Links I like
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Likes CONTENTdm.
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Likes How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview' by .
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Likes Vibe engineering by .
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I’ve been considering buying a QNAP or Synology, but this has me leaning toward a Mac Mini now.
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Likes Leavings – Doc Searls Weblog.
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McCarthy was starting to seem like a man whose talents and intelligence were without limits, yet he lived in a hoarder’s shambles and couldn’t stop buying nonstick skillets and fruit bowls.
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Likes Kris Howard – Manu.
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Likes Roly Allen by .
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Likes Frank Chimero · Eel-evation by .
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Likes Open Social — overreacted.
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Likes Banana Milk – 🍌.
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This is a good move, and is basically the WordPress.org/.com setup. Open source free software and a hosted option for it under the same name.
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Want to cross post from WordPress to Substack? We have a tool for that.
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It says something even worse about Vimeo’s decline that I read about the acquisition first on Manton’s blog instead of at work or via email notification to my own Vimeo account’s address.
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I asked GPT-5 my age and continued to ask it to narrow down to a single number. It started at “mid 30s to early 40s”, then “36-38”, then “37”. Pretty close, as I am 35.
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Likes The Mac App Flea Market by .
The App Store is such a mess.
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Likes A week of notes by .
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Likes Gros Michel Banana.
I thought the Gros Michel went extinct, but apparently not! Just grown on a very small scale due to its susceptibility to disease. I want to order some!
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Likes iPhone dumbphone.
I don’t think I’m going to do this yet, but thinking about it. Might also be a better way to handle child device restrictions.
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Likes A week of notes by .
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New local literary magazine in the area! I’ll try to get down to Transom next weekend to pick one up.
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I like this and want this for all podcasts I listen to. In particular Conversations with Tyler.
It strikes me that this may be a good use of local AI models: Have a recurring job to monitor a podcast feed, pull down the transcript of it (or generate one on the fly with Whisper), list the recommended books from that episode, and stitch together a feed of just the book recommendations.
Here is the creator’s blog post about it: https://sippey.com/2025/08/26/three-books-dot-net.html
This is the kind of AI use I prefer: Fast information processing on something that would be very tedious and not fun for a human. Writing a custom parsing script for different episodes would be tedious and fragile, too. Keep the fun creation for humans, leave tedious processing to the bots.
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Likes LLM Visualization.
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Good reminder to delete the social apps, put down the phone, turn off the podcast or audiobook and be bored.
h/t Chris Glass
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Likes Life Lessons From a Rebellious River by .
h/t Chris Glass