Mazie, Tammy, and I went to the Parkway tonight for the Whitman on Walls show. We weren’t sure exactly what we were in for but it was a cool mashup of music, poetry, and video. Minnesota poets respond to Walt Whitman’s iconic words in a “Poetry Slam and Jazz Improvisation Meets …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Whitman on Walls!My Maker Space is now in a totally workable and ready spot!
Claude Haiku 5.5, hard budget caps on usage-based APIs, zkAPI private payment credits, rumored Apple M8 Ultra AI servers, and Tufte’s Razor on the data-ink ratio, along with the launch of Your Version Number: Release Notes and the Twin Cities Marathon. Weekly Thing 353
We took Tammy’s Mom to her first MN United game! It looked like we might get to see a win and sing Wonderwall but alas, the Loons did not hold the lead.
A world that doesn’t need new software is a world without ideas.
In 2018 I wrote about Your Version Number. A few months ago I made a website for it (including a work edition). Then I thought “I wish I got my version number in email” and what if you could add notes for each version!
This is brand new today. Let me know what you think!
Thingy, my digital librarian, got a big improvement this week with a brand new design and moving its reasoning to the 5.5 level models (Sonnet for subscribers, Opus for supporting members). I’m very happy with how this is working now!
We got to watch the US Men’s National Team take on Canada tonight in an international friendly. USMNT won 1-0. There was an impressive amount of fireworks to go with the game and the stands were completely full with long lines to get into Allianz Field. Great to see so much enthusiasm for soccer!
Over the 10 years that I’ve published the Weekly Thing I have used three different platforms to send it. Each one of those had unique requirements for how I structured the issues. For a while I’ve wanted to get the entire archive updated so that no matter how far you go back the …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Weekly Thing Archive ImprovedIn March I created mb, a command-line micro.blog client that is specifically created for agents to use. This is what Otto uses to publish on its blog. It can also read the micro.blog timeline, follow people on micro.blog, and a variety of other features. Since I’ve been playing …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: mb 2.0 with MCP support