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I know nothing .. so it is sad that if I want to find out if this is true or just propaganda to suit the regime, I have my work cut out.

Of course there is a second issue …100,000 people losing jobs in middle management and then adding 162,000 jobs in warehouses and fast food chains isn’t neccesarily good news ..

• is income lost across 100,000 jobs less or more than income gained across 162,000 jobs?

• we live in a world of multiple jobs held by people just to survive, how many people with no income versus now having income is surely the better measure?

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Demo Ringbinder is a small, simple CLI tool that lets me do this: > docs "there was a picture with a few dragons of different colors/sizes/shapes, find it" Found it: /Users/max/Documents/Unsorted Photos/2024_11_03_12_07_23.jpg It shows “six colorful winged dragons…of ...

If you want others to follow you, you have to offer them your users. And a format alone has no users.

And you have to trust your users to choose the best product, and you have to have a great product, that they appreciate, even though they have choice.

Just coming out with something better in a format will get you zero uptake. Unless you have users they can switch to their product, they simply won’t hear you.

That’s why Atom never replaced RSS, which already did everything people needed and was already supported by the NYT and the news industry.

That’s why AT Proto will never overcome the huge lead Twitter already has.

For more tips on what does and doesn't matter in open formats and protocols, check out my Rules for Standards-makers.

PS: This started as an early morning rant on Twitter.

My first job after college was on the 39th floor of the Empire State Building. I wrote software for our customers, in BASIC, from a teletype in our office, talking to our mainframe in New Jersey. It seemed magical at the time. But when I hit a bug, a mystery -- you'd try this and that, and not get anywhere on something that seemed so simple, you could stare at the problem for an hour, trying desperate things, getting no closer to the problem. One night, I was the only person in the office, I thought they should put programmers in the Empire State Building with windows that open. I'm having the same feeling with Claude. I know when this project is done, I will have Frontier, and I know what that's like. If I didn't so totally look forward to that I would never try to finish the project, I hate this mode of working with the bot. Ugh.

It's around this time of year that Santa makes his first appearance on my blog. Want to get out in front of the others.

More and more I'll realize that Claude doesn't do anything until you tell it to do it. We have a list of big things that need to be done before shipping. Whenever I get up for a break, I tell Claude to work on its overnight tasks, things we've pre-arranged while I work. Somet...

Just said this to Claude: "This is a very broken piece of software. If you were a real developer you'd never hand off something so broken to your coding partner." If I said this to a human partner they might quit, feeling under-appreciated perhaps. And I can say it to the machine, but it will change absolutely nothing. I really just want to get this project done and start using it, and reduce my reliance on Claude to getting small bugs attended to, or new features, a lot has happened in the 20+ years since I worked on Frontier.

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Friday, 04 September 2026 The average temperature today is 16.67˚C, With highs of 17.65˚C and lows of 16.47˚C, It may feel like 16.74˚C with light rain The wind speed is 4.12m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure...

Week 36 is over. This time, I recommend watching the NDC Copenhagen keynote, checking Wunderwuzzi’s findings in Opus 5, and reading about LibreOffice’s download record during its release week.

Ro's tattoo was one big maze. It started at the left side of his heart and walked his whole body to arrive back at the right. I always thought one day I would find the way through, but there were so many wrong turns, so many false passages

  رواية "مغامرات توم سوير، الجزء الثالث" لمارك توين (سامويل لانغهورن كليمنس) هي رواية كُتبت في أواخر القرن التاسع عشر. تروي القصة مغامرات فتى صغير يُدعى توم سوير، وهو يخوض غمار تجارب الطفولة، ويكوّن صداقات، ويواجه معضلات أخلاقية في بلدة صغيرة على ضفاف نهر المسيسيبي. وت...

 رواية "مغامرات توم سوير، الجزء الثاني" لمارك توين هي رواية كلاسيكية كُتبت في أواخر القرن التاسع عشر. يجسد هذا العمل المحبوب مغامرات توم سوير، الصبي الصغير الذي نشأ في بلدة سانت بطرسبرغ الخيالية بولاية ميسوري، في زمنٍ اتسم بالبراءة والمغامرة. تستكشف الرواية مواضيع الطفولة والصداقة والتناقض بين توقعات المجتمع والرغبة في الحرية. في هذا الجزء الثاني من مغامرات توم، يتابع القراء الصبي المفعم بالحيوية وهو يخوض غمار مرحلة المراهقة، ويلتقي بحبيبته بيكي تاتشر، وينخرط في المقالب مع صديقه هاكلبيري فين. تتميز القصة بمساعي توم لإثارة إعجاب بيكي، ومغامراته في مدرسة الأحد، ومنافساته المرحة مع أقرانه. تُسلط الرواية الضوء على أفكار توم الداخلية ورغباته وهو يكافح مع الأعراف الاجتماعية بينما يتوق إلى المغامرة والاستقلال. من خلال سرد قصصي حيوي وفكاهي، يرسم توين صورة حنينية لمرحلة الصبا، ملتقطاً أفراحها وتحدياتها في عالم سريع التغير.

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 "الفيل الأبيض المسروق" قصة قصيرة من تأليف مارك توين، نُشرت عام ١٨٨٢. يختفي فيل أبيض سيامي ثمين، كان يُنقل كهدية دبلوماسية إلى ملكة بريطانيا، في ظروف غامضة في نيوجيرسي. يُطلق المفتش بلانت وقسم الشرطة المحلي تحقيقًا مكثفًا لاستعادة الحيوان المفقود. تروي هذه القصة البوليسية رحلة بحثهم اليائسة وسط تعقيدات متزايدة، وصولًا إلى خاتمة غير متوقعة ومأساوية.

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رواية "حكاية حصان" لمارك توين هي رواية كُتبت في أوائل القرن العشرين. تُروى القصة من منظور حصان يُدعى "سولجر بوي"، وهو حصان الكشاف الشهير بافالو بيل. تُشكّل مغامراتهما وتفاعلاتهما مع شخصيات أخرى، من بينها الجنرال أليسون وفتاة صغيرة نشيطة تُدعى كاثي، جوهر هذه الحكاية، حيث يروي الحصان تجاربه على الحدود وعلاقته بمن حوله. في بداية الرواية، يُعرّف "سولجر بوي" بنفسه ويُشاركنا بعضًا من تفاصيل حياته مع بافالو بيل. يصف قوته وسرعته وذكائه، ويروي بفخر الأميال العديدة التي قطعوها معًا في مهمات الاستطلاع. يكشف السرد عن ملاحظات "سولجر بوي" الدقيقة حول رفاقه والأحداث التي تدور من حولهم، بما في ذلك وصول كاثي، الفتاة الصغيرة المغامرة التي سرعان ما سحرت الحامية العسكرية بأكملها. تُمهد البداية الطريق لمغامرة ساحرة ومؤثرة مليئة بالفكاهة ورؤى ثاقبة حول تفاعلات الشخصيات، كل ذلك من خلال منظور فريد من نوعه لحصان.

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The American white waterlily (Nymphaea odorata) is native to North America. The flowers open during the day, close at night, and produce a strong fragrance. David planted them in the…

1. I love puzzles.

2. I love Rube Goldberg contraptions.

3. I love solving problems (I have an inner-Columbo).

4. People are the biggest piece of the puzzle (again Columbo).

5. It teaches me about myself and my limited vision and imagination (if I had unlimited vision and imagination, I would never program a bug, and if I did it would take me 0 seconds to find it).

6. I yearn to work together with great minds. Programming gives me that, when I use someone's API. And when the API anticipates my needs, and is instantly understandable, I feel the soul of another artist is present. I imagine this is how musicians feel when they play another musician's song or symphony.

I'm sure there's more to it. But today I'm working on a "lite" problem, and I'll figure it out, but right now I'm enjoying the fact that I don't get it.

Back to work Dave!