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On May 29, 2024 I asked ChatGPT to: "draw a picture of a baseball game at Citifield in the style of an American master artist." Drawing from 2024. I asked the same question today. Drawing from 2026, patterned after the art of George Bellows (chosen by ChatGPT).

I have the most followers on Twitter, Bluesky has never come close. I can't get anything to happen on Bluesky, but Twitter is great. Yesterday I had an idea, put it up on twitter and within a few hours I got the connection I was hoping for. It's a network, and it's more defined by who's there than who owns it. I can use it for idea distribution, the ideas find more minds and sometimes that results in benefits for the web. It's all about interop, and weirdly the pwned Twitter is much better for idea distribution than any of the other networks. In a sane world those smaller vendors would be fighting for interop, instead they're fighting against it.

Posts on the dismantling of university libraries: one, two. 

Yesterday I applied to speak at WordCamp US in August. I got a really nice response from the main WordPress account. Thank you. I now have a platform to speak to the community, and I'll do my best to outline what I have in mind in August in Phoenix. How appropriate that the phoenix is the symbol of rebirth.

Sean Heber: I made a function in Tapestry 23x faster today by sorting an array using its indices instead of using its data directly. Like this: let unsorted = items var indices = Array(unsorted.indices) indices.sort { a, b in unsorted[a].thing > unsorted[b].thing } items = indices.map { unsorted[$0] } Versus presumably something like: items.sort { […]

Tyler Hall (Mastodon): The first version, from November 2020, was called AntiPhoto. The name was a mood. I had tens of thousands of photos and videos scattered across drives and old phone backups, and Apple Photos wanted me to live inside its library, on its terms. I didn’t want a walled garden. I wanted something […]

Ben Sandofsky: Mark III is now available in the App Store. This post highlights the major new features, starting with Looks, which produce gorgeous photos straight-out-of-camera. […] Inspired by “Less, but better,” we partnered with the renowned Hollywood colorist Cullen Kelly to develop a succinct set of gorgeous, physically accurate processes exclusive to Halide. Each […]

John Gruber: !Camera’s use of LUTs for filter-like effects opens the app to a wide world of non-proprietary looks. The best source I’ve found for new LUTs to import is the Panasonic LUMIX Lab app — Panasonic’s built-in LUTs are boring, but the app has a whole community of user-submitted LUTs and I’ve found several of them […]

Allison Johnson (2025): Adobe’s Project Indigo is a camera app built by camera nerds for camera nerds. It’s the work of Florian Kainz and Marc Levoy, the latter of whom is also known as one of the pioneers of computational photography with his work on early Pixel phones. Indigo’s basic promise is a sensible approach […]

Jeremy Gray (2025): Unpro Camera promises “that unprocessed look” that has become popular lately and is in the same vein as Halide’s Process Zero option. […] Unpro not only aims to produce a more retro-looking image, free from modern smartphone processing techniques, but the app also channels old-school vibes through its design and user interface. […]

The usual morning crew

Colin Dickey: In 1947, a man named Kenneth Arnold was flying his two-seater near Mount Rainier when he saw nine flying objects cruising at high speeds, a sighting that launched the modern UFO era. [Gray] Barker was then working as a film distributor, and by the early 1950s ...

I tried listening to A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler on Audible, but the A.I. narrator drove me crazy and I had to stop and switch to text. (It’s an outstanding book!) I persisted as long as I did because I’ve been dealing with eyestrain, but the strange stresses and mispronounced words — foreign names are especially bad: Proust is pronounced Prowst, Rilke Rilk — eventually broke me. I believe I will have to cancel my Audible account: the practice of giving A.I. narrators human names, with the express purpose of deceiving customers, is unacceptable. 📚

Jane Freilicher, Study in Blue and Gray

Senaste brevet från En skräck, en sci-fi och en sak till bjuder på småstadsskräck, småstadsmystik, fulkultur i fansinform och en skön känsla av sommarlov.

I applied to speak at WordCamp US in Phoenix in August. I want to give a rip-roaring speech about how WordPress is at the center of the universe and it doesn't even know. Let's get busy filling in the blanks. Writers are ready. If we build it they (developers) will come. To much sulking, let's get out there and kick some butt. I excerpted elements of my application on Twitter.

Really Open this time vs Really Simple last?? Hmm.

Dries Buytaert says you have to grow the ecosystem, not just yourself.