People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Sigh. Amtrak really needs its own tracks:
Train 21 and Train 421 are currently stopped west of Longview (LVW) due to a rail partner’s disabled trainset blocking the tracks in the area. Due to an expected lengthy delay, Train 21 and Train 421 will reverse back to Longview (LVW) to await further updates.
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ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Greg Storey blogging about how much we’ve divided ourselves and what we’ve lost:
When we don’t talk to each other, we stop trusting each other. When we stop trusting each other, we stop trusting anything —ballots, elections, basic facts. And when we lose trust, democracy doesn’t just wobble. It collapses.
Tuesday session
The foundation of a flexible, good IndieWeb website is markup (the "M" in HTML!") that doesn't drive you batty to debug and CSS that works with it to have it look, sound, and interact how you want, whatever device or format the website is displayed on.
Nice write-up over at TechCrunch of the new Tapestry 1.1:
…one of the larger challenges of multi-feed aggregation apps like Tapestry is that you’re often confronted with duplicates as other users cross-post their updates to multiple services like Mastodon, Bluesky, and Micro.blog. […] The latest Tapestry update is now able to automatically filter out these duplicates, even when the posts are not written exactly the same.
Today's song: Come on Eileen.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Seth Godin on his 10,000th blog post:
I’d write this blog even if no one read it, but that the fact that you do, that you subscribe to it and share it, that’s my fuel.
aftermath.site/ai-video-game-development-art-vibe-coding-midjourney
Grim reading from the games industry, especially if you work at Shopify where the CEbrO has just mandated that you have to use this shite.
Oh man, this tune by Adrian is so good!
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
David Brooks in The Atlantic starts by echoing what I quoted of his last month, then moves on to history lesson and how we eventually rebuild after Trump. A long, good read:
Humility, prudence, and honesty are not just nice virtues to have—they are practical tools that produce good outcomes. When you replace them with greed, lust, hypocrisy, and dishonesty, terrible things happen.
And:
When the time comes to build a new paradigm, progressives talk about economic redistribution; conservatives talk about cultural and civic repair. History shows that you need both: Recovery from national crisis demands comprehensive reinvention at all levels of society.
Watched the first season of The Rehearsal and it blew my mind a little. Hilarious and insane. 📺
Rachel Maddow's show these days often begins with a hard-to-watch over-the-top endorsement of Bluesky. She shouldn't be doing that. It's a private company and someday she may criticize them as strongly as she did Facebook. I'd love to hear her explain exactly what's the difference between Bluesky and Facebook. A lot less than you might think.
There’s no reason RSS and social media have to be separate worlds. RSS is the easiest and fastest way to connect systems. When I see people endorse RSS over social sites I think we took a wrong turn somewhere because all these systems should be connected on the open web.
Great story about Bluesky and Jay Graber in The New Yorker. I love this bit:
Then, in December, 2019, she saw a tweet thread from Jack Dorsey about a decentralized social-media project he was launching—Bluesky. Graber told me that she felt a degree of so-called nominative determinism, pulled toward the project because it shared her name. “If fate doesn’t exist, then we must create it,” she said.
Happy 25th anniversy to A Dao Of Web Design by John Allsopp:
https://alistapart.com/article/dao/
Still relevant after all these years!
