{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Martin McCallion","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/devilgate","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"424","username":"devilgate","bio":"Writer. Software developer.","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":266,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Martin McCallion","url":"https://devilgate.org/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2022/424.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"98663407","content_html":"

šŸ“š Books 2026, 22: All That We See or Seem, by Ken Liu: devilgate.org

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@danielpunkass @manton Yes, it seems to be working now. Thanks!

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@danielpunkass Will do, thanks.

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@manton MacOS 13.7.8 (itā€™s a 2017 MacBook Pro, so canā€™t go any higher). Safari 18.6 (18621.3.11.19.1, 18621).

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@manton Iā€™m having a certificate problem with Micro.blog. About a week ago I got an error saying the certificate wasnā€™t trusted. It went away as far as using the web interface is concerned. but Iā€™m still having the problem with MarsEdit. As part of trying to get things to change,I logged out of the M.b app on Mac, and now I canā€™t log back in.

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cc: @danielpunkass for the MarsEdit part.

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Iā€™d attach some screenshots, but I canā€™t.

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Former Environmental Party Changes Shirt Colour from Green to Black: devilgate.org

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@JohnPhilpin Nice. My pronouns are I/me/mine.

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Youā€™re welcome for the Beatles earworm.

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@danieljusticescat.bsky.social Iā€™m not sure. Iā€™ve got an unfinished space opera that Iā€™d like to get back to, but Iā€™m not sure I can quite motivate myself to deal with that one at the moment.

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@matthewlang Your link is 404. And the premise seems wildly unlikely, given the prevalence of Markdown. And Apple have just announced a JSON-based file format for Xcode projects, for example. Seems for me like plain text is on the upswing, if anything.

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@alexwolfe It was day 2 of Britain v Ecuador, and Britain won. I found the doubles match much more exciting than the singles. That may be partly because, once the doubles match was won, so was the whole round. But also I think doubles is just more fun.

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@alexwolfe Hey, I was at the Daviā€™s Cup this weekend too. But it looks like you were somewhere other than the Copper Box Arena in London.

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Watched: Ocean's Eleven (2001) šŸŽ„: devilgate.org

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šŸ“š Books 2026, 21: Hum, by Helen Phillips: devilgate.org

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Good piece by Robin Sloan on using ā€˜AIā€™ to create personalised apps:

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'Ask for what you want' is a key skill for the 21st century robinsloan.com

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it does seem a powerful use case, if you have a matching need.

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Later he says:

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Most of life doesnā€™t happen in here. If, indeed, none of your needs or desires are app-shapedā€‰ā€¦ā€‰well, thatā€™s not unusual! IĀ have chatted about this with several friends who pondered a while, then declared: ā€œIĀ donā€™t have any problems that software can solve.ā€

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If thatā€™s you, close this tab and proceed with your day.

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Ma...

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@scribblep-en.bsky.social

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Thanks. Itā€™s urban fantasy, though a lot of the time it wants to be a mainstream literary novel.

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Yesterday I wrote the end of draft zero of a novel. I call it ā€˜The Edinburgh Novelā€™, as thatā€™s where itā€™s set, and I donā€™t have a title yet. Now I have a load of rewriting to do and many comments from my novel-writing group to incorporate.

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First though, what next, while I let that stew?

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It remains confusing to me about ā€˜AIā€™ that so many people ever started using it. I never used it, aside from a few odd things at work, and I could never think of anything I wanted to ask it.

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No other software I can recall got adopted by so many, so quickly. What happened?

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The Jayhawks, tonight at the Electric Ballroom in Camden.

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šŸ“š Books 2026, 20: Excession, by Iain M Banks: devilgate.org

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Reform continues to cast doubt on climate science. Do its supporters agree?

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For fuckā€™s sake, The Guardian, learn to write an accurate headline. Whatever shite Reform talks about climate science, it doesnā€™t cast doubt on it. It lies about the evidence for global heating, is probably what you should say.

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Started reading: The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s, by Jason Burke. šŸ“š

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šŸ“š Books 2026, 19: Persuasion, by Jane Austen: devilgate.org

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šŸ“š Books 2026, 14: A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. M. Miller: devilgate.org

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Wow, so many typos in todayā€™s post, including Melvilleā€™s surname! I hope no one saw it.

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šŸ“š Books 2026, 18: Moby Dick, by Herman Melville: devilgate.org

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John Gruber may not be a mainstream journalist, in that heā€™s an independent writer, not employed by a large publication; but this retraction of a recent article is an object lesson in how to behave when youā€™ve published something incorrect. Even if, as in this case, youā€™ve been misled.

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This morning I finished reading Moby Dick by Herman Melville šŸ“š

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Wow! More later.

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@sbisson Thanks for that. I couldnā€™tā€˜ve told you the title, but the story really stuck with me. And the ribbon marker in my The Stories of Ray Bradbury was just after it.

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@ReaderJohn Doesnā€™t bother me, Iā€™m just pleased to have learned a new word!

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Watched: Spider-Man: Brand New Day šŸŽ„

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This was great! I think itā€™s the best of the Tom Holland Spideys. Marvel movies seem to be back.

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@ReaderJohn

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ā€œThere is one God, [fill in the blank],ā€ is not a Christian affirmation.

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If you fill in the blank with ā€˜The Father almightyā€™ youā€™ve essentially got the start of the RC (and CoE?) creed!

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@adders Itā€™s also nice where they let you select text and paste a URL over it to create a link.

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Getting rid of teachers because we all have chatbots is like getting rid of doctors because we all have the plague.

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Coryā€™s latest is very good on good and bad uses of LLMs, and why discernment is key to using them well.

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@mmetcalfe Probably not.

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I need to excise the word ā€˜thoughā€™ from my vocabulary, like Iā€™ve just had to excise several instances of it from this morningā€™s post. It is clearly my most overused word.

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@adoran2 I clicked your link in the Micro.blog Mac app, and what looks like a normal link (https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2026/07/28/13913/) took me to a page of raw JSON.

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šŸ“š Books 2026, 17: The Three Eyes of Evil, by AE Van Vogt: devilgate.org

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@JohnPhilpin I never noticed before that Paul is the only one not wearing a hat. An old Scouse sign of death, you know.

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@manton The reply Iā€™m replying to here has visible HTML tags, where I tried to wrap a title as a citation. Is there a way to get this kind of thing to render as expected? It works properly on posts, of course, just not replies.

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@devilgate

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@JohnPhilpin But could you, from memory, sketch out the positions of all four Beatlesā€™ arms from the <cite>Help</cite> cover? I know I couldnā€™t, and like you, itā€™s burned into my mind. Just not clearly enough to sketch.

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Watched: Babylon 5: The Road Home šŸŽ„

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This animated sequel-of-sorts to the wonderful Babylon 5 TV series was released a few years ago, and I somehow missed out on the news. Heard about it a few months ago and was reminded again yesterday.

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Itā€™s good enough, but mainly for the chance to spend some more time...

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Common, Wealthy: devilgate.org

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It is undeniable that Wales has the worldā€™s coolest flag.

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Itā€™s not exactly Danny Boyleā€™s 2012 masterpiece so far, is it?

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@JohnPhilpin Aha, you have achieved both image and text!

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@manton I donā€™t know, man, Thompsonā€™s suggestion smacks of mutually-assured destruction!

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@vazquez That would have to be <cite>Blade Runner</cite> for me.

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@JohnPhilpin I donā€™t see any selectable text in it, so I donā€™t think itā€™s any different?

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@JohnPhilpin Yeah, quite likely! I donā€™t know about the Markdown accessibility thing. Would that be visible in Micro.blog? In NetNewsWire or similar? The reason being, if I want to link to something, Iā€™d like to quote part of it, so Iā€™d like to be able to copy & paste.

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@JohnPhilpin Yes! This, so much this. All too often forgotten.

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(Itā€™d be nice if it was text, not just an image.)

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