Enshittification comes for us all.
Stripping identity from work, from what we "do"
Why so much identity with the profession anyways?
Bluesky raised $100 million last April, just announcing it now. No doubt part of Toni Schneider's cleanup, new CEO, need to get this out in public now. It was a mistake to keep it hidden.
Thinking about linkblogging, my blogroll software doesn't do it correctly. When you click on the link to a linkblogged link, you must go to the place the linkblog entry points to, not the linkblog itself. I know that sounds confusing, but here's an example. It's obvious we can skip the stop and go right to the thing they were pointing to. It's awkward in the code because the RSS 2.0 item-level link element is doing double duty. I think I should add a source:linkblogLink element. I also think it's a good time to start discussing this among devs. There's some very nice fertile ground here and an opportunity to work with each other.
I wanted to change the URL for the source namespace in the RSS 2.0 feed for my blog, from http to https. I thought this might be a nice warmup project. Started at 9AM and it's now 10:45AM and it might work now. Let's see. Nope. Thought of something I didn't do. Let's see. Yes! We win, sorta. Bing?
I talked with a friend who makes a feed reader app, suggesting how to hook up to a linkblogging tool. Thought I would share the instructions to everyone. I'd love to see more people using software to do linkblogs, rather than do them by hand. Then we could build systems for distributing them. This is how we create markets, by getting more people automating their work, and thus we are able to connect components together. So if you make a feed reader, how about hooking up with linkblogging tools?
Mellerio Peacock Aigrette
This week's entry isn't strictly a tiara but it is an absolutely gorgeous piece of jewelry and one of its owners had a fascinating life.
Marc Stuff
• Marc Carson
Zoom: How to recover non-converted .zoom files when they refuse to convert? (Disappearing Conversion Window)
This problem with Zoom recordings was really frustrating to figure out!
First, I had .zoom files from a meeting recording, that had failed to convert to video. Then, every method I tried to get them to convert, didn’t work.
The conversion screen would disappear every time,...
Rss - NetNewsWire theme for thechelsuk V1
If you use NetNewsWire, you can use my thechelsuk theme based on the light and alt themes on this site, adjusted to match the light and darkness of the app. Just click the link on your device that has NNW installed and follow the prompts to install the theme. It’s free and o...
Weak Notes — The Everything Feed
• Quoting Empty Stands
Linked - Empty Stands - Fans with ME+
Love this.
We are Empty Stands – a support group of football fans from Germany, Austria and Switzerland so far living with ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Long COVID and Post-Vac.
Due to our disease, we can only express our passion for foo...
Rss - New Drafts action - Google search
I’ve just published a new Drafts action that searches Google with the selected text, the url gets &udm=14 appended to remove the AI overview. That is all.
Note: this is a secret rss only item.
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Weak Notes — The Everything Feed
• Quoting The Economist
Linked - The Trump Paradox
Move over Pareto Principle there is a new king in town
***Although President Donald Trump says he has “destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military Capability”, the 0% that remains is playing havoc with the global economy by choking off 10-15% of its oil supply.
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Til - TIL - London Eye Is not actually British.
It is owned by a pension firm (Canada), Blackstone (US), and the parent company of Lego (Denmark)
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Today's song: You Never Can Tell.
Small update to the source namespace. source:localTime is a channel-level element. It was incorrectly stated that it is item-level.
I have a hard and fast rule about phone calls that solicit private information. I hang up. The worst are insurance companies. They expect you to enter all kinds of confidential info on a phone from a number that doesn't even verify as belonging to the company. Caller ID has nothing to say about them. Yet at least some of these are legit and unless you do what they want, you don't get your meds.
Geoff Oliver
• Geoff Oliver
Death to Scroll Fade! – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
David Bushell just got a new subscriber to his blog with this brilliant post.
F / E / E / Dm / E
F / E / E / Dm / E
Podcast: A one-line comment on Brent Simmons' blog got me started on a 10-minute ramble about suspension of disbelief, in software. Also a story about meeting Ted Nelson at the West Coast Computer Faire in SF in 1979. Skiing. And other miscellanea.
One: You make specialty chairs, but in your office you might not design a line of specialty chairs just for office use. Instead you might go to the office store and get something cheap off the shelf that you know will be fine. You make chairs so you often know which ones to avoid, and the types of problems you might have with them. These chairs don't need to be customized, something off the shelf built to certain typical standards is completely fine. Two: You run a newspaper and your office needs chairs. You go to the office supply store and you get some chairs. After a while, they have some problems and you try a different kind of chair which ends up being just fine. Three: You work in a special cleanroom environment doing sensitive work on irreplaceable artifacts. You go to the office store and buy some chairs for your cleanroom. The chairs have a defect that causes an accident that ruins a collection of irreplaceable literature. Four: You are a surgeon, you get some office chairs at the store for your surgery room. During surgery one collapses sending someone nearby lurching and causes the surgeon to slip, killing the patient. Contrived! This is how we should be thinking about LLMs though.
One: You make specialty chairs, but in your office you might not design a line of specialty chairs just for office use. Instead you might go to the office store and get something cheap off the shelf that you know will be fine. You make chairs so you often know which ones to a...