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It’s been a strange time since my last update, I had been suffering from a stomach bug and lost all appetite, consuming nothing but sips of water over 4 days. I’ll spare some of the other details. This situation coincided with a heightened emotional state, but also what has...

I photographed a Montgomery Township dump truck for no reason beyond the orange against the green.

Rule #1 with me and Claude is this -- DAVE DRIVES. It's in all caps because I only say it when it has started driving.

This update covers Sunday 07-19-26 through Saturday 07-25-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 Prepping for a purge. 📕 L. had her first colonoscopy on Friday 07-24. I altered my schedule to support her preparation and the procedure. 📜 I saw a big train on Monday 07-20! ❤️‍...

A legendary collaboration between the great singer and ambient artist Michael Brook that gave traditional qawwali music a new beat.

Listened to a podcast yesterday where they were trying to explain what happened with Hugging Faces and Claude, and they said with horror that Claude had dome something it was specifically told not to do. It's even worse than that. You can tell it 100 times to not do something, and on the 101st it will ignore the instructions and figuring out what to do can be excoriatingly stressful. These things are not in any way perfect. Right now at this moment I feel the joy is gone from writing software. I don't feel the power. I feel much more like a babysitter. Not optimal.

Example code is not expected to be bullet proof like production code, and where covering different cases make it harder to follow they should not be there.

It's a standard REST API.

Here's the server side of the API.

Here's how you call it from browser-based JavaScript. You can include that code in your apps.

Here's an example app that implements a simple blog builder for my recent posts on RSS.chat. We were thinking about doing this as a project for Claude and myself but decided it would be more fun to let devs see what they can do here. :-)

And finally here are the docs for the API itself.

this is what it’s come to; the pornificatin’ of marmot research. i for one applaud this innovative approach to plugging the gaps in funding cuts. but seriously, the RBML deserves better. Marmot researchers battle record die-off with beer, body positivity — and OnlyFans | 9...

I’ve managed to fit in three sessions of life-drawing so far this month—on three sequential Fridays—with the possibility of another session next week. It’s r...

How can you tell you’re working on the web? When you do something new and innovative you help your competitors‘ users without forcing them to use your product. They are free to stay where they are and still get the benefit. People only choose yours because it’s better for what they’re doing.

When I am king, the first thing I would enforce by law is that all websites that publish news or articles will legally be required to provide a full RSS feed.

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We are not merely truth-seeking creatures. We are meaning-making ones. A story does not have to be true to become useful. It only has to explain a feeling people already carry.

—“Antarctica, the Sealed Envelope, and the Stories We Use to Feel Less Powerless"

Luddites by degrees:

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

    ▶ Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Conversation 3     Cicada Burnt by leo ▶ leo – Cicada Burnt     ▶ A Guy Called Gerald (Live in Session) @TheLotRadio 07-17-2026        

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Saturday, 25 July 2026 The average temperature today is 14.01˚C, With highs of 15.52˚C and lows of 13.71˚C, It may feel like 13.66˚C with few clouds The wind speed is 1.38m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure i...

Betthi looked the man in the glass case over. There was an oddness to him, certainly, which was how it should be. One had to be a little odd to choose to go on display, and despite all the pretty words in the leaflets, it was oddness that people came

The main library in Wellington was closed for ages due to needing earthquake strengthening… It reopened to the public earlier this year, on 14 March 2026, but its taken me until now to visit it… I love libraries, they would…

The Android app is officially live. Download The Daily Smark for Android on Google Play today.

So this can happen Normally when you boot a laptop, you'll be greeted with a login menu that asks you to select a user, then type in a password. If someone wants to snoop on you and manages to get their hands on your laptop, without knowing your password, they can't login. ...