A week in modern Athens, a worn down yet beautifully vibrant city.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
A week in ancient Athens, exploring the Acropolis and Agora.
What to do about X
John Gruber blogged about X and using XCancel:
I understand not wanting to visit Twitter/X. But if you feel that way, I do sympathize, but that’s your decision, and you should use tools to redirect Twitter/X links automatically. And if you’re wondering why I don’t just refu...
Inspiration from physical artefacts
This evening I was on a wonderful call about websites where, at two points, I reached for books that were around me as a visual reference. One of the books was “Mini Louvre”, a gift given to me that contains images and information about various artworks in the Louvre. We ende...
Weeknote 2026-W31: Blaugust 2026, 32-Bit Cafe & New Bloggers
Brent Simmons posted a note in RSS.chat about how to connect with NNW. I have a fairly detailed response, that says dynamic OPML is the way to go, in both directions. I know serving it publicly will be a problem, that's why we're going to move FeedLand into position to solve that. FreshRSS, InoReader and my own FeedLand already support it. It feels like this is getting established. I still want a podcast client to work here. I've pitched a few of them.
Computer History in ChatGPT is blowing my mind. It’s basically a note-taker for what I’m working on. Here’s a screenshot of my work so far this morning. I’m still fine-tuning what apps should be included… No chat, and will likely exclude some specific websites too.
Sometimes I need to use a Google-style search engine to find something on a reference site. That no longer works in Google. This is a major feature pullback. So far all we've heard in journalism is how it hurts their bottom line, but nothing about the world's information architecture. This is something like every bridge in the world being blown up at the same time, and I don't think that's an exaggeration.
Polytropus
Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey comes at just at the right time for me. I spent the last two years reading the Robert Fagles translation, finishing it just a few months ago.
When I heard that Christopher Nolan was adapting Homer’s poem, I thought it made perfe...
Building NewsDiff: Tracking How News Changes After Publication
rmendes.net/articles/2026/03/27/building-newsdiff-tracking-how-news-changes-after-publication/
Building Plume
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Been quite a while. Not feeling good is the worst. On the mend, I think.
Feels like summer is actually winding down. Moving day for my son, back to school.
Surf by Stanley Cursiter
The National Gallery of Scotland has a temporary exhibition of Stanley Cursiter’s artwork going on at the moment. Cursiter was both an artist and keeper (which I understand to be like a curator), later director, of the National Gallery of Scotland. The exhibition, in one of t...
Morning; walking; music
My first feelings outside this morning were of the chilly, refreshing autumn air; one for which I have been yearning for many days. I feel at home in cooler climates. In the grass, a rabbit hops slowly; other rabbits gather, too. A bird flies in front of me as I walk; many ki...
Thinking out loud on a Saturday morning
Tech is very competitive, I learned, even when you give your work away, which I have been doing for a couple of decades. Maybe even especially when you give it away. I want to work with other people, and am always making invitations. When I see a product that fits in with wh...
Transferred a couple more domain names, slowly trying to consolidate all of them in one place. Or even two places would be okay.
Chíne tréile
When I was immersed in the Irish language for a week in Donegal last month, I made plenty of mistakes. But there’s one mistake that I’m actually quite pleased I made.
The emphasis at Oideas Gael is on conversational Irish, so our teacher would often put us into groups of ar...
Anthropic has posted a more technical explanation of watermarking. This analogy with Monopoly made me laugh:
On each turn, each player moves a random number of spaces around the board according to the roll of a die. Suppose that, instead of rolling the die to get this randomness, we decided to use a book of the digits of pi.
This Week in the IndieWeb
August 7-14, 2026
Recent Events
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Homebrew Website Club - Eastern
Wednesday, August 12 at 6:00pm
Online! Zoom!
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London
Wednesday, August 12 at 7:00pm
Homebrew Website Club - Nuremberg/Germany
Wednesday, ...