People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Neat new plug-in for Micro.blog-hosted blogs from @jim:
I threw together a really simple Micro.blog plugin to automatically open external links in a new browser tab or window by adding a “_blank” target link attribute via Javascript.
This works because plug-ins can insert bits of JS into a page.
Highly recommend reading this review of Trump's parade. We had the wrong idea about what the Army would do. Basically if you order us to do a parade, we will give you a parade.
Glad I stopped sending my posts to the fediverse for a little while. So much of what I see on Mastodon is tribal. Small communities can be great, bringing people together and offering tools for moderation, but people also seem careless and prone to attacks right now.
Tried the ChatGPT integration in Xcode 26. It’s pretty good! It seems to guess at which of my project’s files it should include in the context. Wouldn’t mind if it sent even more, at least all my Obj-C headers.
I’ll be releasing a new Mac app today, with a few updates for macOS Tahoe. It’s the bare minimum, and more changes will be needed later when Tahoe ships to everyone. One quirk that is annoying me is how to handle items that were previously very close to the edge of a window, like this photo icon.
“Can I preemptively squircle myself?” — John Siracusa on ATP, discussing Tahoe’s dock round-rect jail
It feels like someone just harvested lumber from a forest I helped grow, and now wants to sell me the furniture they made with it.
Werd I/O
• Ben Werdmuller
404 Media reveals collaboration between ICE and local police
Podcast: Hold your nose and vote for Cuomo.
alonso.network/the-recurring-cycle-of-developer-replacement-hype/
AI presents design leaders with a quandary, requiring us to tread a fine line between what is acceptable and useful, and what is problematic and harmful.
This document is not a manifesto or an agenda. It is a series of prompts written by design leaders for design leaders, conceived to help us navigate these tricky waters.
An excellent appraisal of the importance of the rule of least power.
Chris Aldrich
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• Chris Aldrich
Our $300 Costco haul on bikes!
Duncan Davidson is moving on from Shopify, in part because of what will change with AI:
It’s like 1997 and the early web all over again. But different, and more extreme. Of course, like then, many will be looking for a free lunch or to create party tricks. And, like the web, it’ll take us a while to really figure out how it’s going to change the world. For those that invest the time and effort, however, entirely new horizons are opening up even as entire industries are about to be rewritten.
I never played with Turtle graphics. I think I came to computers before that was the tool folks used to show off computers to kids. Angelo added a Turtle interpreter which is pretty fun. I added to his code, my addition adds a yellow square. He has an export tool to get a graphic out....
Not convinced about the new menu item icons in macOS Tahoe. It seems very unlikely that there will be suitable icons for every menu item in an app, so you’re left with a disjointed UI. I think it’s going to be more distracting than helpful.
