Enjoyed Mission: Impossible. A couple minor nitpicks, but I liked the throwbacks to earlier movies. Crazy that it’s been a nearly 30-year series. 🍿
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
A day away from the blog. Really enjoying the NBA playoffs, even though the Knicks are still in it. Nice turnaround after the first quarter for the Minnesotas. Still hoping for a finals between them and the Knicks. It'll be interesting to see how the Knicks change their lineup. Hopefully no more isolation-ball with Brunson. It's boring and doesn't work. Melo 2.0. Might make sense if he was LeBron, but he's not and LeBron's game is boring anyway. Let's do this well, win or lose.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
The Rules for Typewriter Club
A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions
reillyspitzfaden.com/digital-garden/tutorials/webmention-tutorial/
Layers
At this weekend’s Homebrew Website Club, the topic of Taylor Swift came up (I wonder who brought that up!). One person shared the layers in the song exile; how they became more perceptible with different pieces of audio equipment. The song has layers.
Today I have been liste...
The luxury of saying no.
If I’m understanding Greg correctly here, he’s saying it’s okay for people to use large language models …because they’re being forced to?
Sending WebSub notifications
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
The web != the web
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...
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
The calm Friday before the storm of Memorial Day weekend.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
This Week in the IndieWeb
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.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Mastodon updating some legal features
[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...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Mastodon updating some legal features
[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.