People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Not gonna lie, I’m close to dropping $200 to try OpenAI’s Codex. But I don’t think most of my code is well suited to it. Not enough automated tests! It figures that would come back to bite me.
I mostly use AI as a machine that can generate unlimited example code. I learn best from editing examples.
Working on server memory usage, discovered a massive leak of Redis keys we use to rate-limit clients hammering the server. Hope I can reclaim tons of memory by fixing it.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Joe Biden has lived an extraordinary life — lots of success and plenty of heartbreak too. This cancer diagnosis is the latest challenge. It just feels particularly unfair to happen while a man who mocked Joe’s family and worse is still in office.
Not much to write, so impressed by the way the Knicks got past the Celtics. I don't know any Celtics fans, but I imagine there are some subscribers who are. Hard to imagine how hard the last series hit you all. I don't have anything against the Celtics these days although Paul Pierce is an asshole, and I hope you all know that. Just watched the OKC win over Denver. All around an incredible group in the final four, very diverse and inclusive. And btw now that I think of it, Jaylen Brown was grabbing Knicks players by the balls. I hope you all come to terms with that. We do love Kristaps in New York, a true gentleman. Maybe he and Giannis can come play for the Nets. We may have room for another great team in NY.
Does Joe Rogan know about what's happening with Medicaid?
jamesg.blog/2025/05/18/co-organisers-help-me-make-events-happen
Big Thicket National Preserve.
📗 Want to read Not Here, Not Now by Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby ISBN: 9780262049665
It’s official. No matter how many annoying cookie consent banners you slap on a website, real-time bidding for behavioural adverts is illegal in Europe.
And before you go crying about advertising-supported businesses, this only applies to behavioural advertising, not contextual advertising …which works better anyway.
Here’s some code to show the distance to the nearest airports on a map.
Here’s a modified version that shows the distance to the nearest Gregg’s. The hub-and-spoke visualisation overlaid on the map changes as you pan around, making it look like a spider bestriding the landscape.
Jonty’s version shows the distance to the nearest Pret a Manger.
I got nerdsniped by someone saying:
@adactio This would be cool for sessions 😉
He’s right, dammit! So here you go:
Now you can see how far you are from the nearest traditional Irish music sessions.
It’s using data from the weekly data dumps from thesession.org—I added a GeoJSON file in there.
Pure silliness, but it does make me wonder what kind of actually good data visualisations could be made with all this scrumptious data.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Twice this week for different reasons, Bell Labs has come up. It’s incredible to re-read about all the things they invented. Wondering if there could be anything comparable to Bell Labs or Xerox Parc today. Maybe highly focused, like AI research.
Acadiana Park in Lafayette. 🌳
Manu Moreale blogs about how so many things feel transactional and why he highlights supporting members on blogroll.org:
We live in the world of paywalled content, unilateral contract modification, micro transactions, serialised content, upsells, and the list goes on and on and on. Everyone is trying to find a way to extract money in one way or another, and that is something I find personally draining and soul-crushing.
