Twitter thread from Orion Reed on turning a regular ol’ website into an interactive canvas.

The Peekskill Herald has been putting out some hard hitting articles recently. Love it.

h/t Chris Glass

Brubeck et al’s unicorn experiment. An unintended consequence of putting safety limitations on GPT-4 is that it became less visually creative.

Eventually, it started to degrade. Once they started to train for more safety, the unicorn started to degrade. So tonight if you go home and you ask GPT-4 and ChatGPT to draw a unicorn in TiKZ, you’re going to get something that doesn’t look great.

Sébastien Bubeck (26:24)

This is fascinating. I love the whimsical games and art. It is hard not to read into it a sense of a mind at play.

Sure, our articles maintain a rigid SEO template that creatively resembles the kitchen at a poorly run Quiznos, and granted, all our story ideas are gleaned from better-written magazine articles from seven months ago (that we’re totally not plagiarizing), but imagine if AI wrote those articles? So much would be lost.

Jeff Sikes has a nice post about experimenting with Bonfire’s more granular access control capabilities and extensibility for ActivityPub. He’s using it to build some safeguards for social media use for relatives with dementia.

Good resources. Most teams at Automattic do weeknotes and I do them personally on this blog as well.

A searchable index of About/Ideas/Now pages. Networking together the indieweb.

Alex linked to one of my swingset build posts as an example of a DIY project tutorial. The thing I love about sharing these posts is that there are now 5 of these swingsets built from my plans out there in the world and more planned on the way.

What a great visualization making the hidden stuff visible.

Neat interface for catching up what you missed on Mastodon. I love seeing experimentation like this.

a structural diff tool that understands syntax

This month, we’ll be rolling out an experimental early version of “federation,” or the feature that makes the network so open and customizable. On Bluesky, you’ll have the freedom to choose (and the right to leave) instead of being held to the whims of private companies or black box algorithms. And wherever you go, your friends and relationships can go with you.