Miloš Miljković blogging about his blog manager for Emacs:

It took me less that two hours with Google Gemini to create microblog.el, a micro.blog manager for Emacs which can edit old posts, create new ones (even with images), auto-complete tags and perform lightning-fast full text search. What a time to be alive!

This isn’t only about AI. With open platforms you don’t need permission. Just build things.

What Micro.blog traffic looks like when we see bots go crazy trying to find vulnerabilities. Very annoying.

I don’t watch much hockey but now really getting into this USA vs. Canada gold medal game. 🏒

Spurs in Austin. 🏀

Rediscovering drop shadows.

I managed to go Monday through Friday without any posts about AI. So now it’s time to catch up! The Verge:

OpenAI’s first hardware release will be a smart speaker with a camera that will probably cost between $200 and $300, according to The Information. The device will be able to recognize things like “items on a nearby table or conversations people are having in the vicinity”…

I think the key things to watch will be latency and memory. Building on ChatGPT, they don’t even need to innovate that much for the product to be better than the Echo and HomePod.

Finished reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Parts of the future (particularly electricity) were distracting for me because they felt implausible. Still really enjoyed it. Wish I had read it before our actual pandemic. 📚

From an article in The New Yorker about a bookstore that only sells signed books:

Even before he learned to love to read, Reiss the retail genius recognized what every real reader knows: a book is not just its contents but also, and inseparably, a special kind of object, a portal of sorts between people and places and ideas.

I’m still surprised that Mozilla shut down Pocket. Lots of competition in the bookmarking / read-later space, but that’s because it’s such an important complement to a web browser. I think the organization should’ve refocused around 2-3 great web things that work with Firefox.

Good post by Victoria Song at The Verge about distrust of smart glasses:

Meta’s glasses are great because they’re discreet. That discretion is also unnerving because it means they’re perfect monitoring tools. I’ve written this many times, but wearing modern smart glasses often makes me feel like I’m a spy. It doesn’t matter if the Ray-Ban Meta glasses have a privacy indicator light.

I’m curious how Apple (without Meta’s poor reputation on privacy) is going to handle this. Not sure it can be solved. In the future, there might be places that have signs like “take your smart glasses off”.

Got a preview from @vincent of something new coming up for Micro.blog Studio subscribers. Can’t wait to share it. It looks so good. 🎙️

CNN: “Supreme Court rules that Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal.” A much-needed check on Trump’s power. Next up is the midterms. 🇺🇸

Downtown view from the Long Center. Just went to see Macbeth. 🎭

There’s a new proposed lexicon for Markdown-based content in AT Proto. I could support this. The problem is that currently there’s no good way to have multiple formats, and I think HTML is still the richest, most complete way to represent blog posts.

Ceiling skylight.

Hannah Aubry writes on the Mastodon blog about community initiatives including experiments to change how new users sign up:

At first, we’re planning to recommend the closest geographic server in the correct language based on data surfaced by the app store, so it will only be available initially on the Android and iOS apps. We may also experiment with other logic for recommending a server, including random distribution.

I don’t believe this will help. In fact, it might make users more confused. My proposal remains to move away from email-like user handles.

Hearing from multiple people now (including my son!) who have gone back to buying music. Spotify burnout. I still have a huge collection of iTunes purchases and ripped CDs, just sitting there.

When I found out Current was going to ship this week, I postponed making a video preview of my own RSS reader because it would feel like I was interfering with Current’s release. Now the tables have turned. Current is so popular that I just need to stay out of its way or I’ll get overshadowed. 🤪

Last year I was often expecting unexpected calls, from doctors and nurses, so I turned off “silence unknown callers”. I’ve now officially had enough of the spam interruptions. Enabled it again. ☎️