We put a Phyn Plus in our home and I had to celebrate getting to do a firmware update. The unit is now inline and it is super interesting to see the data on water consumption. I’m really curious to see what this shows over time. Plus a solid discount on homeowners insurance for having it. 💧

Phyn

Phyn Plus - protect your home from leaks, save money, conserve water

Phyn Plus smart water assistant and shutoff uses water pressure to detects leaks from pipes in your home and can shut off your water automatically....

I’ve been a bit obsessed thinking about AI agents and this definition shared by Willison from Anthropic’s Hannah Moran works for me. "Agents are models using tools in a loop." Perfect. I might add “and have a memory” to that too, but that isn’t required.

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Agents are models using tools in a loop

I was going slightly spare at the fact that every talk at this Anthropic developer conference has used the word "agents" dozens of times, but nobod...

Omnivore announced they were shutting down last October, but it wasn’t until this week I saw a group of Omnivore addresses subscribed to the Weekly Thing bounce. Seems they turned off the email addresses now.

The Verge

One of my favorite read-later apps is shutting down.

[Link: Omnivore is joining ElevenLabs | https://blog.omnivore.app/p/omnivore-is-joining-elevenlabs | blog.omnivore.app] I’ve recommended Omni...

Weekly Thing

A Newsletter for Curious Minds Hey, you like discovering interesting things, right? So do I. Every week, I share a personally curated mix of links,...

Dave Winer today… "Where AI fits in The Beatles Personal computers The web Napster AI It is interesting and I’ve made similar comparisons lately myself. It matters who your audience and point is for such a list. For technologists I keep saying it is like… GUI Internet Cloud Mobile I think of those because they changed nearly everything about how technologists do their craft. And I believe AI is going to do that too. It is of course bigger than all that, but that is a different audience.

Scripting News

Where AI fits in

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It

Robin decided that a nest would be great on top of our irrigation controller. Hmm… trying to leave this be until the eggs hatch. 😬

First smash burgers of 2025! 🍔

Getting the pool ready for summer!

It was awesome to see @davoh for a delicious coffee at Five Watt today! The conversation covered much ground and could have continued on if not for a lack of time. 🤝

Micro.blog - @davoh

I’ve never had an Apple TV require this Recovery Mode. It seems to be working fine to fix it.

Pirates of the Spanish Main at Enigma Adventure

Pirates of the Spanish Main at Enigma Adventure

We capped off Mother’s Day with a trip to Enigma Adventures in Maple Grove to do their Pirates of the Spanish Main room. This room was the to...

We went to a live recording of The Object podcast at the MIA today. Dessa was the special guest discussing Salvador Dalí and the surrealists. She is always engaging and entertaining. https://new.artsmia.org/the-object-podcast https://new.artsmia.org

Dessa

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Happy Mother’s Day to the “heart of our family” and most amazing of Mom’s.

Moms are awesome — especially mine. Happy Mother’s Day! 💛

Upgraded one of my bikes with these awesome large Crank Brothers Stamps. Old pedals were too small.

Crankbrothers

Stamp 1 Gen 2 Large Composite Flat Pedals | Crankbrothers

Redefined To Rip The new Stamp 1 Gen 2 builds upon the Stamp legacy with a true concave body design for enhanced on-trail confidence, trusted Igus ...

Plant shopping at the Heart to Care Tanzania plant sale! If you are in the Twin Cities and want plants you can support a good cause at the same time. 🇹🇿

Heart to Care Tanzania

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Manu recently added an RSS feed of new sites to Blogroll. I popped it into Feedbin to discover new blogs. I explored a few and was delighted at the diversity of sites these bloggers have. If there is an opposite of scrolling an algorithmic feed it is this. Let’s bring surfing the web back. 🏄

Bix Frankonis – Manu

Let

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Ye Olde Blogroll - Because blogs are the soul of the web

You are viewing a humanly curated list fine personal & independent blogs and sites that are updated regularly. No algorithms ever!

Feedbin

A fast, simple RSS feed reader that delivers a great reading experience.

Thanks to the recent fix on micro.blog allowing blogs over 5G to export I got my first backup in 2 years and 4 months! My total backup is now 11.58 GB, and it seems in the last couple years I averaged 187.5 MB of additions a month. ☺️

Micro.blog News -

Fixed exporting very large archives (over 5 GB .bar file).

Excited to see the United play today — and even more excited to see Messi! GOAT! ⚽️

We saw Secret Mall Apartment at the Zeitgeist Zinema in Duluth. Wild story.

Secret Mall Apartment

Home | Secret Mall Apartment

In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far ...

Zinema | Zeitgeist

Tammy instantly loved these paintings by Lissa Scotland from Duluth. We decided that these two are coming home with us. Beautiful.

Lissa Paints

Lissa Paints

Lissa Scotland is an artist who has been painting for over 20 years. Her contemporary art has been shown in many galleries and collections. She i...