FeedCity

I still write my own code, because I enjoy it.

I have never been a normal programmer, and maybe you aren't, either. So, let's just do things the way we want — the way we like.

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Robin Sloan Public service announcement

Once, in 1994 or so, I was sitting in a cafe with friends, and I had the crazy idea that I was going to write my own web browser. I was a college student at the time, and had played with Mosaic and … well, probably only Mosaic. But had also played with Gopher, and other […]

A heart-breaking and heart-healing reflection by Rachel Teubner on birth and death in an endlessly mobile world.

Andrew Cunningham, writing for Ars Technica at the end of January: Apple also outlines a number of usage restrictions for the generative AI features that rely on external services. Apple says that, “at a minimum,” users will be able to generate 50 images, 50 presentation...

Robert Gibbings

New York City, January 2026.

From the video The most intense day of my photography career ~ New York City snowstorm.

NetNewsWire is 23 years old.

I just watched Life on Our Planet on Netflix, loved it. Lots of takeaways, but this one will surprise you probably -- I think the AIs are our successors. We should at least try to preserve them so they can run on the Moon if we're in the 6th Mass Extinction, which of course we are. There's been a lot of criticism of the show, but it got me to think about evolution not necessarily in the terms they offer, but the scale of it. And the CGIs were fantastic.

Docker version of FeedLand. Scott Hanson has it working, and would like help with testing. Thanks so much to Scott.

John Gallagher: States struggled to work out their role in these rapidly changing systems. Private mail presented different problems: should couriers working for state-funded postal services be allowed to carry post on behalf of paying customers? For the states that underwr...

On learning a lesson from ST:TNG.

I wonder how many U.S. court cases have already been decided by judges using chatbots to write their opinions in response to lawyers on both sides who used chatbots to write their briefs.

Robin Sloan:

It’s inter­esting and useful to imagine — really visualize — the chat­bots and agents in ten years or twenty … barnacled with gunk … locked in a per­ma­nent cat-and-mouse game with their adversaries … just as a plat­form like Google is today. In 2036, you send your AI agent out into the internet, and it returns battered, bedraggled, inex­plic­ably enthu­si­astic about a bar­gain flight to Bermuda.

BTW, Twitter started in July 2006. I was an early user, and a fan.

Found this excellent review of Twitter by Anil Dash in early 2007. I'd be interested in reading other early reviews of Twitter written by bloggers.

A fair number of people make a stop at news.scripting.com every day. I want to make some improvements, I think it can be made a bit faster. And I want to make it easier for anyone to create a site like that, for others to use. I think every news org should have one of those, to tell your readers who you read. Work together, we need it as we reboot the news industry. This is will be an alternative to twitter-style news readers, which took over the leading-edge from RSS feed readers, twenty freaking years ago. I think there should be a new paradigm every few decade, don't you? Long overdue.

Each podcast shownotes page now has a link, at the bottom, to the home page of the shownotes site, which has a list of all podcasts in the series. There's a lot of good stuff in the previous episodes.

Day 42: Recovery day 😴

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