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Alistair Davidson @… on 'How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight': 'Build a web application that works on a playstation portable on a 3G connection - if you do, it will work for all your users, and it will still work 30 years from now'

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

So, I'm still experimenting with locally run LLMs (powered by solar cells!) for writing some inconsequential data mangling stuff for my "vintage cameras" hobby; it's quite interesting how the development cycle with these LLMs sort of drives home that LLMs are completely useless for almost anything they're advertised for, like writing (for humans).
The thing is: coding is the use case that LLMs are by far most suitable for and they still largely suck at it.
There's immense amounts of training data of correctly functioning code, there's tons of documentation, a lot of code is in repositories that include the full history of its development including why stuff was changed in small bits, code itself is the simplest of "human" languages and mathematically non-ambiguous, code can be checked in small bits for correctness by just running it, in many languages simple code snippets can be written to introspect on the code (e.g. find out what methods an object supports, so an LLM can query the language or libraries themselves in addition to the user) and perhaps most importantly: code is always and has always been very similar to other, existing code as most software serves the ever same repetitive use cases, both in detail and on a high level.
YET… using LLMs to code requires countless iterations to get there, both internally in the LLM (to get the code even running in the first place) and together with the user to make it do the right thing. And even when it's "there" the code is mediocre at best, and often veering into appalling.
And this is expected to just work on the first try on much more complex issues like writing for humans? Transcribing doctors? Having legal opinions? Identifying fraud? lol, sure

"Creating a writing and dissemination toolkit for faculty scholarly writing and publishing"
https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2026.e183055

When you are a SwiftUI developer, every day is Xmas!
Tinkerble by https://edwardsanchez.design/
https://github.com/edwardsanchez/Tinke

Edward Sanchez – Medium
Read writing from Edward Sanchez on Medium. I’m a UI designer and developer with 25+ years of experience, including 9 years at Apple. I’m passionate about iconography, animation, and Swift development.

Just a reminder that the author who ghost-wrote “The Art of the Deal” expressed regret for writing it once Trump turned to politics, apologized profusely for helping to create the illusion that Trump actually knew anything about deal-making, and argued that the book should be recategorized as fiction.

A UK MP reported a constituent to the police for the 'crime' of writing to him about #Gaza
What's worse, she was arrested at 04:33 -- which presumably means they went into her house in the middle of the night to arrest her. I've had this happen to me fifty years ago -- over a plan to ship schoolbooks to

Brighton woman acquitted on charge of persistent emails to cause annoyance to Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and local MP about Israel’s conduct in Gaza | Doughty Street Chambers
A Brighton woman, CK, was charged with a single offence under s.

@Opfoss@c.im Scotland and Wales are specifically addressed in the linked-to report from Chart 2. And, as I’m writing in Ireland, I do not think I am conflating England and Britain. What the charts do address is the English results of the local elections under FPTP and the Labour Westminster response to them.

I spent some time #blogging today.
Oh man, why does writing take so much time?! Honestly, this time I tried dictating (Speech-to-text) and curating afterwards ... but it feels like it takes the same amount of time 🤔 Maybe it's just a lack of practice - or a lack of articulation.
Anyways - a bit of story, a peertube video and a couple of photos are waiting to be watched! 😉
…

RE: #Markdown for years (long before it became part …

How China-born journalist Cheng Lei, who spent three years as a prisoner in Beijing, is rebuilding her life in Australia, including writing a memoir and a play (Rod McGuirk/Associated Press)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/

An Australian journalist turns her harrowing China prison ordeal into a memoir and play
Cheng Lei is rebuilding her life after three years in a Beijing prison

Just finished the game "Arco". It's a masterpiece. Wonderfully evocative setting and writing, excellent systems with top-notch ludonarrative harmony, and complex characters that you love while also seeing their not-so-great sides.
For once in a violence-centric game I get to be murdering colonizers instead of metaphorical stand-ins for indigenous people? Feels excellent.
The systems and abilities did a great job of keeping things balanced too, with definite power growth but growing costs too, letting the tactics remain important throughout. After playing Flamberge, I was worried it might feel too fiddly, but it doesn't at all, and the ghosts mechanic really pushes you to play quickly.
#Games

This week I’m writing from the season of storms.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/lightning-ragini

Lightning Ragini
In the season of storms

Well, what I’m wondering is, what are these people who “work very closely with Claude” gonna do when they or their institutions have to pay the full price for access to the chatbots?
Go back to writing mediocre articles themselves?
[EDIT: removed the link, because things may not have been quite the way they were presented. More generally, and not wrt. to a specific individual, the question posed above is still valid, though.]

Well, what I’m wondering is, what are these people who “work very closely with Claude” gonna do when they or their institutions have to pay the full price for access to the chatbots?
Go back to writing mediocre articles themselves?
[EDIT: removed the link, because things may not have been quite the way they were presented. More generally, and not wrt. to a specific individual, the question posed above is still valid, though.]

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@scrappy_capy_distro/116595476430224824
Oh hey! I've been part of a writing group and this recent edition has our work in it. I'm pretty happy with it, and everyone else's work is great. Really excited to be in this.

Recovering from (minor) brain and spine injury, I'm hand writing the same text phrase in eight distinct scripts (five new to me), with consecutive writings in "dissimilar" scripts to force my brain and hands to think each time. My goal is to repeat the whole octet 1250 times (total 10K). 🍎🏋️‍♂️🧠
#wip #wipWednesday #health

NGL, my favorite one is the last one. If you don’t understand the actual definition of “collective punishment”, you probably shouldn’t use the term.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y4kznwazezwlrpvo65qnt7s7/post/3mm2g7372yc2o

Dr. Holly Walters (@manigarm.bsky.social)
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Let's get this straight: anything created with "AI" is #slop.
It doesn't have to be vibe-coded. It doesn't have to be horrible code. It doesn't matter that you've spent hours perfecting the prompt. It doesn't matter that ten people have spent a week reviewing it in detail.
As long as an "AI" took part in writing it, it's slop. It's an unethical technology, and anything created with it is tainted. It's an inhuman technology, and you're supporting it. You're being disrespectful to your users and contributors. You're putting your own convenience over humanity. You're aiding the worst murderous assholes in the history of humanity. And what's perhaps worst, you quite likely believe that you are making a net positive contribution, that you're helping people, while you're actually disrespecting and harming them.
#NoAI #NoLLM

/me writing, describing the uber evil villain
"They were the type of person who flicked cigarette butts out their #cybertruck window, claiming they are biodegradable."

Good technical writing is hard. Here's some tips to make it less hard.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/good-technical-writing

@… fans of Ray Bradbury might like this.
I remember dreaming, as the characters lived, inspired by writing. Flying, but not as a human, and the distinction didn't matter. Fire in my bones. Delicious fire.

We finally got round to watching #deathofaunicorn last night. Sure there was some fairly saccharine writing and shonky #cgi but we still found it a very funny creature feature with loads of Easter eggs and nods to classic horror tropes. Considering it's budget I think it understood the assig…

#EroticMusings 55. How do you show the initial spark of lust or love between characters? Share!
I realised while I enjoy reading slow burn written by others, I don't write it when writing erotica. If it's slow it's mostly offscreen and allows some leaps while the main story has some progress.
Mela and Camelia slowly falling for each other? They stare at each other u…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayMorning
- Three hours of classical sparkle
Join Sarah Walker for a wide-ranging Sunday mix, from Baroque elegance and Romantic piano writing to choral stillness and symphonic drama.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w8f8

from my link log —
Mainstream adoption and Agile's second chasm.
http://williampietri.com/writing/2011/agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in/
saved 2019-09-29

The Voice Goes Off: Writing My Half of Back to Willowbrook
On the first day of my classes at New York University, the voice goes off. I stand at the front of the room and I do not speak, and no one else will speak for the rest of the semester, because the language my students have come to learn does not live in the throat....

The Voice Goes Off: Writing My Half of Back to Willowbrook | David Boles, Blogs
On the first day of my classes at New York University, the voice goes off. I stand at the front of the room and I do not speak, and no one else will speak for the rest of the semester, because the …

I haven't finished that quilt, its been quilted for a few weeks now but needs binding. I started on it tonight. Why? Because I should be writing a paper and I don't want to, so I found something else to do instead. The binding is now ready to go, its supposed to rain all day tomorrow so maybe I can finish it by tomorrow night.

Grades are a 1-pixel approximation to a large, complex picture.
https://dandrake.github.io/writing/grades_1_pixel/grades_are_a_1-pixel_approximation_to_a_complex_picture.html
I think a lot about grades and assess…

I think that ConservativeHome should now *delete* every single article they cannot positively attribute.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/13/head-commons-media-committee-caroline-dineage-denies-writing-arti…

Head of Commons media committee denies writing article accusing BBC of bias
Excoriating article under Caroline Dinenage’s name remains on ConservativeHome website

Inside Travel Writing
Pull back the curtain on how travel writing actually works and how to come up with ideas editors want to commission, how to pitch those ideas and how to travel the world and get paid for writing about it...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods…

RE: https://veganism.social/@Geri/116752857735212855
“…widely alleged Israeli human rights abuses…”
Were The Guardian writing during the Holocaust, they would have been saying “…widely alleged Nazi German human rights abuses…”

Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up the device to third-party developers (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/930941/meta-ray-ban-display-…

Meta brings virtual writing to everyone with Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses
Meta will now let all Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses owners write messages with hand gestures. It’s also introducing developer tools for the glasses in preview.

I am likely to be chastised for my latest post in a (private) mailing list, but IDGAF.
"I do appreciate your transparency in making it clear that your message was from a LLM. If you didn't bother writing what you submit, I certainly will not bother reading it.”

How does an MIT fiction professor handle students using AI, especially at a university that launched one of the world’s first AI research programs?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/10/fiction-writing-professor-ai

Well, what I’m wondering is, what are these people who “work very closely with Claude” gonna do when they or their institutions have to pay the full price for access to the chatbots?
Go back to writing mediocre articles themselves?
[EDIT: removed the link, because things may not have been quite the way they were presented. More generally, and not wrt. to a specific individual, the question posed above is still valid, though.]

oh my: lucy sante is writing a book about (or perhaps just anchored by) the velvet underground, out sometime next year per her IG.

📚 My book review of Gewone mensen dragen geen machinegeweren: gedachten over oorlog
by Artem Chapeye
A very thoughtful book. The perspective of the philosopher at war, and the choices he needed to make is incredibly valuable. His writing hits very close to home, as he brings up scenarios and choices that led him to volunteer for the Ukrainian army. Highly recommended reading for realists and pacificsts alike.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayMorning
- Three hours of classical sparkle
Join Sarah Walker for a wide-ranging Sunday mix, from Baroque elegance and Romantic piano writing to choral stillness and symphonic drama.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w8f8

#AI #fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real

Trump praises ICE following killings:
'Doing a great job'
The felon-president called for traffic stops to resume, despite the administration ordering the agency to pause them on Tuesday
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Trump Praises ICE Following Killings: ‘Doing a GREAT Job’
Donald Trump responded to the uproar following ICE killing two men in vehicles in less than a week, writing that the agency is "doing a GREAT job."

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

from my link log —
Mainstream adoption and Agile's second chasm.
http://williampietri.com/writing/2011/agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in/
saved 2019-09-29

Erin Wygant, writing for the University of North Carolina rag, wrote Connie Eberle quote in the
…1983…first…use of "shit happens."
…A female student turned in 'shit happens ', and wrote this: When informed that he flunked the test, the guy replied, 'That shit happens.'

For me this age of AI is the time we should appreciate less polished handwritten texts for their authenticity. I see this happening during selection of job applications.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026…

How AI is changing language
As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine writing, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson reflect on the future of fiction in an age of ChatGPT

https://rs.bot/JoSHWc

Seek Peace at Home: End Nuclear Arms, Trident Expansion, and Space Weaponization
Join 59 people. I am writing to urge you to adopt a national security policy grounded in a simple but essential principle: peace must begin at home. The United… Sign and Resistbot delivers your letter in minutes.

[1/3]
A couple weeks ago, Jonathan Mosen shared his thoughts on ‘AI’:
https://mosen.org/ai/
Last night, Léonie Watson did the same:
https://

Artificial Intelligence, History, and Blindness: Lessons and Musings
Why I’m Writing This There are certain taboo subjects one is encouraged to steer clear of during get-togethers in polite society. Religion is one. Politics, even before the highly polarized world o…

I've been listening to the audiobook for "Station Eternity" by Mur Lafferty.
I remember Mur from our early podcasting days, especially her "I Should Be Writing" podcast... and I am glad she kept writing!
I'm only a quarter into the book but I am loving it so far. (No spoilers please!)
https://

Station Eternity - Wikipedia

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Father John Misty:
🎵 I'm Writing a Novel
#FatherJohnMisty
https://fatherjohnmisty.bandcamp.com/track/im-writing-a-novel-11
https://open.spotify.com/track/2gUwnJ5cpl40TSlqmjfqAC

You could fill a (wildly boring) book with the emails I've started writing and failed to send.

@… How are you, man? I've been missing you.

Wonder what happened here? It looks like someone was trying to tweet at #MattGaetz while writing copy for this #HP #monitor. The weirdness shows up at

This is so weird. I'm actually writing documentation *first*.
(well all right, I did already code the really stupid version of what I wanted, but now I'm having to write the less-stupid version, but there's also the small matter of deciding how insane we want the less-stupid version to be...
...guessing I've probably summarized All Software Development right there)
#LambdaMOO

Writing with AI is the same as writing by AI https://jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/writing-with-ai

Writing with AI is the same as writing by AI
If you need a large language model to write, you are not a writer.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayMorning
- Three hours of classical sparkle
Join Sarah Walker for a wide-ranging Sunday mix, from Baroque elegance and Romantic piano writing to choral stillness and symphonic drama.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w8f8

Hilarious tale by Kevin Smith about writing and not writing the script for a Superman movie. I like how this is a super long monologue. Reminds me of the moth joke somebody once told on Conan's late night show 😁
Two-part youtube video, the 2nd part should get suggested immediately after this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

Why do we let the greedy capitalists do this to our industry?
#LLM

Venture funding of fintech startups grew 22.7% YoY in H1 2026 to $28.6B globally, but deal count fell 25.7% and funding fell 17.3% vs. H2 2025's $34.6B funding (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/fintech/funding-rises-deals-slump-h1-2026/…

Fintech Funding Surges 23% In H1 2026 As Investors Concentrate Their Bets On AI And Financial Infrastructure
Venture funding into fintech startups climbed nearly 23% year over year in H1 2026, even as deal count fell more than 25%, Crunchbase data shows, a sign that investors are writing fewer, but much larger checks into the sector as they focus on areas such as wealth management, financial infrastructure and enterprise automation. We take a look at the numbers.

Happy #PortfolioDay everyone. 🪴
I'm Sebastian. I like gazing at clouds, the crunching sound of dirt when I vacuum and writing stuff on the Internet. You can find some of it here.
https://finest.day/
…

Finest Day
Because in good we trust. 𝌃𝌂𝌃 Hi there, friendly people of the internet. 🌿 I’m Sebastian, and I like typing letters. Occasionally managing to string them together so they form beautiful words, even coherent sentences (at least I hope so). Welcome to my blog.

For a tool I'm writing I need to do some web searches from time to time. Mostly from Python. What can I use without having to buy/get an API key? Anything as of today that still works?

Writing an ERWC-Style Module: Choosing Texts
I have written four ERWC modules and substantially revised several more. Most of my own modules turned out to be about full-length works, including Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, George Orwell’s 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Writing a module around a novel is an interesting, complex, and time-consuming task. I will take that up later.

And here is an absolute masterclass in writing a post-mortem from the team: https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem

Ischia is Burning: The Novel I Have Been Writing for Thirty-Six Years
Most books are written. A few are excavated. Ischia is Burning is a book I excavated from a steel filing cabinet in a Manhattan apartment, where it had been sitting for more than three decades inside a folder marked Ischia, in the form of a screenplay I wrote at twenty-five years old in the second year of an MFA program at Columbia.

Ischia is Burning: The Novel I Have Been Writing for Thirty-Six Years | David Boles, Blogs
Most books are written. A few are excavated. Ischia is Burning is a book I excavated from a steel filing cabinet in a Manhattan apartment, where it had been sitting for more than three decades insi…

Enjoyed reading /A City on Mars/ by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. I was impressed by the breath of topics, depth of research, and quality of writing (though a bit less puerile prose could have helped). They had fun writing it. Haters can just view it as a todo list. #BookReview

Today in #Albuquerque, reading and signing:
Ribbons of Green: The Rio Grande and the Making of Modern Albuquerque.
Author John Fleck in conversation with Enrique Lamadrid.
At Bookworks on Rio Grande.

Writing the Wild: John Fleck, Ribbons of Green: The Rio Grande and the Making of Modern Albuquerque
A local, independent bookstore in Albuquerque, NM since 1984. Bookworks offers new books, children's titles, gifts, and a variety of special events.

Amazingly, it's not (quite) sold out — but I don't think I can manage a short-notice trip to Canada. I adore "Slings and Arrows" though. What a night this is sure to be.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/toronto/arti

SLINGS & ARROWS Prequel THE AMATEURS to Reunite Original Cast in Stratford
Original cast members of Slings & Arrows, including Paul Gross, Martha Burns, and Bob Martin, will reunite in Stratford for a staged reading of The Amateurs, a new TV comedy prequel written by the original show's writing team.

RE: https://coywolf.social/@recollect/116909142323948534
I have so much work to do updating my site and writing support docs. Still, I'm incredibly excited for what I can only describe as a transformational upgrade for my full-featured minimalist note…

Beth Macy built her career writing about the plagues inflicted on rural America,
most famously the opioid epidemic in “Dopesick,”
but also the job losses from trade agreements that devastated communities across Appalachia.
Now running as a Democrat in the kind of House district she says she is uniquely qualified to reach,
she recited the 4-H pledge from memory
— “I pledge my head to clearer thinking,
my heart to greater loyalty,
my hands to larger se…

Can Democrats Win Rural Voters Turning Away From Trump? It’s a Tough Sell.
House candidates like Beth Macy, author of “Dopesick,” have crafted messages based on lifetimes in rural regions. But messages need an audience, and many minds are closed to the party.

Obama and his writing team sure had the guy pegged — right down to the gold paint.

from my link log —
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight.
https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/
saved 2026-06-10 https://

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

Ballroom! Ballroom! Ballroom!
A Ballroom Would Have Solved This
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/04/why-we-need-ballroom/686979/?gift=TPTA7XiYh9IfxjJRv3IEoDzV2Cu1NPpfOqzd1aeCWeI

A Ballroom Would Have Solved This
Many historical disasters would have been prevented if we had one of these in the White House.

Which of the following faithfully *transliterates* the text "shree krishnaaya namaha" to #Russian: preserve sounds and syllables; lower case preferred. Need to be correct, though not "common".
1. ш́рӣ криш́на̄йа намаха
2. шри кришнайа намаха
3. шри кришнайя намаха
Thanks for replies and boosts. 🗨️ 🔃 🙏
#help #writing

Tired of writing Swift code like an animal?
Recent Swift compiler improvements cut your bathroom quality time short?
AgenticSwift to the rescue, write what your function is supposed to do, list inputs and outputs, and let your agent do the work for you.
Inspired by @… 's visionary outlook.

GitHub - migueldeicaza/AgenticSwift: Tired of having to write Swift code like an animal? Let the AI macro do the work for you.
Tired of having to write Swift code like an animal? Let the AI macro do the work for you. - migueldeicaza/AgenticSwift

Now, I have a lot of reasons to hate vibe coding, but one of them is that I just think more easily in code. I reason by writing the code. It's not something I can easily disentangle.
Architectures tend to live in my head as pictures that change as I write. The words are code. There's no intermediate. So the offer of being able to skip the poc phase is just not interesting. "Oh, cool, I can skip the part where I preemptively identify problems? Great. That's gonna work out well." Vibe coding can give you working proof of concepts that self destruct when you try to grow them (much like any poc code you just try to use without actually engineering).
I don't know that this problem will ever get fixed. Even if it does, I don't know that this fix will ever rival human engineering. I don't think it's actually possible to know that yet, there are too many factors at play. It's definitely lowered the bar for writing proof of concepts. Now a business idiot can make a proof of concept, which even further distorts their understanding of what engineering actually looks like.
In order to go back to work, I'm basically expected to be ramped up on LLM stuff. But it all keeps reminding me of the feeling of powerlessness when we organized against Trump, when we organized against the rally at UW, when I tried to stop someone from pepperspraying people and I got shot. It's all the same ideology of rapists and pedophiles forcing their entire world on us against our will, thinking they can dangle "the Epstein files" in front of everyone and then yank them away like nothing ever happened... Like no one knows they implicate the entire power structure.

#EroticMusings 54. Why/when/how did you start making erotica?
I started writing and doing stuff like "making social media accounts and a website" in 2019. At first, it was "I want to write mainstream erotica to get some additional money" but I soon realized I can't write anything I don't actually enjoy writing - so it turned into "sapphic why choose …

got into my dad's mini-stash of 3D #comics (plus his homemade 3D glasses) last night. ludicrous writing but grand ol' eyeball kicks. could get way into this format with better titles. the one on the left is from 1953, the middle is an '80s reprint, & "merlin realm" is from '85 (with the best art).

Interested in learning about accents and dialects for your #writing or #voiceover work? Check out The International Dialects of English Archive (https://www.

Watching all the posts go by on my social media feeds, it’s easy to lose myself in the flood-river. What to do?
For more than a year now I’ve been re-imagining and re-writing some of the posts I encounter — it’s a form of play that reclaims my attention and sense of self.
https://salrandolph.substack.c…

Every Sound I Can Now Hear - writing back to the social media feed
In which I re-imagine and re-write posts from Blue Sky and other social media.

I love writing. I wasn't always good at it (it's debatable that I am now). But it was never about being good, it was always about process; about playing with language; about putting one word in front of another and moving them around; about dragging thoughts from the darkness of my head into the light on the page to make sense of them and to communicate; about affirming my humanity. Writing's never been for everyone - that's fine. But how we're collectively treating it no…

Saw a word processing app touting a new feature to “prove you’re human” which essentially is a keylogger, so people can follow the process of your writing.
How about people who don’t write themselves must declare so instead of humans being forced to proof they’re not robots?
Fucking misanthropic dystopian shit nightmare.

A New Jersey judge ordered New Brunswick Today to remove surveillance footage of a school lockdown and barred the outlet from writing about the event (Matthew Haag/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/nyregion/news-site-video-school-arrest.html

A News Site Published a Video of a School Lockdown. Then It Was Gone.
A New Jersey judge ordered New Brunswick Today to remove the video and barred it from writing about the episode, alarming First Amendment advocates.

This is me writing replies to people/calling them back.
Huhn. I figured that was the (undiagnosed) ADHD 😂
(Lemme guess, executive dysfunction is a common byblow of ADHD, right?)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4gdgqklj4j3yb6fr67vrtqpk/post/3mnzytj2nn…

AI for writing documentation – The FreeBSD Forums
<https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ai-for-writing-documentation.101700/> | <https://…

Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages (Mitchell Hashimoto)
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

Today morning I finished my writing about the next day in the Fränkische Schweiz. Castles, Rocks, a Palace, fountains -we've seen quite a bit that day!
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/castles-rocks-and-forests-and-more-pal…

When I was first learning to write,
my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror.
Being left-handed, I was imitating the hand strokes of my right-handed teachers instead of reversing their strokes to replicate the letters.
I gradually got the hang of writing in the correct direction, but it still feels natural for me to mirror-write.
I have a mirror-written childhood diary. Leonardo da Vinci, another lefty, did that too

Why Am I Left-Handed? | Quanta Magazine
An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.

from my link log —
6 things Markdown got wrong.
https://www.swyx.io/writing/markdown-mistakes/
saved 2020-04-04 https://dotat.at/…

I like the idea that the world population (of humans) may actually start decreasing.
The Great Depopulation
The birth rate is dropping in every country on Earth, @DKThomp writes. He spoke with the economist Jesús Fernšndez-Villaverde about why the birth rate is dropping, why it matters, and just how steep the decline is likely to get:

The Great Depopulation
Why is the birth rate declining in every country on Earth?

This is hilarious, crushing, zany, bleak, beautiful, and true.
https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
(ht @…)

The Oxford Comma is correct English. If you disagree, you're wrong.
#English #Writing

@… JHFC it's like Justin Keen was writing for The Onion. What a fucking lunatic.
Sanity prevailed …
Immigrant Bounty Hunting Bill Dead, But Fears Live On — <

SwiftUI is lovely and the most fun you can have when writing code.
Don’t let the boilerplatetocracy tell you otherwise.

Eighteen Years Under One Banner: The BolesBlogs Constellation at Thirty
Today marks the eighteenth anniversary of the Boles Blogs Network gathering under a single domain. That formation date is 2008. Writing under one of the network's earlier names, however, began much earlier, in 1996, when Go Inside Magazine opened a small storefront on a web that still ran on dial tone and patience. The full arc now covers thirty years…

Eighteen Years Under One Banner: The BolesBlogs Constellation at Thirty | David Boles, Blogs
Today marks the eighteenth anniversary of the Boles Blogs Network gathering under a single domain. That formation date is 2008. Writing under one of the network’s earlier names, however, bega…

Why yes, I *am* writing that bicycle anarchist manifesto and I am on the section about how American motonormitivity reinforces white supremacy. Why do you ask?

The Reflecting Pool Water’s Fine
The Reflecting Pool episode captures most of Trump’s governing pathologies—without any of the normal attendant consequences, Jonathan Chait argues.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/

The Reflecting Pool Water’s Fine
It’s easy being green.

from my link log —
Why writing correct software is hard.
https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity
saved 2024-05-18 https://

Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard
We try to understand the relationship between programs and correctness, and in particular, why writing correct programs must be hard. We will review results from computability theory and complexity theory, and see that programs and complete understanding – which is required for correctness – are fundamentally at odds.

As always, Doctorow is a showman and states things with a theatrical touch that might gloss over a nuance or three. Such is opinion writing. But look…if there’s a cogent and realistic counterargument to the fundamentals he lays out in that video, I haven’t heard it from anyone.

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio
and depended on an iron lung to live.
She died June 26 in Oklahoma,
the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said. She was 78.
“They told her she wasn’t supposed to live past 20 years old,”
Lillard’s younger sister, Cindy McVey, told The Associated Press on Friday.
“She had the enthusiasm and the drive to continue living and make the best of her life.”
McVey attri…

Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78
Martha Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma. Her sister, Cindy McVey, attributes her death to long-haul COVID-19. Diagnosed with polio at 5, Lillard lived a remarkable life despite her challenges. She attended school using a phone system and even drove for a time. The internet helped her stay informed and meet her husband, whom she married in February. Lillard was artistic, writing poems and songs. She was also an animal rescue volunteer. McVey say…

hmm it might be fun to nest () in prose more (like i used to (especially on usenet)) especially since sloppy writing doesn’t do that