FeedCity

Catching up on the Bluesky world, I missed this note in Last Week in Bluesky about trending topics:

The technological underpinning of how Trending Topics work on Bluesky is noteworthy: every trending topic is a custom feed. Every time a new topic is trending, a new custom feed gets created, giving the team better control over the topic. It also allows for new possibilities that have not yet been explored, such as archiving and documenting feeds after the trend is over, or other options that have not yet been explored.

I like it. Technical choices affect what’s possible with moderation.

Good questions from Phil Jones re Wednesday's podcast. I'm glad to get to answer these questions. There's more to wpIdentity than is obvious at first glance, for example it has a relatively complete storage system built in for developers to use. I used one of its features yesterday in the connection between Bingeworthy and the profile display app.

On the Meta content moderation change, I think there’s something to the idea that a company will always pivot or disappoint you if you don’t know what they stand for. Twitter also changed who they were multiple times. I want to build a company that has an unwavering, clear message over decades.

Here’s a handy free tool from Calibre that’ll give your website a performance assessment.

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The personal profile pages for Bingeworthy are working again. Here's my profile page. This is how you share recommendations. More info here.

I'm going to fill in the next bit of Bingeworthy here in a few minutes.

BTW, I'm going through all the episodes of Deadwood, and find it's influencing how I write. A good bingewatch is like that. You become one of the characters, or in a way, all of them. Sometimes I'm Swearingen and other times I'm Wu. Etc.

We need an AI chatbot that can work with GitHub repos. That is, in my prompt I say, the following questions are about this GitHub repo. At that point it is ready to answer any question about the project. This an incredibly important intersection of capabilities. As far as I ...

[Natasya Salim, Najma Sambul, and Bill Birtles at ABC News] This is something that every nation should provide. It's really impressive that Indonesia is putting it into action: "Indonesia has launched a transformative free meal program designed to combat ma...

I can’t wait to play this song live!

https://saltercane.bandcamp.com/track/something-underwater

“There’s something in the water Like the holy face of God It’s out there on the borders And rising inside us”

The new Salter Cane album just dropped on Bandcamp!

https://saltercane.bandcamp.com/album/deep-black-water

Okay this GDQ joke speedrun of a TI-83 game is sending me.

Photos of the LA fires are unreal. Feeling for everyone out there.

Very cold and slightly rainy afternoon. For some reason I picked this weather to go for a short walk along the river.

If you want to watch me and Remy presenting live, join us here at 7:30pm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XONerj4rE2I

I received some good feedback about the latest episode of Timetable, so I thought I’d re-post the transcript here, for folks who don’t listen to podcasts or who just missed it. In a way, it’s an evolved mission statement, but more personal, reframed for 2025. You can listen ...

Micro.blog’s status page has been down for a while. It’s back up now. No actual server downtime while the status page was down, thankfully. 🤞

What fits your definition of a pillow during eternal Caturday?

I enjoy reading Ben Thompson’s Stratechery every day, and I’m always nodding along, but I think his take on Meta and content moderation is off the mark. The web is the open platform where nearly any speech is allowed. Platforms need to tread more carefully because of their power to influence.