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Post on Manton Reece - Manton Reece

2024-12-11T20:16:07.000Z

Today’s OpenAI demo is a really good showcase of Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration. It’s better than I remember it being from WWDC.

Post on Manton Reece - Manton Reece

2024-12-11T19:03:35.000Z

404 Media quotes Matt Mullenweg, who is very frustrated with the preliminary injunction in favor of WP Engine:

I’m sick and disgusted to be legally compelled to provide free labor to an organization as parasitic and exploitive as WP Engine. I hope you all get what you and WP Engine wanted.

Whatever we might think of Matt’s campaign against WP Engine, I’m skeptical of this legal decision and expect it could be reversed when there’s a trial. It’s certainly great for WordPress.org to be a community resource, but should it be required to be so? Very odd precedent if true.

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2024-12-11T12:57:04.000Z

Getting a massive overhaul of Shortcuts support in OmniFocus 4.5 this morning is like an early Christmas present! I whipped up a quick “Add to List” shortcut to try it and love the new interfaces. They are significantly more intuitive. 🎁

Post on JF Martin - JF Martin

2024-12-11T12:34:39.000Z

I got an email from Ghost to participate in the ActivityPub beta for my blog. I’m not sure how my blog will be named in the fediverse, but I can imagine being able to get comments from people here on Micro.blog and having those comments appear at the bottom of my blog posts. Will see soon enough.

Post on Denny Henke - Denny Henke

2024-12-11T08:46:28.000Z

# On the question of violence as a solution to our problems, I'm generally agreed with the Liberal Redneck's take that fits with many others: "You can only push people so far before they push back with the barrel of a gun, in broad daylight, to near universal acclaim."

Air fryers produce less indoor air pollution - Tracy Durnell

2024-12-11T07:49:53.000Z

Bookmarked Scientists Reveal a Very Compelling Reason to Use Your Air Fryer by David Nield (Science Alert)

Stir frying, deep fat frying, boiling, and pan frying food are all far more likely to pollute your home's indoors than the relative newcomer to the modern kitchen, the benchtop air fryer oven.

Video pairing: systems steeped in values - Tracy Durnell

2024-12-11T07:25:11.000Z

How thousands of school lunches are made for Japanese students (video) by Adedayo Afolabi and David Valerio (Business Insider)

A completely different perspective on food in schools, considering it both part of the curriculum and an essential role of schools to make sure kids are fed.

How did planners design Soviet cities? (video) by City Beautiful (Dave Amos)

Radically different priorities and power structures from the West led USSR cities to be arranged into modules of “microdistricts” that sound like 5-minute neighborhoods (which perhaps helps explain why some people are suspicious of them? 🤔)

(See also:

Soviet Seasons

CCCP Underground)

Photo Sharing, The Web and Museums - JF Martin

2024-12-11T02:07:07.000Z

Here is a thought about recent tweaks to RSS importer on Micro.blog. For example, now it’s possible to import photos in the RSS feed published by Glass. With this, when I publish a photo on Glass, it gets posted on my blog too. The same photo on two platforms. As much as I like the POSSE principle for writing, it doesn’t fit well with my desire to share photos on special places, like a photo-dedicated service. Glass is such a special place, just like Pixelfed. What would be the point of having a single photo spread out on other platforms? I see places like Glass like museums. Pieces of art hanged on the wall of a museum are unique to this place. It makes the place unique. I’m still thinking about all this.

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2024-12-11T01:00:06.000Z

I have half-jokingly said for years that I wish there were professional scratchers, sort of like massage therapists, but to scratch your back! Then in today’s NextDraft:

“A small but growing field of scratchers are making a living off their nails, hoping there’s a healthy market of people who will pay $100 or more an hour to do what a spouse or wooden spoon will do for free. Professionals contend they’re not just scratching itches. They say they’re helping people achieve a level of relaxation that is beyond the reach of a kitchen utensil or loved one. They drum up interest by posting videos of clients oohing and aahing in candlelit rooms.” WSJ (Gift Article): How to Make $100 an Hour Scratching Someone’s Back.

Why are my best friends Jewish? - Derek Sivers

2024-12-11T00:00:00.000Z

This is a real question. I don’t know the answer and I’m curious.

I lived in New York City for ten years and Los Angeles for seven years, and there are a lot of Jewish people in those two cities, so it could be coincidence.

But I honestly didn’t realize it until one day I was thinking about the difference between shallow versus deep friendships, and made a list of my closest friends — the few that I’d do anything for, and trust with my life. After I looked at the short list, smiling and appreciating, I looked again. Wow. All of them are Jewish. Is it coincidence, or a cultural attraction?

I meet a lot of people and like most of them, but it’s rare I feel that extra-extra click with someone. In Buenos Aires this year, I met with a musician named Alejandro Staro, and we instantly felt like old friends. Then two hours into the conversation, he said something about his Jewish culture, and I was shocked. I had no idea. If that was part of the reason I felt an instant click with him, how could that be?

When I got home to New Zealand, I called one of my best non-Jewish friends, to ask her about this. She’s from Iran, Bahá’í faith, and spent twenty years fighting terrorism on the front-lines of Afghanistan, Sudan, and Kenya, before taking a nice peaceful post in 2019, in Kyiv Ukraine. Oops. (Yes she’s a magnet for disaster, and has also been attacked by a dolphin and silverback gorilla.) But anyway. She’s also one of those rare people that I super-clicked with the minute we met, years ago. So I explained the situation and asked her why I’m so drawn to Jewish people.

She said, “Maybe that’s why you and I clicked so well.”

I said, “Ha. Wait. What? No. You’re Bahá’í.”

She said, “Yeah but two of my grandparents are Jewish, so it was always part of my family’s culture.”

Again! I had no idea, so it was another blind taste test.

So if this is a cultural attraction, then what is that really? My friends are vastly different, some religious, some not at all, from different countries and backgrounds, so any cultural similarity must be subtle.

Is it the Talmudic tradition of questioning and analyzing? Something else? I’m out of ideas, so I’m asking the world.

Please leave a reply here if you have any thoughts.

(And if it really interests you, consider reading “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Judaism” — a surprisingly great book, written by a rabbi.)

Post on Manton Reece - Manton Reece

2024-12-10T22:19:13.000Z

Cool to see Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) back working on Redis after several years away. Redis is a fantastic, unique tool. He shares his thoughts on the licensing drama, using AI, and new data structures that could be added to Redis.

December 10. - Ran Prieur

2024-12-10T22:00:37.000Z

December 10. Yesterday I posted a new instructional video, Piano Polyrhythms and Phasing. I don't know how prolific YouTubers do it, or for that matter, teachers. It took me hours and hours to work out how to present the material, and then a bunch of takes of the video before I got one that was adequate. Polyrhythms are my piano obsession, and the one place where I might have something to teach an actual good player.

Post on Manton Reece - Manton Reece

2024-12-10T18:57:40.000Z

This is a great post by Laurens Hof of the Fediverse Report on the incomplete ActivityPub rollout in Threads, why it might be going so slowly, and whether Meta is committed to the fediverse at all. It seems clear now that it will not be practical to move an account away from Threads. Empty promises.

Post on Chris Coyier - Chris Coyier

2024-12-10T18:43:53.000Z

Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viability of the web, making content, ads to support that content, CodePen’s future plans, books, side quests, and social networks devaluing links.
ShopTalk & Friends

Post on Manton Reece - Manton Reece

2024-12-10T17:35:56.000Z

Day One can no longer import Instagram photos because of an API change:

We regret to inform you that, starting December 4, 2024, Instagram no longer allows apps to import content through the Instagram Basic Display API. This change means that Day One users will no longer be able to connect their Instagram accounts to import photos and posts into their journals.

Related to my short post this morning. Meta just doesn’t care much if they burn developers who invest in their platform.

Post on Manton Reece - Manton Reece

2024-12-10T15:12:16.000Z

Seth Godin blogged recently about constructive complaining vs. whining:

Whining is communication that exasperates others, because it is complaint without benefit or action. The best traveling companions are often those that don’t whine, even when they have a very good reason to. Whining is empty commentary where no action is possible, about something we already understand.

Post on Manton Reece - Manton Reece

2024-12-10T15:05:16.000Z

Because we are a very small team, I’ve always been good with “use whatever coding style you want!” I try to adapt to the conventions used in other people’s projects. But lately, I just want to go all-in on mandating real tabs. I’m getting too old to deal with tabs-as-spaces.

Post on Marty Day - Marty Day

2024-12-10T14:53:56.000Z

Do I want to buy YET ANOTHER THING on Amazon? No. But if you’re telling me I can avoid haggling, the hours of sitting around waiting for paperwork, the upsales and more, then: yes, I’d be fine buying my car on Amazon.

Post on Luke Harris - Luke Harris

2024-12-10T12:59:23.000Z

Gonna be real: Advent of Code Day Two: Part 2 is kicking my butt. Feels like every single thing I try was both thought of and strategically eliminated. Having fun though, I assure you.

Narrator: they were not assured.

I saw someone in a Discord mention that they were glad they weren’t using Go for AoC this year specifically because of all the slice manipulation we have to do. I feel that, but I’ve also seen some solutions that look perfectly ok. I don’t think Go is the issue here, but I do lose track of where I’m at with slice operations pretty frequently.

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Post on Manton Reece - Manton Reece

2024-12-10T12:33:21.000Z

It’s hard to take Meta’s effort with more open APIs like ActivityPub seriously when their own Threads API is so locked down, requiring frequent re-approval. Open APIs shouldn’t make developers jump through hoops, over and over. Enough with the gatekeeping already.