People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
The difference between the 2008 crash and now is that we had a functioning government in 2008.
Did you know there's a chain of beating hearts going from your heart all the way back to the first animal on earth with a heart.
I added another issue, about the channel-level title. It should be the user's name, not the address of the feed.
Bluesky has added enclosure support to their outbound RSS feeds. The great thing about it is that people can use Bluesky to create flows that go to lots of other places and now we can do that with images and videos. That a huge door that's opening. And I like it also because they're leading. This is a feature that Mastodon's outbound feeds don't have, yet.
Why we all have to be working together on creating a modern easily distributed communication system that's truly decentralized. The key is to only implement features that have super-simple implementations, so it will be easy to product new versions quickly in all environments. Which means starting with formats and protocols that are already widely supported.
Reading A Psalm For The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers.
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Stephen Hackett commenting on a report in The York Times about Apple not allocating much of a budget to AI servers:
For a company that says it doesn’t like looking back at its own history, very often, Apple makes decisions like it’s the late 1990s and the company is on the verge of failure. That drives it to make incredible products, but it also means Apple can be incredibly stingy. To play in the AI race, you’ve got to be willing to spend piles and piles of cash.
Old train bridge next to new light rail bridge in Tempe.
Dave Winer has written up two improvements Bluesky can make to RSS feeds: including images and including embedded posts instead of the “contains quote post” message. The images are especially important and make the feeds really impractical to use right now because the data is just missing.
When young people come out of university in a technical subject, they think they know more than people already doing the jobs. They quickly learn that in school they were doing "student projects" which are not the real thing. Ooops, maybe we didn't know as much as we thought.
Ben Werdmuller
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Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
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I put a little care into something and sent it out into the world.
Finished reading: Dragonsteel Prime by Brandon Sanderson. I read the last several chapters on my flight. Fascinating to see such an early take on a few pieces that would later turn up in Way of Kings, and other draft ideas for the Cosmere. 📚
