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IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf took place this weekend, and I was inspired to work on a quick hack for demo day to show off a new feature I've been working on for IndieAuth.

Illuminate has crossed the funding threshold it needed to actually kick off the project of bringing the Bay Lights back to San Francisco, as Heather Knight writes for the New York Times. The upgraded lights will be visible not just from San Francisco but also in Oakland, Treasure Island, Berkeley… all across the Bay. It’s … Continue reading Bay Lights Are Returning! →

I’m not one to shy away from random things I find on the internet, so when I came across the Scott Alexander article on a discovery in the 80s about people who don’t get cavities, my first thought was “how far is Honduras from Houston?” So on February 28th, my friend Rene and I became … Continue reading Mouth Biohacking →

The draft specification OAuth for Browser-Based Applications has just entered Working Group Last Call!

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...

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...