Mastodawn

Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.

Jake Savin Mar 13

Brent Simmons Mar 9

From open web champion Manton Reece comes a new RSS reader Inkwell:

"Inkwell is built around three main tabs: Today, Recent, and Fading. Today is for the latest blog posts. Recent is for posts yesterday or the day before. And Fading is for posts up to a week old. After a week, posts fade out of Inkwell, so you’ll never be overwhelmed with unread posts. If you missed them, it’s okay."

It already syncs with Unread and we’d like to ... https://ranchero.com/2026/03/09/inkwell-new-rss-reader.html

09 Mar 2026 - ranchero.com

Jake Savin Mar 13

Dave Winer ☕️Mar 10

I found out recently that my blog is in of the startup set for NetNewsWire.

It's quite an honor to be included in that club.

Thanks Brent! ;-)

Jake Savin Mar 13

In the C code I'm currently working with `return(false)` usually means "error" but sometimes it just means "false". Claude's take: "The dual-meaning of `return(false)` is a deep C-era pattern not worth unraveling." It's not wrong, but still troubling.

Jake Savin Mar 2

Brent Simmons Mar 2

Seattle Xcoders Talks This Week Considered Unmissable: https://inessential.com/2026/03/02/seattle-xcoders-talks.html

inessential: Seattle Xcoders Talks This Week Considered Unmissable

Jake Savin Mar 2

Xcoders Mar 2

Xcoders Talk by Jake Savin March 5: Big Claude Job: https://xcoders.org/2026/03/02/xcoders-talk-by-jake-savin.html

Xcoders Talk by Jake Savin March 5: Big Claude Job

Jake Savin Nov 5, 2022

Techdirt: Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/