Peter Atwood

@patwood
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I'm building https://scheduleus.online — to make it ridiculously easy to get something in your calendar. 
I'm also the founder and lead consultant at Scribble Industries — we help businesses communicate to the markets and audiences that affect their success.
Schedule Ushttps://scheduleus.online
Scribble Industrieshttps://scribbleindustries.com
Mehttps://peteratwood.ca
Peter AtwoodJun 17
Thank you @nickheer Like any other reporter or commentator on #ai, Ed Zitron needs his feet held to the fire.
https://pxlnv.com/blog/credit-where-credit-is-due/
#edzitron
Credit Where Credit Is Due

I have previously noted I am not a fan of Ed Zitron’s writing on A.I., which I think is driven more often by adherence to narrative than by genuine skepticism. Even so, his newsletter is extremely popular, and occasionally that pays off with honest-to-goodness scoops. Yesterday, he got a big one — a smattering of […]

Peter AtwoodJun 10
bouncepaw's linksJun 10
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

Peter AtwoodJun 5
Clive ThompsonJun 4

back in the beforetimes when I was on Twitter, for years I ran a poetry bot

it'd take a huge corpus of lines I'd written -- *very* loosely in emulation of Basho and several lyric poets of antiquity -- and pick three at random, publishing four times a day

after I left Twitter in 2022, I turned it off

but now I just relaunched the bot ...

... on mastodon!

le voila: @clivebot

Peter AtwoodJun 5
@pluralistic is thoughtful and insightful about digital life here: https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/04/mission-space/#gsd His analysis of internet connections/communities reminds me of Clay Shirky’s “Here comes everybody” (2008). Meatspace is full of filters/limits on our connections, for good and ill, both obvious and hidden. When you notice some impact of tech on society, it’s a useful framework to ask “What real-world filter has the Internet illiminated?”
Pluralistic: Delusion as a service (04 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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@pluralistic
Here’s Wilde’s manifesto in full:
https://mason.gmu.edu/~rnanian/Wilde-Preface.html
Oscar Wilde's Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Peter AtwoodJun 3

Thank you @pluralistic and Brian Eno. Oscar Wilde, of course, said it first: “All art is quite useless.” You sent me back to rereading the manifesto / preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, and (through the aphorisms) see how it holds in the #ai era.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/02/must-we-pretend/#everything-you-dont-have-to-do

Pluralistic: The tedious power of storytelling (02 Jun 2026) must-we-pretend – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Peter AtwoodMay 24

Most apps still think in settings screens: checkboxes, dropdowns. Even apps with AI features.

But for an AI-powered app, that model already feels obsolete.

That’s why when I rolled out Personal Preferences for Schedule Us, I aimed for something more AI-native. Users can define any preference they can imagine, and turn it on or off as if it were built in.

More here: https://scheduleus.online/news/customize_your_personal_prefs

#ai #productivity #ux #ui #softwaredesign #scheduling #saas

Customize how <em>Schedule Us</em> creates your events

Set your own preferences for *Schedule Us* to follow when it creates a calendar event.

Schedule Us
Peter AtwoodMay 18
https://scheduleus.online/news/customize_your_personal_prefs
Working out the #ux on this was rewarding: letting user’s create any preference they can imagine using #AI but not losing the traditional “Settings” toggles they are used to.
Customize how <em>Schedule Us</em> creates your events

Set your own preferences for *Schedule Us* to follow when it creates a calendar event.

Schedule Us
Peter AtwoodMay 12

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The $999 cheese grater is sold separately. @gruber

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Peter AtwoodMay 6

Two recent posts by @gruber on "software brain" and the deterioration of #UI reference print and publishing.

https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/software_as_the_product_of_obsession_times_voice
https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/nyt_wrong_crossword_grid

Both times reminded me of Stanley Knowles, one of Canada's longest serving politicians, who during his career became known as "the conscience of Parliament". Knowles attributed this to a lesson from his earlier career in publishing: it was possible to get things right—and that it mattered to do so.

Software as the Product of Obsession Times Voice

You might think it counterintuitive that a movement obsessed with software would be spearheading a severe decline in the design quality of software, but in Patel’s definition, there’s no concept of software as art, as a practice, as a craft. Software brain is purely an obsession with software as a medium in and of itself. A means with no consideration for the end.

Daring Fireball