If you had asked a mathematician for advice on the Supreme Court ruling that money is speech, it was a totally foreseeable outcome that money would overwhelm speech, that the only speech would be money. We're right there now.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
No blogging this Saturday, enjoyed goofing off for a change. 😄
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
On books and assumptions
The other day, I finished reading 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster. It was a Christmas gift from my dad, who apparently picked it without even knowing what the book was about. It sat there, in my bedroom, for more than 6 months because it’s a 950-page novel, and I was convinced that I...
Did you know that you can open Bluesky starter packs in Micro.blog and follow people directly? I’d like to work on expanding this soon. Some more details and an example in this post last year. Micro.blog is small so it’s a good way to branch out.
This Week in the IndieWeb
July 18-25, 2025
Recent Events
From events.indieweb.org/archive:
Homebrew Website Club - Düsseldorf/Germany
Thursday, July 24 at 6:00pm
DÜSSELDORF, Nordrhein-Westfalen: Xafé im KAP1 Bibliothekscafé
Homebrew Website Club (HWC) Düsseldorf is an in-person meeting for everybod...
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
The real question that typewriter enthusiasts want to know is: will the Royal KMM typewriter be making an appearance too?!!! Or will the new Jessica be using some sort of crappy computer laptop? If she does use a typewriter, should it be a similar KMM or should she change it to something else, and if … Continue reading
A little surprising, Meta is expanding the Threads API. Might be time to consider doing more with it. Micro.blog can cross-post but only retrieve posts if the fediverse is enabled. Downside of doing more is jumping through the hoops of Meta’s approval machine.
Mac folks, any bugs you’ve noticed recently in the Micro.blog app? Fixing a couple little things for macOS 26 Tahoe beta.
Congrats to Manu Moreale on the 100th interview in his People and Blogs series! This one features Marisabel Munoz, who writes about her process of starting long-form blog posts by hand:
I use Moleskines (I prefer it due to the lines) and fountain pens—the ink’s flow slows my thoughts, helping me process them. Then comes the sculpting: what stays, what expands, what’s cut. It’s like editing, but not quite… more of a second draft.
Agent for book brainstorming
I think I was subconsciously inspired by Federico Viticci’s post when I tried this prompt with ChatGPT Agent last night:
I created book.micro.blog and www.manton.org. I want to look through longer blog posts (at least a couple paragraphs) on my blog that are about social me...
Like Christmas in July
I've rarely been this happy to receive a new feature.
I have a plan of course. I'll let you know how it goes! :-)
I just got Agent Mode in ChatGPT. 🎉Modernizing my sound system
I got tired of my old sound system, too many wires, a big receiver whose functions I never used, all designed long before the 4-year-old 65-inch OLED screen on top of it all, so I downscaled to a Sony soundbar, figured that was as simple as you could get, for $300, thinking ...
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Why this matters
It’s Friday, the 25th of July. Another normal day in another normal week. However, in this tiny corner of the vast digital space we call the web, there’s something I want to spend time both celebrating and reflecting upon: the 100th interview of the People and Blogs series w...
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
P&B: Marisabel Munoz
This is the 100th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Marisabel Munoz and her blog, marisabel.nl.
Earlier today I wrote a blog post to both celebrate and reflect on this milestone. Go ...
IndieWeb Carnival August 2025 : Colors
marisabel.nl/public/blog/IndieWeb_Carnival_August_2025_:_Colors
IndieWeb Carnival August 2025 : Colors
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Day 1 San Diego Comic Con 2025 #robotselfie is with a LEGO K2SO at full height. It is an astoundingly large privilege to get to come to this event.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Best Free Synthesizer Plugins in 2025
I am convinced that it makes total sense to spend a certain amount of your (spare) time on this planet tinkering around and exploring stuff that seems totally useless or silly compared to what you normally do. And without having a real explanation for why it happened, I’ve b...
Big fan of Internet Archive. I’ve also been occasionally using archive.is. Handy for grabbing a snapshot of an article, even in some cases behind a paywall. I do pay for a few magazines and websites, but not everything on the web!
Jason Snell has a first look at iPadOS 26:
It’s like a weight has been lifted from the soul of the iPad. It remains a very nice device to use in full-screen mode with all the simplicity attendant to that mode, or via a single tap it can turn into a multi-window, multitasking device that’s appropriate for the Mac-class hardware underpinning today’s iPads.