Love Termaggedon's one-click policy update—such a user-friendly way for small business owners to get their website into compliance with these two laws, which go into effect on Jan 1, 2026: - Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act - Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (DTPPA)

Oura's year-end wrap-up screens are gorgeous this year. These two were probably the most visually striking ones.

I know two people who recently ran this battery health check inside the Oura app, learned their rings have issues, and were told by Oura that replacement rings would be sent to them free of charge. 🎉

Hadn't realized how much more podcast listening I'd done this year. Certainly did not expect to see over 21k minutes. 😅 Sharp China is the new addition to my Top 5. And yep, still doing heavy rotation on the Stratechery bundle.

TIL that the theft detection feature on my phone gets activated when I shake the phone hard once. That's pretty cool.

TIL you can run a "battery health" assessment request from right inside the Oura app. 1. Tap on main (hamburger) menu 2. Tap the Help menu option 3. Type "battery health" into the chat window that appears The email confirmation step was unexpected. What a great privacy and authorization check.

Achievement unlocked: first time Oura has given me a triple crown with all three scores in the 90s (in 5+ years).

Pretty cool addition to Amazon product pages -- a quick way to check price history for any product.

Loving the convenience of accessing Claude Code on the Web. I can literally be out getting a haircut and still flesh out the MVP of the web app I want to build with just my phone. The prompt I'm using is from Harper Reed's LLM Codegen workflow. harper.blog/2025/02/16/m...

So spot on: "Good Prompting is Good Delegation" www.trustinsights.ai/blog/2025/11...

Reason no. 183 why it's fun to hang out with editors: we come across the most interesting things. Today's example (hat-tip @bookrealmrevisions.bsky.social): swordis.com/types-of-swo...

This weekend's new #firstworldproblem: the "Approaching weekly limit" warning in Claude Code 😅

First time I've gotten three cookies in one day. Pips #74 Easy 🟢 0:11 🍪 Medium 🟡 0:34 🍪 Hard 🔴 0:55 🍪

So happy to see that subscribers now have access to ad-free versions of @theverge.com podcasts via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube Music. To connect your podcast app to these private feeds, go to www.theverge.com/account/podc... while logged into your subscriber account, then follow the links.

Saw @leaflet.pub for the first time today. Figured I'd give it a whirl by logging the various links I liked enough to share with other people this week. mdylinks.leaflet.pub/3m2b4nsdpqs2a

Whoa that 63% of PH respondents say they are watching for or actively seeking new employment. Source: Gallup's "State of the Global Workplace 2025" Report. www.gallup.com/workplace/34...

Shared this passage with a friend today. Have lost track of the times I've referred to @lethain.com's books and blogposts because there are so many gems in there.

This week's random thought: Watching experts in their respective fields react to music videos is like Murderbot's ART preferring to watch media with others, so it can "process the media more easily through your filter."

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Today's fun bit of AI trivia: I asked ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to create a transcript for a mock informational interview between two people. **ALL THREE** AI services named one of the interview participants "Jordan" and gave the same rationale when asked why.

I really can't tell if this is real or a parody . . .

Yes to this "Orchestration vs. Leadership" framing from @lethain.com's recent blog post. lethain.com/orchestratio... Reminds me of Project Managers who focus only on tracking and reporting on the status (orchestrating) and not on addressing risks, resolving issues, & unblocking tasks (leading).

✅ Pre-ordered ifanyonebuildsit.com

Just reached the end of Season 2 of The Diplomat and I did not see that plot twist coming! Relieved to learn there's a Season 3.

Today's random lament: I keep typing "jurisfiction" and having to stare at it a few seconds before I spot the typo.

Did you know the way people talk about graduating has changed in the last decade or so? Or that no stylebook says you can't use "over" to mean "more than" anymore? Last week, I got to talk with Reader's Digest about recent changes to the English language, and some of them may surprise you!

So many gems in this episode of Lenny's Podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-83... An example of the things that I found myself nodding along to (with timestamps). 1) People hire you because of the values of the organization you left, but not the behaviors. [8m 10s]

Binge-listened to The Murderbot Diaries and went searching for more info. Found two free short pieces set in that world. Compulsory (set before All Systems Red) www.wired.com/story/future... Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (set after Exit Strategy) reactormag.com/home-habitat...

Probably the Pragmatic Engineer episode that I've shared the most in a long while. Lost track of the number of times I thought, "Strong hire."

Today's project: rescuing the almost two dozen aloe vera pups that have been struggling in an overcrowded pot and moving them to seedling pots.

Lol, you know you're getting old when your godchildren are grown up enough to have ewallets and it's easier to send their birthday money that way.

So glad I made a note of this five months ago because I ran into this issue again today.

Current status: jumping down this rabbit hole.

So much to learn, so little time. 🤯 I wish I could upload a book into my mind with one click . . . Preferably without having to first be a robot or live in the Matrix.

Spotted on today's walk.

Thanks for the very clear and concise instructions, @readwise.bsky.social

✅ Voted.

Tomorrow (Thursday) you can join me, Tim O'Reilly, Addy Osmani, Kent Beck, Chip Huyen, Birgitta Boeckeler, Jay Parikh and several other tech professionals giving our take on how AI will change software engineering - but why software engineers won't be "replaced" by AI or "AI sw engineers." (cont'd)

"Choosing a game you can play for the long term — it’s so simple — but if you are doing something that is even slightly depleting over time, that is going to compound in a way that is very problematic." (14m 07s in) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROym...

Gigil, lumpia, salakot, kababayan, sando, videoke, load, CR, terror, Thomasite. www.philstar.com/headlines/20...

I read a couple of interesting things about alt text this morning (and I welcome feedback from people who regularly use alt text!): 1) Typing just two quotation marks in a row ("") as alt text tells screen readers to ignore the image. 🧵 @garicgymro.bsky.social

👀 Declutter. ryanholiday.net/how-im-declu...

Left: Photo of a Corgi standing on a patch of green grass, looking up at a camera as his photo is taken. Right: Image of a canine action figure generated by ChatGPT 4o using the first photo as a reference. The prompt is provided in the Alt Text.

Lol, I feel seen.

An article by @samlai.bsky.social @yoyoel.com @noupside.bsky.social @klonick.bsky.social @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy and @aaron.bsky.team?!?!?! Basically the Wu-Tang Clan of the fediverse right here... Well played, @carnegieendowment.org

A few things I read/watched today are causing me to rethink how work is done/organized. In no particular order: 1) The Death of Product Development as We Know it joulee.medium.com/the-death-of...

Three months later, I've since created two more small, targeted Wordpress plugins using Claude. In both instances, I tried looking for a third-party plugin first but couldn't find one that did exactly what I needed. Surely it's not just me? I wonder if plugin developers feel the impact.

Today's project: repotting this Caribbean Agave and its pups. One had cracked through the side of the pot, near the bottom (pic 1), while two others pups are tucked inside the pot (pic 2).

Received @readwise.bsky.social's "Your annual subscription is about to renew!" email today, and the "new feature" recaps for Readwise and Reader are 👩🏼‍🍳💋 I already knew I would renew before I got the email, but seeing these two lists was icing on the cake.

Spotted on today's walk: the lemon trees are flowering.