Friday afternoon session in Belfast
Friday afternoon session in Belfast
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
That Epic vs. Google decision yesterday seems big. Google Play may become more open even than the EU’s App Store. Meanwhile, Apple continues to print money with a record quarter.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
"In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder."
Laptop stickers.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
P&B: Emma Goto
This is the 101st edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Emma Goto and her blog, emgoto.com
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Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Evaluating AI
How to think about vendors, technology, and power
Tonight I watched Nye at the National Theatre, a play about the life (and death) of NHS founder, Aneurin Bevan. Beautiful and haunting, the very last scene completely broke me. Forget ten year plans; Nye had a vision, and he absolutely delivered on it.
Thursday night session in Belfast
Thursday night session in Belfast
Thursday evening session in east Belfast
Thursday evening session in east Belfast
OpenAI announcing a new data center in Norway:
The facility will run entirely on renewable power and is expected to incorporate closed-loop, direct-to-chip liquid cooling to ensure maximum cooling efficiency. Additionally, excess heat from the GPU systems will be made available to support low-carbon enterprises in the region.
I’d still like to know how much of Abilene’s data center will run on solar and wind. I assume a percentage, but not “entirely” like in Norway or they would’ve said so.
Looks like the time I spent integrating with ID.me’s API was wasted. Micro.blog is too small to get approved for production access. The open web is so ingrained in me that I see an OAuth API and assume I’ll be able to use it in some form.
Thursday afternoon session in Belfast
Thursday afternoon session in Belfast
Nick Heer: “The Cook era is now as long as the Jobs renaissance era.”
Podcast: AI should behave like a computer.
Now that my laptop is completely full of stickers, moving on to pins on my bag. Starting with just Mickey.
Just read my credit card number, expiration, and 3-digit code to someone over the telephone in a crowded coffee shop. YOLO! 🤪
Higher photo resolution for Micro.blog Premium
This week we’re announcing an improvement to photo storage and photo scaling for Micro.blog Premium subscribers, our $10/month plan that also includes up to 5 blogs, email newsletters, bookmark archiving, and highlights.
For years now, we’ve scaled photos down to about 1800x...
It would be interesting if Pocket Casts had an API. I would love to be able to one-click subscribe to a podcast in my feed reader. I mention Pocket Casts because it's the podcast client I use on my phone, but I would obviously like to see them all support an API, ideally a common API.
AI should behave like a computer
"Behave like a computer. That's where we start."
ChatGPT is not a programming partner, it's a very fantastic improvement over search engines. That's reality.
Having used ChatGPT and various other AI tools for over two years now, and using it in my programming work every day...
We will survive Google Zero
Google Zero is slightly misunderstood. The problem is not that Google is nefarious in no longer sending traffic to your website. (They probably don’t care very much one way or the other.) The real problem is you’ve depended on Google for your business. You’ve been obsessed w...