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I know it’s a temporary icon but every day I think about switching back to Apple Music just because of the Spotify disco ball. 🤪

This spring, we’re revisiting a transformative conversation with Julia Cameron, the bestselling author who helped millions reconnect with their creativity.

In this episode, Julia shares her approach to creative renewal—from morning pages and artist dates to overcoming perfectionism and quieting the inner critic she calls “Nigel.” She explains why listening is at the heart of creativity, how small daily practices can unlock momentum, and why creative recovery begins with letting go of the need to get everything right.

Whether you’re an artist, entrepreneur, writer, or simply feeling stuck, this conversation is a timely reminder that creativity isn’t something you find—it’s something you nurture.

SUSE and a coalition of European open source companies are asking the EU to make Open Source First a binding procurement principle ahead of the June 3 Tech Sovereignty Package. They're right. But after FAIR, I know procurement preference alone recreates the same lock-in problem at EU scale. Sovereignty needs both the demand side and the supply side.

I’m too slow finishing a book I checked out on Libby, so had to put the Kindle in airplane mode so it doesn’t expire. I do this a lot. But then they’ll be another book I’d like to get into at the same time and now can’t sync it. I hate to DNF books I’m 3/4 of the way through, just losing steam. 📚

Only just learned about Null Island. Love the name. There’s a CNN article today about cruise ships stopping there:

Just a few weeks ago, Holland America announced plans to include Null Island as a stop on its 129-day round-the-world voyage in 2028, following an earlier stop on its 2024 trip.

Amazing and fitting considering how GPS has changed so many things. 🗺️

I like pixabot a tiny pixel character creator. Not sure where I saw this, there is a live editor at Pixabots — Pixel Character Avatars which is fun. Could be useful in class I think. Perhaps in Scratch when an uploaded gif is turned into a sprite with a costume for each frame.

- - - Q: This is a very funny, very moving book about the deepest kind of friendship. It unfolds over many decades, and the novel took shape over decades for you, too. When did you begin thinking about these characters? DAVE EGGERS: I’ve been thinking about Cricket and Olym...

I don’t use Plex, but I’ve seen a couple people mention this lifetime plan pricing increase. Mike Rockwell blogs:

But $750 feels insane. That’s more than ten times the price of the annual subscription. That feels like too high of a multiple to me.

That’s a lot to pay all at once. I’m not sure lifetime plans are workable for some types of hosted software anyway. I have plenty of server costs each month to run Micro.blog, and the subscriptions sustain that. If I want to keep running Micro.blog for let’s say 20 more years, it’s risky to have too much revenue upfront instead of later.

In the Hispanic Nomar neighborhood of Wichita, an organization called Empower is providing entrepreneurs with the tools and support to turn talent and hard work into thriving food businesses.

I just tried the latest version of the X editor. It's got all the features of textcasting. I wrote a test post entitled "X has nuked the limits, time for Bluesky to follow suit." I think you can tell I had fun writing it. They don't think anyone hears me, but I think they're wrong about that. The idea that they are part of the web is ludicrous. They're going to get called on it eventually. They should fix things so they are part of the web. Then we can all create. Or if you're not going to be part of the web, for crying out loud stop saying that you do.

Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ ended last night after 11 years. He spoke with Terry Gross in 2016 shortly after he took over from David Letterman. Before that, Colbert played a conservative persona in the vein of Bill O'Reilly on ‘The Colbert Report.’ When he started ‘The Late...

My subscriber Q & A is back! Along with a few announcements.

One of the benefits of using Claude for all my coding is I'm now finding out what various things I do as standard practice are called in the outside world. Today I learned what agile is. I of course have heard it used, and even got to know the guy who coined the term.

OpenClaw made the always-on agent feel personal by making it live somewhere you could point at — a Mac mini

The post OpenClaw passed 300,000 GitHub stars. Then Google launched Spark. appeared first on The New Stack.

Earlier this week, Anthropic acquired Stainless, the New York startup whose software generated SDKs for major AI companies, including Anthropic,

The post Anthropic’s $300M Stainless deal lands hardest on OpenAI and Google appeared first on The New Stack.

Google was built on a Grand Bargain with content creators: traffic for content. Now it wants content without giving traffic. It’s time for a post-Google internet.

I archived Prior art as a design method from 2003 on this.how.

My recommendation for Automattic and Bluesky.

• Bluesky supports RSS 2.0 inbound and outbound.
• Bluesky eliminates its character limit, allows bold, italic styles. Links. Optional titles. Users can edit their posts. More here.

Automattic already fully supports RSS 2.0 in both directions, in all their products.

This gives us the most interop with the most respect for prior art. No need to reinvent. There's nothing special about Bluesky, they can use what we've all been using for 20+ years.

It's really very simple, let's hook everything together and let the users and developers create.

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

National News With Kai and Carter (First) | Hantavirus Fact and Fiction (Starts at 29:48) | How Belief in God Has Changed (Starts at 44:40)

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There probably is a name for this development practice. Only works on a team with more two developers. At some point in a project after you've been working on Level N in the stack, you may decide you've done all you can there, and it's time for someone else to work at that le...