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Hi All! 🤗 Imagine, just for a second, a future in which we all have our own websites and that those sites are at the center of everything we do and create online. Wouldn’t it be amazing to be able to collect reactions from other personal websites or large platforms when we p...

Dave Winer (@davew) stellt (sich) auf seinem Blog und auf Mastodon die Frage: What does ActivityPub does that RSS doesn’t? und nimmt vorweg: Off the top of my head, it’s not the ability to syndicate, RSS already does that. I can follow anyone on any server. Es macht natürlich Sinn, erstmal zu klären was RSS […]

Das Fediverse tut sich schwer, das volle Potential der verschiedenen Activity-Objects auszunutzen, hauptsächlich aus Angst, sie falsch oder schlecht darzustellen und deshalb teilen die meisten großen Netzwerke leider nur Notes. Dabei könnte es so einfach sein! @deadsuperhero schreibt auf seinem Blog, dass er eigentlich gerne Articles veröffentlichen will, aber (hauptsächlich) durch Mastodon zu Note gezwungen […]

Es scheint wohl zum guten Ton zu gehören, dieser Tage einen Newsletter zu betreiben… und da ich das immerhin schon seit 2005 tue, dachte ich, ich mache auch mal etwas Werbung dafür! Und ja, ich hatte schon einen Newsletter, lange bevor Newsletter cool waren!!! Das Thema ist natürlich das „open, portable, interoperable, small, social, synaptic, […]

It’s such a delight when a plan comes together and unfolds, especially when it’s something you’ve been working on for many years. Today the announcement went out that we’re combining the best technology from Beeper and Texts to create a great private, secure, and open source messaging client for people to have control of their … Continue reading Beeper & Texts →

Hi All! 🤗 There are many pages you can add to your personal site that people can visit if they want to learn more about you. A “contact” page or an “about” page are two classics that you’ll find on many sites out there. But what if someone doesn’t want to read your bio, your...

Hi All! 🤗 There are many pages you can add to your personal site that people can visit if they want to learn more about you. A “contact” page or an “about” page are two classics that you’ll find on many sites out there. But what if someone doesn’t want to read your bio, your...

A long time ago, I wrote a reasonably popular bit of open source code called REVENGE.CSS (the caps are intentional). You should know upfront, this hasn’t been maintained for years and if I ever did get round to maintaining it, it would only be to add the “No Maintenance Inte...

Keine Angst, es geht nicht um Avatare ohne Beine! Threads has entered the fediverse!!! TL;DR: Ich freue mich, dass Meta diesen Schritt geht und ich zukünftig vielleicht all meine Freunde im Fediverse Social Web treffen kann, ohne dafür einen Threads, Facebook oder Instagram Account zu benötigen, ich respektiere aber auch jeden, der anderer Meinung ist […]

Is it called an OAuth "grant" or a "flow"? What about "grant type"?

My old HSPVA friend and classmate Joe Santa Maria has a really cool album that I can only describe as if a Chris Potter big band decided to play Indonesian gamelan music, a type of trance-like rhythmic music which I originally discovered through Aaron Taylor Kuffner’s Gamelatron. You can listen or buy the album here. … Continue reading Gamelan Jazz →

I was late to discover Tom Scott, it was only after he did his goodbye video that I came across him, but he is a Youtube treasure with an archive of a ton of good stuff. Here’s one where he ties together scraping, APIs, Web 2.0, privacy, Cliffs of Dover, and some philosophy. So beautiful.

Hi All! 🤗 It is one of the most common reasons why we abandon our personal sites and blogs: at some point, we stop publishing. But why? Weren’t we so enthusiastic when we started (or restarted) our sites? Didn’t we tell ourselves that this time, we would really post more reg...

Hi All! 🤗 It is one of the most common reasons why we abandon our personal sites and blogs: at some point, we stop publishing. But why? Weren’t we so enthusiastic when we started (or restarted) our sites? Didn’t we tell ourselves that this time, we would really post more reg...

Ich war am Wochenende auf dem CloudFest Hackathon und hatte zum zweiten Mal die Change ein Projekt zu betreuen. Die Idee zu „Enable Mastodon Apps“ stammt von @alex und ich freue mich sehr, dass er mir sein „Baby“ für den Hackathon anvertraut hat! Hier ist unser Pitch: Ich bin begeistert von der Idee! Das Nachbauen […]

The Logitech Spotlight presentation remote is a sleek piece of hardware. It is comparatively small, fits nicely in the palm of your hand, and the buttons come with a very satisfying, albeit for my taste a tiny bit too loud, click. But most importantly, the brushed aluminium ...

I know I share a lot of Jacob Collier content, but this one is particularly interesting because you can see him learning things in real-time, exploring an instrument that is not his native tongue but he’s already world-class in. It’s so interesting to me the polymath musician friends I have who can play so many … Continue reading Paul Davids and Jacob Collier →

I just published the 11th issue of Own Your Web, my newsletter about designing, building, creating, and publishing on the Web. When I started the newsletter back in autumn of 2023, I didn’t yet know what form the newsletter would take on, if people would like it, and also wh...

Many of my friends are ridiculous overachievers, and Hugo Barra is no exception. In response to my birthday blog post present request he has published a magnus opus of over 10,000+ words on his thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro from his perspective having been present for some foundational moments for Google, Meta, and Xiaomi. … Continue reading Hugo on Vision Pro →