Chuck Grimmett

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  • Likes Open Social — overreacted.

  • Likes A Bit Naive – I am BARRY HESS.

  • Likes I built a Spotify playlist exporter – Mark Biek.

  • Likes Banana Milk – 🍌.

  • Likes Service offerings from Mastodon.

    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.

  • Likes Posting from WordPress to Substack – Automattic Special Projects.

    Want to cross post from WordPress to Substack? We have a tool for that.

  • Likes https://www.manton.org/2025/09/16/says-something-about-vimeos-decline.html by Manton Reece.

    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.

  • Likes https://openai.com/index/teen-safety-freedom-and-privacy/.

    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.

  • Likes Scientists uncover extreme life inside the Arctic ice.

  • Likes William Gibson Reads Neuromancer.

  • Likes The Mac App Flea Market by Jim Nielsen.

    The App Store is such a mess.

  • Likes Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Reverse Centaurs – Locus Online.

  • Likes Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content.

  • Likes A week of notes by Jeremy Felt.

  • 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!

  • Likes Regarding bends of the Ohio River.

  • Likes rssrssrssrss (that is not a typo).

  • Likes Privacy is a Contract – Doc Searls Weblog.

  • Likes Lessons for custom WordPress plugins and themes by gRegor Morrill.

  • 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.

  • Likes I hooked Obsidian to a local LLM and it beats NotebookLM at its own game.

  • Likes Experimenting with local LLMs on macOS.

  • Likes npm install playground-step-library.

  • Likes A week of notes by Jeremy Felt.

  • Likes Tarry Magazine — Transom Bookshop.

    New local literary magazine in the area! I’ll try to get down to Transom next weekend to pick one up.

  • Likes 3books.net – Books recommended on The Ezra Klein Show.

    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.

  • Likes LLM Visualization.

  • Likes You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why..

    Good reminder to delete the social apps, put down the phone, turn off the podcast or audiobook and be bored.

    h/t Chris Glass

  • Likes Life Lessons From a Rebellious River by Tracy Ledford.

    h/t Chris Glass

  • Likes https://snarfed.org/2025-09-07_55736 by Ryan Barrett.

  • Likes WordPress for newsrooms.

  • Likes What to do with an old iPad.

  • Likes Typepad Site Death by Ton Zijlstra.

  • Likes The day Return became Enter – Aresluna by Marcin Wichary.

  • Likes Highlighted tools by Simon Willison.

  • Likes The Case for a Swimmable City by Russell Jacobs.

  • Likes Eight Months, Six Strips… A Catskill Odyssey – Bright Waters Catskill.

  • Likes Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps : In Their Footsteps: Cape Cod History – Sandy Neck Colony and Lighthouse.

  • Likes https://invasions.si.edu/nemesis/species_summary/6897.

    More info than I was expecting about an algae I saw in Cape Cod that I wanted to learn more about.

  • Likes Why our house is a library by Austin Kleon.

  • Likes Unfuck Email • Fix your inbox instantly by Random Daily Urls.

  • Likes Atlas of Space.

  • Likes Bounce Beta Now Live!.

  • Likes P&B: Tom Critchlow – Manu.

  • Likes Frank Chimero · Time is On My Side by Frank Chimero.

  • Likes Introduction to AT Protocol – mackuba.eu by Kuba Suder.

  • Likes Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser.

  • Likes Pulitzer Project – Google Sheets.

    A spreadsheet of every Pulitzer Prize winner, from Jeremy Anderberg.

  • Likes Building out of the mistakes of the past by Tracy Durnell.

  • Likes Newslettered. — Ethan Marcotte.