Nice #IndieWebCamp discussion session with Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks@indieweb.social @kevinmarks@xoxo.zone @kevinmarks) on the topic of auto-linking¹.I’ve implemented an auto_link function² that handles quite a few use-cases of URLs (with or without http: or https:), @-name @-...
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
If you're interested in languages and compiler compilers and how to bootstrap a scripting environment, then you'll enjoy the progress I've made in the project to get UserTalk running in today's environments. I welcome comments from experienced or curious language devs.
Reading The Shadow Of Perseus by Claire Heywood.
Reading The Shadow Of Perseus by Claire Heywood.
Ben Werdmuller
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A Developer's Guide to ActivityPub and the Fediverse
[Martin SFP Bryant at The New Stack]
"How do you get started if you want to integrate your own software with ActivityPub? [Evan] Prodromou has written a new book on this very topic, and we caught up with him to explore the practicalities of linking up with the fediverse."
I'm convinced that ActivityPub is the underlying standard that all future social software will be built on. Evan is one of the founding parents of the fediverse, and this article is a great overview. His new book will be an invaluable resource for everyone who wants to embark upon this journey.
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My response: "We have no visibility into the inner workings of the NYT. We can't vote them out of office. We can't even rebut them. They rarely carry opposing opinions."
Walt Mossberg: "Journalists have one core job: to tell the truth, especially when it’s clear. The staff of the NY Times has done it in the past, even at great risk. Why don’t they do it now?"
All setup here at IndieWebCamp Portland!https://events.indieweb.org/2024/08/indiewebcamp-portland-2024-8bucXDlLqR0kGood crowd of participants from #XOXO #XOXOConf (@xoxofest.com @xoxo@xoxo.zone @xoxo) here to work on their personal website(s), domains, or other independent so...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm
[George Hammond at the Financial Times]
"Y Combinator, the San Francisco start-up incubator that launched Airbnb, Reddit, Stripe and Coinbase, is backing a weapons company for the first time, entering a sector it has previously shunned."
Specifically, its a ...
Wow, I hadn’t heard about this yet but can’t wait. War of the Rohirrim coming at the end of the year, trailer here on YouTube. Love an animated Lord of the Rings.
More on the fediverse stars symbol, this time from Manuel Moreale:
I am no fediverse citizen but I do consider myself a good citizen of the web. I try my best to make it a better place and I try to encourage people to own their corners of the web. Am I excluded from your fancy club because I don’t “federate”?
This gets back to my point about “social web” vs. fediverse. Manu has a fantastic blog and he’s making the web better. The social web (IndieWeb!) should connect seamlessly to blogs without an extra protocol layer over the web.
Nice update to ChatGPT for Mac: option-space now brings up results in a small floating window. Good for quick answers, but can still be collapsed back into the main window. Whoever is working on the Mac app is doing good work. It’s like a case study in sticking with AppKit.
Finished reading: The Exchange by John Grisham. A sequel to The Firm. I usually try to find something positive to say about a book… I didn’t enjoy this after the first few chapters. But it’s short and I wanted to know how it ended. 📚
Kamala's acceptance speech
Full audio for Kamala Harris's acceptance speech at the DNC.
Thanks to Ian Landsman for converting the video to MP3.
My blog post about the speech.
Podcast: 37 minutes.
People over protocols over platforms.inspired by today’s #indieweb #fediverse #ActivityPub #decentralized #socialMedia lunch meetup at #XOXO #XOXOConf (@xoxo@xoxo.zone)This is post 16 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts← https://tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-posse-microformats-adoption→ 🔮
Feasting on fresh Florida shrimp, corn, and tomatoes. 🦐 🌽 🍅
Feasting on fresh Florida shrimp, corn, and tomatoes. 🦐 🌽 🍅
Penn family farm at Cedar Hill State Park.
Formation
Formation
Beach day
Beach day
The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age | MIT Technology Review
For many archivists, alarm bells are ringing. Across the world, they are scraping up defunct websites or at-risk data collections to save as much of our digital lives as possible. Others are working on ways to store that data in formats that will last hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of years.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
I love Reeder despite this persistent niggle
I love hanging out in Reeder. I subscribe to thousands of feeds, and it handles them well for me. But it does make it hard for me to prune them once I’m subscribed.
I found myself looking at this screen this afternoon:
And I thought to myself: you know what? I don’t need to...