birdwatching

I sold cell phones at Best Buy when the first iPhone launched.

When I finished reading The Small Stuff (a non-fiction book), I excitedly told my wife and she asked me how many books I’d read this year.

I finished The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life by Ian Bogost a few weeks ago and meant to write a post about it, but never did.

I still haven’t been meeting my personal writing goals, but I’m not gonna mope about it in blog posts anymore.

When I restarted this little writing project, I set a goal of 2 posts per week.

Yesterday I saw Coyote vs.

Coyote vs.

My family first got online with Prodigy dial-up when I was 8.

Suggested watch for anyone who loves design, classic Apple stuff and creative process (a bullseye for me).

Many thanks to Dense Discovery for featuring Blankie in today’s issue!

From the birdwatching colophon: Posts are written in Markdown because writing requires restraint.

When people say the Mac was weird and funny in the early 90’s, it’s stuff like this little utility from Altura Software that they were talking about.

mac-encoding on crates.io I’ve been working on some classic Mac projects but I kept tripping over text encodings.

Plenty of people are aware of Clarus the dogcow (who says “moof!”)

RIP Claude – Rands in Repose I tried writing with AI, but I quit immediately because they suck at it.

Looks like I won’t be able to try Manna’s drone delivery today in Tulsa because I don’t live or work inside the very small launch area.

Manna drone delivery launches today in Tulsa.

Someone on NetNewsWire’s Discourse site recently asked, “How to find motivation for reading feeds?”

How Claude marks AI-generated content: When a supported Claude model generates text, it weaves an imperceptible watermark directly into the text itself.

My blog officially has a new name: birdwatching.

Simon Willison recently reshared some advice he gave in an interview: My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards!

Last week I was talking to my friend Josh about blogging and our conversation was self-inspiring enough that I decided to set up another blog.

I’ve mostly finished redesigning b10g.xyz after moving to Micro.blog.

Josh Gammon: The industries built to help facilitate third spaces in our communities keep getting bought out and shut down.

Jynn Nelson, writing for The “Inside Rust” Blog: At the time of writing, there are 1,281 open PRs to rust-lang/rust.