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My system worked exactly as I hoped it would.

Posted on Friday 22 Aug 2025. 649 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

Proposal for SXSW 2026 on Crafting Collective Protocols for Immersive AI Worlds

Accountability is a mechanism that achieves better outcomes by aligning incentives, in particular, negative ones. Specifically: if you do a bad thing, or fail to do a good thing, under your sphere …

What I like best about Keith Teare’s latest essay, Who Owns The Front Door to AI? If it isn’t you, its game over, is that it sounds like he’s setting up the case for personal AI. …

Technicians in India’s refurbished laptop shops give discarded electronics a new life.

Ricky Mondello, who works on passkeys at Apple, on Mastodon: What causes bad passkey experiences By listening to lots and lots of feedback, I’ve learned that if someone’s main experience with passkeys is with a password manager that doesn’t natively integrate into the OS it’s running

The April 1926 issue of “Science and Invention” had a fascinating graphic. It explained, for the curious, how a photo of a rescue at sea could be in the New York papers almost immediate…

I made some mistakes, it cost me some time and a bit of lost data, and I’ve taken steps to make sure if it happens again I’ll lose less time and less data.

Reading back over my preceding posts on this topic, it's fair to say I've been fumbling around quite a bit since first deciding to take on my project of building a language server for OPL, which makes

: Vintage computing boffinry to please palmtop enthusiasts

Microbloggoverse entanglement Not long ago SocialHub featured a long thread about fragmentation of SocialHub discussions due to the forum being federated. My own observation was that “becoming part of the fediverse” was a mixed bag (and on itself a fairly meaningless statement). On one hand we finally removed the member sign-up barrier, so that any fedizen can participate from their own fediverse account. On the other hand the “sense of community” deteriorated and AP-related developer discus...

Blender-inspired node-based image editors like PixiEditor and Graphite are looking beyond the Photoshop paradigm.

A smarter, safer, and faster web starts with user experience, privacy, efficiency, and community-driven growth for a better online future.

Many people have found the intelligence of AIs to be shocking. This will seem quaint compared to a far bigger shock coming: highly emotional AIs. The arrival of synthetic emotions will unleash disruption, outrage, disturbance, confusion, and cultural shock in … Continue reading →

Generate comprehensive documentation in seconds with Andiku CLI. AI-powered tool for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java and more. Save hours of manual documentation work.

Open-source invoicing and payment tracking for ETH + ERC-20 on AWS. Ideal for prototyping and demonstrations.

Shawn Layden thinks there's a lot of hyperbole going around

We think we see the world as it is, but in fact we see it through a thick fog of received knowledge and ideas, some of which are right and some of which are

Recent surveys point to a massive growth in AI-driven bots crawling the internet looking for APIs. While many of these have malicious intent, a growing number

When you mention Teletext or Videotex, you probably think of the 1970s British system, the well-known system in France, or the short-lived US attempt to launch the service. Before the Internet, the…