I just discovered Listen Notes, which is a search engine for podcasts. I feel like I'm going to use this a lot. https://www.listennotes.com/

Flying out of Boston this evening to go back to Tanzania! It's quite a convoluted itinerary. I'll fly to Dubai, then after a 12 hour layover, fly to Kenya, to Dr es Salaam in Tanzania, then finally to Moshi

One thing the 90s got right was how horrific it is to answer email

Someone thinks I need to do less coding and more petting…

I got a lobster BLT at the Portland Lobstet Company this evening.

I usually hate flashbacks in TV shows. They feel like they interrupt the flow of the story and place too much emphasis one or two past events that shaped the characters. But I'm watching Broadchurch series two and am liking how they use flashbacks.

I made strawberry scones today!

"People do care about having better digital lives and they will act on it if they can — but users are smart and they've been fooled before: they need evidence that it's not just an improvement in your head." https://berjon.com/decent-imaginaries/

This will be so cool to have!

Shopping on Amazon for a phone case. You can filter for anything but phone model—which is the most important detail! Searching for Samsung case and getting results for iPhone! We are nowhere near the computers taking over the world. Or if they do, we are all in trouble.

First things to do after you win the lottery: 1.) Keep using Linux so nobody will suspect you

Working on logic for saving annotations. Already see flaws with how I'm thinking it through.

BIG NEWS! We're launching a podcast! The Causal Islands 🏝️ Podcast will feature thought-provoking interviews with leading experts in distributed systems, AI, computing, and more, exploring the intricate connections between tech + society and how they will shape our future.

Very interesting conversation. I love hearing how different people organize their notes.

Morning walk.

I have a bad habit of overthinking things, but I am learning that sometimes the best way to learn something is to get your hands dirty with it. https://thoughts.delightfullabs.com/thinking-as-you-go

If you don't hear from me again it's because I ate the airport sandwich.

There are definitely benefits to standard file formats such as plain text, but the devil is in the details! I wrote some thoughts about files and apps: https://write.as/mjamesderocher/thoughts-on-files-over-apps

"it’s easy to get caught up in creating abstractions everywhere. We see two screens that look alike, or two features that behave more-or-less the same, and our first impulse is to create a shared class or component to keep things DRY." https://www.maxiferreira.com/blog/architecture-astronauts/

Social media strategy in the age of Threads, Twitter and Bluesky.

The first version of the PomoDB (Rhizome Database) high level spec is up! https://github.com/RhizomeDB/spec @quinnwilton.com is working hard on getting the initial code into people's hands, too!

WordPress Full Site Editing looks extremely promising. There have been site editor plugins for years, but none of them were enjoyable to use. There are definitely a bunch of questions to answer and kinks to work out, but it's very exciting!

The bard really did coin every phrase...

I hiked down into the Grand Canyon yesterday. Because of the heat and elevation gain, it was probably the most strenuous hike I've ever done. But the views were absolutely worth it!