Notes

8 years ago—June 13, 2018—Google renamed my 1TB “Google Drive” storage plan to “Google One” and bumped it to 2TB for no additional charge.

Today, Google is renaming the product again. I’m now a “Google AI Plus subscriber”. 🤣

Sometimes I miss boring old backward compatibility

It’s funny how a word like idempotency can drive you mad when you start suddenly seeing it 1000 times a day.

Complaining to a model about code you committed to WordPress years before that model was born.

It’s fun that everyone gets the same initial landing page from Claude Design

The features we now have the Claudacity to ship

Holler if you want help writing specific k6 scenarios for your checkout flow

I’m now imagining a skill I can invoke by hollering at my computer: “Hey! Claude! I could use a little help here!”

In today’s phrases that made me laugh out loud: instructions in CLAUDE.md are “deterministic if the agent obeys”

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Earth is getting closer!

Wow.

Come As You Are at the Easter egg hunt 🤘🏻

Very fun to see Artemis II’s Hello, World this morning. Only mildly disappointed the web team didn’t repurpose WordPress post ID 1 for it. 🤓

Excited to see another take on Earthrise next week!

I think Anil’s Endgame for the Open Web is something everyone should read.

Had to ask my 4 year old how to use his digital camera tonight.

So this is how it starts

Every notification from Google Cloud about critical actions you maybe need to take, but have no actual idea, by some date 2 years from now:

“blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah”

If I ever move to not-WP, my first post will be a boast that I have not forgotten to maintain the existing guids in my RSS feed 🧌

Only my chest is captured on the surveillance camera when checking out at Home Depot. Tall folks must not shop lift 😂

4 year old, laying his head down to sleep: “How does my body stay on me?”

Me, taken aback: “Because it’s a contained system.”

“It’s static?”

“Uhh. Yes, exactly.”

Where on earth did he learn “static”???

“the people with the most power and the most to gain have turned [Twitter/X] into a gaming platform for symbolic capital. They are not users. They are players. And the game is very, very good to them.” Om, on Neo Symbolic Capitalism.

One of the more impressive feats in software engineering is that one day some 15 years ago, I added my signature to Apple’s preview tool for PDFs and somehow it’s still here 4 or 5 computers later.

Things are just so damn wild right now

In reply to: Final measurement: 16in.

That looks like some snow fort snow. Hope you all are able to enjoy it!

It’s a modern copywriting mutation—prolepsis and antithesis had a baby, and LinkedIn raised it.

– One of the models that brought it into the world