People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Matt Mullenweg
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Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic. They have some very cool products including CodeWP, AgentWP, and WP.chat.
“Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.” 🍔
Monday session
How I know Twitter was great. When something was going on anywhere, any kind of thing, I'd go to Twitter and it happened there 14 minutes ago. It was the pulse of the news. And somehow they couldn't figure out how to make a business of that! Amazing.
This video from OpenAI with animator Lyndon Barrois answers some of my questions about whether Sora can be used as a tool to supplement hand-drawn animation and real video:
I’m an animator. I have all the patience in the world. I’m not looking for it to be immediate and quick. I’m looking for it to take that time, you know, to get it right.
AI at its best should allow humans to do more, not replace art.
If you want to get excited about the future, I highly recommend this week's Jon Stewart podcast interview with Bernie Sanders. I recognize these ideas, it sounds like what we're waiting for in the social web and in journalism. And working for and with each other.
I bet a lot of people who voted for Trump hoped they were voting for Jimmy Stewart in Mr Smith goes to Washington, or It's a Wonderful Life. I think they may be surprised to find that they actually voted for Mr Potter or Ebeneezer Scrooge. Look for a lump of coal in the stocking.
Cosmic on 4th is my new favorite place for winter mornings. Fire pits outside and heaters on the deck. ☕️
Podcast: We all own and no one owns podcasting. 11 minutes.
I've got the new version of Bingeworthy running here. When I saw how the database code worked, I had to redo it from scratch. It was probably my first SQL project, and I barely knew what I was doing. It's too bad, because looking at it from that point of view I could see how SQL could have been much simpler by making some of the optional features automatic. A higher layer on top of SQL is possible, it seems to me. Having ChatGPT review my ideas has been invaluable in this project. I'm going to use it myself for a while, and see how I want to reorganize the user interface. There were opportunities for factoring I didn't take back then because I was in a rush to do something else.
Anyone can build on an open format. That's part of what it means for it to be open. Developers and users are free to use anyone's ideas, or not use them, even if they claim to be the Holy Church of Some Open Format. No one can form an organization that owns the future of the open format because then it wouldn't be open.
Sneak peek of something new I’ve been working on. Coming along well, should be able to ship this week.
Funny how some skills don’t change. I’m sitting here typing a CREATE TABLE and it’s essentially the same thing I was doing 25 years ago.
lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-british-weird-rss-starter-pack
I’m supposed to say Stay Classy San Diego now, right?
david.shanske.com/venue/berkshire-motel-el-cajon-california/
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Their little suites with a bedroom and kitchenette were perfect for my weekend needs.
During this trip, I got frustrated when I made an order in a local business I expressed asked for them not to give me something, Mentioned it three times, asked them to confirm, But brought it back with me to the venue I was at and low and behold…The thing I asked them not to give me. This is like when I go to a restaurant and ask for a my drink with no ice and no lemon and one of those things shows up. I normally don’t write about such things…but I told this story several times to people and I was told that if I told the same story 3 times, it needed to be on my website. So here it is.
