Quick Thoughts...

Still trying to make it easy for posts on my blog to show up on Twitter. My first attempt with Zapier and Buffer was disappointing. I am hoping this one goes better (without both of them).

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I was surprised that multiple places at the mall with a more convincing Easter Bunny (anyone know the movie?) had vinyl albums for sale.

Just putting on an album and leaving it to play resonates with me—no 20-second clips to find the right song, endless scrolling, pop-ups, jumping around, etc.

But then I think back to not having access to just about every song recorded in the last 100+ years for $10 or so a month, and I am immediately out.

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One of the best parts of coding with the help of ChatGPT is learning about built-in APIs that I never thought to look for.

Today I wanted to iterate over some links in a string, and ChatGPT turned me on this gem of an API: URI#extract.

Pass it a string with URLs and specify the schemes you want to extract.

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I might have figured out (and built) a simple and cost-effective way for posts from Micro Blog to show up on Twitter again. It works if you see this and are under your Twitter allocation for the day. 😄

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Harden will not be missed in Philly. It was hard to imagine him getting a big payday from Philly after the choke job against the Celtics (minus two amazing games).

I hope they ship him to the Clippers and give them another often-injured player for the end of the season.

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AI is Killing the Old Web

I suspect things will get even worse once the AI-generated garbage content is what consistently gets submitted to sites like Reddit. This is going to be a vicious cycle. God help the gullible and those unwilling to think for themselves.

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I finally gave up on using my Apple Watch for zone 5+ training and picked up (via Father’s Day) and Polaris H10.

It is much more awkward to use (and yet another device), but I am impressed with the simplicity of syncing to machines like the Peloton.

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Can we just agree there is no longer a need to report on Macs with limited ports or upgradability? Right or wrong, this is just how it will always be.

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Instagram's Twitter Competitor

The cost of switching for many is very high, especially for those on Twitter just to follow their favorite celebs. Getting some celebs on board is an interesting strategy, but a second app handicaps them.

If you could start writing and replying on Instagram today, I could see this being a much more viable alternative.

I have only dabbled in ActivityPub, but a handful of celebs with millions of followers feels like it could be criplling for many Mastodon instances.

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