Somewhere in this timeframe Adam Curry began Daily Source Code which is still running to this day, almost 20 years later ..read more

On this day in 2004 I was in Boston to blog the Democratic National Convention, esp with my newfangled audio blog post thing ..read more

I lost my iPhone a few days ago. I think all the data is safe. First time I ever lost a phone. I ordered a new iPhone 15 Pro with 256GB, it will arrive on Monday hopefully. In the meantime I've needed to use my Android phone to record voice memos. It's just what I wanted. It has a website, so you don't have to export your recording to get it where you need it to be, and it automatically does a transcript. There's an editor on the website, which again is exactly where I want it. BTW, I think the files are smaller? Here's a screen shot ..read more

I sent a tweet to Eric Raymond today, lightly edited here, following up on a thread that started in 2001. What Raymond said in 2001. XML-RPC, in particular, is very much in the Unix spirit. It's deliberately minimalist but nevertheless quite powerful, offering a way for the vast majority of RPC applications that can get by on passing around boolean/integer/float/string datatypes to do their thing in a way that is lightweight and easy to to understand and monitor. This simple type ontology acts as a valuable check on interface complexity. It's very true, my design goal for my whole 50+ year c ..read more

Has anyone ever seen Trump laugh ..read more

We're at a huge fork in the road. One fork -- goodbye USA, the other way, we're stronger than ever. We're in a good spot because Trump's tank is empty. He's old, tired, fat, addled, fetid, rotten. You have to work really hard not to see that. If it works, Biden will have stabilized the country, and Harris will erect the guardrails that make sure no one follows in Trump's path, and the Supreme Court gets back into its proper place. They've been overthrowing our society, economy and political system. That all has to be reversed before it does too much damage, and prevented in the future. I want ..read more

Biden's speech might turn out to be a Gettysburg type speech. I hope it does ..read more

Software-wise I realized recently that everything that takes me away from creating really nice writing and publishing tools is a waste. I have to get off track because there are huge holes in the web as a runtime platform. And every year it gets worse as new incompatible languages are added, new incompatible stacks built. As a result we have to re-do everything all the time, and never get a chance to create new user experience. The market fragments, which is exactly what the tech companies want. It keeps their products from becoming commodities. And like it or not, the politicians and corporat ..read more

I am optimistic that Trump is headed for the graveyard of history, shortly. First time I've felt like this in a long time. When (if) that happens, we can use Cory Doctorow's excellent concept enshitification to describe what he did to the American political system. He also stress tested it, and we would be the greatest fools imaginable if we didn't add some seriously enforceable guardrails to prevent this kind of attack happening in the future. Might work out well to have a lawyer in the White House ..read more

I want a Masto-clone that does not do replies. You can't insert anything under my idea, but you can if you like include my idea, as a link, in yours. This model works. I think by now we know the other way does not work. BTW I use the term Masto-clone interchangeably with Twitter-like. Let's spread the love around ..read more