People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Rest in peace, James Earl Jones. I wouldn’t have guessed he was 93 already. An incredible life. Love this quote from him in the AP:
I realized early on, from people like Athol Fugard, that you cannot change anybody’s mind, no matter what you do. As a preacher, as a scholar, you cannot change their mind. But you can change the way they feel.
Solid updates from Apple as usual. They highlighted lots of health-related features, like hearing aids, sleep apnea, and satellite messaging. For environmental impact, I’m still curious if there will be a hit to their goals with the AI private cloud rollout.
Genuinely conflicted about this year’s iPhone Pro color lineup: black, white, silver, desert. I guess black? Need to see more photos to know where desert sits on the spectrum of subtle to Zune.
New Apple stuff is great and all, but hear me out… What if they integrated hardware, software, and services in a way that only Apple can do? 🤪
I’m sorry to be bitter, but in the first half hour of the Apple event, my takeaways are: they really should move back to live presentations, and please stop saying “only Apple can do”… If you say it too much for everything, it loses its impact. (New products look good, though.)
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Ben Thompson predicts a $100 price increase for the new iPhones today, bringing it over $1k for the first time. So I guess if the iPhone 16 Pro is $1100, the Max will be $1200. Ouch. 💰
Could Kamala Harris look into the camera tomorrow night and say "To Fox News viewers, they've been feeding you a load crap. Just thought you should know that. And I wouldn't trust what the others are saying either."
iPhone announcement day! As I talked about on @coreint, for the first time in years — maybe since the original iPhone? — I’m actually going to get a new phone right away. Not excited about the cost, but will be fun to play on the cutting edge a little.
sarajaksa.eu/2024/09/comment-day-lets-make-it-a-comment-or-email-day/
The goal isn’t to write less code.
It’s to ship less code to users. Better code. Faster code. More resilient code.
THIS!
Sooooo many front-end developers don’t grasp this fundamental principle: it’s not about you!
Matt has made a new website for tracking our collective progress levelling up the Kardashev scale:
Maximising energy generation, distribution and usage at street level, for as many people as possible, everyday.
ianbetteridge.com/2024/09/04/doj-nvidia-and-why-we-restrict-monopolies/
This observation seems intuitively obvious in Europe and pearl-clutchingly shocking in America:
What’s perfectly acceptable behaviour when you are a relatively small company becomes outright illegal (and rightly so) when you become dominant in an industry.
Reading Dogs Of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Sunday session
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
A very practical issue.
BlueSky has a 300 character limit, which is less than the other services I cross-post to, namely:
This will be a problem when we eventually get peering working cross-network among twitter-like systems.
