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Simon Collison ventured out on a walk with his 35mm SLR (one of the true joys of life for many of us). It’s a powerful feeling to be totally in control of the photography process, judging conditions, making choices and composing shots like I did in my 20s. In fact, I was so excited to…
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A few quick iPhone snaps from a recent weekend getaway to Keuka Lake in New York.
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YouTuber colsto uses nearly inaudible background flight noise from a video to geolocate where it was taken. Pretty amazing. /via Simon Willison.
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Using custom MCPs with dots, via Codex CLI
I think it has become clear that OpenAI’s dots were released a bit early, likely due to the seeming success of Grok Bot. They’re slow, less capable than just using ChatGPT on a computer, and need a lot of guiding. But, it seems they are iterating quickly and I hope one day they will be…
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Great video and effort by Leo Wilson (aka Leotheepic) creating 3D skate photos to print under lenticular boards. /via Jasper Tandy’s September Recap.
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Signboard has had some nice bug fixes and MCP, CLI updates in its most recent two point releases. You can get them on GitHub. Version 2.0 has made a lot of progress. I’m excited to get that out soon.
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If X, then Y
It was never easy to predict the future, but at the moment it feels near impossible.
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2026 has been a warm-up lap for 2027.
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My appearance on WP Product Talk Episode 0156
I joined Katie Keith and Zach Katz to chat about AI and WordPress on WP Product Talk.
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My appearance on the Leaky Paywall Podcast
Listen or watch Pete and I discuss subscription price increases and AI.
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Computering is so fun again.
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Rinku, a to-do app for links that writes Markdown files
I’m fairly certain that most software should be open source. Over several decades I’ve developed the habit of starting projects that I strongly desire to be around for many years only to find them difficult to maintain and host securely and within a budget. For example, 14 years ago I built a personal side project…
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My wife Eliza loves to play mahjong. She also loves mahjong accessories! She decided to create some herself. Today she opened a store where you can buy mahjong mats. If you, or a friend, or a family member, also like mahjong maybe you can pick up a few as gifts?
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V.H. Belvadi shares Photographers who inspire me.
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Summertime concerts. Billy Strings has what must be the most athletic hands in the world. He can play for hours and hours. Amazing talent. Stephen Wilson, Jr. was fun. I really enjoyed when he went into the crowd. The Avett Brothers, which I only took a single photo of, were a tour de force. They…
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NerdPress is sponsoring WordPress Accessibility Day again this year. The event starts in just a few hours.
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Introducing the NerdPress Guided Agent Connector, a new service from NerdPress that connects your AI agent to your WordPress site with our guidance built in. I wrote about it on our blog.
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Jeremy Keith on open local large language models
Jeremy Keith: I’d love to see the technology decoupled from the current depressing narrative. I’d love to see a thousand homemade software flowers bloom from open local language models. Me too. At work, we use some of the subsidized models Jeremy talks about. We well know that the current token cost is likely to change.…
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Catsup, a grocery list app, by Zhenyi Tan
Zhenyi Tan, writing about the inspiration for Catsup, his grocery list app, on his personal blog: I think a grocery app should be designed differently from a todo list app. Forever ago, I saw this physical grocery list on Reddit, supposedly from the 1950s. And I was like, that’s it. That’s how a grocery list…
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Shadow people by Giles Turnbull. Cool.
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Completed my 25-hour service on the four-wheeler this weekend. I’m happy with this machine so far. I still need to install a winch, which I have, because it is too heavy for me to move on my own and I ride alone a lot.
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Signboard 2.0 will be a line-in-the-sand release. There will be Pro features that are only available to Pro subscribers. The 1.7.x release will always be all free. I’ll likely do a release there that removes the commercial license and keeps the tip jar. Stay tuned! Side note: It is really, really nice. Update November 2026:…
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TIL you can rest a Stroopwafel on top of a mug of coffee or tea to soften it. Why hadn’t anyone told me all these years?
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Cool personal website from Che Wei Lee.
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Upgraded to OSes 27 yesterday. Siri AI is actually helpful! I thought I’d never see the day. To get the new Siri app on macOS Golden Gate I did need to restart, just FYI. Looks like a solid update so far.
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2025 Impact Report for NerdPress
Miranda Wicker shares NerdPress’ 2025 Impact Report as a Certified B-Corporation: What does it mean when a company says it believes business can be a force for good? Especially in the tech industry where we’re not delivering physical products and our supply chain is electronic and our people are remote so there’s no office space…
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Maggie’s August update is worth reading (warning: AI is mentioned, if you’re not into that sort of thing.)
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TIL my Tumblog (which reposts my posts from here) turned 17 years old back in March. Tumblr was quite a place in its time. I remember starting The Watercolor Gallery there and it exploding in growth (did you know I’m slowly restoring that website? Go take a look it is getting there).
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Aphera – Fast RAW photo editor for the Mac
Aphera: Aphera is the Raw photo editor built natively for Mac, with a from-scratch imaging pipeline and a workflow designed to disappear. Built by Latent Co. (aforelinked) which includes Ryan Carver as lead singer, Naz Hamid on drums, and Juan Pablo Zambrano on guitar.
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Josh Ginter on pulling back before getting away
Josh Ginter, in his excellent Sunday Edition from mid-July: We spent five days camping in a one-bar-of-LTE-but-still-won’t-work area last weekend, so this is the first installment of the Sunday Edition in a few weeks. The days off were a good recharge, but I also can’t say it was fully enjoyable. I’m not sure a person…
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Red Bull’s website has a blog post about photography on it (cool!) that says “Blogs aren’t really a thing anymore.” (ironic, and not cool!). I’m glad I’m not fond of Red Bull.
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Christoph Rauscher on agency
Christoph Rauscher, in a post about his 6th year running a weeklong workshop called Writing = Design (which sounds lovely): It was so peaceful, this one week of human writing. We developed sentences from words, focussed on first drafts, and provided thoughtful feedback for each other. Our group spanned from 24-year-old students to 60-year-old design…
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Will the AI sprint end?
Merlin Rebrović: … I’m using AI to design AI-powered tools and I work with some people who are AI-pilled. When I get home, I read and listen to AI maximalists and billionaires’ manifestos so that I know what my executives are consuming and to get ready for what I’ll hear from them at work next…
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There were issues with Signboard’s updater on Windows and Linux. Those have now been fixed so if you’re running Signboard 1.5.0 or earlier you should be able to update to 1.6.0 now.
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Finished reading Meat Eater by Steven Rinella. I enjoy a good outdoor adventure story. Even hunting stories. So often lately the story has become about the gear and the trophy… and the over-hyped energy around a kill. All the wrong reasons to be hunting in my opinion. Steve doesn’t really do that. And he started…
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Signboard 1.6 has shipped. It is so fast.
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Iris Photos 1.0
Tyler Hall: The first version, from November 2020, was called AntiPhoto. The name was a mood. I had tens of thousands of photos and videos scattered across drives and old phone backups, and Apple Photos wanted me to live inside its library, on its terms. I didn’t want a walled garden. I wanted something that…
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Models, models everywhere
Models. Big huge scary models. Small, purpose-built models. Slow models. Fast models. Expensive models. Local models. Models. Models. Models. Which model should you pick for your question, task, or goal? How much of your usage budget will you use when you do? Could it have been done by a lesser model for less usage? As…
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🥹 Tony.
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Signboard is my favorite.
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Pruning again with Tracy Durnell
Tracy Durnell is shaking things up: I’ve done a purge of my feed reader (down to 80 feeds lol). Rather than defaulting to my phone, I’m recommitting to books as my after-lunch reading. She goes on to list some new rules to help decide what to read online. Readers of my blog may recall, I…
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Remnants of the old Morton Salt Seneca Lake Mine in Himrod, New York.
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Signboard 1.5 has more features than you’ll ever use
There is no white-walled room, pre-recorded, distillation of the essence of chamfered edges here… or talk about liquid anything. This post is about how Signboard is quickly becoming so feature-rich you likely won’t use them all. Signboard 1.5 just shipped and the landing page has been updated. This release brings much tighter Obsidian integration (including…
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I think WWDC 2026 looked fantastic. Great updates across the board. I have the feeling a lot of people will be installing the public betas. Oh, and I’m glad Shortcuts can be written by an agent. Because this human was terrible at it.
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Back from a whirlwind and productive trip to Santa Monica, CA. Time to build.