His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
— James Joyce, The Dead
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Brighton snow!
Brighton snow!
The Two Rules Of Software Creation From Which Every Problem Derives – Ask The UXer
asktheuxer.com/2025/01/07/the-two-rules-of-software-creation-from-which-every-problem-derives/
- Humans can not accurately describe what they want out of a software system until it exists.
- Humans can not accurately predict how long any software effort will take beyond four weeks. And after 2 weeks it is already dicey.
As part of the conversion of BingeWorthy, I started the database from scratch, but before I did that, I exported all the data and put it in a GitHub repo. This included a JSON file of ratings for each user. For example, this is my file. Remember we used Twitter identity then, davewiner is my Twitter username, just replace my name with yours to see your file, if you were a Bingeworthy user in the past.
New Micro.blog coffee mugs! T-shirts too if you haven’t seen them, courtesy of @jimmitchell who has my blessing to run with this merchandise.
I wrote this post in 2023 as Threads was coming online. Now that Zuckerberg has thrown us under the bus, again, it's worth remembering their rollout strategy was to get us to overlook their past betrayals of users. They said "We ❤️Fediverse." That did it. It was at a moment ...
Withdrawing from a conference I was supposed to be speaking at later this year. The line-up currently shows that out of a total of 73 speakers, a grand total of 8 are women.
Withdrawing from a conference I was supposed to be speaking at later this year. The line-up currently shows that out of a total of 73 speakers, a grand total of 8 are women.
2023: "If they really want to prove their love for the open web, if they aren't just trying to lull us to sleep while they steal yet another market from the open web, they should do something that helps the web more than it helps them."
Liberals should support truly open technology that doesn't have a Zuckerberg who can sell us all out. Get involved.
IndieWeb Secret Gregory (Spring Secret Santa) 2025 Participation
sarajaksa.eu/2025/01/indieweb-secret-gregory-spring-secret-santa-2025-participation/
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Meta’s Free Speech Grift
Jason nails what the supposed focus on free speech by Meta and others is really about:
"What Zuckerberg and Meta have realized is the value, demonstrated by Trump, Musk, and MAGA antagonists, of saying that you’re “protecting free speech” and using it as cover for almost anything you want to do. For Meta, that means increasing engagement, decreasing government oversight and interference, and lowering their labor costs (through cutting their workforce and strengthening their bargaining position vs labor) — all things that will make their stock price go up and increase the wealth of their shareholders."
It's a grift, pure and simple. One that happens to help them curry favor with the incoming President and his fan-base.
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Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
[Arno Rosenfeld at the Forward]
The Heritage Foundation is out to "identify and target" Wikipedia editors, using antisemitism as a cover:
"Employees of Heritage, the conservative think tank that produced the Project 2025 policy blueprint for the second Trump...
For carry on luggage….2 or 4 wheels? Go.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
46 books
Previous birthday posts: 45 wishes, 44 thoughts about the future, 43 things, 42 / 42 admissions, 41 things.
One. I lie in bed as Ma read Dodie Smith’s The Hundred and One Dalmatians to me. It was the fifth, and last, straight time; after this, she would finally put her fo...
Trying to pay some old fee from a car lease that I returned 7 years ago, stuck on the phone, dropped calls, terrible finance websites, and generally just a complete waste of time… But this typo on their website maybe hurts me the most:
Please note that it may take upto 15 minutes to receive.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
I often find things inside typewriters… LEGO (multiple), a chicken leg from a Calico Critters playset, a tiny 70s photo of a child, the stub of a pencil, glitter, a pocket knife, a mini clothespin… And naturally lots and lots of eraser bits, loose screws, loose springs, dust rhinoceroses, dried white out, dirt, cobwebs, even … Continue reading
The audio narration works for very short posts too. Me reading this post about Mark Zuckerberg earlier today gives the post a whole new “I’m so tired of this” feeling.
I added audio narration to my latest blog post. You’ll see a little “listen” play button near the top. This is a Micro.blog feature that I forget exists sometimes! There’s a help page about it.
Tuesday session
Tuesday session
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
