Has anyone come up with a variant of JSON that allows comments? I've started using names like "comment1" etc to shoehorn comments in. A complete hack, impossible to maintain over time. The idea of not being able to put notes in your config.json files is absolutely ridiculous.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-Checking on Meta Is Too "Politically Biased"
[Alex Weprin at The Hollywood Reporter]
I don't think this is a great thing at all:
"Meta will also move its trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, with content review to be based in Texas. “As we work to promote free expression, I ...
I’ve fallen quite behind in support email. I’m sorry everyone. Hope to hire someone to help in 2025. I’m going to reply to every email I received in November, December, and January and then close the rest.
Good discussion this week on the blogs — Daring Fireball, Six Colors — about the icon used in Apple Intelligence. We’ve been using a robot icon (or emoji) for anything AI-generated in Micro.blog. When Apple revealed their icon, I thought it was great, but the robot is more obvious and fun.
This thread from Mark Zuckerberg could’ve been written by Elon Musk. The last thing we need is X and Threads adopting the same perspective on moderation. I’ve read it through a few times and I feel worse about it each time.
HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me | WIRED
wired.com/story/html-is-actually-a-programming-language-fight-me/
When haters deny HTML’s status as a programming language, they’re showing they don’t understand what a language really is. Language is not instructing an interlocutor what to do in a way that leaves no room for other interpretations; it is better and richer than that. Lik...
I want to make a social network for writers.
Weird to feel seen by Bruce Sterling! Some Public Limits of Everyday Weirdness (2025)...
Weird to feel seen by Bruce Sterling!
Some Public Limits of Everyday Weirdness (2025)
hat-tip: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/06/how-the-sausage-gets-made/#linkdump
I don’t want to dwell too long thinking about January 6th four years ago. It happened and the re-election happened. American democracy sometimes feels broken, but I think disinformation is the root problem. The fix won’t be easy. 🇺🇸
I was inspired driving back from camping today to record a new episode of Timetable. Dictated some notes while on the road, then recorded it when I got home. A sort of essay to start 2025. Super short, blink and you’ll miss the whole thing.
Because of the freezing weather this week, we’re bumping the IndieWeb Meetup again. It will be Wednesday, January 15th. 7pm at Radio Coffee & Beer.
Monday session
Monday session
I was here last year… This time getting a sticker, at Johnson City Coffee Co. A convenient place on the way to or from west Texas. ☕️
Old Tunnel State Park. Now taken over by bats, this was an old train tunnel to connect San Antonio and Fredericksburg in 1913.
Manu Moreale: Blogging: you’re doing it right:
If you’re doing it, you’re doing it right. If you have decided to reclaim ownership of your place on the web, you’re doing it right. It doesn’t matter how you did it.
The great thing about using a sytem like MySQL (or any SQL for that matter) is that it's been around for so long that if you can think of something that would be nice to have, you can be sure it's there somewhere. They've had enough time not only to hit all the walls, but to...
How I'd write books with WordLand. Just thinking out loud here. Working with a group of people. It's possible it's just the author and editor, or it could be a larger documentation job, or a report covering a lot of ground. In 2025 we'd use AI to find the threads in our writ...
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When did you last look up?
What’s the best thing you’ve seen lately?
Who did you want to show it to?
Why?
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Being More Like Republicans
[A.R. Moxon at The Reframe]
An interesting election mortem and post-mortem, from an arguably refreshing perspective:
"Here's what I think is going on: Our system is foundationally built to devour human beings in order to enrich the already wealthy, and it's...
Glad to have a fire on a cold night at South Llano River State Park.
