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I spent Saturday roaming PAX East, the annual video game convention held in Boston. Along with many gamers I enjoy the opportunity to engage with games that I love along with discovering new things from less known companies.

Since the dawn of the web design the white whale of building websites has been a tool that enables non-technical users to create simple websites for the public without coders. With the advent of GPT-4 and demos of it making websites from napkins, it is time to ask whether we have finally caught this white whale.

If you use a Mac you are probably familiar with iTerm2, the slightly better alternative to the included Terminal app. A few months ago I discovered Warp which is a fresh new entry into this space.

On Thursday April 6, 2023 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society will be hosting a discussion on “Digital Public Spaces for a Healthy Democracy: goals, values & aspirations”.

The event is timed to coincide with the public launch of a new tool called MAPLE that helps people to direct their perspectives, insights, and passions about societal issues to channels that influence public policy. Specifically, MAPLE (the Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement) makes it easy for anyone to submit written testimony to the MA legislature, and to see testimony written by others. MAPLE, has been built by a group of volunteer technologists at Code for Boston and has been incubated by Northeastern University’s NuLawLab. They are operating as a nonpartisan, open source, and nonprofit (501c3) project operating under Open Collective and supported by Partners in Democracy.

A friend recommended I try Kagi and I am impressed. I have previously tried search engines like Bing and DuckDuckGo and have found them lacking. I have always returned to Google. I am not feeling the same pull with Kagi.