Breakfast and coffee at Federal Cafe. Perfecto. ☕️

It’s so cool to hear from the Artemis crew. Happy for them. What an extraordinary achievement. Reminds me of the line from Apollo 13: “There’s nothing routine about flying to the moon.” 🚀

Montserrat Monastery. It’s beautiful up here, but unfortunately this is as close as I’m going to get. Left late, then got off at the wrong stop so had lunch in a small town waiting for the next train, and then forgot it is Good Friday. Very long line with everyone on holiday. 🚡

Manton Reece - Montserrat Monastery. It’s beautiful up ...

A little sneak peek of Inkwell for mobile in Vincent’s latest blog post.

One small code change to...

One small code change to Inkwell before I head off as I wait for the girls to get ready. Nothing like code and coffee. Or is it coffee and code? 🫠

Plaça Espanya. 🚂

Matt Mullenweg has a great blog post with both positive things to say about Cloudflare and a critique of EmDash. So I was right yesterday that “spiritual successor” was the wrong way for Cloudflare to pitch this. From Matt, about why WordPress can be run anywhere: "It’s all built on open source and web standards. You can run it anywhere; there’s no lock-in. That’s why we do what we do. It’s really hard. You can come after our users, but please don’t claim to be our spiritual successor without understanding our spirit."

Matt Mullenweg

EmDash Feedback

So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security. (Is it nominative determin...

AT Protocol standardizations is officially underway, with a new working group at the IETF: "For folks building in the Atmosphere ecosystem, and who care about how services interoperate and share data, this working group is a big opportunity to work out any ambiguities and unresolved issues."

AT Protocol

Kicking off the ATP Working Group at the IETF - AT Protocol

The Authenticated Transfer Protocol working group has been created at the IETF. Now that we have a charter, we are looking forward to participation...

Listening to U2’s new EP, Easter Lily. Bono: "We still look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance against all this awfulness on our small screens. These are for sure ‘wilderness years’ for so many of us looking at the mayhem out there in the world." 🎶

U2.com

U2 > News > 'U2 - EASTER LILY' - NEW EP OUT NOW

Easter Lily, a standalone 6-track EP, is released today Good Friday. A special digital edition of Propaganda tells the stories behind the songs.

Congrats to the Flipboard folks on launching the web version of Surf. It’s an interesting mashup of different social networks, which is what the open web is great at.

Surf

Looking over EmDash. I don’t like that they call it “the spiritual successor to WordPress”. Isn’t the spirit of WordPress from Matt Mullenweg’s vision of the project? Matt is very much still involved. Feels wrong for Cloudflare to frame it that way.

The Cloudflare Blog

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS...

Coffee and breakfast earlier this morning at Sip Coffee. ☕️

I keep missing the W3C social web calls. I feel bad about it, but there’s a lot to juggle with travel and work. As soon as I’m settled in one place for more than a few days, looking forward to getting involved.

It’s too bad that ChatGPT Pulse is so expensive. It’s a wonderful product. Here’s an example of one of the stories it brought me this morning. It knows I’m traveling and that I had looked around Gràcia, so it researches places I might want to know about. No one else is doing anything like this.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT - Evening bookstores around Eixample and Gràcia

Shared via ChatGPT

Drafting another blog post with a contrarian take on OpenAI… Not sure why I do this to myself when I should be focusing on my own code. I guess because I think everyone else is mostly wrong. 🤪

I lot of bloggers I respect have posted reflections on Apple’s 50th anniversary. I’m finding that I don’t have much to say. I blogged a couple years ago about my first intro to the Mac. Haven’t felt that magic in a while.

Manton Reece

Excited that the Artemis II launch seems to have gone off well. I tried to stay up but I feel like a world away now. Too much time zone shuffling lately. 🚀

Project Hail Mary came out right after I left on my trip, so I just finally got to see it today. It was great. English with Spanish subtitles. 🍿

Why didn’t anyone tell me you need to get tickets to Sagrada Familia weeks in advance? Just kidding, literally everyone I’ve talked to in the last month has told me that. I don’t listen and just do what I want. 🤪

I updated the Mac version of Inkwell again this morning. Here’s a very quick demo video on YouTube describing the recent changes.

Om Malik blogs about OpenAI’s latest funding round, presumably the last one before an IPO: "OpenAI is quietly pivoting, shutting down Sora, its much-hyped video app, and concentrating resources on a “superapp” for developers and business users, with coding assistants at the center. Why? Because enterprise is exactly where Anthropic is eating their lunch." I don’t agree with this. Yes, Anthropic has the momentum and is making a ton of money. But is it a pivot? OpenAI is still going to release a hardware device within the next year, which is clearly a consumer product.

OpenAI: The Fix Is In – On my Om