every Muse story is like: "I'm deeply uncomfortable sharing all my personal information with Meta but here are all the ways I did anyway so that a bot could read my email for me and submit a DoorDash order"
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Definitely remember posting about this on Lifehacker
WebDesignMuseum@webdesignmuseum.org · last mo.iGoogle in 2007 iGoogle was a customizable Google homepage (launched in 2005 and discontinued in 2013) that let users personalize their start page with widgets, news feeds, weather, email previews, and other web content.
This week’s reminder about the power of subtraction - whether you’re editing an essay or a video - to make something just okay better, cut the worst 40% of it
How is shoveling snow not an Apple Fitness workout? Designed in California indeed
Just cracked my morning plate of whistles, thanks @seanhollister.bsky.social
The Verge@theverge.com · 8mo agoThis whistle fights fascists
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I have a 3D printer now because truly making things is the only salve
built my first NAS this weekend and oh I missed the feeling of snapping RAM into place
Joyce Carol Oates owning Elon is the only thing I’m sad about missing
Both the Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline websites have a "Quick exit" feature for when parent or boss walks in: press Esc to switch to weather.com or Google
season 3 and still enjoying watching Keri Russell walk with extreme purpose down important hallways in disheveled suits
speaking of building apps with AI, Quests is VERY good quests.dev
Quests · The open-source app builder
Quests builds and runs apps on your computer using any LLM
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notes on gen AI being remarkable and so very bad at the same time
Measured AI | Note to Self
The extreme hype surrounding generative AI and technologies like LLMs has been exhausting over the last few years. Coupled with fear-based marketing...
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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today I wrote code that runs every day to log my current level of email inbox chaos to a spreadsheet with a list of the senders I've ignored the most, there's even a line chart in there because some days a tiny illusion of control is comforting
Writing vulnerable things so terrifying / connecting something for someone so gratifying
Tim Weston@timweston.com · last yr.Really great blog post by @ginatrapani.org at @notetoself.studio
boy everything feeling extra heavy today in other news, an AI photo editor gave me 3 hands how’s your day going
Live-editing a website in Obsidian is a true joy, this is my setup with Hugo bsky.app/profile/step...
kepano@stephango.com · 2y agoa quick demo of how I edit my website with Obsidian 1.8 write in @obsidian.md → auto-build jekyll → preview local site in web viewer tab → push to github → auto-deploy to live site I've been making websites for twenty five years, and this is by far the nicest it's ever been pt 1/2
Hi friends. Blogging is fun, so I started again. I hope you’ll take a look and follow along at @notetoself.studio notetoself.studio
Note to Self by Gina Trapani
A blog & newsletter about creativity over productivity, by Gina Trapani.
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