People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
New single-page site from Brent Simmons: No Learnings.
It’s the 20th anniversary of the launch of microformats.org! So many blogs and social platforms still use Microformats today, including Micro.blog and Mastodon. A simple, useful data format for the IndieWeb.
Cool early preview of Micro Social for iOS 26, with Liquid Glass and “catch me up” summaries of the timeline.
📗 Want to read Empire of AI by Karen Hao ISBN: 9780593657508
Most obviously, aliveness is what generally feels absent from the written and visual outputs of ChatGPT and its ilk, even when they’re otherwise of high quality. I’m not claiming I couldn’t be fooled into thinking AI writing or art was made by a human (I’m sure I already have been); but that when I realise something’s AI, either because it’s blindingly obvious or when I find out, it no longer feels so alive to me. And that this change in my feelings about it isn’t irrelevant: that it means something.
More subtly, it feels like our own aliveness is what’s at stake when we’re urged to get better at prompting LLMs to provide the most useful responses. Maybe that’s a necessary modern skill; but still, the fact is that we’re being asked to think less like ourselves and more like our tools.
Updated the Mac app again today, adding a search field for your replies and improving the highlighting when searching posts. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. Looks a lot better.
Thanks everyone for the kind words about the maybe just once or very rarely special bonus episode of Core Intuition. It was fun to do the show again after so long.
As you get older and see your friends of 30, 40, even 50 years -- you realize how silly this all is. I see them and I see an old person, but I know who they are inside. The old "don't judge a book by its cover" adage probably wasn't coined by a younger person. 😄
I had an experience like the one Paul Simon described on Colbert last night. I was at the Apple Store on 14th St in NYC to pick up a new phone I had pre-ordered, lined up with some much younger folks who asked if I knew what was new on the phone. I said I wasn’t sure, so I asked if they knew. They all agreed the coolest thing was called “pod casting.” They said it slowly to be sure I could understand. They said it was great, it was like radio, but you could get it from the web, and there was always lots of new stuff. "What will they think of next," said the old man, impressed, nodding with respect.
thenewstack.io/baseline-newly-available-stay-on-top-of-new-web-features/
Grrr…
Chrome, Edge and Firefox updates usually reach 95% of users within three months. But Safari updates are tied to a new release of the underlying operating system, so they take around 19 months to reach the same usage, and some updates may even need a new device.
This is so shameful. And glad as I am to see new features landing in Safari, as long as they hobble updates like this it’s all just pissing in the wind.
jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/
Semantic HTML? Optional. Server-side rendering? Rebuilt from scratch. Accessibility? Maybe, if there’s time. Performance? Who cares, when you can save costs by putting loading burdens onto the user’s device, instead of your server?
So gradually, the web became something you had to compile before you could publish. Not because users needed it. But because developers wanted it to feel modern.
Everything’s optimised for developers – and hostile to everyone else.
This isn’t accidental. It’s cultural. We’ve created an industry where complexity is celebrated. Where cleverness is rewarded. Where engineering sophistication is valued more than clarity, usability, or commercial effectiveness.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
This week, the second Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf took place. This time, 5 people attended. After a round of introducing each other including website, we once more had a good chat about a variety of IndieWeb topics. And this time, we all did some coding, too. For example, Jochen made some commits to his django-indieweb project, Mark added some rel=me links and Microformats markup, and I fixed my Atom feed’s updated date to truly show the date they have been updated (which is quite ...
But then I think of the New York skyline, The West Cork of the Yankee eyeline
—CMAT, The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station
