🔗 A new home for Progress Planner, and for us.
When we started Progress Planner, the idea was simple. A website is never “done.” The work that keeps a site healthy is small, repetitive, and a little boring. Almost nobody does it, because nothing reminds them to.
💬 Joost De Valk
I know what he means - but gotta say at some point - we just have to to say - ok done. Sadly, not quite ready for that in this house.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 9, 2026
"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" by The Walker Brothers
Hard to choose which one of theirs to include in Crucial. Might have to add others in the future. Another 'liquid' voice.
👁️ Golden Gate has an associated metaphor from John C. Frémont, who ‘compared the entrance to San Francisco Bay with the Golden Horn in Istanbul and described it as a “golden gate” to Pacific trade’.
Can’t help thinking that 🍎 are playing that metaphor as applied to new worlds opening …
🎥 I just watched 🔗 The Sting for the first time in many many years and every bit as good as I remembered it. ★★★★
👁️ The ‘silent fail’ - don’t know whether to be sad or frustrated.
I need to check - but back in the late 80s I had a friend that owned a ‘Bathtub Porsche’ - convertible version. Don’t think it was a really old one though – but I do remember that it was a lovely car. Great rides for sure.
🔗 Cory Doctorow: Porsche 356 Pre-A Coupé 1953.
One for my library …🔗 The Myth, the Mythos and the Man | Om
🎛️ My second ever ‘Snicklecast’ was in 🖇️ March, 2019 and in it I defined a Snicklecast - and explained how 30 seconds came to be the maximum length of a Snicklecast.
Last night, the YouTube ‘algo’ served me 🔗📼 this last night … a short video of the street known as The Shambles in York … England.
I set the start of the video at 2 minutes and 5 seconds - just before the narrator referenced the ‘many’ Snickleways just around The Shambles.
The Coffee Yard - referenced in the Snicklecast in 2019 is not one of them. The map shows their relative positions.
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 8, 2026
📸 A test as much as anything to see what Gemma 4 26B did with providing ‘accessibility text’ for my photo.
This is what it came up with:
A small structure with a dark roof covered in solar panels sits nestled among a dense backdrop of lush green trees.
Not too shabby. It was that kind of phrasing I had in my mind when I took it down by the beach last week, observing how the roof of an old boathouse (Unused? Do not know.) could double up as a baby solar ‘farm’ and not be that distracting.
Farm? Ok ‘backlot’.
🔄 UPDATE: 5 Minutes Later
Now I have read 🔗 Manton’s post properly - point of clarification -
While the checkbox is present in the current build, the server-side work is not yet enabled for any users.
So jury remains out as to how good the local model will be. I will run a test on the same image when it is available … so marking this post 🚧
👁️ A post arriving via the new micro.blog beta that @manton just dropped. I am not a natural ‘grab the beta’ kinda guy - but for this I make an exception. Advance word suggests that it might include a few things I have been looking for … none of which included ‘a local AI model’ - but having just installed a few over the weekend - sure … why not … let’s have a party 🥳
All good - all nice - all working - nicely done sir.
One side request if you are listening Manton … i very much like the categories appearing on the add post screen. Any chance they could be listed as a column on the side rather than the bottom. Bottom works fine for a few categories - close to impossible if you have a sickness like mine.
There’s something about book spines .. you generally tilt your head one way and all the titles are readable - because the title on the spine starts at the top and goes to the bottom. BUT - every now and then one seems to slip through - and as you looking at the shelf - you have to crick in the opposite direction.
This came to mind just now when I saw this …
Human By Design
My Substack is themed on the idea of ‘People First’.
I even used to call it that.
It means;
People ahead of corporations
People ahead of technology
We don’t reject either, it’s just that people are the priority.
🕋🏢
… or to put in another way …
Either way - its not good - and definitely not sustainable.
👁️ Has ‘OTD’ gone away as a plugin? Or was it only ever on GitHub? Either way, cant find it. Different name? Asking for a friend.
📺 Finished watching 🔗 Lawmen: Bass Reeves last night. I like a great Western - but this was only good - though made more interesting by the fact it was based on a true story. ★★
Ladies First, 2026 - ★
Sacha Baron Cohen and the rest of the cast is capable of so much more. I watched it all - sadly. Shining star? Richard E Grant.
📸 Hobbits only … though to be honest, we seem to be a few miles north of their natural habitat.
🔗 Silicon Valley’s Biggest Payday. Yet!
By the time the public gets to participate, the $20 million has become $182 billion on paper. The $900 million has become $120 billion. The risk has been taken, absorbed, and rewarded many times over before the first share is sold on the Nasdaq. Public investors are not funding the bet. They are paying for it after it won.
💬 Om
… Public investors are not funding the bet. They are paying for it after it won.