Trying to get internet at the new place. AT&T will only talk on the phone and they make everything complicated. Google Fiber is in the neighborhood but not on our street. Verizon was supposed to overnight a 5G router a few days ago, it hasn’t shipped. Trying to avoid cable if fiber is imminent.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
There are so many great quotes in the Six Colors report card for 2024. Hardware is good, the Mac is good, but Apple has run their relationship with developers into the ground, and most people think Apple Intelligence is a miss.
Some solid #ResilienceStrategy advice in here:https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/National-Resilience-Strategy.pdf (20 page PDF, a well-written quick read or skim)January 2025"National Resilience Strategy: A Vision for a More Resilient Nation"...
Wouldn't it be something if the WordPress community were mobilized to get shit done right now?
We need to change who reps us as much as we need to get the ones who current do rep us off their butts and actually do some representing.
Imho it would be smart for Musk to stop shutting things down and just do his work, whatever it is. By creating constant shitstorms he's making it impossible for anyone to defend him, and you can be sure some would be if what he was doing wasn't so blatantly outrageous. We never voted for that mofo. And every American alive, whatever their preference, thinks their own vote should count. That's going to be a massive hurdle for them to get over.
Parker Ortolani blogs about Bluesky clients:
I want Tweetbot or Twitterrific, but for Bluesky. I’m not seeing that yet. The opportunity is clearly there, it has tens of millions of users making it three times the size of Mastodon.
John Gruber adds a note on Daring Fireball about timeline position sync.
Many people want an app that can manage multiple accounts on different networks. That’s fine. But what I want is one identity that can interact with all open platforms. A client app can never provide that, only new platforms like Micro.blog.
Ben Werdmuller
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A guide to using Signal for government workers
I really like the way this guide to Signal lays it all out. As Matt Haughey explains:
"A friend of mine works in the federal government and wrote a guide for their fellow federal workers on how to use Signal. There are lots of good reasons for switching to Signal for messaging, and this does a great job of laying it all out. This friend doesn't currently have a blog, so they asked me to post it for them, and I obliged since I think it's a straightforward introduction to protecting yourself when communicating with others."
This doesn't just go into the what - it talks a little about the why for Signal, including some of the protections you'll get on Signal that you won't get anywhere else.
Take a look - and then start using it.
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A bit of advice for Dems in Congress. Go home and have town halls, and listen. And stop listening to the consultants and each other. Find out what the people want, and bring that back to DC. And let the press attend the town halls so they can report. Make our own Tea Party.
BTW, it turns out that Pip's, a restaurant in Severance, my favorite show in a while, was hot at the Phoenicia Diner, which is one of my favorite places to eat in the area. Funny thing I didn't recognize it until I saw an article about it in a local magazine.
Tea Party 2025, a modest manifesto.
I don’t see myself using Bookshop.org’s new e-books until there’s Kindle support, but now that I’ve read this article on Wired, I’m convinced they’re on the right track. From CEO Andy Hunter:
The first step is to launch the platform. Our second step is to make it popular, so we have leverage. And then we can start fixing what we consider to be the industry problems around ebooks.
I'm 100% sure, as crazy as it sounds, when Musk is finished with his software project, you will have to use X for everything related to the government. To pay taxes, to recieve health care. To renew your passport. And if you try to arrest him, he'll stop paying interest on the US debt, and that will be the end of the dollar as the reserve currency of the world economy.
Thanks to Heather Cox Richardson, Timothy Snyder, David Frum for fantastic pieces posted in the middle of last night. We are having a fresh awakening in this country and in the end we may come to thank Musk and Trump for facilitating this. And I'm so glad that online media is making this possible too, in addition to all the nasty shit we're also responsible for. :-)
I whipped up a little manifesto. What do you think?
No taxation without representation.
Micro.blog iOS folks on the TestFlight beta, the latest build fixes an issue editing longer blog posts. If anyone sees any new problems, please let me know. We’ll do the App Store release this week.
Just reading more about the Luka Dončić trade to the Lakers. Can still hardly believe it. I thought Luka might be the kind of player would stay in Dallas forever. 🏀
Chimes at Midnight—Asterisk
It’s been an idea for over three decades. How did the clock that will run for 10,000 years become a reality?