Not sure how I missed Spiro World by Time Warp, but discovered it through Yancey’s reflection on 2023 this morning.
I really appreciated Mark’s reflective take on the AI shift.
Inaccuracies in language models are fine when you are creating cool visuals, not so much in spreadsheets that bottom lines are based on. The glitch is the feature (again).
Happy New Year!
From The Internet Is About To Get Weird Again by Anil Dash.
I love the idea of building a world, not an audience. I just discovered Kening Zhu via Rachel Kwon.
My love affair with Beeper was intense and short. It has ended. Deleted my account. The Apple Messages integration was so intermittent, and I quickly grew tired of having to toggle notifications and rearrange my iPhone home screen.
The other night I was particularly cranky about WordPress.com’s annoying prompts to upgrade on top of how convoluted, messy and slow their admin interface is. I was kicking myself for moving from self-hosted to hosted because I couldn’t install a plug-in because I wasn’t paying enough. So I did what any nerd does. First I complained about about it on a social network, then I spun up and configured an Ubuntu instance on Vultr (great service BTW), set up a new A record and successfully installed Ghost on my first attempt with a little help from ChatGPT.
Mike Maskick has a great post on Substack doubling-down on hosting Nazis.
Curious who has migrated from WordPress to Micro.blog with thousands of posts. I’d like to do it, but a little scared 😬