People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Great quote from a favorite show. "He put the dick in contradiction." This is a show that doesn't often indulge in that kind of humor. I imagine they must've had a great time with it in the writer's room. Or was it ad-lib'd? And wtf does it mean?
The idea of a coup in the US is one we all presumably have a hard time thinking about. I sure do. It has never happened before. But it has happened now, and the group that is governing is doing it illegally, and is dismantling the country as quickly as they can, assuming someone will at some point try to stop them? Is that correct? What comes next?
Being “in tech” in 2025 is depressing, and if I’m going to stick around, I need to remember why I’m here.
People who shoot on film (or who used to) will probably enjoy this video from Adrian about when he brought 100 rolls of film on a road trip.
NSHipster is back again with a bunch of tips for running AI models on a Mac with Ollama. Also this:
If you wait for Apple to deliver on its promises, you’re going to miss out on the most important technological shift in a generation.
Saturday morning band practice.
The way to get even is to win. A lot of people don't get that, and it's almost always their downfall.
I’m not giving money to Democrats. I will give to campaigns that run hard-hitting ads telling the full truth about what Musk is doing now. I want to see the actual ads before I chip in, and will do so enthusiastically, but they can’t be anemic.
Hypercard stacks were the equivalent of websites.
If it had been built around the Macintosh Toolkit, and had an API that fit in with Mac apps, there wouldn't be a web, we'd all be using Macs. Alas it was all on its own, didn't work with Mac apps. Missed opportunity.
A lot was lost because the Mac development model was far in advance of what existed on the web, and it was well-thought-out unlike the app model of the web, which is a hodgepodge of horribly designed modules that don't work well together.
I was a Mac developer at the time, so I know a lot about this moment of history.
Screen shot of a Hypercard stack home page.The Dems don't do positioning. The Repubs run circles around Dems. They are masters at positioning. It's not hard, you just have to decide to do it.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
There are so many new (sponsored) rules in the celebrity all-star game that I stepped away for a minute and there was a mascot playing on the court. Which honestly makes me just want to see a full game of only team mascots. 🏀
Nice single-page site from Pixelfed about social web technologies. Think about if more platforms supported everything on that page.
Wrote up some documentation for the first phase of our blog post “summary” feature rollout. Like a lot of things in Micro.blog, this is a foundation. Other things can be built on top of it.
Musk will defund Medicare.
More than death panels.
Say goodbye to everyone who needs health care
Because almost no one can afford it without coverage.
That's what they mean when they say they'll cut $2 trill.
That's your health care.
