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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 I said on Thursday that Biden's speech last Wednesday had the potential to be a Gettysburg address, if it the United States turns back toward democracy and government of the people, by the people and for the people. Biden has the potential of being as great a president as Lincoln. Let that settle in for a moment. I get goosebumps when I think about it. If he hadn't taken that stand, he could have become known as the US equivalent of Kaiser Wilhelm . # The Podcast0 project is teaching me how to read the archive of my own blog. Until now I had not carefully read the story I tell on my blog more than a few days after it happened. Here's I'm learning to reconstruct the summer of 2004, one of the most creative periods of my life, at least that's viewable in such a public and preserved way. Am I the first to do this for any blog? If you know of an example of historic research done using the archive of a blog, please send me a not...

Monday, July 29, 2024 Like cholesterol , there's "good weird" and "bad weird." I think we all know which kind of weird the Repubs are. # Here's a perfect illustration how ChatGPT can improve customer relations. I bought an iPhone that I now don't need, and it's arriving today via FedEx. I wanted to know whether I should just refuse delivery, or accept it and then return it. Obviously it's easier for me to refuse. I asked ChatGPT and it gave me a detailed reply. Apple's chatbot saw it as a "technical" question and wasn't prepared to help. Sales support is one of those applications where cost is totally justified. A human helper would cost a lot more I imagine than a LLM chat system. I tried calling 1-800-CALL-APPLE and talked to a human who was very nice, but couldn't find anything in her manual about refusing delivery. # Is there anyone here within earshot who is involved in doing the web stuff for the...

Weekly Vue News #156 Avoid Side Effects in Computed Properties View online Hi 👋 Thanks to the successful migration to listmonk , I removed my custom code for managing subscribers and the mailing list last week. I'm happy to have more time for the content now. Have a lovely week ☀️ Vue ...

Sunday, July 28, 2024 Before Twitter broke the API, it was a quick way for me to channel items from my blog to almost all the people who follow me on the social web. Now it isn't even one of the services I use that I can post to with my writing tool (those are Bluesky, Mastodon, WordPress). None of them are anything like the aggregator of people that Twitter was, and I can't even reach it from my writing tool. I really want to solve this problem, but I absolutely can't do this on my own. No time, patience, and it's not my job to do all that coding. As observed the other day, my time should be spent on writing tools for the web and directly related products. This is the kind of project that should be handled as an open source thing. # When technology moves backwards # I don't when technology moves backwards. # I'm always trying to push it the other way. # It's like being a ball player wanting to win a game. # Or a musi...

Saturday, July 27, 2024 Patrick LaForge who just left the NYT after 27 years: "RSS news readers let me track breaking news and competition back in my blogging days and I still used them as a corrective to see beyond what social media algorithms were showing me. You see the stories long before home page play or tweets. Gave me an edge. To print-focused journalists who knew little about computers in a certain era it seemed like magic." # I reluctantly signed up for White Dudes for Harris . Would have enthusiastically joined Men for Harris group. Tech for Harris. New York for Harris. Voters for Harris. Americans for Harris. And why just Americans. People for Harris dammit. # On this day in 2004 , I did podcast interviews with Don Means of Meetup and Patty Wetterling of Minnesota at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. For both, I did the interview with Natasha Celine of the Pacific Views blog . The next 2004 podcast won't be until August 15 ....

Friday, July 26, 2024 On this day in 2004 I was in Boston to blog the Democratic National Convention, esp with my newfangled audio blog post thing. # Somewhere in this timeframe Adam Curry began Daily Source Code which is still running to this day, almost 20 years later. # Has anyone ever seen Trump laugh? # The NYT pulled another one # Somehow it's up to the Harris campaign to get the Trumps to have a normal American presidential campaign, not a prelude to a second attempted coup, which is what the Trumps are doing. I can see the op-ed they run in September saying that it's Harris's fault that the Trumps are fascist. # I reinstated my subscription because I need to actually read their words, not because they cover news, but because they are news. The news is that the fourth estate in the US is gone. They have lost their minds. They aren't even trying. Their op-eds don't reflect facts, such as Trump will never be a serious ...