I have talked before about my mistrust of big platforms, and fear of digital video. Along those lines, an email I got 8 days ago: SUBJECT: Facebook’s Video Storage Policy Is Changing: Download Your Old Live Videos In The Next 7 Days Download your old Facebook Live videos by May 25. We are sending you...
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Nice guide for setting up Phosphor icons with a Micro.blog site, using the mnml theme.
at Stark's Vacuums

Monday session

Monday session
I will keep trying…
As much as my CSS Battles are me, writing HTML and CSS and talking about it, sometimes I talk like I blog. From my video o May 25, 2025: …so much of any coding task is trying. And trying again and trying again and failing and failing and trying and trying and failing and failing...
Now available in blue
As teams at GDS prepare to launch a refreshed brand for GOV.UK on 25 June, so the X-GOVUK community has been updating its projects in preparation for this go-live date.
Firebreak

Poster I created to mark Good Machine’s first firebreak week.
Reminder that next week (Sunday) we’re starting a new photo challenge that will run through all of June. Follow @challenges for the prompts, which will be posted each day. 📷
Helping Harvard?
The Halliburton Choke
Today I dropped off my piece for the mermaid themed art show organized by @arthang_sandiego at Subterranean Coffee on 30th Street here in San Diego! Opening event is on Sunday June 1st from 11a to 1p and the show will run through June 29th. Great coffee, vittles and mermaid artwork. Perfect!
The Rehearsal season 2 is a masterpiece. I can tell the final episode is going to be something I think about for a while, and again anytime I fly.
Gus Mueller blogs about being indie and Brent Simmons’s upcoming retirement. This is accurate:
Only crazy people are willing to put up with having to file business taxes, mess with social security, find healthcare, deal with all the stuff you have to handle to be indie. And you don’t even have to be a particularly good programmer. You just have to be persistent.
Also, congrats Brent! 🎉
Simon Willison has a fantastic, detailed look through the Claude 4 system prompt. Personality, safety, tools, and artifacts.
Pete Rose
It was so predictable. Shortly after Pete Rose died, baseball rescinded his lifetime ban, and now he can be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
He had more hits than any baseball player ever.
A role model in so many ways, and like all heroes he had fatal flaws. You may think he set a bad example for kids, but I say the opposite. You don't give kids enough credit. What he taught was that a man with average athletic ability could will himself to achieve.
I grew up with a Pete Rose ethos, why shouldn't I go for it all? I feel so sad that he couldn't have gotten the acceptance he so totally deserved. How could we not forgive him? He was Charlie Hustle! ❤️

Bike trailer photo booth progress
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. 🍿

Chris Aldrich
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The Rules for Typewriter Club
A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions
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