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75% of the experiment is behind me, and if there’s one thing I learned, it's that screen time on iPhone works like shit. It’s as reliable and consistent as a politician. Let me dump some raw data first, and then I’ll do some normalising and share why I think screen time is b...

SEASON 3 EPISODE 147: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: We have been burying the lede here. Trump. Is. Suing. Murdoch. Trump and Murdoch are at war. Over Jeffrey Epstein. The two worst people in the country, probably the world, at each other's th...

Reuters, with a headline that truly could have come from The Onion, “Trump Threatens Washington Stadium Deal Unless NFL Team Readopts Redskins Name”: U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, ...

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

Cory Ondrejka joins in on the 40-year-old retro computing reminiscing: For being otherwise bright folks, it’s remarkable how completely wrong they all are. The Atari was the best computer to have. This whole friendly debate reminds me of the oft-cited adage that the be...

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Went to see Eddington today. Holy shit. It’s intense, somehow both unsatisfying and brilliant. Went in knowing next to nothing and left still unsure that enough time has passed since 2020 to fully appreciate it. 🍿

Finished the first pass at a new Micro.blog plug-in with the boring name “Archive with months”, which groups blog posts by year and month. It also has a setting to include the first photo thumbnail in a post if there is one. You can see this on my archive page.

I can't remember exactly what I was thinking about when I first saw them. It was one of those summer days that was defined chiefly by its sprawl. I had spent the morning at the gym; every year my trainer holds a charity competition for his clients, and this year's was called...

Joe Flint and John Jurgensen, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): But digital advertising revenue hasn’t made up for the fall in ad dollars going to traditional broadcast programming. Spending on linear advertising for the late-night segment on ABC, CBS an...

Before the Mets' game against the Houston Astros on July 18, 1986, Tim Teufel passed out cigars in the team's locker room. The platoon second baseman was rejoining the team after staying behind in Connecticut to be with his wife while she gave birth to their first child. Teu...

I saw a Waymo with a human driver on 183 today, presumably testing for a new route. First time I’ve seen them on a highway. They expanded farther north in Austin last week too.

The Short and Disastrous Life of the World’s Biggest Newspaper - - - I hesitate a moment at Stanford University’s Special Collections desk. “I got in touch about seeing the Constellation? The newspaper from 1859?” I ask Tim Noakes, the library’s head of public services. “Oh...

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.

Ava blogs about what the IndieWeb might need right now, including some thoughts on social media and Mastodon:

…I personally don’t consider Mastodon instances to be included in the Indieweb; adjacent, for sure, as you have more control over your data in a way and escape big socials and can POSSE. But in the end, it will always remain a Twitter clone that still embodies the worst of social media and is not a personal website.

There are a lot of good thoughts in this post. And some overlap with the goals of Micro.blog too.

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.

Paddles are getting more sophisticated and expensive. We’ve tested dozens over the past year to find our favorites.

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