Daring Fireball

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week to promote Auth.md, their new open protocol for AI agent registration. (Who’d have thunk that I’d be getting paid to promote new uses for Markdown 22 years after releasing it?)
Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services? That’s the question Auth.md aims to answer. It’s a single Markdown file you host at your domain that tells agents how to register your users...

Daniel Agee, an early member of the team at Glass, writing on the Glass blog:
It’s not lost on us that Om’s photography, often taken in frozenlands in or around the arctic circle, was the polar opposite ofhis personality. While he focused on subtle shapes and hiddenlandscapes, he was the sun of any group he was in. Folks justnaturally...

Matt Mullenweg:
Fundamentally, Om was a lover of humanity. He became a fast“regular” everywhere he went. He wouldn’t just buy coffee, hewould also learn the name and story of every barista, the dogs andpeople in South Park. His deep curiosity and respect weren’t justfor...

Clay Risen, writing for The New York Times:
Mr. Malik started his blog just as the dot-com bubble burst,leading to a recession that also took down many of the journalismstart-ups that wrote about tech, like The Industry Standard andInside.com. He was among the most prominent of the writers whoquickly...