People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
John Voorhees blogging at MacStories:
Apple’s exploration of AI-based search is not terribly surprising either, but I do hope they cut a broader deal with Anthropic instead of Perplexity.
Should Apple acquire Anthropic? It would cost $60 billion, a ridiculous jump over the $3 billion they paid for Beats. Mix in some cash and some stock. It would set Apple up to be at the forefront of AI for the next 10 years. It sounds crazy… until the iPhone is disrupted by a new device.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
How I’d build a resilient, community-first platform for the open web.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
New feature: How to handle an empty site list.
Two weeks on the road and then other distractions, this morning is the first day in a while that I’m back to my routine of walking to the coffee shop. Feels good. Ready to write some code. ☕️
There's a new dialog in WordLand that confirms the first time you publish a post, and offers to open it in the web browser.
I want the EV's they're getting in China. Because we've got these stupid trade barriers we can't get the latest tech. Imagine in say 1984 you were a developer outside the US and you couldn't get a Mac. Then, perhaps Trump's tariff might have a slight chance of working. Now we're on the outside looking in.
serverless.industries/2025/05/07/welcome-to-indieweb.en.html
Let’s do a Micro.blog photo challenge in June. It’s been a while so we’ll keep it simple… I’ll come up with a list of daily prompts and post them later this month. Feel free to send me your own words if you’ve got any! For inspiration, here’s a collection of photos from last year.
I blogged recently about experimenting with local LLMs inside the Micro.blog for Mac app. This is useful for post categorization and other things. It works, but it’s not as good as I’d like without requiring everyone to have an M4 with 48 GB of RAM. Might put it on the shelf for a bit.
Wednesday session
Why is the new pope being elected at a Figma event?
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
