Software invites fiddling—customizing, configuring, tweaking—but fiddling with LLMs is less like software and more like musical instruments.

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This year I started using a Mac mini as a private server for hosting my own software on the web. It's accessible anywhere in the world, but only to me. Here's how you can create your own cloud computer:

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Building some data visualizations at Era this week. The one shown here—especially the target range text curving along the path with the pattern cut out behind it—was particularly fun.

hear me out: a coffee table book about coffee tables

Had no idea that Eggers had directed a short film adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zc...

I am very excited about Lori's book chsmc.org/2025/02/othe...

@kottke.org do you ever get the itch to bring Stellar back now that there's a renewed interest in open protocols for media like AT protocol (Bluesky), ActivityPub (Mastodon), RSS, etc.?

@robinsloan.com heads up, the URL in the last paragraph here points to localhost :) www.robinsloan.com/lab/science-...

quick lil refresh for the era.app homepage banged out over a few days with @jonnie.com

@tailscale.com is the shit

Why is there no good personal database software built into modern operating systems?

Collecting and organizing information is relegated by most users to proprietary, online tools like Notion or Airtable. Where is the offline first, file-based solution for this sort of thing?

Regarding books and their sellers chsmc.org/2025/01/book...