Team #Tinderbox: there's ANOTHER new backstage release with (I hope) some cheerful news!

Team #Tinderbox: Claude and Gemini can now look over your shoulder and see the view you're looking at. Plus more updates. All backstage.

I usually get asked a lot of questions about the situation in the US when I’m in Germany. But it hits different when you have coffee with your in-law grandma, a Holocaust survivor, and she says: “What is your plan? This is not 1933 anymore, it feels more like ‘38. Don’t wait too long.”

Why @mark-carney.bsky.social 's speech yesterday was so effective and important. (By me. Main points before paywall; detailed annotation after.) fallows.substack.com/p/a-speech-f...

Third call today from (allegedly) QuickBooks, trying to get information about our usage. I assume this is a scam, but what is the angle?

I have spent years of my life studying People Magazine and if this happened last year I would be floored — the magazine felt much more like an SEO farm than even a celebrity publication — but this is very much in line with *very* recent messaging

Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release is out!

Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release awaits.

The more things change… 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web, by @eastgate.bsky.social – August 16, 2002 #blogs #blogging #writing #OldGold #AListApart #WritingForTheWeb #LivingWeb #eastgate

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

Team #Tinderbox: There’s a new backstage release. It’s more rapid than eagles.

Artisanal Intelligence: crafting fine software tools for writers, thinkers, and creators. www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com

Team #Tinderbox: Tinderbox 11.5 is out! www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ And there's already a new backstage release as well.

Winter Festival of Artisanal Software! The year of *artisanalk intelligence* www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com

If a new CEO of Mozilla took an oath to restore the web to its former greatness, they would find a lot of business models open to them. Instead, they’re trying to be part of the tech industry which places no value on the web being a place for open development. blog.kingcons.io

This is horrifying. Please sign and share. #academicbluesky #classicsbluesky 🏺

People of Virginia: Go ahead with the 10-1 Dem-Rep gerrymander of your commonwealth. It's the only fair thing to do. It's your duty to history. (My home state of Calif pioneered non-partisan re-districting commissions, but that was then.)

Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!

Team Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release

Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release awaits.

Trump Administration bizarrely demands the University of Pennsylvania hand over "names, phone numbers and physical addresses" for anyone who "belongs to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program"... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release awaits. Good news for Zotero fans!

Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!

The AI doesn't like my writing. That's OK, the article is about how I don't like how the AI writes.

Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!

I miss the FDA

THE OFFICIAL COVER REVEAL! Pre-order your copy so you'll be the first to get it: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804471...

Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release

Book launch, funeral, gala, date night, dinner party, deadline. Life.

Coming in May... Preorders are open! There's a cover & a sell page & everything! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804471...

One year ago

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

Remember “The web is dead, long live the Internet”? We’ve been down this road before. 

TONIGHT in PVD: Join me to celebrate the publication of Guardians & Saints: Stories, just out from Cornerstone Press. Where: Riffraff Bookstore & Bar, 60 Valley St., Providence RI When: 6 pm Read more about the book and the launch here: heyrhody.com/stories/a-ni...

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

Just got Tinderbox (www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/) talking with Gemini-CLI. The two seem to get along pretty well :)

While Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists met weekly to invent Computer Science. Mark Bernstein mines this forgotten history for lessons that just might save today’s web from its worst impulses.

alistapart.com/article/desi...

@jilltxt.bsky.social Happy birthday, I believe.

Speaker after speaker at this memorial is explicitly likening him to Jesus Christ. (Slain in early 30s, etc.) Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths. Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.

The distilled essence of America in late August 2025.

Yesterday's watercolor practice: winter evening at Black Rock Beach.

Speaking of the Summer Festival of Artisanal Software, here's Andy Brice (Easy Data Transform) on 20 years of successful software. @andybrice.bsky.social successfulsoftware.net/2025/02/21/2... artisanalsoftwarefestival.com

The constitutional order I was taught in law school—which was only six years ago—is largely gone

Generosity and abundance are wonderful virtues. For a time, it seemed that the Web and the Internet were exemplars of these virtues. That turned out to be a mistake: the Web lent itself to villainy. from my new book THINKING WITH TINDERBOX eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Th...

From a reader on my THINKING WITH TINDERBOX: I just finished Thinking with Tinderbox and wanted to say: what a joy to read! ....One idea that stayed with me is the notion of generosity in software — that great tools sometimes surprise us, go beyond the expected. eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Th...

Software should be: ❧ Built for people ❧ Built by people ❧ Crafted in workshops ❧ Savage ❧ Inspired from the artisanal software section of my new book THINKING WITH TINDERBOX eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Th...

THINKING WITH TINDERBOX:Generosity & Abundance “Tinderbox aims to be a maximum viable product, the most capable and flexible system we can manage to support and maintain. This stance was, in part, forced on Tinderbox by its natural audience of writers and researchers.” eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Th...

😡😡😡😡

From my new book THINKING WITH TINDERBOX “In this chapter, we turn from notes acting on other notes to examine how notes act on us — how we can design an environment that serves us well, promotes our well-being, and perhaps encourages us to be better.” eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Th...

My Sydney paper is available at last! Amiability and the Web: Lessons from Red Vienna and the Origin of Computing dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...