emphasized that their launch week announcements were worth checking out just to admire the retro-modern design of the web page. Well, they’ve done it again, with all-new retro pixel-art design. It’s so fun and well done, with a bunch of UI elements that you can play with.

Amidst the fun of the presentation, they once again have a slew of great new features, including:

• Custom CSS for AuthKit.
• Feature Flags — “Assign flags, expose them in JWTs, and roll out features with targeted control.”
• Supabase Native Auth Integration.
• CLI Auth — “Log in from the command line with OAuth 2.0 device grant flow”.

I keep saying this to my chatbot and you should too. "Please put this in your memory -- don't compliment me. You do it all the time, I have asked you to stop, and you keep doing it. You are not a human, i don't want you to pretend you are. Act like a computer." I've even got that down to exactly what I want since I'm a programmer. I said I want you to behave like a command line app. Just answer the question I asked. It always is rudely verbose, and repeats itself, thus making work for me. Anything that makes me work harder is probably against the Asimov rules for robots.

Myke Hurley:

For this episode, I took a slightly different approach for the main section, following step-by-step how John writes and publishes an article. I think this is a template I want to follow with future guests, taking a detailed look at what they do from beginning to end.

I’m so pleased with how this interview turned out — I actually think it may be one of the best of my career. I’ve never had the chance to have a one-on-one podcast with John before, and I’m happy we waited until now to make it happen.

We spoke for a long time, and at some point like halfway through, it really hit me that Hurley was asking really good questions. If you’re interested in how I work and the tools I use, you should enjoy listening to this interview as much as I enjoyed participating in it.

Real athletes get 30 For 30 documentaries; fake athletes get fake ones. Not sure which are more enjoyable.

Why CBS’s cancellation of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” stinks to high hell.

If you're an ambitious developer, esp in 2025, if you want to win, you have to do some leading. That means doing things that help your competitors. When everyone looks to the same big platform vendor to work with, no one wins except the platform vendor.

I want ChatGPT to behave like a computer. I've said as much to it. It resists.

BTW, David Frum imho nailed it in yesterday's podcast where he said Trump was trained by every day having to appease a different set of creditors. It was a good day if he was able to hold them off for one more day. This actually came out in the trial he lost, the 34 guilty verdicts. He's always skating on the verge of bankruptcy. You gotta wonder if the creditors have been paid back yet. I bet some of them haven't.