People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
New laptop sticker, from Vintage bookstore and wine bar. Booksellers not algorithms. 🍷
Thinking about AGI. The big step that is missing is personal AI being able to learn when it answers a question. So if I use deep research and my AI goes off and spends 10 minutes researching an answer, all of that should be fed back into the model for later.
To me, Objective-C has always felt expressive and capable, doubly so when I first started using it.
After Swift became popular, I felt kind of guilty still using Objective-C so heavily, but I’m over it. Micro.blog for Mac is all Objective-C. I did two new releases this week.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
A community platform for a vibrant, diverse social web.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Finished upgrading a server. Some things should be faster! (And some won’t be.) I’ll continue to look for places to optimize.
reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/04/indieweb-blog-carnival-renewal/
I'm working on a baseline theme for WordLand-authored sites. I want to show people how to get a good result with WordLand, even if they have plenty of experience with WordPress, but especially if they don't. I want people to look at a user's site and think "Hey I want one of those!" Not too fancy, just get out of the way and let the writer's writing stand out and look great. This is a replay of the work we did on Manila and then Radio. I hope we're able to start a designer community as vibrant and productive as the one we had a few years ago.
Today's song: Pump It Up.
Coffee yesterday at Lazarus. ☕️
📗 Want to read We Need Your Art by Amie McNee ISBN: 9780593833001
Now that I’m using Hetzner in the EU, I’m having difficulty understanding Linode pricing. For example, dedicated 16 CPUs on both hosts:
Linode: $288
Hetzner: $110
This is a massive difference. Is Linode that much better? I feel like a fool for paying this.
Micro.blog for Mac continues to improve. Just released version 3.5. A new feature I like in this release: paste a photo from the clipboard directly into the Uploads section to upload it.
Also added a Preview button. I use this with command-shift-P but I’m sure some people didn’t know it was there.
Everyone has to communicate in plain language, directly to the people. The courts, universities, every institution that the president is defaming. Go direct, go around the media. Start communicating in the language we communicate in these days. Use the tools. The campaign never stops. Then we'll know what we have to do to protect the rule of law. And the Dems are starting to do that, some of them, thankfully. Best example so far -- AOC and Bernie. Elizabeth Warren. Chris Murphy, Cory Booker, Chris Van Hollen. And lately some Repubs too. It's the same old thing the web does -- Sources Go Direct.
Reading Bloodchild And Other Stories by Octavia Butler.
I’ve switched my coding questions over to o4-mini. It’s very good and fast enough.
At this point, for me personally, not using AI for coding help would be like not using Stack Overflow or Google. I could go back to the 1990s when I had a printed reference open in front of me while coding, but why?
