SF sure was pretty out of the window of the airplane last night. Great week with the Clarity team observing the progress of our trial and spending quality time together. Be back soon.
SF sure was pretty out of the window of the airplane last night. Great week with the Clarity team observing the progress of our trial and spending quality time together. Be back soon.
Laura returned from her Mexico City business trip with COVID. This is her second time. She’s isolating in our bedroom, just as she did the first time. Windows open. Air filters turned up. Good luck finding COVID tests in Los Angeles. Shelves are empty.
Sometimes I can’t believe that we share air with Paul McCartney. I don’t mean that in a creepy way, but more just absolute and profound amazement. I was listening to Blackbird from the One Hand Clapping Sessions when this thought occurred to me.
Took the kids to see Inside Out 2, which was great. It was the first good Pixar film in years.
tinyPod is pretty cute. Might have to get one.
I like seeing Ghost deliver on promises. I’m definitely cheering them on.
Nothing continues to impress, even at the low end. They’re playing a different game than most others and it’s awesome.
As we were driving back from the parade in Carbondale, CO, we spotted an American Bald Eagle. It was pretty far away, but I was still able to snap a photo. Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans 🇺🇸
Nearly crashed getting this photo. The driver was going very fast.
This limited edition of 1984 is bonkers. The illustrations are incredible. (via Creative Review)
Great writeup by Bill Mill (via Simon Willison) about the work he did on the medicare plan comparison tool for the US government.
Also worth noting that he uses Obsidian to publish stuff, which looks nice. I like the way he organizes his site. Nerdy, but nice.
Dave Winer created a blogroll browser. It takes his own blogroll, looks for feeds he was subscribed to that also had blogrolls and then does the same thing for each of them. He then added a simple frontend et voila!
I always zoom in to look at what sneakers you’re wearing.
On the one hand, this is some of the dumbest shit I’ve read about in a while. On the other hand, I’m fascinated by it and want to take an hour or two out of my day and go deep on understanding this strange phenomenon. I think I understand the appeal. I mean, I can drive for 10 hours straight without saying a word and without listening to audio of any kind.
Laurie Anderson is just such a beautiful weirdo. And I do mean that in the most complimentary way. Watching her go through Nonesuch’s closet was lovely.
I canceled my ChatGPT Plus subscription and started a Claude Pro subscription. I don’t have a particularly great reason to switch other than just wanting to play around with Claude more. I do like the Claude interface better and the vibe of the answers feels better to me, but that’s all pretty subjective.
ambient one is a handsome looking device.
Random observation: I’m noticing that the word ‘cook’ is all of the sudden being used A LOT to describe something that is about to take off, is taking off or is otherwise impressive in some way.
Simon Willison linked to this great post from Daniel Fedorin discussing the “microfeatures” he enjoys in blogs and personal websites.
I had been using Vanilla for a long time to hide most menubar items on macOS, but it doesn’t always work well for me. I came across Ice and it seems to be a great replacement.
This piece from Adam Curtis was really something. I highlighted so much of it.
Finally finished listening to the episode of Tetragrammaton with Julie Greenwald. Great listen.
My Fastmail subscription was coming up for renewal and I decided to move the domain and migrate the email to iCloud+. I’m already paying for it through our Apple One family subscription, so I figured why not? I do like Fastmail’s service and recommend them to people over Google all the time. My main domain is hosted on Google Workspace and while I would love nothing more than to ungoogle my life, their services are great and prefer Meet over Zoom or (shudder) Teams.