Om Malik: "Pure blogging is “blogging” because you have something to say. To me, that is a pure blogger. Any other explanation of blogging “is just the traditional idea of media,” meant for an audience and for reach."

Jamie Zawinski on the 30-year anniversary of the Netscape 0.9 release: "According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for... https://www.manton.org/2024/10/13/jamie-zawinski-on.html

Tuned in to the SpaceX livestream in time to see the Starship splashdown. Watched the recap of catching the booster too. Incredible. Looks like something that might be an AI-generated video, but it’s real. 🚀

Bennu Coffee might be too serious about their wi-fi passwords. ☕️

Honda Element: roof solar: https://www.manton.org/2024/10/12/honda-element-roof.html

The Internet Archive is still down after an attack. A backup of the web is too important to only have one copy of. This is why we do so much archiving inside Micro.blog (for Premium). Everything you link to in a blog post is archived, with images and CSS. Helps distribute the work just a little.

Now that we’ve got Threads cross-posting for everyone, it was time to clean up a few related things. Today I added some better styling for showing categories and cross-post services. Plus, you can finally edit the cross-posting for a draft!

Dario Amodei on powerful AI: https://www.manton.org/2024/10/12/dario-amodei-on.html

When we recorded the latest Core Int, I hadn’t yet watched Money Electric on HBO. Just watched it tonight and it was excellent. I still have mixed feelings about digging up Satoshi’s identity, but it was very convincing.

We were late with the last episode of Core Int, so it’s basically two episodes this week. On the new show today, we talk about Daniel’s latest updates to Black Ink, version numbers, doing things the right way, tracking down Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto, and AI energy use.