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I wrote about Jeopardy, Firefox, Matt, Silicon Valley and the writer's web in a long comment on Doc's blog. Here's a quote. "What we really need is interop. If the source is free that’s great. But right now we have silos everywhere and I want WordPress, perhaps along with Firefox to help us boot up the writer's web."

My heart rate hit 136 bpm when I emptied the inside recycling bin to the outside bin today. Likely my only chore of the day. That’s it. That’s my life now.

I used to go for an easy run at this rate.

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Let me tell you how I was an idiot, ignored best practices, and luckily didn’t lose anything of value. And yes, this is a story about backups.

(You can click on these.) Addendum to last week’s newsletter: I learned about the wiby.me surprise button from Ethan Marcotte’s links feed. Thanks Ethan! Let’s not get stepped…

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Saturday, 25 April 2026 The average temperature today is 9.57˚C, With highs of 10.52˚C and lows of 9.42˚C, It may feel like 9.57˚C with overcast clouds The wind speed is 0.88m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressur...

Without a(nother) build tool.

I want writing to be as open as podcasting. The pattern is ridiculously easy to apply. If this were on a a high school math test, it would be too easy, everyone would get it right. How do you make text work like podcasting? 1. You look for a brain-dead obvious choice for tex...

After last night's game I remember I now remember why I was so relieved last season when the Knicks were eliminated in the semifinals of the NBA playoffs. It’s a freaking exhausting sport. And the sad truth is the Knicks are getting beaten by Atlanta. Or maybe it's not so sa...

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Friday, 24 April 2026 The average temperature today is 7.91˚C, With highs of 9.6˚C and lows of 7.04˚C, It may feel like 7.91˚C with clear sky The wind speed is 0.89m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure is 1027h...

I am aware many people with ME could be in this dataset after recent funding and research. As if we do not suffer enough. On Thursday it was revealed that data belonging to UK Biobank participants was up for sale on three separate listings on the Chinese website Alibaba ...

First release of YSA2 plugin from homebridge updating the 9 year old package and other forks with newer codebase and moving past vuln deps etc.

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Let's say you're in Claude Code and you think of something you want to post on your blog. How many steps before you're ready to click the Post button and get back to work? I don't think there's a way to create something that works this way, you'd have to switch out of Claude or ChatGPT. Wouldn't it be nice if you could do it right there?

Why Firefox? There's a moment now when the web could benefit from leadership. There's a chance to rebuild text in the web around the use of AI systems. But almost every company that could be a leader in this space isn't thinking about what they can do for the web, instead ar...

Might need to switch out Readability for this. Seems cool. HT to Matt Birchler. He's making a new "read later" service and using this to parse the content out of pages.

I've written about Firefox many times over the last 20 years or so.

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Thursday, 23 April 2026 The average temperature today is 11.51˚C, With highs of 11.51˚C and lows of 11.51˚C, It may feel like 10.62˚C with few clouds The wind speed is 6.07m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure ...

I made a dumb thing with the robots because of something Josh said, and that I'd been wanting for chatting on IRC.

I've been pretty vocal about my disdain for plain Jane diamond tiaras. So boring! No color! But April's birthstone is diamond so in honor of that I will share with you some diamond tiaras that I actually like.

Had lunch today with Neal Smoller, our local pharmacy owner. Brilliant young guy who's totally energized by Claude Code.

I wonder how many people are working on clones of existing software with an eye toward making a much more evolvable and customizable version with AI at the core of the model. You can make the same software easily, with Claude's help, and if you think about the things users ...