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2017: The thing people don't realize about storm surge, and they don't really explain it on TV, is this. If the ocean surges 1 mile inland, and you were on the beach before the surge, now you're 1 mile out to sea. In normal times you'd be pretty fucked if someone dropped you in the ocean a mile from shore. But you're in a hurricane. Huge waves. There's no one to rescue you. And (this is the part that will kill you) there are deadly objects in the water like buildings and trees and power lines, even a rope can entangle you and make it impossible for you to swim. And if you can't swim and you're a mile from shore, that's the end of you

Putting the finishing touches on the new @hypertexting.com TestFlight release this morning. I’m excited to ship this!

New versions of my apps are on their way to apple for review.

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WordPress emerged from the ashes of UserLand, something I am recently reacquainted with, working the last couple of months with Claude on a reboot of Frontier, this time written in JavaScript, running in Electron. But someone is sure to reboot Manila in this context, and Manila is at least a grandparent of WordPress. I'm following all kinds of trails as we test the product, codename Atlantis, against all the apps we wrote for it back then.

This is metal.

Cool.

Site release 617b3e6: Upgrade 8 OpenTimestamps proofs to Bitcoin anchors. Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

This is a perfect example of why I want Apple to sell me a computer for “my Siri AI”. I need an AI hub where I can give Siri AI free rein to handle complex tasks for me.

Every organisation i work with keeps its decisions in documents that quietly forget why they were made. Resolve a comment and the reasoning disappears. There is tooling that does not work that way; it is thirty-five years old, it runs the software your phone is built on, and almost nobody outside that world has noticed.

Repository: BlackRock’s latest SEC filing values its Automattic shares at $14.33 per share. They originally invested at $85 a share in 2021. That means their market cap has dropped from $7.5 billion to $1.2 billion. My guess is when that happens the CEO if they want to keep their job, has to rethink the whole enterprise. And that usually doesn't happen until they get a new CEO. My guess is that's what we saw play out yesterday.

The last two episodes of season three of Silo on AppleTV prove that there is value in a three season, boring escapade of confusing, unlikable uninteresting characters, living their whole lives in a silo, fearing the outdoors -- if you have a clever way of accounting for all that at the end. Highly recommend watching just season three and pretending that none of the other stuff matters because it probably doesn’t. But I bet if I go back to the beginning and start over, I'll find there's more intrigue than I thought. I'll probably do it, will let you know.

Fair to say I was gobsmacked by the news late yesterday that Automattic's board had put their CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on paid leave. I've read lots of stuff about it, in news articles and in a Hacker News thread. And a lot of posts on Twitter by Matt, and the replies. Are you ...

Freedom wins. “Nearly 90% of foreign immigrants settled in free states.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/climate-caused-the-us-civil-war

The truth in political advertising: ‘You’re allowed to lie’ : NPR i’m in the middle of reading rewiring democracy by bruce schneier, et al, this was linked as a reference. i’ve suspected, but didn’t know, that lying is in acceptable in political advertising as the speech wo...

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Thursday, 10 September 2026 The average temperature today is 16.49˚C, With highs of 17.75˚C and lows of 16.01˚C, It may feel like 15.87˚C with broken clouds The wind speed is 4.12m/s and visibility is 10000m The pre...

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Biology is gangsta. “I wish my high school biology teacher had asked the class how an embryo could possibly differentiate—and then paused to let us really think about it. The whole subject is in the answer to that question. A chemical gradient in the embryonic fluid is enough of a signal to slightly alter the… Read More »I should have loved biology

Many IT guys are like this. And their companies follow. “Believing whatever someone in a position of authority says even in the face of clear evidence that it is false.Allowing someone in a position of authority to break the rules while everyone in the community is expected to follow them.Praising or forgiving the bad behavior… Read More »Authoritarianism of Code

Evidence-based UK review of CoQ10 for longevity, sleep, and healthy ageing. Updated 2026-09-10.