👁️ Asides
Throw way thoughts. Sometimes I wonder why I felt it was worth posting when I did. Other times even I can’t work out what I was trying to say.
👁️ Unintended Consequences
Saturday night’s match in Kansas City should be a showdown for second place in the group and automatic qualification to the knockout rounds, except the catch is that it may be more beneficial for Austria or Algeria to finish in third. Eight of 12 third-place teams in group play advance to the knockout stage. And the Round of 32 draw potentially appears more favorable for a third-place qualifier from Group J than for its runner-up.
👁️ Tomorrow will be my 60th ‘Crucial Post’. The day after will be 2 months. The intention is to stop the ‘daily’ on one of those two dates - I just wanted to get an initial foundation in place and then fall back to an ‘as and when’ cadence. 60 Days - or 2 Months. Which will it be❓
👁️ That moment when you open a blog post and you need to look up 4 words just in the first sentence.
👁️ There’s a ‘light tech’ writer out there that I used to follow but eventually stopped because the style and topics got so annoying. This morning a number of people seemed to be referencing one of his posts so I went to look. #JustAsAnnoying. It’s probably me. I know it’s me.
👁️🏗️💡Running some very large OPML imports into NetNewsWire recently as we are doing some testing - gotta say that the synching improvements that @brentsimmons recently added are definitely making a difference.
One More thing please: Nested folders and/or tags (as @dave uses in Feedland) 💗
👁️ I wonder how many ‘foreign national Anthropic employees’ were involved in the creation of Mythos?
👁️ 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 …
👁️ 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 …
👁️ 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.