People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Werd I/O
• Ben Werdmuller
Arc is my primary browser, and I'm feeling like that's a choice I should never have made:
"The part that was hard to admit, is that Arc — and even Arc Search — were too incremental. They were meaningful, yes. But ultimately
A few weeks ago, on Wednesday, May 21, 8:56 AM I got this email: Hi Joe Crawford, It looks like an external link you included in CSSBattle for DECEMBER 5 (2024) Logo-i-zer & ArtLung Lab didn’t follow Community Guidelines. To help keep our community safe, we removed your content from YouTube. External link: https://apps.artlung.com/logo-i-zer/create.php REVIEW AND...
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Congrats to Kagi on 3 years! They also announce their upcoming email product in this post. I’m enjoying Kagi more and more, and loved talking to founder Vlad Prelovac on my podcast Timetable last week.
For a web browser that has been abandoned, Arc sure has a lot of new updates. 🤪 I think its demise is overstated.
First thing I do when I check in to a hotel room for the week is set up my charging station and WiFi router.
The router gives me my own WiFi hotspot that VPNs in to my home Tailscale network so I have access to everything from all my devices.
The charging station is powerful enough to quick charge my phone and laptop and a few other devices.
Wow this is depressing. Happy anniversary from Meetup 18 years ago, you made the decision to join Meetup and pursue your passions. Since then, you’ve attended 57 events, joined groups, and hopefully met some great people along the way. Happy anniversary from all of us at Meetup. We’re thrilled that you are part of our...
From Facebook on this day in 2015. "There should be a required college course called Introduction to Assholes. The student would learn how not to be manipulated by jerks."
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. This is exactly the kind of query I've been begging Google to support for decades. They could have figured out where my blog is, or let me tell it where it is. Famously they once asked if I had misspelled my mother's last name in a query. How fucking clueless can you get.
Molly White is documenting the very problematic Looksmaxxing GPT. Now she reports that OpenAI is not going to do anything about it.
I was already thinking that the GPTs experiment is mostly clutter in the ChatGPT sidebar. If OpenAI is not willing to curate it, I wish they’d scrap the whole feature.
Thanks to everyone who has participated in the Micro.blog photoblogging challenge so far! It is so fun to see the photos. I’ll be catching up today to make sure the photos grid is current, but there’s a lot there already.
In honor of the Knicks' very successful season, I temporarily put the paper bags fans at the top of the home page.
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.
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.
