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Interesting post on Twitter by an OpenAI co-founder, Andrej Karpathy, about the value of RSS. I've it said elsewhere, that RSS and ChatGPT are particularly well-suited for each other. I don't understand the connection, other than RSS is always useful, as a way of formalizing...

Screen shot of system.verbs.apps as it appeared in my frontier.root frozen sometime in the early 00s.

After being informed about the intention of the Royal Library to archive my website, I wondered how some of the aspects my site has may affect what is being collected. Specifically: Most of my postings are kept away from the front page but end up in specific categories. These postings do show up in monthly […]

Favorited the rss-feed of the blog by Manuel Moreale Shout-out to Manuel Moreale for his footer message under each item in his RSS feed. Likewise! Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You’re awesome. Manuel Moreale

Day 33: Hopefully last sick and recovery day. 😔

#eugenemarathon

If you want to see my “velocity trumps everything” doctrine at work, you don’t have to look any further than the AI news headlines coming thick and fast about investments, valuations, and all the related hype. As a reminder, my doctrine is that velocity has replaced authority as the organizing principle of information. What and …

OpenAI (Hacker News): Today, we’re introducing the Codex app for macOS—a powerful new interface designed to effortlessly manage multiple agents at once, run work in parallel, and collaborate with agents over long-running tasks. We’re also excited to show more people what’s now possible with Codex. For a limited time we’re including Codex with ChatGPT Free […]

Jeff Johnson: This [Apple documentation] is wrong, a discovery that took me about a half dozen attempts to update macOS on an external disk. I have a 16-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip, specifically an M4 Pro chip, and the DFU port seems to be the USB-C port on the right side of the […]

Juli Clover: Mobile networks determine location based on the cellular towers that a device connects to, but with the setting enabled, some of the data typically made available to mobile networks is being restricted. Rather than being able to see location down to a street address, carriers will instead be limited to the neighborhood where […]

Proton’s Tech Fines Tracker (via Ben Lovejoy): While $7.8 billion in fines sounds substantial, it represents little more than a rounding error for Big Tech. Based on free cash flow, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Amazon could collectively pay off all 2025 penalties in just 28 days and 48 minutes. Alphabet alone — fined more than […]

Michigan, January 2026.

From the video I made a rookie mistake.

I visit Saint Joseph, Michigan, looking for some snow. I get incredible conditions, but I make a rookie mistake.

A video started circulating across my fountain pen and stationery communities. An octogenarian couple stealing expensive pens at the Hamburg Pen Show. The footage is damning. Theft at pen shows isn’t common. But it’s not unheard of either. In 2023, someone at the San Francisco Pen Show got caught after vendors followed him for ninety …

I have an array built into every app I do, on server or in the browser, called snarkySlogans. When I need a bit of text to test with I just choose a random snarky slogan. They are little truths that have occurred to me over the years. You're free to steal this code, they do come in handy at times. There's a snarky slogan to cover that -- "Only steal from the best." Another one I really like: "Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right."

I’ve been working on my blog software (a static site generator) and managed to screw things up enough that random old posts got published on the site and in the RSS feed.

As soon as I saw the issue I fixed it, but I’ve been getting email from folks about some of the posts, so I know they got picked up by some RSS readers.

Those posts are ancient! Sorry for the confusion.

Why did we need all those programming languages?

Imagine building blocks to assemble your own social web app. A toolkit you could plug into your bot.

After I published my “velocity is the new authority” essay, a reader and dear friend emailed and asked if my framework explained the fraught relationship between media and the technology ecosystem it covers. My one-word reply was “Absolutely.” And here’s why. In “comms” across tech, startups, and the larger ecosystem, little seems to matter anymore. It’s hard to pin down anythingconcrete or meaningful. Everything is noise and nothing can …

I was surprised to find that nirvana.userland.com, a site that was new in 1998, is still running.

January is archived, as is 2025. On to the future! :-)