I’m doing a little project on rss.chat today and dusting off the cobwebs of my brain. Since I last worked on this project, I have converted Frontier to run on modern OSes and written a whole new app. Only three months, but I have no recollection, even reading the code isn’t helping much. This is when it’s incredibly good to have Claude Code on the job, I can ask it to guide me through the process we worked out which feels like it was 15 years ago instead of 15 weeks. It has complete recall. And even though it didn’t work on Frontier, that was a different Claude project, it was able to debug something that broke in the build script in the interim. I’ve spent the whole year teaching Claude how to be me. Is that a source of immortality? I won’t be around to figure that part out. #

Braintrust query: Why do you love Markdown? I have a theory why people love it so much — simplicity. You can’t hide any garbage in a Markdown file. You can answer on GitHub or Twitter. Didn’t post on Masto or Bluesky because the prompt is 761 chars, over the limit for both systems. I think I’m finally done with truncating well-written prose to fit into one vendor’s idea of what’s enough text for me. I want to make that a distant memory. So another thing I love about Markdown — no freaking character limit. #

I really like the Apple TV show Small Prophets. It’s silly and fun, but also intelligent and beautifully presented. Michael Palin of Monty Python is a supporting actor playing the main character’s father. He’s famous for a lot of Monty Python sketches, esp the one about the dead parrot. “He’s not dead, he’s pining for the fjords.” #