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I almost fell for a phishing hack.

2017: The thing people don't realize about storm surge, and they don't really explain it on TV, is this.

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.

Repository: BlackRock’s latest SEC filing values its Automattic shares at $14.33 per share.

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…

Fair to say I was gobsmacked by the news late yesterday that Automattic's board had put their CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on paid leave.

Surprising news.

I have completely lost interest in new phones.

I spent the day programming in Atlantis.

Claude Code massively stinks at explaining things in a way that a human can understand.

Ideas for Bluesky and WordPress re Markdown and AI systems.

Scott Hanson is working on a WordPress plugin that displays a FeedLand river — a constantly-updated stream of news items from feeds a FeedLand user subscribes to — on a WordPress page or post.

People love Markdown because it's impossible to hide the crud.

On the other hand, why doesn't Microsoft, which owns GitHub, make a Slack-alike tool that manages the issues sections on repos.

A big corner-turn in the Atlantis project, the new version of Frontier for modern OSes, in development, just me and Claude Code so far.

Today's song: So into you.

We got past the bump, and I'm getting stuff done.

Every day with Claude I end up debugging the things it broke overnight.

The governor of Kentucky should appoint a successor to McConnell unless he can prove he’s actually alive.

I had watched almost three seasons of Silo, had no feeling for the characters, or the story, which was going nowhere that I could discern.

I launched ChatGPT for the first time in a long time because I now have access to the new version.

If you want others to follow you, you have to offer them your users.

It's around this time of year that Santa makes his first appearance on my blog.

My first job after college was on the 39th floor of the Empire State Building.

Just said this to Claude: "This is a very broken piece of software.

More and more I'll realize that Claude doesn't do anything until you tell it to do it.

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Everyone is introducing themselves on the Berkman community mail list, at the beginning of the fall semester, and here's the story I am telling.

A bunch of tech billionaires have chipped in a million each to fund a new Linux distribution.

After saying I was putting my tech work aside, yesterday, I had a bolt of determination, and realized I don't like collaborating with Claude Code, but maybe it's just when we get to this stage of a project where it's all details, and they're hard to commu…

We got agents running in Atlantis today.

The blogging tools for Bluesky should be able to publish on Bluesky.

Understands.

Obama should have seated Garland if the Senate wouldn’t have a vote to advise and consent.

Creative computer people, consider consolidating all the different OSes and programming languages.

OPML archive for August 2026.

If you View Source on a fatpage, scroll to the bottom, you'll see the code.

I begin the month of September for some reason, not feeling like working.