Tony Stubblebine's account of saving Medium is remarkable in its transparency - and in its execution.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Reading A History Of Ireland in 100 Words by Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, and Gregory Toner.
Reading A History Of Ireland in 100 Words by Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, and Gregory Toner.
Superman was a lot of fun. They did a few smart things with it, like not retelling the whole origin story again. Casting also seemed just right. 🍿
I mostly like the super-rounded windows in macOS Tahoe, but it does create new problems for UI elements that are near the edge. It seems clearly designed for windows with toolbars. The worst conflict is for sheets, which don’t even have a title bar.
Sean Heber of the Iconfactory:
ChatGPT and other AI services are basically killing Iconfactory and I’m not exaggerating or being hyperbolical.
Sad to read this. More people also need to discover Tapestry. Micro.blog has been sponsoring it for a couple months, and I plan to continue to, but I expect ads are a small fraction of needed revenue.
Sports can be amazing and heartbreaking. I didn’t watch the Wimbledon final, but listened to Amanda Anisimova’s remarks at the end. Happy for her to have made it so far. And later today, we’ve got Mavs vs. Spurs at the Summer League. We’ve seen Cooper Flagg, now hopefully Dylan Harper can play. 🎾🏀
I want Mastodon to take off as a blogging platform. That means hooking it up to existing blog platforms. I want our world to connect to theirs. I'm lucky to have bet on WordPress, so my product gets the connection to Mastodon for free. But the web is what matters, not my product or yours. Even if your product is huge, it's only part of the web. This is how we build, how we get back on track. Somehow we need to get a simple bridge that lets all blog content flow to Mastodon. That's the goal. I just wrote a couple of posts where this became clear to me. Who has the code and expertise to create a simple interface from the outside world to Mastodon. The interface doesn't have to be RSS. But it has to be maximally simple, and it has to cover the basic features of blogs that Mastodon supports.
SwiftUI has been out for years, yet I’m still here creating new XIBs and Objective-C code like it’s 2005. AppKit is good at its job. SwiftUI is great for starting new apps. AppKit is best for finishing them.
Age Assurance and BlueSky
Alexander Kucera blogs about supporting multiple export formats in Links:
Digital preservation isn’t just about saving content. It’s about maintaining access and control.
The photo search in Micro.blog for Mac has gotten really good. I don’t think there’s anything like this in other blogging platforms. Screenshot of “coffee” search for my blog. (Similar interface on the web too. Works best with AI enabled so we can generate keywords for everything.)
Today's editorial about AI
AI chatbots don't think and they don't decide. They can give you a way to approach a problem, but it's only one way, and it depends on it actually understanding the problem, which is something it does a good simulation of. But it absolutely cannot think, come up with a strat...
The pattern of coffee and people. Overhead light looks like a halo.
rss2discord
A sunny day in Clare.
A sunny day in Clare.
This Week in the IndieWeb
July 4-11, 2025
Recent Events
From events.indieweb.org/archive:
Homebrew Website Club - Americas
Wednesday, July 9 at 6:00pm
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London
Wednesday, July 9 at 7:00pm
Homebrew Website Club - Nuremberg/Germany
Wednesday, July 9 at 6:00pm
NÜRN...
Photo button when editing posts
I’ve finished a significant improvement to editing blog posts that include photos. Let’s say you want to add a photo to an existing blog post. Before, you could upload a new photo in Uploads, then copy and paste the <img> tag HTML into an edited blog post. Now there’s ...
Bias in centralized AI
In the Grok fallout, Mike Masnick makes the case for moving away from large, centralized AI. He asks a range of great questions about bias in AI:
After a similar incident two months or so ago where Grok became obsessed with linking everything to white genocide, the company ...
The biggest problem with ChatGPT is that it thinks it's running the show. I've just given it instructions to think of itself as a command line that can understand English. Just answer the question exactly as asked.
Session in the cowshed
Session in the cowshed