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Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?

Watched: Little Amélie or the Character of Rain. Glad I was able to see this in the theater today. Beautiful. 🍿

Sometimes I forget about the way Micro.blog archives any web page you link to or bookmark, including images and styling. I just checked the database and there are hundreds of thousands of web pages and millions of resources. Slowly turning into a personal, miniature Internet Archive.

Jordie Poncy was about to start a job counseling cancer patients when he learned he had cancer himself. Three years later, his health is stable — and he’s finding meaning by helping others fight.

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I think Sandbar is on to something with their ring. I’ve wanted a faster way to record notes and post drafts for a while. But the Apple Watch should really be able to do this.

Troubleshooting software requires observability: We need to collect and analyze telemetry to formulate, disprove or validate hypotheses about why our

The post An Observability Veteran on AI’s ‘Intoxicating’ Potential appeared first on The New Stack.

New research “suggests that dark energy may no longer be a cosmological constant” and that the universe’s expansion is slowing down.

Thinking about how much code is written by AI is becoming less interesting to me. We didn’t used to care how much code was written by literal copy and pasting. Although maybe we should have? 🤪

Gabe Rivera, back in September: A milestone such as this demands that we reflect and generate pithy takeaways, for the fans or at least for the perpetual gaping maw of AI models. Fortunately, our 20 years of existence offers no shortage of fodder. Perhaps the one major a...

Following up on the previous item, here’s Fred Vogelstein, at Crazy Stupid Tech: Rivera says that he’s not naive about the long term, however, “given the astonishing rate of improvement in AI capabilities we’ve seen. So we just have to improve our own stuff. And a major ...

MoonBit is a modern language plus workflow designed to create efficient WebAssembly projects; it can also target JavaScript. I last

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Screen shot of DemoLand a new thing I'm doing that shows a developer how to hook up to WordPress using the same server I'm using for WordLand. If they do that, our products will work on the same data, in Markdown of course. The user will get to use two different editors to work on the text. This is important because in the social network I'm imagining every part is replaceable. It takes work to make that real, but I have done the work. In this network the user will have choice of writing tools. Unlike products like Substack, for example, where you're forced to use their editor.

What are the chances that #Ihlo would be at #ArcTanGent next year?

An experimental gene-editing therapy developed by Crispr Therapeutics is showing promise for treating heart disease.

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Researcher and strategist Michael Lange on the broad coalition that propelled Zohran Mamdani to victory in the NYC mayoral election (First) | A post-election interview with New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherril (Starts at 46:55) | A.J. Jacobs tries life without A.I. (Starts at 58:30)

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I need to have my posts from scripting.com flow through the Daveverse site, because the WordPress view of my writing is becoming more important. Not surprising, I've been reaching out to that world for a while now, and there have been real responses. I find myself copy/pasting again, and I have to start viewing every one of those as a bug to fix.

Berries in rain.

📷 Pentax KX
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🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
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Thinking about becoming a full-stack developer? Be forewarned: Full-stack developers are twice as likely to say that a majority of

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