Wednesday session
Wednesday session
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
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I love playing with code in the browser. I often create blank HTML files to explore ideas and to learn. I like experimenting with CSS features I have never used in a new file so I can learn the fundamentals and explore. I can start from a blank slate and see how my code – and...
Building an edit button browser extension
I have been using my website editing bookmarklet for the last few months to edit several websites. I can click the Edit bookmarklet and, if the page I am viewing has a rel=edit link, link anchor text that indicates an edit link, or is a page on my website, the corresponding e...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Focusing on speculative futures
I'm changing the direction of my blog.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Focusing on speculative futures
If you’ve enjoyed my recent series about the open social web, great! There were four parts, which I think are collectively some of my best work:
What the future of Bluesky might look like
How Mastodon could be the future of online communities
What I’d do if I was running m...
I mentioned Chris Lydon's weblog for the ears and got an email back, and this made me think some more. We need someone to do a canvas of how intellectuals use ChatGPT-like systems to advance their research and creativity, or just for learning or fun. It's the same kind of op...
Remember intranets? Pepperidge Farm remembers
Remember intranets?
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Matthias Ott – Painting With the Web – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 20025 - YouTube
Octavia Butlerian Jihad
Octavia Butlerian Jihad
Fake News
Prompt: Draw me the cover of a fictitious magazine called RSS Land. On the cover a picture of a news room, and in small type along the right edge titles of stories. Make it interesting.
RSS Land Magazine.
I turn off CNN when they start a segment on Jake Tapper’s book. The level of hypocrisy is intense. Who covered up what? Please. I remember Hillary's Emails. And weapons of mass destruction. And Trump may not be good for America but he's sure good for CBS. And on and on. They think we don't think. But their influence is getting close to nil. American news is one story at a time, debates between boring people saying the same bullshit over and over. Democrats who stumble over their words. An occasional glypse of Bernie or AOC. Something to get your bile up, and the next one and the one after that, but it doesn't work anymore. What Biden did or didn't do is no more relevant on CNN than it is on Fox.
Finished watching Andor. Loved it. Now watching Rogue One. As expected, flows perfectly together with the series.
Pew Pew Pew. Die. Retry.
MySQL, which I'm using for Daytona, has the idea of relevance in searches. Previously I had been showing results in reverse chronologic order. So now, a search for Matt Mullenweg gets the same results but prioritized by what MySQL thinks are the most relevant results.
Big update out for Tapestry today, adding bookmarking for Micro.blog accounts among other features.
This is a lengthy post from Ben Werdmuller, but everyone who cares about a sustainable, vibrant ecosystem of both free and commercial products for the social web should queue it up to read. He goes over different types of funding and a lot more. Really good.
Anil Dash on the growing popularity of MCP and adopting standards:
It’s cool that other platforms adopted the same spec that Anthropic made for their system. There’s a generosity of spirit to a technology platform choosing to be the second to adopt a protocol, if they do it in a faithful fashion.
This was echoed in the interview with Microsoft’s Kevin Scott this week. Some people at Microsoft would’ve designed MCP differently, but that doesn’t matter. Just roll with it, and the compatibility across platforms makes up for any shortcomings.
John Voorhees blogging about Apple’s AI predicament:
Hardware plays to Apple’s design and supply chain strengths. In contrast, the rapid iteration of AI models and apps is the antithesis of Apple’s annual OS cycle.
I agree. A year is a lifetime right now.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Let's fund the open social web
A pro-social approach to building better platforms
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Let's fund the open social web
If the open social web is going to grow and thrive, people need to be able to build new platforms and services sustainably. But that’s not what the email I was reading was telling me.
The message in my inbox captured a persistent and problematic idea in open tech circles. I...