People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Nice updates for the next FediForum: keynote by Cory Doctorow and a what’s new on the open social web session by Laurens Hof of the Fediverse Report.
Didn’t realize until this week that the RSS.app feeds support RSS and JSON Feed. Very cool. I’m starting to use it to follow a couple Twitter / X folks from the AI industry. Hate giving X any attention, though.
fundor333.com/post/2025/activitypub-vs-webmention-do-you-need-them/
fundor333.com/post/2025/an-easy-way-to-start-a-life-in-the-indieweb/
fundor333.com/post/2023/more-stuff-i-do-with-webmention-micropub-and-bridgy/
Sometimes when someone is talking I will hear a word and think I haven’t heard that one before! If I hear – or read – a word I haven’t heard before, I usually look it up. I wonder what this word means!, I think to myself. If I read a fun word, I used to make it my “word of the day” which I would share with friends. I don’t do this much anymore, although I had a lot of fun doing it – listening and spelunking for words in the veritable caverns of English to find a cool word. With that in mind, I have a word of the day for today! The word of the day is: haar. The Cambridge Dictionary defines haar as: a cold mist coming from the sea to the east of Scotland or northern England: Besides being a useful word to describe a weather condition common to Scotland – fog! – it is also fun to say. Haar. Said like a pirate would say arr, except with a “h” at the start.
One thing I've been waiting to hear about Trump's $400 million jet. We don't need the money.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
A culture of open, direct feedback is important for any organization to foster. Jen Dennard has some great tips here:
"Like most things, the key to getting the value is to make it a habit. Set aside time during 1:1s or make a recurring team meeting (like a monthly retro) to create space for feedback and learnings. Make sure to include critical and positive feedback to help build confidence while driving progress. Ask for feedback on new processes and team goals."
I think this last piece is particularly crucial. Feedback more meaningful - and more useful - when it goes in both directions. Taking feedback at the same time you're giving it means that you're building trust - and getting an early signal on where you might be going wrong as a leader.
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Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Proposal to rename language model benchmarks to Top Of The Slops.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Next Thursday, May 22nd at 6 pm, there’s going to be a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf. Co-organised by Schepp and myself, we plan this to be the first HWC event in a series of regular events. I quote from the IndieWeb wiki page to explain what an HWC is: Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities & content, or just want support with blogging! So, ...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
A really beautiful interview.
Sheldon Lake State Park. The ponds used to be part of a fish hatchery, then closed in 1975 and let nature take over. We saw some alligators. 🐊
How feeds work in WordLand.
