Decimal Diary: TGIF and vintage annual reports

Dear Decimal Diary,

Last week I did a little TGIF – Thank God I Filed it – time. And when I was nosing around I found a fun folder I'd forgotten about in 43 Images in our Small Business System.

TGIF is…

The New MCP Authorization Spec is Here! Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Model Context Protocol, and with it, the launch of the new 2025-11-25 specification.

I’ve been helping out with the authorization part of the spec for the last several months, working to make sure we aren't…

An update on my 2024 post. Some fairly major changes this time around. I've been making a concerted effort to move to more self-hosted applications and, failing that, hosted applications built with privacy in mind. This has also been done with an eye towards relying on fewer Apple services.

In October, I launched an instance of Meetable for the MCP Community. They've been using it to post working group meetings as well as in-person community events. In just 2 months it already has 41 events listed!

One of the aspects of opening up the software to a new…

I used to walk past a nondescript grey office building at the intersection of 2nd and Folsom in San Francisco. It’s the kind of corporate architecture that litters every city but nobody really loves: featureless grey walls stretch to the sky, interrupted by the occasional column of sliding windows. At…

I enjoyed this post from Jan once I’d translated it from Dutch and could actually read it. He talks…

The good folks at SOUNDPEATS have sent me their new "Clip1" headphones to review. They are easily the most comfortable headphones I've ever worn.

Typically, headphones fall into three broad categories.

• In ear, like the Apple EarPods.
• Over ear, like the Beats.
• Bone Conducting, like the AfterShokz.

Trail of Bits has developed constant-time coding support for LLVM 21, providing developers with compiler-level guarantees that their cryptographic implementations remain secure against branching-related timing attacks. This work introduces the __builtin_ct_select family of intrinsics and supporting infrastructure that prevents the Clang compiler, and potentially other compilers built with LLVM, from…

[Dave Winer on Scripting News]

I think Dave Winer makes an important distinction here:

“For a piece of software, being of the web means that it is built to share data with other apps, ones that receive data as input, as a feed reader consumes feeds, or generate…

On the cusp of the snowy doorstep, I felt a child-like excitement. I wanted to run outside and embrace the snow — the first proper snow, as we would say here, in at least a year. This is the kind of snow that will lie on the ground., I…