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Sad news in the dev rel space online, but happy Salma has a new role.

I am leaving developer relations and I am going offline.

I wondered for a while whether I should leave tech entirely. But I still really, really enjoy making websites. I’ve found an exciting new role as a Staff Engineer, and I can’t wait to get stuck in.

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Intro post for my new blog on Leaflet

TL; DR: I'm using LLMs to generate short "teasers" for blog posts and essays, which I embed in images and then post to feeds that I follow on BlueSky and Mastodon. A bit pathetically, I devote much of my energy to the challenge of how can we resurrect the high-quality "commonwealth of letters" we briefly enjoyed in the pre-social-media blogosphere? Implicit in the question is that something about "social media" undermined the environment in which the fast-paced, promiscuous, long-form, and...

I need new podcasts. The only one I listen to regularly now is the Bill Simmons podcast, but that's because the Knicks won and the NBA is re-forming itself around the Knicks. It's so freaking unusual to have your team, which was once right up there with Charlotte, New Orleans...

I asked ChatGPT for this. "If we had a talking head version of ChatGPT, a human-like image of a person that spoke Claude's words what would it look like?" Claude's words coming through ChatGPT's image. There was a typo, I typed Claude when I meant ChatGPT. So I asked it correctly, with ChatGPT both times. Except I forgot to ask for an image, and got the text behind the image which is generous and revealing. I would vote for a politician who was this honorable, generous and idealistic, a modern day John McCain. Claude speaking from Claude's head, described in words by ChatGPT. Final image, Claude head speaking for Claude AI as an image. Claude speaking for Claude as rendered by ChatGPT.

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Friday, 03 July 2026 The average temperature today is 14.8˚C, With highs of 14.82˚C and lows of 12.14˚C, It may feel like 14.24˚C with broken clouds The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure i...

When they pulled the old church down, someone stood on the rubble and said that the church was not the building, but the congregation. I liked that. It made my eyes sting just a little. But I was not part of the congregation, and I did miss how the building

Three links this week. The most interesting one is the US Supreme Court decision that the FTC isn’t independent and so the basic assumption of EU-US Data Privacy Framework does no longer work.

The Beetlebot is a classic DIY robot by Jérôme Demers. It doesn’t use any complicated electronics and can be built from parts you probably already have lying around. Rather than relying on transistors or integrated circuits to navigate, this design uses nothing more than a p...

You bet.

(From UNIX System V Primer by Mitchell Waite, Stephen Prata and Donald Martin -- which is also riddled with typos, incorrect & sometimes offensive examples... But also it has lots of fun cartoons by Bob Johnson like the one pictured above!)

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Technical or not, human or AI – could Bram be the missing link? In “What Is the Terminal?” Jon Udell frames the problem that his new product Bram aims to mitigate -and does surprisingly well, considering how new it is. The terminal has become far more approachable and powerful in this age of AI agents […]

AI should be like a lawyer or doctor, first responsibility is to the user. And first, do no harm.

An observation about Fable 5 in Claude Code. It's a much better writer than Opus 4.8. One of our next big things is writing docs, and all the info is in Claude. Opus was a disaster as a docs writer. This one looks like it'll be good. Whew.

You can't learn from your mistakes if you aren't bloody truthful to yourself about what happened and what went wrong.

I'm working on an app in Claude that has a server and the server has an API. One day we had an aha moment. I bet you (Claude) can control the app via the API. Yes. And now unless we're debugging something in the UI, Claude just interacts via the API. It feels like a person but you have to remember that it's actually a piece of software. ;-)

I saw a bit of a commencement speech by Eric Schmidt, ex-CEO of Google, where he was talking about AI and getting boo'd by the audience. But he was saying things that were right and should be paid attention to. Most important, and I'm paraphrasing, the AI world is just getti...

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Thursday, 02 July 2026 The average temperature today is 21.65˚C, With highs of 22.14˚C and lows of 21.4˚C, It may feel like 21.23˚C with broken clouds The wind speed is 2.68m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure...