People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Great article on The New Yorker about The Rehearsal:
The first season of “The Rehearsal” seemed to exhaust all possibilities for the conceit that acting—the science of the artificial—could provide a prophylactic for life. It did not. The second season is, somehow, even more berserk than the first, but it’s also more disciplined and coherent.
Do not read this if you haven’t seen season 2. It spoils everything in the show.
John O’Nolan celebrates 12 years of Ghost. Congrats to the team! Amazing success, and the revenue is an inspiration for much smaller platforms like Micro.blog to aspire to:
Fast forward to 2025 and I still have no idea what I’m doing, but we’ve come a long way nevertheless. What started as little more than an idealistic open source pipedream has blossomed into a business with $8M/year in annual recurring revenue and a full-time team of 34.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
This is a lovely reflection on 12 years of Ghost, the non-profit, open source publishing platform that powers independent publishers and allows them to make a living on their own terms.
"Over the years, we've focused consistently on building the best tools for publishing on the web. In the past 5 years, in particular, we've also focused heavily on building ways for creators, journalists, and publishers to run a sustainable business on the web."
As John notes, this has been very successful: outlets like 404Media and Platformer use it as their platform, and they've generated over $100 million for small publishers. It's the right product, and particularly now, it fills a need at the right time.
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Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
This is a lovely reflection on 12 years of Ghost, the non-profit, open source publishing platform that powers independent publishers and allows them to make a living on their own terms.
"Over the years, we've focused consistently on building the best
Nice to see Clearleft’s browser support policy get a shoutout from Rachel during her Google IO talk.
Looking at LLM usage and promotion as a cultural phenomenon, it has all of the markings of a status game. The material gains from the LLM (which are usually quite marginal) really aren’t why people are doing it: they’re doing it because in many spaces, using ChatGPT and being very optimistic about AI being the “future” raises their social status. It’s important not only to be using it, but to be seen using it and be seen supporting it and telling people who don’t use it that they’re stupid luddites who’ll inevitably be left behind by technology.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
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...
Nice guide for setting up Phosphor icons with a Micro.blog site, using the mnml theme.
Monday session
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
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...
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.
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. 📷
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
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.
