Paul Frazee on the differences between atproto, ActivityPub, and Nostr.

I don’t pop molly, I read Paul Ford
International bring back the blog post

Yeah, Ftrain is back on the tools again.

“What concerns me most is the unintended consequence of these blocks. When libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses access to history. Journalists lose tools for accountability. Researchers lose evidence. The web becomes more fragile and more fragmented, and history becomes easier to rewrite.”

We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of work.

We’re calling it Deep Blue.

Now that I’m a parent, I think about this quote multiple times a month:

Their mom has played the new EP for them a couple times. They’re like, “My favorite song is ‘Less Than’.” That’s sweet, but then I’m thinking, Don’t I say ‘fuck’ in that one? Same thing when they were at sound check: What song don’t I say ‘fuck’ in? I’ll tell you another thing I think about: I’m now thrust into adult events — school things with other parents, and just … You’re not really thinking about how lyrics that seemed cool at the time are going to register with parents at your kid’s school 20 years later.

Lovely book cover designs from the last decade.

From Brett Terpstra:

BlogBook

This is a new app I’m publishing as a complement to Marked 3. It generates a “Book” from WordPress, Micro.blog, or Ghost blogs. You can filter posts by author, categories, tags, date ranges, and more, then export a Markdown document (or collection of documents with an index file) which you can open in any Markdown editor. If you open it in Marked 3, special syntax like Table of Contents and page breaks will be rendered, and you can output to PDF, HTML, EPUB, and more.

A tour of domain milestones over the last forty years.

Some clever repurposing of old Shopsmith parts and neat ways to store accessories. I’m going to make some hanging holders for my sanding disks and speed reducer based on this.

This project is aimed at creating a living syllabus, a community, and a framework for these ideas, one informed by a deep “historical sense” that ensures computing does not remain a “pop culture.” We must make computers work for people, guided by history and the humanities.

“A lot of the online things we’ve built are, like roads and bridges, now necessary — and figure out how we can publicly fund enough of them that important things without an obvious and direct profit motive can get done.”

The lack of hook size standardization is maddening.