People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
We posted a new episode of Core Intuition, this time talking all about the controversy in the WordPress community over WP Engine. Still very fascinated by this story and following as much of the news as I can, including a new interview with Matt Mullenweg over the weekend.
I posted this to @news a week ago. Quoting it here as a reminder:
An early heads-up: we are planning a major server upgrade for October 1st, 10pm central time / 3pm GMT. While we hope to limit downtime, Micro.blog will be unavailable for a little while during the upgrade. Your blogs hosted on Micro.blog will remain online.
While we’ve had sporadic downtime this year, I don’t think we’ve had planned downtime in several years, and I don’t take it lightly. It’s a database upgrade and worth the time to do it right.
If I were Mark Zuckerberg, I'd add Markdown support to Threads so writers could use the basic communication tool of the web.
If I were benevolent dictator of BlueSky, I'd add Markdown support there too. Btw, can you really claim to be part of the social web when you don't support the web's most basic feature -- linking??
If I were benevolent dictator of Mastodon, I'd add Markdown support everywhere so we'd have links and simple styling.
If you only write when you’re sure you’ll produce brilliance, you’ll never write.
Comparing web components to React is like comparing a good bicycle with a cybertruck.
They do very different things, and they’re used by different people with very, very different mindsets.
This project, based on OpenStreetMap, looks great:
OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.
You can either self-host or use our public instance.
I’m going to try it out on The Session once there’s documentation for using this with Leaflet.
This special in-depth edition of Quanta is fascinating and very nicely put together.
gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement
Oh, how I wish that every team building for the web would use this sensible approach!
If you want to help the open web, when you write something you’re proud of on a social web site like Bluesky or Mastodon, also post it to your blog. Not a huge deal but every little bit helps.
I think the new “finished” pane turned out well. This has been a much-needed improvement to Micro.blog. Because we fire off publishing and Hugo-ing in the background, it was irritating to keep an eye on the status and find the new blog post link.
House shopping during election season is great. There are so many political yard signs, you can tell a lot about what your future neighbors are like.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
On Thursday a prominent developer YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and journalist posted a video titled This might be the end of WordPress. It was very harsh. In that video you’ll hear him say about me, “he’s a chronic hater” (7:55), “seems like he’s been a pretty petty bastard for a long time now” (10:22), “I hate … Continue reading On with Theo / T3.gg →
