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@manton OK, thanks.
@endonend I’m enjoying Crucial Tracks, and have a couple of feature requests for you!
First, could you do anything about the Markdown getting passed through raw in the RSS feed? I noticed it on your most recent post, as well as my own. I’ve edited mine to fix it, but that’s a bit tedious.
It might need @manton to help, though. I seem to recall @dave writing a couple of years back about an extension to RSS where you could send the pure Markdown. The receiving side could then choose to process the Markdown, rather than the HTML.
Alternatively maybe render the Markdown into HTML before sending, so we get <em>word</em> instead of _word_ and so on?
Second, the post titles. At the very least I’d like to be able to select the date format (so it would say ‘18 April’ instead of ‘April 18’). Better would be to include the song title. Best would be to allow us to edit the title before saving.
Excellent app/service, though, and I’m looking forward to seeing how it develops.
@flylogical.bsky.social Not exactly surprising. Though I had no idea the US had such a thing as a ’National Labor Relations Board ’.
@flylogical.bsky.social That Y-axis is a bit misleading, though.
@help I don’t use the AI myself, but I regularly get broken quotes and apostrophes when I use them in titles. Looks like they get URL-encoded and never decoded.
@bradbarrish I don’t really understand what it is — kind of a bookmarking app? — but I do know it has an annoying name clash with Sublime Text, one of the best multiplatform text editors around.
@KimberlyHirsh Ah, those are great. We watched them all last year.
@canion Ha! I went looking for it on Friday, remembered I had deleted it. Didn’t bother reinstalling.
@danielpunkass 100% true. It’s an attitude, but mostly it’s about the music. It was never about fashion.
Well, except when it was: Malcolm and Vivienne ran a clothes shop. But for most of us the music was and is the thing.
@manton Ah: ‘Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.’
@manton Never trust a something that talks if you can’t see where it keeps its brain, as Mr Weasley almost said.
She loses me here. The press, or at least every journalist I know, is not on the side of the elite.
I haven’t read it, but I’d guess when she says ‘The press’, there she means the owners, not the journalists. The Murdochs, Kochs, and so on.
@devilgate Ah, listening to Connected at the moment, I realise they’re talking about the new Siri, with some early subset of ‘Apple Intelligence’. I guess my iPhone 13 Pro doesn’t have that.
@elaine1helen Thanks, Elaine.
@flylogical.bsky.social Yeah I know, but it seems to be on a slightly earlier date this year (usually 21st or 23rd, I thought, and obviously calendars are a human invention). And more to the point, how come everyone knows it’s on the 20th this year, and why are they all talking about it?
@manton I see Willison goes on to insist he won’t do that:
We also need to read the code. My golden rule for production-quality AI-assisted programming is that I won’t commit any code to my repository if I couldn’t explain exactly what it does to somebody else.
But not everyone is going to be so careful.
@manton There’s a quote in there that goes to the heart of one of my biggest fears about AI use by programmers:
The code grows beyond my usual comprehension
The idea of people building applications they don’t understand both horrifies and terrifies me.
@yorrike it’s funny, I used that expression the other day, and even as I did, I had essentially this thought.
@aeryn Had to look up the 2014 film to see what you meant. Seems to be kind of a remix of Fire Walk With Me.
@alexwolfe Thanks! That’s quite a story. I had never heard of the hijacking. I was 13 at the time, and you’d think it would’ve been on the TV news here in the UK.
@alexwolfe Bit of an anticlimax: your ‘This’ link is broken.
@JohnPhilpin You can also swipe back. I find that works more reliably than the button at the moment.
@gregmorris This looks great. I wonder if you could have it use Quotebacks (maybe optionally)? Especially since Micro.blog already supports that via its bookmarks.