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Finished reading: Palaver by Bryan Washington šŸ“š

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Ghost Pipe flower (not a fungus!) spotted while hiking near Asheville, NC. Thanks Beth and Jonathan for teaching me about this plant!

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How to Hate AI ā€¢ Steve Simkins

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I read a blog post recently saying that it was ok to hate AI. While I agree to some extent, I think it was missing some key points about how to hate AI. Itā€™s easy to just hate something you donā€™t like. We as humans have a natural propensity to hate or dislike things we are not familiar with. The problem is that this approach is akin to putting your head in the sand or screaming at the clouds; it doesnā€™t actually help anyone.

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Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until Itā€™s Too Late | How to Center a Div

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Someone walks through an architectural decision and nobody in that room actually agrees ā€” they just act like they do, because saying what you really think is socially expensive. Meeting ends, decision gets made. Six months later production blows up and everyone says ā€œwe knew this would happen.ā€

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I wonder how AI is going to change this situation? Will it become harder to push back against something AI has built even if itā€™s bad? How long until engineers donā€™t even know what the AI is producing and the automated...

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Ad Infinitum Ā· Matthias Ott

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For 25 years, Google Search was built on a contract. The web provided the content ā€“ billions of pages, freely linked, freely crawled. In return, Google sent people back. The link was the unit of exchange. Itā€™s what made the Web thrive as an information system: you publish, Google indexes, users click through, and value flows back to the source. Win-win.

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That contract is now broken.

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Free stuff unintentional (?) still life.

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Some photos taken outside Taos, NM from last year that I donā€™t think ever made it to the blog.

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Cydintosh: Tiny classic Mac Plus emulator for displaying weather data \"\" : doug.pub

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BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge

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Iā€™ve reviewed a lot of tech products over the past decade and a half, and all I can tell you is that it is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people. Asking people to make themselves more legible to software ā€” to turn themselves into a database ā€” is a doomed idea.

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Great essay by Nilay.

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It feels to me like the whole industry has forgotten about the ā€œpersonalā€ in personal computer. Iā€™m someone who loves computers, or at least I used to. But I think it sounds awful to have to remold my entire life to suit the computer.

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The...

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Film Photography: doug.pub

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This barred owl lives in this magnolia tree right near our home!

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Trumpā€™s latest salvo to upend offshore wind: Pay firmsā€¦ | Canary Media

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In its efforts to block U.S. offshore wind development, the Trump administration has halted project construction, rolled back tax credits, and spread misinformation. Now, in the latest maneuver, the administration is paying aĀ global energy giant nearly $1 billion to walk away from its plans to install turbines off the eastĀ coast.\nOn Monday, the Interior Department said it had struck aĀ deal with Franceā€™s TotalEnergies, which agreed to forfeit its leases for offshore wind areas near North Carolina and New York. In exchange, the Trump...

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A portal in El Morro.

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Finished reading: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir šŸ“š

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Otra de Vieques

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Adios desde Vieques

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Hola desde Vieques

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Phantom Obligation (Text Version) | Terry Godier

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But when we applied that same visual language to RSS (the unread counts, the bold text for new items, the sense of a backlog accumulating) we imported the anxiety without the cause.\nNobody is waiting.

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Really good essay about the design of RSS readers. If this appeals to you, check out the app by this author that implements the ideas in this essay: Current.

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In summer 2024, I started a hobby project to build a personal RSS reader and I had a similar approach to what is described here: no unread counts and building a feed like view of posts across all...

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Technology Connections YouTube video: You are being misled about renewable energy

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If this doesnā€™t convince you that the continued pursuit of fossil fuels is friggen stupid and that the people who are pushing for this are lying to you, then I donā€™t know what will.

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Watch through the end to see a nerd clutching...

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The AI Vampire | Steve Yegge

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With a 10x boost, if you give an engineer Claude Code, then once theyā€™re fluent, their work stream will produce nine additional engineersā€™ worth of value.\nFor someone.\nBut who actually gets to keep that value?

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Interesting post about burnout and AI. Feels like this is increasingly relevant for anyone working with AI but especially software devs.

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Finished reading: Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson šŸ“š

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AI, Software Development, and Centralization: doug.pub

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@ArnoldHoogerwerf I think it makes for a good club book! Our group had some interesting discussions. And reading with a group helped with motivation to make it though all the cetology chapters, haha.

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Currently reading: Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson šŸ“š

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Finished reading: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville šŸ“š

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Epic! I read this with a book club, and Iā€™m very glad this was the clubā€™s pick because Iā€™m not sure I would have read it otherwise. Moby Dick was very different than what I expected, more enjoyable and more relevant than my expectations.

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@ericmwalk Yes! Thereā€™s a whole section of the trail filled with this kind of art. As best as I can tell itā€™s stuff that anyone can contribute to if they feel the desire. And the style of it all I find amusing.

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@bryan When I learned this, it really blew my mind! Really canā€™t imagine what itā€™s like to have a mind like that.

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@manton They certainly seems like they are going for the moon and beyond!

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My best guess, assuming they make it to the moon, is they will have an arc like other tech titans: IBM, Microsoft, DEC where they dominate for some period followed by their dominance waning as things commoditize and open back up.

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@manton Itā€™s just incredible the amount of money going into OpenAI and how much capex they are committing to. Makes me wonder, will they ever actually realize a return on all that investment?

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I think the only way they could is if they become a platform that underpins a significant portion of the economy. And even if their tech ever gets to the point where thatā€™s possible, I personally think itā€™s way too risky to have one company in that position.

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Historically I feel like tech avoids that kind of proprietary platform toward open source or commodities with many suppliers.

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Itā€™s like imagining a world where thereā€™s only one CPU vendor and you have to pay per instruction executed.

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@ericmwalk Thanks, Eric!

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@davemyersworld Thanks, Dave!

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@manton I also doubt itā€™s the end of the web but it may be the end of the ad supported/google monopoly of the web. Iā€™ll feel bad about ad supported sites that I like to read that might go under, but I wonā€™t feel bad about the google monopoly falling apart and taking SEO junk sites with them.

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I do think thereā€™s a chance some sort of micropayment system becomes popular and replaces ad income and maybe even AI agents will need to participate in this system.

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@madimadas.bsky.social Wild! Had no idea. Incredible they got a game download service working on the Atari 2600!

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@ericmwalk Thank you! These were taken on the Blue Hill Peninsula

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@tinyroofnail Thank you!

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@manton Iā€™m weary of Cloudflare further strengthening their position as a gatekeeper.

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I think if something in this space is going to work, it needs to be open and decentralized.

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@tonywes.bsky.social Thanks!

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@tonywes.bsky.social Great! I hope to ride more of the trail next time I visit Florida.

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@tonywes.bsky.social Nice! Howā€™d you like the trail?

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@dfj The history/nostalgia is also a positive factor for me. This book was published in 2009, which was just when I was about to get my start as a professional software engineer.

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@manton Definitely revisionist history!

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@dfj One other thought: I think this situation has helped to further position the Web as our best shot at maintaining a viable open platform as technology and AI progresses.

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@manton Itā€™s an interesting time right now for Apple and their position as a dominant platform, especially on mobile. On the one hand, I trust Apple more than other companies with privacy and my data. On the other, I think Apple has gone too far with lock in and prioritizing their own profits and dominance over whatā€™s best for consumers and the ecosystem.

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Itā€™s feeling to me that the best outcome here might be that LLMs become a commodity and operating systems/platforms allow you to swap out your models with ease. Then you arenā€™t locked in to an OS or a model provider. But I think all the companies involved, including Apple, are trying hard to avoid this open ecosystem.

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@manton ATProto is interesting and seems like a well thought out protocol. But I do wonder what the uptake will be like on other groups running critical infra at scale like relays and PDSes.

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@manton Nice work!

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@chrisheck Thank you! Yes, not a bad place to be stuck!

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@amerpie That sounds like a really good time!

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@palousegeo Yes! Added that to my list. I also want to read Mr. Penumbraā€™s 24-Hour Bookstore!

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@heyloura Thank you for sharing, I think something more person focused like this is something worth investigating more. Something else that resonated from Tracyā€™s post:

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> That visual layout is appealing. As a visual person, I find a lot of the feeds I follow tend to blur together in my readerā€™s chronological feed, so I canā€™t remember whose article Iā€™m reading or which feeds I like best and which have mostly duds so I can unsubscribe.

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I too find that every feed blurs together when presented in the same styling. A lot of the blogs I read (yours especially!) have great, unique designs that Iā€™d like to see when Iā€™m reading that authorā€™s content.

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