FeedCity: IndieWeb

Parker Ortolani blogging about whatever new device Jony Ive is working on and its potential as part of OpenAI:

OpenAI has been spitting out incredible new products at a ridiculously fast pace over the past several months and I do not see Sam Altman wasting anyone’s time. The fact that he wants to pull the project into OpenAI says as much. That suggests it might end up being close to a new kind of phone—perhaps familiar in shape, but powered by something so fundamentally different.

Werd I/O
16 Apr 23:03 • Ben Werdmuller

Creator economy businesses - a correction

I realized I misspoke in today’s piece about Bluesky product strategy. In it, I said this:I’m generally not bullish about creator economy services.What I meant

Werd I/O
16 Apr 23:03 • Ben Werdmuller

Creative economy businesses - a correction

I realized I misspoke in today’s piece about Bluesky product strategy. In it, I said this:

I’m generally not bullish about creator economy services.

What I meant to say is that I’m generally not bullish about venture-funded creative economy services. It’s the need for venture scale and sky-high valuations that makes these a tough nut to crack. In a vacuum, there’s nothing wrong with these businesses at all; Medium’s turnaround demonstrates how well it can be done, and I have endless admiration for what the Ghost team has managed to achieve and build.

I’m sorry for my lack of precision here! I didn’t mean to throw the whole space under the bus. But I stand by my skepticism that these businesses can reach venture scale.

Scripting News ●
16 Apr 21:10

WordLand is starting to flow really nicely, and I'm doing more writing there. I have to do this if it's going to be as good a product as it possibly can. The Timeline seems really solid btw, thinking about next steps. Lots of fun products coming soon!

Scripting News ●
16 Apr 21:05

Join a Parade Today. When people talk about What You Can Do on podcasts or on TV, they say lame things that don't work that well. One thing for sure is that when Bernie and Alexandria do a rally in your area, you can go and enjoy the energy. This is a good thing because it gives the TV cameras something to focus on. But here's what I think the best thing to do is. Don't start something, join something. Because two is way more powerful than one, and three is way more powerful than two. When people work together on something good, more people doing it is usually even better.

Manton Reece ●
16 Apr 20:45

I’m following a few Bluesky custom feeds, but I hadn’t paid close attention to Graze until today. I wonder how users will react to seeing ads? It’s an interesting approach because the money here goes mostly to feed creators. Lots of new questions about who should monetize the network.

Manton Reece ●
16 Apr 19:35

Describe me

Inspired by this post from John Gruber about ChatGPT’s memory, I also asked it to “describe me based on all our chats”. Here’s the response: You’re a deeply thoughtful, independent-minded developer and writer who cares about doing things the right way—even if it’s harder. Y...

Adactio ●
16 Apr 19:10

Wednesday session

Manton Reece ●
16 Apr 16:25

Great post from Ben Werdmuller about the future of Bluesky. Many people can’t get past comparing the technical differences of ATProto and ActivityPub. Surprise, they’re not the same thing. They have different goals. Ben’s post skips that and focuses on how the business fits with an open protocol.

Adactio ●
16 Apr 16:15

Trans women are women.

Adactio ●
16 Apr 16:15

OKLCH()

I was at the State Of The Browser event recently, which was great as always. Manu gave a great talk about colour in CSS. A lot of it focused on OKLCH. I was already convinced of the benefits of this colour space after seeing a terrific talk by Anton Lovchikov a while back. ...

Aaron Parecki
16 Apr 16:00 • Aaron Parecki

Dehydrated a bunch of veggies overnight to use as ramen toppers for super fast ramen making.

Manton Reece ●
16 Apr 15:55

I’ve been using top for what, 30 years? But honestly my eyes still sometimes glaze over. Realized I can keep a ChatGPT log running and just paste in top results and it can tell me how the utilization is going, if it’s better, worse, where to look for problems.

Werd I/O
16 Apr 15:36 • Ben Werdmuller

If I ran Bluesky Product

What Musk is branding, Bluesky may build.

Werd I/O
16 Apr 15:36 • Ben Werdmuller

If I ran Bluesky Product

A lifetime or two ago, Biz Stone was showing me and my co-founder around South Park in San Francisco. The Twitter office was sat there, a weird building with glass bricks across the road from what would later be the Instagram office. We grabbed a coffee at Caffe Centro and ...

Manton Reece ●
16 Apr 15:13

This week is mostly about bug fixes and performance for me. Got the new Mac app update out and lots of server work. But got a preview of something @vincent has been cooking up and it’s going to be so nice. Just needs a few more days to fully bake.

Scripting News ●
16 Apr 15:10

I want to develop a WordPress theme by iterating as you would when developing an app. I outlined the flow on the wordLandSupport repo.

Werd I/O
16 Apr 11:41 • Ben Werdmuller

Where we're at

A quick aside:I now believe it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better (if it gets better). I’m not going to enumerate

Werd I/O
16 Apr 11:41 • Ben Werdmuller

Where we're at

A quick aside: I now believe it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better (if it gets better). I’m not going to enumerate what’s been going on; you’re either paying attention or you’re not, but we’re less than one hundred days in and the lurch towards real fascism has...