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The Space Shuttle Atlantis from my visit to Kennedy Space Center in 2021 came up in my “on this day” photos. It was so awesome to see this in person!
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iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Review - MacStories - Part 5
While the company is busy finding an identity for its expensive headset without a strong app ecosystem, building swiveling HomePods with a screen, and following the rest of the industry in an LLM-measuring contest for who’s got the biggest model, iPad users like me are just here, shrugging off another year of almost no new features, still enamored with a platform that Apple seemingly develops by inertia as an expensive passion project.
I’m enjoying Federico’s salty takes in his iOS 18 review.
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Finished reading: War Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson A Denis 📚
This book tells the story of the US colonization of Puerto Rico in all its shocking and horrific detail. I think this is an important read to understand how the past treatment of Puerto Rico by the US, affects the island currently.
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Lake Rabun in north Georgia.
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Scripting News: Dropbox almost reinvented the web
I was trying to explain to Miguel de Icaza, a longtime developer friend, how Dropbox was within inches of making the web a million times more useful, ten years ago, and then backed away from it. I don’t think I’ve ever told the story here on my blog, so here goes.
I didn’t realize Dropbox had worked on something like this. I think Dave is right, this could have helped establish a platform for a whole ecosystem of small, indie web apps.
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SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn completed the first private spacewalk
While I know this is a big achievement, I can’t help but feel this is still a step back from the Shuttle program, where astronauts could exit through an airlock rather than expose the whole capsule to the vacuum. The approach with the Dragon gives me Mercury/Apollo vibes.
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Here’s a fun memory on the Dreamcast’s 25th anniversary: I remember renting the Dreamcast the summer before its launch. I think this was a promotion by either Blockbuster or Hollywood video (RIP to both).
I got to take home the console and Sonic Adventure, but no memory cards were available. So, that first night I kept the console running with the TV off all night long so I could keep my progress after school the next day.
The rental period, whatever it was (probably not more than a few days or week) went by in a flash. I was left feeling super hyped for 9/9/99.
Can you imagine a console releasing like this today?
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Happy 25th anniversary to the Dreamcast 🌀which launched on an iconic 9/9/99!
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I hadn’t been keeping up with Stephenson and was surprised to see him interviewed with Sweeney, so I learned a lot about their current involvement with the Metaverse, AI, and blockchains. When you write it out like this, sounds like Stephenson is jumping on every modern tech bandwagon. But, they seem to have a shared interest in helping to create a more open Metaverse platform and tooling, so maybe there will eventually be something of substance there.
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Checking out the new Reeder App which has support for Micro.blog alongside RSS, Mastodon, and other feeds. Very interesting!
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Atlanta City Council bans data centers along Beltline - Rough Draft Atlanta
The Atlanta City Council voted Tuesday to ban data centers along and near the Atlanta Beltline and within a half-mile of MARTA stations.
Interesting and unexpected. I’m in favor of this. Data centers are an important part of our digital infrastructure, but there’s no good reason to locate them near the city center or areas of high population.
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Is my blue your blue? I got hue 179 which is bluer than 84% of the population.
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Hilton Head, South Carolina
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Testing out Threads cross posting from Micro.blog!
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Finished reading: Dune by Frank Herbert 📚
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Switched my site’s footer over to the IndieWeb Webring 🕸️💍, check it out on doug.pub!
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XOXO Roundup
A quick roundup of a few posts from across my feeds about the last ever (🥺) XOXO Festival. ArtLung | Post-XOXO Ramble on Websites and Freedom: Everybody Comes To Ricks During XOXO, Andy Baio said “Every one of you should have a home on the web not controlled by a billionaire.” Cabel Sasser … read more
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In Philly for the weekend. I really like how Halide rendered the lighting in this photo.
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My favorite part of the Atlanta airport. Also, an excuse to try out Halide’s Process Zero.
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Red Michigan sunset.
