A few links for you:
- From Kirschblütenboogie to Khruangbin (from Houston!), here’s a Saturday chill Spotify playlist I made for you to have good vibes this weekend. Perfect for sunsets. Hat tip: Daniel Gruneberg who first introduced me to Hermanos Gutiérrez.
- Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship. “Billion-dollar ecosystems cannot stand on foundations built of goodwill and unpaid weekends.”
- Chat-based photo editing is one of the most magical uses of AI right now, and Google Photos just made it available to everybody.
- Did you know Automattic has an anti-glossary?
- It’s cool to see Vitalik Buterin come around to copyleft licenses.
- I’m going to re-link the Grit interview, some people are saying it is their favorite they’ve seen of me in years.
- BCG has an annoyingly-good rundown of The Art of Capital Allocation.
- The Linux Foundation thinks open source contributes $9 Trillion in global value. Really what we’re doing is sharing the technological phylogenetic branches for humanity’s progress.
- A great interview with Petter Törnberg on his paper about how social media might be structually dysfunctional. “Rather than bringing us together into one utopian public square and fostering a healthy exchange of ideas, these platforms too often create filter bubbles or echo chambers.”
- See Harry Mack meet Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
Fun fact: this post has the ID of “150,000” in my wp_posts table.
Thanks for introducing me to Hermanos Gutiérrez.
I do like a round number. But 150,000!? That’s enormous.
I reckon you must use way more post revisions (or more media?) than I do? ‘cos my latest post_id is only in the mid-27,000s! And (according to my RSS reader) you’ve published around 450 posts in the last nine years… which is about the same number as I published in 2024 alone!
I wonder if there’s mileage in “probing” people’s WordPress sites and comparing their publish dates to incremental post IDs, in order to make statistical guesses about their writing process (how many drafts they make, how much media goes unseen, etc.). For a sufficiently long-running or prolific blogger (y’know; folks like thee and me) or anybody else using WordPress to publish dated “sequential” content (like a news agency)… the “German Tank Problem” phenomenon should be sufficient to glean insights that one might otherwise not be able to.
(Anyway: sorry to fixate on the “fun fact”, it just got into my head!)
Nice playlist. Also good for Monday morning sunrise over the mountains.