People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html
Podcast: We still need universities. 21 minutes.
If you aren’t sure how to ask for help with software, try first asking ChatGPT or another AI chatbot to help figure out what’s going wrong. It has infinite time to help, and won’t mind if the problem turned out to be a random browser plug-in that was misbehaving.
It often suggests trying things you might not have thought of.
I use it myself esp as often is the case there’s no one who can or is willing to work for me for free. I’m already playing it $20 per month, and for that I get as much time as it takes.
Really good for organizing your approach to a problem.
Had a good run for a few months on uptime until today. I’ve upgraded one of our servers to prevent this particular meltdown from happening again.
Bad timing, had a major server failure this morning. Micro.blog is back online and I’m restoring a few things now. 😔
Really positive reaction to my post about adding European web servers for Micro.blog. Thanks everyone! This is the first step, excited to explore more.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
I like Jeff Nichols' piece, but I don't agree that the writer's web is blogging. I think it's bigger. Blogging is part of the writer's web. Today's writing network is much more powerful, the software tools are stronger, and new UI standards have evolved. Things like Digital Ocean, Markdown, Font-Awesome and Node.js didn't exist last time we took a serious look at writing on the web. The web with all its features is still here. WordPress has created a strong foundation to build on, at least as good as the social media platforms, but better because it's of the web, with no limits. We've got the beginning of a new platform, one where developers compete to create great writing and reading environments, and we don't need federation because the web takes care of that.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
More tomorrow.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
It’s so funny that my random re-engagement with Radiohead re-emergence coincides with them doing a new entity that might mean something. I did a poll on Twitter and people preferred OK Computer to Kid A 78%!
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
I avoid deploying new code to servers in the evening. It’s better to make changes when I’m awake for hours and can monitor for problems. But it’s kind of a bummer for Europe and the rest of the world because new features always go live while they’re asleep. Might break that rule tonight! 🇪🇺
