People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Pretty sure there's no supportable reason to ban TikTok, any more than banning Facebook or Twitter would make sense.
My newest server was down for an hour due to hardware problems at Digital Ocean. It appears to be running again. Please don't judge the new search feature, it was caught up in this outage. Oy.
Video demo of a the new searchbox on Scripting News.
My cookies and sessions are all out of whack now serving both micro.one and micro.blog from essentially the same web application. Separate load balancers, but I think I need to split things out even further to fix a couple issues.
I've changed my Bluesky avatar to MLK's image to celebrate his birthday on Monday, January 20. I dream of everyone wearing this button proudly on Monday in support of American democracy and progress. We are a proud country, beneath all the weirdness.
Great lineup of social web talks at FOSDEM next month. Wish I could be there. Good luck everyone!
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
We Don't Need More Cynics. We Need More Builders.
[Joan Westenberg]
An absolutely spot-on call to action:
"Cynicism is the cheap seats. It’s the fast food of intellectual positions. Anyone can point at something and say it’s broken, corrupt, or destined to fail. The real challenge? Building something bette...
New updates to the mnml theme for Micro.blog. Looks really nice @jimmitchell! Remember you can preview new themes now without having to switch your blog.
I’ve been ignoring most podcasts over the last month. This morning, listened to the latest Dithering on my walk. It’s got everything you need to know about the TikTok ban and new interest in Xiaohongshu (RedNote).
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Peter Thiel Dreams of Empire
[Dave Karpf at Tech Policy Press]
Peter Thiel and other tech oligarchs are seeking to weaponize US foreign policy as a way to enforce their corporate agendas:
"Thiel is developing a blueprint for putting Big Tech’s policy agenda at the center of US foreign ...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Look Up Private School Demographics With ProPublica’s New Database
[Sergio Hernández, Nat Lash, Brandon Roberts and Ken Schwencke at ProPublica]
Private schools in the US are much whiter than public schools. My colleagues over in the newsroom at ProPublica explored this data while illuminating the ongoing extent of segregat...
una.im | Updates to the customizable select API
It’s great to see the evolution of HTML happening in response to real use-cases—the turbo-charging of the select element just gets better and better!
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
P&B: Annie Mueller
This is the 73rd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Annie Mueller and her blog, anniemueller.com.
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Changing
It always annoys me when a politician is accused of “flip-flopping” when they change their mind on something. Instead of admiring someone for being willing to re-examine previously-held beliefs, we lambast them. We admire conviction, even though that’s a trait that has been ...
I haven’t installed the latest iOS 18.3 beta yet, but just from screenshots I like this italicized change for notification summaries.
We posted a new Core Intuition today, catching up on all the WordPress drama from the last month or so.
Before declaring democracy over, as our major news orgs and tech companies seem to have, remember there are still 50 states, most of whom still seem to accept that votes must be counted, and the winner is who gets the most, not the one who sends in a mob to trash the state Capitol.
Thursday session
Thursday session
Today's fortune cookie
My advice for today.
Tell someone they’re right.
With gusto!
Like this.
You’re not just right, you’re fucking right!