Testing something I built for Linux operating systems to post on Micro.blog. Thank you @vincent for the new API documentation you have created. Drafts are working. Will this get posted? Let us see!
April
“We always said “Writing code is easy, reading code is hard”, we made the easy (and fun) part easier, and the hard part harder… good job.” ~ gambuzzi in YouTube comments.
“The Blurt theme is not currently available for download.”
With how many .wordpress.com subdomains have been used over the last two decades, I do not even want to try and block a new one with a great name to try this.
This unplanned F1 break has been too long. And it will be another 3 weeks after Miami this weekend. smh.
Brandolini’s law states “the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”
I have been working on developing a platform that is ready enough to go live tomorrow if needed. However, I am currently struggling to convince myself that I am truly willing to put in the effort required to launch it and sustain it over time. I am not sure if there is a real demand for it. It solves a personal problem, and it might help others if they want it. But I am uncertain whether this is something people genuinely need or desire.
Bhuvi & Hazlewood showing their classic Test match form today in a T20 match. Delhi were 13/6 after 6 overs. What an opening spell! 🏏
My previous organisation never bothered hiring anyone for my role, and now 4 months later they want me to help with the same transition they gave up on when I was still there.
“With 2500+ unread items in my feed reader, I’m officially declaring RSS bankruptcy.” ~ Chris Martin
I love the term “RSS bankruptcy” and might end up filing for it myself many a times in the future for the ever growing collection of 500+ feeds I have.
Always in awe of the human body under effort. Sabastian Sawe smashed the two-hour marathon barrier. Tigst Assefa shattered her own world record (Wo). In the wheelchair division, Marcel Hug took his 8th win & Catherine Debrunner her 4th. Pure human peak at the London Marathon today.
About AI being powerful and what its impact will be… “Will it allow wisdom to flourish, or will it allow the powerful to route around wisdom as they tend to do when given the opportunity?”
Intelligence, Wisdom, and the Problems That AI Cannot Solve by Hank Green
“Funders need to ask not just whether an investment does good but whether it changes the conditions under which good can be done at scale.”
A Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform by Jennifer Pahlka
“The most underrated skill isn’t knowing how to use every new tool - it’s knowing which ones to ignore so you can actually get some work done.” ~ Vladimir Savić
“Libraries and archives are the natural places to create and curate language models. Their tradition of service, and their orientation toward protecting and preserving the public good, embodies an ethos that aligns with the responsible development of language models (a.k.a. “AI”).” ~ R. S. Doiel
Inspired by Hemispheric Views, here are my app defaults in my privacy-torn world: thefield.blog
Putting Cloudflare bot challenges on RSS feeds should be considered an internet crime.
“We can use the internet as it was actually intended to be used: go to the protocol layer to interact with the data at it’s source. Throw off the facade of the modern social platform, and we start to see that freedom of information is within grasp.”
Using the internet like its 1999 by Joshua Blais
“AI doesn’t have a marketing problem. People experience these tools every single day! … You can’t advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences. This is a fundamental disconnect between how tech people with software brains see the world and how regular people are living their lives.”
One of the signs of FOMOnetization: Pushing a version of the future that just happens to align with the speaker’s material interests.
if it’s not “wherever you get your podcasts,” it’s not a podcast
The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot by Doc Searls
While trying to delete my Instagram account, I discovered another one I had forgotten about. What a mess. Now I have to wait 7 days for it to go.
Last year I learned about broligarchy. In March I learned about TACO. This month I learned about Starmergeddon. What is next?
Back on micro.blog after 5 years. A lot has changed in this world, I guess.