"I Can't Believe It's Not Software!" Paul Ford on AI and the Asterisk* - YouTube
Paul Ford is always so impressive and smart and sensible. I love reading and listening to him.
"I Can't Believe It's Not Software!" Paul Ford on AI and the Asterisk* - YouTube
Paul Ford is always so impressive and smart and sensible. I love reading and listening to him.
I was catching up with some tech news yesterday and every time I read one of these “I woke up with a USD 18k bill in my Cloud account” articles, I am reminded about how fucking stupid—and predatory—this whole industry can be.
The ability to set hard spending caps should…
I like to walk quickly. One of my childhood friends did, too. Whenever I reflect on the pace at which I walk, I think of the times when we tried to walk as fast as possible. My friend was much more athletic than I – with longer legs, too –…
my hunch is that we should prepare ourselves for way, way too many apps.
It's already happening, and that's just the ones I make for myself.

I was able to prove my ownership of a copy of DaVinci Resolve Studio so they finally sent my activation code. That was A Whole Thing, but B&H and Black Magic came through. Now to properly test the new RAW editing features in v21.
I thought I would get along…
In 2018, David and Chris recorded a podcast episode about the indie web in which the topic “living the indie web life” came up. As soon as I heard the phrase, I thought to myself: what does living the indie web life mean to me?
This evening I hosted an…
Mark your calendar for next Thursday. I will do another live stream with Sacha Chua. We will talk about Emacs and I will check on her progress since our last meeting. I am looking forward to it!
Note that the event will be recorded.
Drew Truslove uses a dip pen and ink to create intricate portraits and landscape drawings. I don't understand how the mind of someone who can do this works. It's amazing.
(via Dense Discovery #385)
The kitchen was scattered with rainbows as the sun shone through the frosted glass. Maybe the glass was put there to make rainbows; what was the architect thinking when they designed this place? I saw the shadows of my head and my hair cast onto the cabinets. Can I make…
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