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RSS never had a big corporation acting as a benefactor, but to some extent Harvard did play that role, though it didn't have an ego when it came to this stuff, and it didn't behave like a tech corporation (good thing!), but it was at Harvard that the podcasting bootstrap cent...

Why does Apple invent their own proprietary plugs when everyone else does USB? Even if you don't like to speak ill of Apple, you know why they do it. They want to control who can make add-ons to their products in hardware, just as they do in software. I still buy their products, but I also buy products that use standards, so I can use them on lots of devices. Now, the same thing happens in software from other people and companies. They can choose to use what already exists, or invent their own. Example, I chose MP3 for podcasting, did not invent a new format. If I were to do a social web network, I would use RSS, I wouldn't invent a new format. I want interop. I want to create an open platform, I don't mind making money, but that's not why I do it.

I’m now at the point in ActivityPub debugging where I’m just reading the Ghost source code, trying to understand what it needs. This is always the problem: you get an HTTP 202 for Create activities, then have no idea why nothing happens when the request is later processed.

Many years ago I read about Book Mountain, a curious pyramid-shaped library in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands. Today I finally stepped inside.

Going to Cork, like. brb

Just found out from my son that the latest Playdate SDK has networking! This opens up so many things. Looks like a nice API for HTTP from either Lua or C.

As I fix compatibility with Ghost, there are some surprises. For example, Ghost notes don’t appear to exist on the web. No url in ActivityPub, no permalink in the Ghost dashboard. Maybe a temporary limitation.

It’s always been a strength of Micro.blog that short and long posts are the same thing.

The redactions in this internal OpenAI document are hilarious to me. You could turn it into a Mad Libs:

Our long-term growth depends on [something surprising]. For H1, our top focus is [a dramatic goal], but we’re also pursuing [a fun side quest].

[Andrew Losowsky] Running an open source community platform for a decade is no small feat - particularly one as storied and supported as Coral. Andrew Losowsky's reflections on its first decade are inspiring. "Among so many conversations, we brought comment...

[Andrew Losowsky]

Running an open source community platform for a decade is no small feat - particularly one as storied and supported as Coral. Andrew Losowsky's reflections on its first decade are inspiring.

"Among so many conversations, we brought commenters into newsrooms to speak with journalists, moderators

May 23-30, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Americas Wednesday, May 28 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, May 28 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club Edinburgh Tuesday, May 27 at 6:00pm EDINBURGH, Scotl...

I love having long hair. But having long hair means you need to dry long hair. Without any plans this evening, I decided I would wash my hair and follow the routine I learned earlier this year. It does take more time, but when you have an evening without any plans what better...

I was trying to find my way. I was thinking my mind was made. goes the refrain in Big Red Machine, Fleet Foxes, and Anäis Mitchell’s Phoenix, a song that I have been listening to a lot this week. Listening to the song makes me both want to sing along with the same passion as ...

Podcast: The Knicks won game 5.

One way I track my beachgoing is to post each time I go. Often on Instagram first, then this blog. Or This blog first, then IG. In this case I’m doing it late, from last Friday. I’m writing this on 2 June, but slapping a date of 30 May on it. And it was gorgeous....

Thinking (for a moment) of splurging on tickets for Game 7 at the Garden on Monday. I've been following the prices during the playoffs, never seen them this high. There's no guarantee there will be a Game 7, first the Knicks have to win tomorrow in Indiana. Courtside seats go for $27K each.

I've been tuned in for the NBA playoffs this year, as I am every year, but especially this time because my team the NY Knicks have made it to the Eastern Conference Finals. The series is now 3-2 in favor of the Indiana Pacers. Last night's game was a must-win for the Knicks,...

After a great chat with friends, I took my AirPods out and heard the birds singing. I think the chirps and tones are particularly pronounced in the evenings and the mornings. Or maybe that’s when I am most attuned to hearing them – in the moments when I wake up when I’m still...

Enjoying the reporting from The Verge’s Adi Robertson on the Google antitrust trial, covering potential remedies:

Mehta points out a contradiction: the government wanted to exclude a bunch of other search-engine-like services to establish Google had no meaningful search competitors during the liability trial, and now it wants to add new ones during remedies.

In my conversation with Vladimir Prelovac on yesterday’s episode of Timetable, we also talked about whether a remedy could be sharing the search index with other search engines like Kagi.