I was unexpectedly caught up in the news about a new Pope. Reading a little about him and translated bits of the inaugural address — an American, speaking of love and peace, not division.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Dave in the Gilded Age
I asked ChatGPT to "Dress me like guilded age captain of industry in front of his mansion on the Hudson River."
Gilded Age Dave.
I know I’m biased but I think the line-up for this year’s UX London is looking fantastic: https://2025.uxlondon.com/speakers/ June 10th, 11th, and 12th—come for one day or come for all three!
I know I’m biased but I think the line-up for this year’s UX London is looking fantastic:
https://2025.uxlondon.com/speakers/
June 10th, 11th, and 12th—come for one day or come for all three!
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.
On moving to Micro.blog
Thanks to Kev Quirk for the kind words about migrating his Mastodon account to Micro.blog. Micro.blog is always a work in progress, and our fediverse support will continue to improve, but it’s gratifying to read that our approach is resonating with him:
Thinking of it in th...
Ben Werdmuller
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If I started fresh
How I’d build a resilient, community-first platform for the open web.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
If I started fresh
Erin and I stood at the front of the room, our seven-minute pitch slides for Known still projected above us. At the wooden table in front of us, investors and media executives prepared to give us unfiltered feedback about what we’d just presented to them. Beyond them, an au...
The closing talks at UX London 2025
It’s just over one month until UX London. You should grab a ticket if you haven’t already!
The format of UX London is quite special. While the focus of each day is different—discovery, design, and delivery—each day unfolds like this…
There are four talks in the morning. Yo...
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. ☕️
AI memory portability
Parker Ortolani makes a great point about potential lock-in for AI products that know a lot about you. Portability would be a good thing to work on early:
Memory should be exportable and importable from every provider. We do not need a new kind of proprietary format or anyt...
CSS snippets
I’ve been thinking about the kind of CSS I write by default when I start a new project.
Some of it is habitual. I now use logical properties automatically. It took me a while to rewire my brain, but now seeing left or top in a style sheet looks wrong to me.
When I mentione...
The Knicks are unbelievable. It feels like 2015, when the Mets would be down 9-0 in the seventh, and you'd tune in to see how they would win. At the very end of the Knicks game tonight, when the Celtics were up by 1, I thought how would this feel if the Knicks came back so f...
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.
Welcome to the IndieWeb
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
Wednesday session