@hollyhoneychurch ‘almost’ is the key word that recognizes your keen insights in the decision making process.

@lmika Depends what b how you define niche .. I am 1 person in a sea of 8.5 billions … and counting. That’s pretty niche. If I find it interesting, useful, funny … and I have the time .. I will post.

The work of Steven Wilson, a quote from Russell, a movie review an essay on the role of structured thought in the world of AI to some might seem broad .. to me it is all connected.

@hjalm 🔪

@bradenslen I don’t think he needs any help.

@kaa which one isn’t the muppet❓

@promptslinger.bsky.social yup - got that t-shirt - it was more the ‘arguing about CSS’ that resonated. I am not any kind of tech maven - thoug enjoying the expansion of my mind and the learnings - but when I found out it was adding identical classes to an already bloated CSS - because it couldn’t be bothered to find the original class already defined in the previous session that I lost it.

@manton

In other news .. France has its own colour on these two maps

🔗Smoking Rates By Country

🔗Wine Consumption Rates By Country

AND - on the smoking side .. we shouldn’t forget to include vaping … because when it comes to Vapes (like ‘arms’) - the US beats out the world - both in consumption and production - even with the massive massive health warnings.

Meanwhile - France beats out the US with coffee, though only by 25% (ish): 🔗Coffee Consumption Rates By Country

.. and yet for all of that

🔗 Life expectancy in France fully 3 years more

@frankm don’t know … let’s ask Apple 😉

@the i think this is exactly right - down her in New Zealand the Chinese cars are very cool and definitely threatening the high end euro cars - teslas exist - but all probably have an invisible sticker on the bumper.

and their fast charging is also good enough for longer journies - on the ‘popular’ routes

@johnjohnston and Claude totally made sense of this and now I understand (I think).

So any WP user could drop this in - like @dave if he chose to - could drop on to his own site - but t(more importantly) the folks at Wordpress could also do this as part of their standard install?

@johnjohnston and just like that I enter a world that I don’t know - I will have a chat with Claude about your functions.php - thank you.

@llbbl i would argue before apple silicon the TCO was still better than on windoze - depends on how much you include - and what you count - but bundled software - time wasted - REAL like for like specs etc

@the good podcast

@the truthy

@amerpie 🙇‍♂️

@manton I agree it looks interesting I’ve had a rarely used Flipboard account forever .. this might get me properly engaged .. being a fan of their UI .. but so far despite longevity .. in the waitlist .. maybe priority is going to people that actually use their apps 😉🤷‍♂️

@manton Have you actually managed to join @manton or looking at the shop through the window?

@MitchWagner it relates …

// 💬 John Philpin

Thinking more about feeds - and why I am the ‘only reader’ of Daring Fireball in Feedland - at least by one measure.

Just this afternoon I added two more Daring Fireballs to Reeder - so I now have three identical feeds that are not identical - but are of the same blog.

Seems that when we build aggregated feeds such as @dave is doing with Feedland - there should be some kind of roll up - to account for it?

@AndySylvester - still using and loving your Glossary Plugin - 🖇️ like here - literally - 5 minutes ago - flagging it in relation to this short conversation about upgrading Hugo - something I did - and loved the speed and then reversed out of because I didn’t like the breakage. No idea what caused it - might actually by my theme - which given that Pete seems to have moved on will require a significant switch in my future :-(