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Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Wednesday session
IndieWeb Meetup tonight! Reminder that we switched up the venue: it’s at Radio Coffee & Beer, 7pm.
Little known fact: Micro.blog has the best photo search of any blogging platform. Great to find one of your old photos to reference, or to remember if you blogged about something. If there’s anything even close to this good, let me know.
From a few days ago, this little “eggplant” sign makes me smile whenever I see it.
Deployed a flurry of server fixes this morning. Espresso machine power is out at the coffee shop, so enjoying a cold brew instead. ☕️
Great new preview videos of the upcoming Micro.blog app Mikro. Looking really nice!
I am definitely the last person to hear about ListenNotes search engine for podcasts. It's incredible. Just starting to explore its capabilities.
I’m suscribing to this RSS feed.
I filled out the Podcast Ideas page I started as a placeholder on Nov 30. If you have a friend who works on a podcast client, please send them a pointer to this piece, or link to it from your social web accounts on Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads or via your blog. Let's nurture and feed new features to the open podcast world, ones that helps creators and influencers build new networks that can only work outside of the silos. It's time to start moving the market again, it's been stagnant for far too long.
I’m quitting while I’m ahead: https://adactio.com/journal/21585
Woke up to a whole bunch of good (though not positive) feedback. Going to be a busy day!
Tabloid is a turing-complete programming language for writing programs in the style of clickbait news headlines.
This tracks (ahem) with my experience of coding on trains.
Hidde lists the potentially flaky connectivity as a downside, but for many kinds of deep work I’d say it’s very much a feature, not a bug.
I’ve been trying to trim down my business-related expenses. It’s mostly going well. I do sometimes miss ChatGPT Plus.
After 49 years in Austin, you’d think I’d know every little neighborhood. But places change with time. Searching for a house this last year, we’re discovering all these hidden gems. Old properties that have been dusted off. Neighborhoods whose time has come again.
Last month I coded up an OpenAI-powered note dictation experiment. I’m still not convinced Siri dictation is going to improve significantly in the next 2-3 years. (Example today: “in Austin” became “and awesome”, which made no sense in context.) Apple models are too limited until we have more RAM.
Didn’t realize this was missing but now that I’ve implemented it, I love it. Post to your blog, someone replies in Bluesky. The reply appears on your blog. If you reply back on Bluesky, that reply is included in the conversation on your blog too.
That wide-eyed look of discovery and wonder in a little kid’s face when they see something new for the first time… How much of our life as adults is just trying to recapture that feeling again?
