Recorded a short video to explain a new batch selection interface for uploaded photos, just rolled out today in Micro.blog.

Poking around in WordPress because I wanted to see how they handle something in the UI, and I just noticed the “Create AI Podcast” sidebar menu item:

Pick a date range or a few specific posts and we’ll generate a two-host conversation, complete with narration and a ready-to-publish draft. Edit, refine, and hit Publish when you’re happy.

I want more people to podcast, but creating a podcast with multiple fake hosts (for what is likely a solo personal blog) is weird and unnecessary. This is why so many people hate AI.

Love this Apple video of embroidery for the logo to announce the October 13th event. 🧵

Thought maybe I wouldn’t bother downloading the latest Xcode 27.1 from a coffee shop, but I’m glad I tried. Actually getting 300 Mbps.

If programming languages don’t matter much anymore, but reviewing code matters more than ever, can we resurrect RubyCocoa? Ruby is still one of the most elegant, readable languages. Wish I could use it everywhere.

Andrew Shell actually built a Markdown browser:

I quickly realized that much of this was already present with sites like mine that serve markdown for LLMs.

I knew about /llms.txt, but didn’t realize there were so many people using HTTP content negotiation with text/markdown.

Nick Heer has a blog post about Meta charging if you want to link outside their silos:

Instagram has never supported links of any kind in individual posts, so that is a new feature with two links per month permitted for free, and more enabled by this pricey subscription — starting at $50 USD per month for four posts per month containing external links

How the turn tables… Remember when Australia and Canada wanted Facebook to pay newspapers for linking to their articles? This is some twisted karma. In both cases, paying for links is fundamentally anti-web.

Margaret Hamilton:

Coming up with solutions and new ideas was an adventure. Dedication and commitment were a given. Mutual respect was across the board. Because software was a mystery, a black box, upper management gave us total freedom and trust. We had to find a way, and we did.

There’s an amazing photo of her standing with print-outs of code for Apollo missions. Rest in peace.

Reading Dave Winer’s notes on a hypothetical Markdown web browser. I don’t think we need to reinvent the web or HTML, but it would be neat if web browsers had built-in Markdown preview by default. Why not? Browsers render PDF and all sorts of files.

There’s a bit of accidental gamification going on with my releases.md gist. Feels good to work on something and then see it reflected in that file.