This way of using XMLUI to visualize process and flow needs packaging and refinement, but it feels promising. Think Visio but with declarative components that can hold data, present UI, and talk to one another.Video: https://social.coop/@judell/116446268919746987
The community calendar pipeline was getting hard for me to understand, this interactive explainer helps.
https://judell.github.io/cc-architecture/
I'd want something concise and declarative that enables a meaningful conversation between people and LLMs as they work together to close the 20% gap. XMLUI is one good way to broker that conversation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/podcasts/the-...
Towards the end of this interview, Clive Thomson points to the coming boom in software customization. It's true that we have forever been ill-served by systems that we can't create for ourselves, nor afford to hire programmers to make for us.
Towards the end of this interview, Clive Thomson points to the coming boom in software customization. It's true that we have forever been ill-served by systems that we can't create for ourselves, nor afford to hire programmers to make for us.
Towards the end of this interview, Clive Thomson points to the coming boom in software customization. It's true that we have forever been ill-served by systems that we can't create for ourselves, nor afford to hire programmers to make for us.
Towards the end of this interview, Clive Thomson points to the coming boom in software customization. It's true that we have forever been ill-served by systems that we can't create for ourselves, nor afford to hire programmers to make for us.
Towards the end of this interview, Clive Thomson points to the coming boom in software customization. It's true that we have forever been ill-served by systems that we can't create for ourselves, nor afford to hire programmers to make for us.
The programmers we can't afford, who build the 80% solutions that fall short for everyone, don't use what they build and don't feel the need to improve it.
The programmers we can't afford, who build the 80% solutions that fall short for everyone, don't use what they build and don't feel the need to improve it.
Towards the end of this interview, Clive Thomson points to the coming boom in software customization. It's true that we have forever been ill-served by systems that we can't create for ourselves, nor afford to hire programmers to make for us.
The programmers we can't afford, who build the 80% solutions that fall short for everyone, don't use what they build and don't feel the need to improve it.
The programmers we can't afford, who build the 80% solutions that fall short for everyone, don't use what they build and don't feel the need to improve it.
It's a bad dynamic. Good riddance! Now we can summon into being software that is truly fit for our purposes. People get to express intentions in their natural languages, LLMs translate to some kind of runnable code.
Does it matter what that code looks like?
15 years on, it comes around again. The rebooted community calendar project is running into the same issues the original one did.
Paging Harry Tuttle!
blog.jonudell.net/2011/11/08/long-live-har...
#ICS #iCalendar #GuerillaPlumbing
NYT did not see fit to put this above the fold?
"Rather than a laboratory of autocracy, Hungary could become a lighthouse of democracy."
#democracy #hungary #nytimes #wtf
In all seriousness, as I'm sure others have noted, Claude now routinely and admirably says: "It's been a long and productive session, shall we commit, push, and call it a day?"
Imagine Facebook or Youtube inviting you to stop mainlining their drug!
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Unusual business model.
crooked steps, eskenazi museum
I'm gonna guess that I.M. Pei, who designed these crooked steps, never had to walk up and down them.
captain janeway statue
I am a fan of quirky civic statuary. Austin has Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bloomington has Captain Janeway.
"What we want here is a common space governed by shared standards (and Ostrom’s principles) rather than algorithmic guesswork by unaccountable giants and their grudging dependents."
I'm doing my best to help!
https://projectvrm.org/2026/03/23/new-news-busines/
What happens after The Dip?
https://blog.jonudell.net/2026/03/17/beyond-the-dip/
A guy had to drop out of a bike ride today because his derailleur battery died.
Did not know that was a thing.
Nothing requires us to cede autonomy to our freakishly talented LLM assistants. We direct their efforts, and they learn from us. As we do the work they wield tools on our behalf. We can, if we choose, learn from them how best to use those tools, even as we often delegate the use to them.
comms gear atop mt barnabe
We were surprised to encounter the Knights of Nii at the top of Mt. Barnabe.
Let me file an issue.
Current system is operating as designed.
Since then, one red line after another has been crossed: Undocumented immigrants are called animals; civilian boats are blown out of the water; American citizens are gunned down in the streets and then accused of being domestic terrorists; universities, news organizations and law firms are being bullied and blackmailed; and refugees are deported to countries whose languages they probably don’t even speak. And that is aside from the blatant corruption of family and cronies. All this was incremental, too, but compared with 1934, everything goes much faster. And yet life continues as usual. What was unthinkable only yesterday we now take in stride, and we wait for that moment when things really have gone too far this time, when the fever breaks and things will revert to normal. But that moment probably won’t come. Things have gone too far too many times already. Hoping for better is still the right attitude, but only as long as we prepare for the worst.
It's almost like the NYT is admitting how badly they failed us and are belatedly trying to atone.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/opinion/histo...
NYT: More like this, please.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/opinion/andre...
