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John Gruber

Stephen Colbert’s ‘The Late Show’ Finale

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James Poniewozik, writing for The New York Times (gift link): He didn’t land the pope, but he got a Beatle. He didn’t have a new project to announce, but he left us with a song (in fact two). He didn’t choose to end his show, but he ended it his own weird, wonderful way....

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I’m in the park reading Claire L. Evans’ book Broad Band, learning about Radia Perlman, her Spanning Tree Protocol, and the poem she wrote about it.

The book lies open in the grass, displaying the poem titled Algorhyme in full. I think that I shall never see A graph more lovely than a tree. A tree whose crucial property Is loop-free connectivity. A tree which must be sure to span So packets can reach every LAN. First the root must be selected. By ID, it is elected. Least-cost paths from root are traced. In the tree, these paths are placed. A mesh is made by folks like me, Then bridges find a spanning tree.

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Zero Sum Problems and Apple Sports

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Kieran Healy kindly accepted my implicit homework assignment yesterday, and wrote a piece on Apple Sports’s bizarre “zero sum” team stats visualization: It also doesn’t do away with the core problem. That problem is principally one of information design rather than data ...

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BTW, I don't think the web was created to make people rich.

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Another way to look at Claude Code. It's a way to talk to your code, to ask it questions, and tell it how you want it to change.

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I think maybe it's time to consider a reboot of WordPress. I can't seem to seed them with any ideas about building on it from the point of view of the web. It's a product unto itself, it has plugins, but I'm not a plug-in sort of guy. I write operating systems. That's what dr...

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I have news for you -- Claude forgets important stuff. I catch it forgetting to do things it was "programmed" to do. It's not a computer, it's not garbage in garbage out. It could be good stuff in garbage out. As I've said before there's a big chunk of the app I'm working on where I don't read code. User interface stuff only. No control of what comes in our out. Trying to not take any chances here.

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This is a multi-billion dollar idea. I want to link to "report-up" concept in something I'm writing. There is no Wikipedia page for that but there is a brief explainer in Google, via their AI. Here's the feature: add a permalink to that response. I'm lazy and will link to it in my writing.

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Does it ever cross anyone's mind that according to the rules of war, Iran would be totally justified in attacking the United States?

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Vibe-coded software will have a place where users can communicate what they want to developers who can help make it real. The same way you might get medical info from an AI, but would still get your colonoscopy from an actual doctor. Part of the origin story of podcasting is that Adam hacked up a version of Frontier to illustrate what he had in mind for the "last yard" protocol. When I looked at the code it was horrible, hard to believe someone thought of doing it that way. But it got the point across, and that's the moment the podcasting boostrap began. I love using the AIs to tell a visual story, a skill I never had or developed. No reason it can't work the same way for software.

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Finding the Microsoft video

In yesterday's podcast I mentioned a Microsoft promotional video from the 90s. JY Stervinou on Twitter asked if he had found it, and it was close but it was the video I was talking about. So I checked in with Claude with this prompt. there was a microsoft promotional video ...

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Frame and Cut: a new entry at Cosmos Malick

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Sanna bjöd mig på gofrulle i morse. Jag stod för buketten och hembakat fröknäcke.

Det mysigt uppdukade frukostbordet bjuder på Falbygdens prästost, Bregott, ägg, granola med nektarin och en pepparkaksburk fylld med fröknäcke. I en vas står en bukett med en pion som slagit ut.

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I am never ever going to read a story that says that anything “changes everything.”

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Apple Seeks Supreme Court Review of Contempt Finding and Injunction Scope in Epic Games Case

9to5mac.com/2026/05/21/apple-seeks-supreme-court-review-of-contempt-finding-and-injunction-scope-in-epic-games-case/

Marcus Mendes, reporting for 9to5Mac: Apple today filed a request with the Supreme Court in an attempt to reverse key lower court rulings over the App Store injunction in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games. [...] In its petition, Apple is asking the Supreme Co...

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Apple TV to Broadcast Entire MLS Match Shot Using iPhones

apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-tv-to-air-first-major-live-pro-sports-event-shot-on-iphone-17-pro/

Speaking of Apple and sports, here’s another one from Apple Newsroom: This Saturday, May 23, Apple TV will present a special live Major League Soccer match captured exclusively on iPhone 17 Pro — marking the first time iPhone will be used to capture the entirety of a maj...

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Freddie deBoer: I don’t know how many American colleges and universities will exist in ten years. Probably fewer than now, but then a little right-sizing has made sense for awhile, and would likely increase rather than decrease the health of the system. The ones that keep e...

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Podcast: Wrapping AI in the web.

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Just finished No Country for Old Men, the book by Cormac McCarthy. I have seen the movie many times, it's one of those movies that if you're looking for something to watch and you come across it, you might as well go for it because every scene in the movie is a performance. I didn't realize that they used most of McCarthy's dialog, literally -- in the movie. Near the end, Bell, the sheriff tells a story about old age. "There wasnt a whole lot good you could say about old age and he said he knew one thing and I said what is that. And he said it dont last long. I said well, that's pretty cold. And he said it was no colder than what the facts called for." I love truths that hit hard. He's such a great writer. And I love that I can write like all the characters if'n I get a mind to.

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Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, VI

San Diego, November 2024.