People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Reading Ariadne by Jennifer Saint.
Reading Ariadne by Jennifer Saint.
Going to Strasbourg. brb
Going to Strasbourg. brb
Just in case folks missed the other notices about this, I’m running a big server upgrade in 30 minutes. Wish I could keep Micro.blog fully up during the upgrade but it’s going to be smoother and hopefully faster to just rip the bandaid off. Seeya on the other side.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
How to share your access to media with family and simultaneously sweep the annual nerdy nephew of the year awards
"A couple months ago I was hanging out with my aunt, and she mentioned her cable+internet bill was around $250 per month. I thought that was insane and that I should do something about it. She's a 75 year old retiree that watches baseball and the hallmark channel, and she shouldn't have to pay as much as a car payment every month to do it."
What follows is a very smart way to share media profiles with a family member who doesn't live in your house, using Tailscale as a way to make them seamlessly appear like they're a part of your household.
Tailscale is easy-to-use and is virtually magic. I use it across my devices, and recommend it to others. This is a use case that makes a lot of sense.
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The bdo element
I’m pacing my office when the door swings open with impertinence.
“You’re smoking now?”
I aim the glowing tip at my nose to inspect it. “So that’s what this is?”
A suited arm thrusts a takeout cup towards me.
“Coffee? Or cat piss like I ordered?”
“Hey, save your weird cat pi...
If I could give advice to Tim Walz for tonight’s debate: just be yourself. Don’t stress about scoring points. Don’t debate as if you went to Yale Law School. Remind people how unhinged Trump has become, and show that you’re competent, empathetic, and ready. 🇺🇸
Spent a bunch of time in encryption land, debugging an issue with the next Strata update. Almost shocked that I eventually solved it. I was starting to lose my mind watching scrambled bytes of data go back and forth between platforms.
Cross-posting
Cross-posting is here now. I am not surprised Croissant is getting such a positive reception.
That is where the fediverse will be defined imho, in the intersection between the competing social web services.
You'll know it's working when they feel they have to match each others' features because with cross-posting their difference in character limits, titles, styling, links etc will be much more visible.
Activitypub is too much. Cross-posting is exactly right and here now.
I asked Google Trends about textcasting. No data.
I wasted a day on CSS selector performance to make a website load 2ms faster | Trys Mudford
trysmudford.com/blog/i-spent-a-day-making-the-website-go-2ms-faster/
Picture me holding Trys back and telling him, “Leave it alone, mate, it’s not worth it!”
I had a dream last night with many of my dead relatives present. We were at some kind of social event. My grandfather had a new wife or girlfriend, but he didn't recognize me, though he pretended to. My mother was far off in the distance taking pictures. I wonder what that means. Some of them were dead and gone. I had to remind myself of that. Meanwhile both my parents were alive and being themselves. (Heh.) My subconscious has a clear idea of who they are/were, only it doesn't register that some of them are gone.
There was a trailer for Flow before The Wild Robot. It looks fantastic. The release is coming in December according to Cartoon Brew.
Croissant is getting some great press. Just a few I’ve noticed: Six Colors, MacStories, TechCrunch. I don’t need it because Micro.blog cross-posts to everything from my blog, but would be cool if the app could post to blogs in the future too.
Happy birthday to Jimmy Carter. 100 years! Amazing. Hope he gets his wish to vote for Kamala Harris. Early voting is soon. 🇺🇸
I'm still waiting for the podcast client that can subscribe to OPML lists, so I can subscribe to shows from my desktop, and even automate it. If one of them did, we could start curated lists of feeds put together by smart people and influencers. The first podcast client that did this would open up the market, and stand out from the pack. I've been asking for this from the inception of podcasting twenty years ago. I had it in my first podcatcher. It would be great if one of the popular clients of today adopted the idea. Happy to help.
Decided a few weeks back to stop Wordle at 1200. It’s fitting that I did terribly on this last one.
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Here is the monthly archive for Scripting News in OPML, for September. I've been systematically creating this archive since May 2017. And also have been able to reconstruct the archive for most of Scripting News going back to 1994. I've been doing a lot of work with the contents of this archive in the last month.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Bop Spotter
"I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below."
As surveillance goes, I'm into it. I appreciate the commentary:
"Heard of Shot Spotter? Microphones are installed across cities across the United States by police to detect gunshots, purported to not be very accurate. This is that, but for music."
I don't give it much time before someone figures out where it is and tries to mess with it, though.
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Monday session
Monday session