Eurobubba
Kodachrome film is going to be one of those technologies that are lost for centuries, maybe forever, like Roman concrete or Greek fire.
Here’s one for @manton when he’s stuck at home! Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window using…
PSA: An introduction to a book is a FOREWORD, not a FORWARD! Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
I just had Claude Code build me a Mac app to open individual markdown files in Obsidian by registering their enclosing folder as a vault (if it wasn’t already one). Took about 20 minutes including a couple of changes and testing.
This makes me sad. xkcd: Aerospace Flowchart
Photogs: check your horizon and keep it straight (unless you consciously don’t want it to be straight).
So, any tech support chatbot programmers on here? Make a note: the bot telling me it “understands my frustration” doesn’t help. On the contrary.
None of the lifelong experts in the field are doing this simple thing I just thought of. It must be because I am brilliant and they are stupid.
The English-speaking world is sometimes called the anglosphere. For French it’s la francophonie. Is there an analogous expression for Spanish?
In the rush to block / mute / filter out slop, let’s not inadvertently cancel people who aren’t native English speakers and are using AI translation to help communicate with you or the world at large.
Apple should merge the new improved Golden Gate Siri with Terminal. Siri should be smart enough to distinguish among chat prompts, searches, and CLI commands, or ask the user if there’s an ambiguity.
Vive la France!
Accidentally discovered a pretty great local singer this evening at a place I wasn’t even expecting to be a music venue.
Inchoate thought: the way I’ve been using Claude Cowork with various MCPs makes me wonder how much longer “applications” as we know them will remain a useful concept. We still need visual representations of our data, but LLM harnesses will keep getting better at generating those on the fly.
Mary Heimann’s Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed is like the Fox News version of history and the Czechs are the Democrats.
Steve Jobs might have been the boss from hell, but “If you can’t get this together, you will not have descendants” is a great line.
