Andrew James

In honour of my kid turning one at the weekend, here’s my list of recommendations that saw us through. Hopefully it’ll help any new parents out there!

Sleepwear - MORI

Book - Maybe (Chris Haughton)

Food - Nuby bottles 

Toys - Lovevery 

Music - Brent Holmes

Oh, Twitter was first to train me up on the "you're more likely talking to a bot than a human" attitude, long before this AI era ramped up

I like it here because I can keep the circle of people I'm 85% sure are real and have verified in ways haha so yeah it's unfair to call this a bluesky problem

Okay so here’s my actual Bluesky-is-dying hypothesis:

The entire web is dying. Users aren’t going from BlueSky to another site (x/insta/threada/tiktok). Users are going to chatbots. 

I know traffic to news sites has cratered (like 90%). My hunch is traffic to all the social platforms is down too.

The whole-Earth-at-night photo from the #Artemis II mission was brighter than many expected. That was mostly due to camera settings; here’s another pic taken just before with diff settings. Digital photography is always subjective—even before processing! (HT @swapnakrishna.com  @jasonc0.bsky.social)

Good luck @roxyrodbeck.bsky.social!

RoxyRodBeck

roxyrodbeck.bsky.social

Good morning, friends! Today is the day. My very first Yappy Hour stream! Hang out in the chat, be silly, vent, make friends - it’s super chill.
I know it’s a holiday for some, but if you’re around, come on over! 🥰

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all of these sound good and i’ve ran into each of them

bryan newbold

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pea eye zee zee aye

Expanding the Lexicon LanguageProposes some small additions to lexicon schema language.

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So the general consensus seems to be option 2- a video about how/where to use different source types. I've started sketching it out, and I think it'll be 2 videos- one for sources (reference, copy, clone), and one for scenes/groups (along with DSK).  For those who want option 1- dont worry...

To my fellow OBS enthusiasts. Which video would you rather have next? Let me know in the comments, and re-post for visibility:

1. Start of Move plugin master class (1st of several videos).
2. Where to use source reference vs. source duplicate vs. source clone vs. nested scene vs. group.

Just another day in ol' Brad Frost's inbox. 

I read the email and I was like "what the hell are they talking about?" and then I went to my blog and had a good laugh (bradfrost.com/blog/post/pl...)

Long live blogging. Long live sharing stupid ideas. Love live the open web.

it seems more important than ever to give real thought to the difference between “busy” and “productive”. it doesn’t matter how fast the buttons get pushed if nothing of value comes out of that flurry of activity

I’ve written about this a lot over the years
jason.energy/context-swit...

Please stop multitasking. I’m begging you. Please.The greatest trick we ever pulled on ourselves as knowledge workers was convincing ourselves we could juggle multiple projects with no consequences.

The more I use AI tools, the more I have to admit that I'm not that much more productive... I simply FEEL that much more productive. 

In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!