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I was catching up with some tech news yesterday and while I was listening to a discussion about the latest updates coming from Google and their potential impact on the web I had a sudden realization: when tech reporters say “the web” they don’t mean the web. When these peopl...

In an effort to slowly improve my analog office proficiency and productivity, I have heeded Lenore Fenton’s advice to have all my supplies organized at my fingertips. Toward that end I’ve picked up this excellent paper organizer for the top desk drawer of my executive tanker desk. This mid-century marvel is perfect for storing a … Continue reading

May 16-23, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Düsseldorf/Germany Thursday, May 22 at 6:00pm DÜSSELDORF, Nordrhein-Westfalen: Düsseldorf city libraries Homebrew Website Club (HWC) Düsseldorf is an in-person meeting for everybody who...

I would pay extra for cable service to have no money go to Fox.

[Mastodon] Mastodon's legal updates are an important way to support different kinds of communities. It's great to see the Mastodon team grow to support these features. I'd love to see CC-licensed terms of service for communities to use. Those features: "Mas...

[Mastodon]

Mastodon's legal updates are an important way to support different kinds of communities. It's great to see the Mastodon team grow to support these features. I'd love to see CC-licensed terms of service for communities to use.

Those features:

• "Mastodon servers already

We rewatched Star Wars episode 4 last night, with frequent pausing to think about the context with Rogue One and check Wookieepedia for random details. So fun. Also lots of nitpicking about the special edition changes.

I should mention that you can follow my daveverse blog, which I write using WordLand, on Mastodon -- @scripting@daveverse.org. Mastodon preserves links and styling, and doesn't seem to have a size limit. I can edit my posts and you get the updates. So Mastodon kind of informally has become a blogging system, which I totally applaud. It checks a lot of the boxes on my textcasting manifesto. Slowly the world is starting to make sense.

Glitch announced they are shutting down hosting. Kudos to them for allowing redirects after everything winds down. That’s more than most companies do:

In the coming days, your dashboard will get a new feature to set up redirects for your project subdomains, so all your links will keep working. Make sure your redirects are set up before December 31, 2025. (We’ll make sure they stay active at least through the end of 2026.)

A couple of little tweaks to Daytona. It now has a history menu which it saves in local storage. It's useful to be able to come back to a recent search. It remembers the last 50 searches this way. Also had to add a little hack that turns off other copies of Daytona when another one launches. Use a local storage trick, save a random string to a fixed location, and every second check to see if its value has changed. If it has, another copy of Daytona has launched, so I redirect to the home page of my blog.

Built up the courage to run Redis’s MEMORY PURGE in production this morning. Sadly made no difference. This week I’ve been running a cleanup script that has trimmed nearly 10 GB of memory usage, but still lots reserved by the system.

I used to pride myself on being able to keep up with almost everything. New programming languages, frameworks, APIs, just tech in general. Micro.blog is a unique platform in part because it weaves together so many different things. But the pace of AI is too much. I can barel...

📗 Want to read All Fours by Miranda July ISBN: 9780593190265

📗 Want to read Death of the Author (Deluxe Limited Edition) by Nnedi Okorafor ISBN: 9780063391147

Has Harvard considered opening a satellite campus outside the United States? If the Trumps keep making demands, like demanding that they stop admitting students from outside the US, the students the US government rejects could still go to Harvard, be taught by the same teachers, collaborate and socialize with other Harvard-quality students, without interference from Trump. I imagine there are a few countries that would be willing to help. If you want to really make a point, open it in China.

This is the 91st edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Seth Werkheiser and his blog, sethw.xyz To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox ...

Reading Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor.