People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
I wish the Ecmascript committee had put more effort into real soul-saving enhancements like comments in JSON instead of coming up with contorted ways to do the same old contortions we got used to dealing with ten years ago. And they could have removed features from the language instead of piling on more and more random reinventions. End of editorial, now on with the new Bingeworthy.
thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-inclusive-web-of-progressive-enhancement/
This is a great history of the idea of progressive enhancement:
It is an idea that has been lasting and enduring for two decades, and will continue.
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.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
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.
wired.com/story/html-is-actually-a-programming-language-fight-me/
I want to make a social network for writers.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
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.
