Ranchero Software: Evergreen Evergreen is an open source, productivity-style feed reader for Macs. The more feed readers there are, the better.

My niece Kelly graduated tonight. She seemed very happy. Here she is posing with her grandma and grandpa.

Nick Heer Consider this: Google owns the most popular search engine and the biggest video hosting platform in most countries, operates one of the most-used email services on Earth,1 has the greatest market share of any mobile operating system, makes the most popular web browser in many countries, serves the majority of the targeted advertising on the web, provides the most popular analytics software for websites, and is attempting to become a major internet service provider.

Dave Winer: Innovation. I am now storing the OPML file for this blog in my Dropbox folder. I think I just recreated Fargo. I’ll let you know. 😉 I hope so. I really liked using Fargo. I’d like to blog the way Dave blogs and his tools have typically suited his style.

Scott Belsky “The most effective mobile notifications are finance related, fear related, or have some degree of FOMO (fear of missing out) in them. As such, companies are playing games to get us to pay attention.” Count me among those who’ve disabled nearly all notifications.

A few weeks ago I moved my blog from a static site at baty.net into WordPress at baty.blog. I don’t know how it’ll all turn out but that’s where we are now. My page speed scores dropped considerably after moving to WordPress but it’s a sacrifice I’ll make for the convenience and interop of a dynamic site. I got to wondering how high I could get my speed score on the old static site.

Ted Steinberg and Shannon Wright: It’s environmentally destructive and a huge waste of time. Let it go brown. I would love to either not have a lawn or be able to completely ignore it. The compromise so far has been paying too much money for someone else to deal with it. Our obsession with having a perfect lawn and landscaping is ridiculous. Having a brown lawn would be totally fine with me.

Ben Brooks: Whereas, when I look at one of my traditional watches on my wrist, I get joy from looking at them I wear my Apple Watch most days, but I do it begrudgingly. I like that it unlocks my computer. I like that it shows me the weather, and I like that sometimes it conveniently notifies me about important things. I don’t mind that it tracks my steps, event though I don’t get any real value from that.

Dave Winer: “If developers have a hard time using XML in their apps, if that’s the problem, why not attack it right there? Work to make it easier. I work in Node and the browser, and in both places XML and JSON are equally easy to use. The same could be done for any environment. In fact in the browser, XML is integrated deeply into the programming model, because the web is made out of XML.

Kottke: “Mostly, I’ve resolved to use my phone less. Being on my phone was my fidget spinner…this thing that I would do when there was nothing else to do or that I would use to delay going to bed or delay getting out of bed in the morning. Going forward, I’m going to be more mindful about its use. If nothing else, my hands and thumbs might start feeling better.

Wishing my mom a very happy Mother’s Day. She’s the best.

Scott Alexander: “Here’s my theory. If you’re an average well-off person, leading your average well-off life, consuming average well-off media and seeing ads targeted at the average well-off demographic, and going over to your average well-off friends’ houses and seeing their average well-off products, which are you more likely to hear about? A structured-light optical engine for cytological research? Or a juicer?” Everyone piled on the Juicero thing, including me.