A demo I shared today in my keynote at Web Directions. It's a chat with Familiar that pulls from the web & combines this with a contextual memory that's been accrued locally about me over past interactions.

🗣️ Nota Bene to speakers: something I always do, is scan conference abstracts to see who I might be overlapping with. If it's the case, I try to reach out and see how we can compliment each other's work, *create cohesive content* + storylines. Had such a meeting today. Excited.

John opening Web Directions with a beautiful memorial to Molly E. Holzschlag

So stoked to be speaking in 2 days at Web Directions on `Breaking up long tasks`!

Wrote about it here: calendar.perfplanet.com/2022/breaking-…

Details here: webdirections.org/summit/
Looking forward! Maxine Sherrin John Allsopp

oh and have 6 bluesky invites–HMU for one!

I think I'm pretty much out of this place–find me at bsky.app/profile/johnal… and indieweb.social/@johnallsopp

This is one of these moments where current me is thanking past me: Not only do I keep drafts of potential talks, I also play w/ deck design ideas. Just grabbed one that's perfect, that I also sketched out almost 1yr ago. Thank you bored Henri! 🙃

boomer appeasement policies in full effect in NSW

smh.com.au/national/nsw/t…

We’ve spent 20 years getting people to stop rendering text as images on the web. And that’s about to see a big reversal with twitter’s new link policy

I've long been more than sympathetic to the original Luddites ad recommend we all understand them a little better, more relevant now than ever.

A great place to start is Cory Doctorow's review of Brian Merchant's 'Blood In the Machine
buff.ly/46fpqQj

Since Twitter seem to have broken social media card previews (they only show the image and the domain now, not the title) here's how my TIL site's automated screenshot cards work, in case anyone wants to imitate that til.simonwillison.net/shot-scraper/s…

Weapons-Grade
Guardrails, gaslighting and surfacing forbidden knowledge in Large Language Models

from Now at @[email protected]'s new and highly recommended substack

windowscopilotstrategies.substack.com/p/two-weapons-…

Molly Holzschlag will long be missed. If you would like to remember Molly E. Holzschlag, we are holding two online memorial services tomorrow Oct 5, one at 7 AM Pacific time and another 7 PM Pacific:
facebook.com/events/1239730… facebook.com/events/3460293…

Early bird pricing for Web Directions Summit ends Friday-if you've not had a chance, take a look at the incredible program we've put together

webdirections.org/summit/schedul…

7 tracks covering the whole product team-from engineering to marketing!

Hey Siri: set a timer for 4 minutes please.
Works most of the time

ChatGPT–10 minute back and forth (voice only) about time dilation and super massive blackholes

Apple should be so embarrassed

If you have paid account with chatGPT–try voice chat on your mobile device. extraordinary
That, as they say, is the tweet.

Built an Observable notebook inspired by this tweet - if it doesn't crash your browser (it crashed Mobile Safari for me a few times) it will let you select any image to run object detection on it, entirely in JavaScript!

observablehq.com/@simonw/detect…

I'm old enough to remember 'Photoshop could never be a web app'

Learn about the most recent update to CSS Nesting (the `&` is not required anymore), and help us define one last thing about the syntax by reading this article, and taking a one-question survey!

webkit.org/blog/14571/css…

With many 🧩 dropping recently, a more complete picture is emerging of LLMs not as a chatbot, but the kernel process of a new Operating System. E.g. today it orchestrates:

- Input & Output across modalities (text, audio, vision)
- Code interpreter, ability to write & run…