Thereās this amazing, programmable screen, but there wasnāt really any way to empower the user to do stuff with it.
My take: Apple has collectively forgotten what makes a personal computer, you know, personal because it has been hammering their doors and windows shut for the last 15 years.
Itās not about changing the shade of paint on the door, itās about swapping in bespoke fixtures because the original ones have sharp edges. #technology
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Towards human focused personal computing…
THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION captures a lot of valid perspectives, but it sidelines what actually made personal computing compelling: the ability to shape tools to your own needs.
For me, what's exciting is building tools that enhances peopleās humanity and give them agency; the original spirit of personal computing. The article frames people's AI skepticism around data extraction and automation. But I think people will embrace tools that enhance their individuality, not surveil it.
I reject the toothbrush that builds a profile based on data sent to the app over Bluetooth. But I celebrate the toothbrush that adapts to the individuality of someone's mouth. That's what personal means in PC and it's what we need to claim back before the software industry decides we can't.
Started experimenting with Claude code auto-mode, isolated by a devcontainer from Anthropic that restricts network connections with the project mapped in. I passed on a milestone of GitHub issues that I wrote up and out came five PRs.
Itās unable to use any local machine tooling, Iām learning nothing about the project thatās not described in PRs and all my commits are unverified and coauthored.
It made decisions I wouldnāt have.
Put the pull requests are interesting and itās like I wrote little gifts to myself.
My initial impressions are that it currently is suitable for āone off projectā type projects but itās interesting for learning purposes. #technology
The future of personal blogging…
I was thinking of the concept of running a blog like #Lamb in CI, with the artefact hosted as HTML somewhere. Of course this is the essence of what a static site generator (SSG) is. The downside of a SSG is that the publish experience is not up to the same standard as a server-side blog, as the data structure not enforced in the editor and things like search don't exist or are limited.
Posting directly from Discord has the same problems as the above. It probably is a worse editing experience but you'd not have a site to manage.
Headless then is splitting off the rendering from the authoring, running that locally, syncing up the database to the cloud (sqlite, so just 1 file!) and having some minor render/search component chewing out the web-pages as needed. This seems overly complicated in the local setup and "Getting up and running" flows.
So there is still a need of a web admin of sorts and a rendering layer. I just need to add smart caching to Lamb so it's doing minimal work, should this need to scale out further than it does ā who even knows how far this already scales, I have done zero optimisation.
Apart from that Lamb is on the right track for friction-free simple blogging. #technology
It seems sometimes I'm researching and want the previous tab to become active after closing a deep dive, and other times I'm reviewing the tabs and want the tab to the right of the active one to become active. Is there any way to codify this I keep changing my browser's settings. #technology
Cut a sharp end to a plastic straw. It makes for a good phone charging port cleaner! Actually, it worked better than a tooth pick for me. #technology
We need more instant publishing on the web. All the UI holds back our ideas. #technology#lamb#projects
I'd like to go further and state that most of the usability and user experience enhancements should be implemented as browser add-ons, so that they can be installed if the user sees it as a positive enhancement to their reading experience.
The old-school view is that the reading experience is the domain and the responsibility of the browser, and we have collectively gone way beyond what a website should offer in terms of behaviour. #technology
Navigate Xbox Series console using LG remo…
To navigate an XBOX series games console using an LG Magic Remote, first disable the Automatic Configuration option in the Connection settings under HDMI Configuration in the TV's settings. Reconnect the XBOX's HDMI cable going into the TV. Then on the input switcher, edit the Xbox setting, mark it as a Blu-ray player manufactured by Microsoft, and follow the wizard. #technology
Looking at my browser tabs, I can't believe that we collectively have still not standardized on page title vs site title formats in 2024. I've seen SITE - PAGE, PAGE / SITE, PAGE | SITE, SITE: PAGE, PAGE etc. I'd prefer it if we had a sitetitle tag in head and let the browser figure it out. #technology#html
