Thoughts by Daniel Lombraña
Fascinating online magazine from Microsoft. Looks like some thoughtful essays in this:
The Humanist Review of AI is a quarterly publication funded by Microsoft AI. We bring together thinkers from different fields to explore the impact of AI on society
Great start to FediForum. Really enjoyed Anil Dash's talk, and now Daniel Holmgren is just wrapping up on AT Proto Spaces. Lots more for me to dig into with Spaces.
Toni Schneider revealed that Bluesky is trying to make a .bsky top-level domain. Interesting strategy. Hopefully they can monetize this while keeping it open for anyone to use, like Automattic did with .blog.
I know I'm late to the party, but I'm getting into listening to Golden from KPop Demon Hunters. Catchy. "We're going up, up, up, it's our moment…" 🎶
Rewrote the CSS editor in Micro.blog. Much better now, with nicer colors. Here's a screenshot.
I feel like I'm drowning in managing multiple app releases, so I'm trying something new: letting AI (my OpenAI dot for now) update a single releases.md document that has high-level notes about what has shipped recently and what's being worked on. Making it public because it might be interesting.
If you spend 45 minutes a day angry at strangers online, you’ll give them about 270 hours this year. That’s nearly seven full 40-hour work weeks, handed to people you’ll never meet, about events you can’t change.
Sobering. 🙁
Perhaps as the value of individual apps decreases, with many more apps being released, the value of complex systems will go up. It's still relatively hard to build and run a platform that combines many different services and databases.
Reading The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler.
App development is clearly accelerating. There are so many new apps being developed and shipped that before wouldn't have existed or would've stayed hobby projects.
It's cool! There are fewer barriers. But it's also noisy and will require new ways of thinking about competition and getting noticed.
Here's a quick video demo of the new version of Micro.blog for Mac that we released a couple days ago. It shows the book calendar and note dictation. Enjoy!
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Somebody took my proprietary CSS and made a website with it. I investigated. His name is Karl and he lives at:
It's the best-looking website on the Bear Blog platform. No old junk, posts are short and everything is arranged with an almost offensive amount of taste. It turns out the CSS works exactly as advertised.
This raises serious questions about intellectual property, artistic integrity, and why nobody is paying me.
Free clown again.
This is how it starts. First they steal the CSS. Then they steal the website.
I have decided not to press charges.
On Unstory: Nihilism, Smallweb Discourse, & the Value of Expression
https://trialandfailure.net/on-unstory-nihilism-smallweb-discourse-the-value-of-expression/
Sadly, the "Author" noticed me by email. For mind's sake! First, I read this 3,000-word article, then I wrote a 1,000-word email reply to it.
I was a clown for free.
The Earth is still rotating.
Going black and white.
Just need a new iPhone to properly document this bullshit. Sponsors, do your fucking thing.
https://www.simplermachines.com/what-is-a-text/
Could be written just on toilet paper.