FeedCity logo

FeedCity

People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.

A public list by feedcity.

Scripting News Valid

Suggestion to WordPress devs

Below is a screen shot of a post written by Doc Searls as viewed in Bluesky. It's jarring. The big picture of Doc gets in the way.

Doc's post as viewed in Bluesky. His picture dominates. Imho it shouldn't.

I realize no one designed this, but it also is reality, it's how a lot of people see Doc's writing.

Here's my suggestion. When the user specifies a featured image for a post, set the og:image element in the head section of the page. When they don't specify such an image, omit that element. That's how we did it in the Baseline theme, and I, as the writer, am happy with the result. I suggest doing the same for the theme used in Doc's site.

Scripting News Valid

BTW, I asked ChatGPT if I moved to NYC in 2009 or 2010. It answered in an instant. "You moved to NYC in 2010." I asked how it knew. It used my blog as the source. We have arrived in the future.

Scripting News Valid

Krugman is right, living in NYC is amazing. When I lived in Manhattan betw 2010 and 2019, I had it great but toward the end I yearned to live in the mountains, the year before Covid hit (that was a bad time to be in Manhattan, btw). Now I yearn to again live in the city. Fun...

Ben Werdmuller Supports Webmention
• Ben Werdmuller

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

[Ava Kofman in The New Yorker] Curtis Yarvin is a pathetic little man: "As his ideas have been surrealized in DOGE and Trump has taken to self-identifying as a king, one might expect to find Yarvin in an exultant mood. In fact, he has spent the past few mont...

Scripting News Valid

Your butt still stinks

Human beings spend far to much effort feeling better than some people or feeling inferior to others.

This is understandable, I guess, as far as evolution is concerned, up to a point, but I think we've been past that point for a long time now. Now, evolution brought us to a point where in order to survive as a species we have to get over this need to rank people and work together.

So if you feel other people are better than you, get over it. Same thing if you feel better than others. You aren't and they aren't.

Your shit still stinks and as the great Republican philosopher Joni Ernst so eloquently put it, she's going to be dead pretty darned soon and so will you.

Scripting News Valid

It's already June 2! It seems like just yesterday it was June 1!

Ben Werdmuller Supports Webmention
• Ben Werdmuller

Building a newsroom technology culture

A quick note before we begin: This post reflects my own views on newsroom technology leadership, not necessarily those of my employer. I like to say that journalism treats technology as something that happens to it — like an asteroid. But technology is too important to the ...

Chris Aldrich Updates instantly via WebSub Supports Webmention Valid
• Chris Aldrich

Restored 1951 Remington Super-Riter Standard Typewriter

Angle down on a 1951 Remington Super-Riter standard typewriter in a military green crinkle paint with green plastic keys. It sits on a round wooden bistro table in a porch setting.
Earlier this week I started stripping down my recently acquired 1951 Remington Super-Riter typewriter. The machine’s serial number puts it into the 15th month of production of the Super-Riter which replaced the storied Remington 17 and the Remington KMC. Features of the Remington Super-Riter A nearby manual for the Super-Riter can be found in the … Continue reading Restored 1951 Remington Super-Riter Standard Typewriter

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

AI haters, you can skip this post. I installed Codex CLI to explain the Ghost ActivityPub implementation to me. I can ask it questions about how it parses JSON-LD and handles various fields. Learning a lot!

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

Build the wall. First time in northwest Austin in a while, more work on the 183 toll road construction.

Scripting News Valid

Good morning and welcome to June. Another month gone, and coincidentally the end of the NBA season. I woke up this morning with the worst hangover ever, and I haven't had a drink in months (never was my vice, I have others). The Knicks lost fair and square to the Indianas la...