I added a new plug-in to Micro.blog’s plug-in directory that implements the about.md and contact.vcf parts of SocialSpec. It’s an experiment, we’ll see where it goes!

Caleb Hailey has announced socialspec.org, a suite of recommendations for making websites more social. Following lists, about pages, and contact info. “The future of social media is websites.”

Love the great feedback about Micro.blog’s new Blog Audit feature. Today I updated it with a couple more improvements: an option to download and copy archived images instead of just fixing the img tag, and a better way for us to stop bot hits from showing up in the missing paths section.

Looking forward to this documentary about Don Bluth. From Cartoon Brew:

Directed by Dave LaMattina and Chad Walker of Copper Pot Pictures, the feature chronicles Bluth’s extraordinary career, from his early years at Disney and his dramatic 1979 departure to the creation of an independent animation empire that, for a time, rivaled the studio he left behind.

The idea that AI might be conscious falls apart pretty quickly when you consider ChatGPT Images. It’s also built on the same underlying AI technology, but no one would consider image generation to be conscious.

I have a test blog on WordPress.com, so I temporarily upgraded it to test Jetpack in ChatGPT. Here’s a transcript. Do people want this? I’ve avoided building this because I don’t think we should encourage non-human writing on Micro.blog. It could be useful in some cases, though, for dictation.

Dan Moren blogging at Six Colors on the new Apple TV announcements:

In an announcement sure to shock the very foundations of the world, Apple rolled out a new Apple Siri Remote with support for Find My…

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HomeView is not available in the EU because Siri AI isn’t available there. I think Europe should hold the line on this, or find a compromise that will allow limited third-party voice assistants. Talking to my OpenAI dot on a HomeView is exactly what I want.

The video introducing HomeView isn’t making me feel the way Apple probably intended. Now I’m just sad for when my kids were all living at home. Note to parents with younger kids: try to appreciate even the crazy mornings.

Jon Hays makes the case that not only will AI not wipe out software developers, in several years we might have more available jobs than people:

By then, I suspect we’ll have discovered that AI hasn’t eliminated the need for good software engineers. It’s simply changed what those engineers are capable of producing. We’ll also have spent years discouraging young people from entering the profession, leaving us with a much smaller pipeline of new talent just as the demand for software continues to grow.