Highly recommend this week's New Yorker Radio Hour interview with Stephen Kotkin of Stanford. He's an expert on Russian history, biographer of Stalin, he talks about what Trump is doing, and as I listened I realized we have not filled in how crazy or challenged the leaders o...
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Rêve Coffee in Lafayette, LA. ☕️
Wednesday session in Amsterdam
Wednesday session in Amsterdam
New feature for Micro.blog’s Bluesky cross-posting: preview cards. This is still off by default, but if you flip it on in Sources, Micro.blog will try to figure out the title, description, and og:image for the first link in your post and attach it. Screenshot:
Federico Viticci wonders if Apple should have their own API that could bridge to OpenAI and Anthropic, offering Apple’s own seal of approval on privacy and security. It would be a nice surprise if Apple did something like this. They could wrap together on-device models and private cloud compute too.
I just participated in the first W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop¹ hosted by the Credible Web Community Group² (of which I’m a longtime member) and up front I noted that our very discussion itself needed to be careful about its own credibility, extra critical of any technologi...
MarsEdit 5.3.3 is out! This release adds support for Micro.blog blog post summaries with a new “excerpt” field in MarsEdit.
Today's song: Starting Over.
I’ve been introduced to the most important staff member at this university.
I’ve been introduced to the most important staff member at this university.
Hello, Amsterdam!
Hello, Amsterdam!
I have no complaints about playing in the rain today.
Designing code snippets in technical content
When I was re-designing my website, I thought a lot about the presentation of prose, guided by the intention to build a more focused theme for reading my words. Over the last few months, I have also thought about the design of multimedia content: images and videos. Designing ...
Pattern: Filtering over content firehoses
Every week, BBC Scotland publishes a collection of photos as part of a Your pictures of Scotland series. Readers are invited to submit photos of anywhere in Scotland. The series has opened my eyes to all of the landscapes across the country. From morning frost over the hills ...
Matcha
I am excited by the arrival of spring; a time of flowering and growth and, hopefully sunshine. As it gets (a little bit) warmer, I have been in the mood for my go-to, non-coffee iced drink 1: a matcha latte. Last week, after drinking one, I thought maybe I could try making ic...
Chris Aldrich
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• Chris Aldrich
Great! Another evacuation warning. This time instead of for catastrophic fire, it’s for rain and potential mudslides from the burn scar. Fortunately (?) I’m still evacuated from January 7th about 6 miles south.
Curating UX London 2025
I’ve had my head down for the past six months putting the line-up for UX London together. Following the classic design cliché, the process was first divergent, then convergent.
I spent months casting the net wide, gathering as many possible candidates as I could, as well as...
Werd I/O
• Ben Werdmuller
New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
[Erin In The Morning]
While America is destroying the ability for trans people to participate in public life, over in Europe they're (rightly) improving care for trans people.
"In recent years, U.S. politicians have selectively framed European healthcare pol...
Going to Amsterdam. brb
Going to Amsterdam. brb
Bluesky is not billionaire-proof
First I want to say that Bluesky is nice software, good design, attractive, they have a goal and stick to it, and it stays up, no fail whales that were so vexing of early days Twitter. That said, I have two criticisms:
They are implementing the same limits that Twitter desi...