People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
I’m sitting comfortably in my chair at home while my brother is running a 300 mile race through Arizona.
- Basic functionality should work on any device that can access the web.
- Extras and flourishes are treated as progressive enhancements for modern devices.
- The UI can look different and even clunky on older devices and browsers, as long as it doesn’t break rule #1.
snook.ca/archives/accessibility_and_usability/snook-dreams-of-the-web
If we were to follow Jiro’s and his apprentices’ journeys and imagine web development the same way then would we ask of our junior developers to spend the first year of their career only on HTML. No CSS. No JavaScript. No frameworks. Only HTML. Only once HTML has been mastered do we move onto CSS. And only once that has been mastered do we move onto JavaScript.
Here’s the main problem I’ve found with generative AI, and with “vibe coding” in general: it completely sucks out the joy of software development for me.
I hate the way they’ve taken over the software industry, I hate how they make me feel while I’m using them, and I hate the human-intelligence-insulting postulation that a glorified Excel spreadsheet can do what I can but better.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
📗 Want to read Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest by Sammy Winemaker ISBN: 9781774582961
📗 Want to read The Mechanic and the Luddite by Dr Jathan Sadowski PH D ISBN: 9780520398078
📗 Want to read Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry by Ransom Riggs ISBN: 9780593530931
📗 Want to read The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer ISBN: 9781668072240
The Level Up is an indie improv showcase. Join us as we watch amazing New York indie improv talents gain XP on the Magnet stage, unlock new achievements, and reach new milestones. Or do comedy.
Come support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for these exciting indie teams:
I’ll be playing in with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!
Looking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)
Saturday April 6th, 2025 @ 9pm
Magnet Theater
254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)
New York City, NY 10001
Tickets $10: https://magnettheater.com/show/59475/
The Minecraft movie was a lot of fun. 🍿
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
I wonder when ChatGPT or Claude.ai will compete with Wikipedia. I think Wikipedia is great but it has always had a weakness in that it can be manipulated to tell a story from a very limited point of view. For example the RSS page has a long section explaining the benefits of Atom. What I like about the AI versions of the basic history of things is that it isn't so easily manipulated. I talked about this with Claude, and asked it to write up a proposal for ClaudeWiki, a Wikipedia workalike, not too expensive to run, make it part of a user's $20 per month subscription. I think it would be useful, if only as a demo how Wikipedia itself might improve its service.
A search for WordPress on this blog tells an interesting story.
If I were designing a social network, I would implement replies differently. When you reply to a post, only the person who wrote the post sees it. If they want they can RT it. The way it works now on all twitter-like systems means most of the replies are basically spam, people using your post as a way to reach people who follow you.
BTW, when you post something on Bluesky it's just a tweet. These things don't need different names on each platform.
It's time for new thinking. A reply to a tweet on Bluesky about the real purpose of MAGA -- it's to make rich white men richer. She said that to me. All I'm all three of those things. And that's really close to what people say about Jews, btw. In a few months that's what they'll be saying. All the pain and suffering is to make Jews wealthier. They're setting that up. Anyway, I looked at my retirement account the other day and it sure didn't look like I'm getting richer. Just sayin.
I like people who stand up and speak the truth. This is one of the silver linings of this crisis. There's no real advantage at this point in trying to play it safe, to not be noticed. So I like what Chris Murphy, Senator from Connecticut has been saying.
I used to tell friends you can't go wrong buying the S&P 500. The president is rated by now the stock market does, and so over the long haul you can expect steady growth from the S&P 500, and it keeps things really simple. Well, have to say -- that's no longer good advice. Maybe real estate? Outside the United States? I don't know. It depends on what the people of this country do, and if our representatives are listening.
