The new Naked Gun is hilarious. So many gags. Very much in the same spirit as the originals. 🍿
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Restoration of another 1950 Royal KMG standard typewriter
Happy HTML Day (I'm machine knitting Edition)
Happy HTML Day!
I'm taking a two-day machine knitting workshop intensive, so I did not have the
energy to join the folks at the Valentino Jr. Park meetup.
Instead I am writing this post (in HTML) while watching along to Jenn Schiffer's "HTML Day From Home (hdfh)" stream.
The...
I think I'm going to put in my will that ChatGPT should run the Dave Winer persona on all social networks, and my blog, as long as the money lasts. It would tell stories that I would likely tell, take political stands that I would take, draw meta-pictures of my sad and depressed programmer friend and a cute and adorable kitty getting into all kinds of trouble. The seasons would come and go, and there would be Dave, still diggin. And of course he would continue to develop software, using some of the greatest tried and true tools, reminding everyone of how great Frontier -- but -- if only it ran on Linux. The long-lived fearless and fully paid-up version of Uncle D.
I got hoisted with my own Picard.
A change would do us good too.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Did Craigslist decimate newspapers?
"Here in six short chapters is the tale of Craigslist’s rise to a business generating hundreds of millions of dollars a year, how Newmark has used that fortune and how newspapers, slow to adapt, failed to respond effectively to the digital shift.”
Released a new version of the Mac app this morning, fixing several problems with the accessibility description window. I like updating the ridiculously long help page because I think the release notes show a commitment to steady improvements going back 8 years. Maybe at year 10 it’ll be really good.
I have a lot of code written before ChatGPT. Sometimes, as I read my old code, I wonder how the heck I ever figured that out without it.
Saturday afternoon session in Belfast
Saturday afternoon session in Belfast
Táim i gaeltacht Bhéal Feirste!
Táim i gaeltacht Bhéal Feirste!
A wooden love heart and a pot of flowers
The Guardian has a series where they ask a question and collate a few of the responses. A recent prompt caught my eye: “have you found anything unexpected when you moved into your new home?”. When I read this prompt, I got to writing. My response is below. I submitted it to T...
Saturday morning session in Belfast
Saturday morning session in Belfast
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
This Week in the IndieWeb
July 25 through August 1, 2025
Recent Events
From events.indieweb.org/archive:
🌌🏄🏻‍♀️ Shanghai | HTML Day
Friday, August 1 at 4:30pm
Zhongshan Park
Front End Study Hall #033
Thursday, July 31 at 6:00pm
Online! Zoom!
Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group m...
Micro.blog now free for teachers and nurses
I don’t often share personal things about my family here on the blog, but I was reflecting on something last weekend that’s also relevant to Micro.blog. My mom has been in the hospital for a week and a half. I’ve been back and forth to the hospital every day to visit her. Mo...
Podcast. It's time for things to change. Two examples, Wired and Harvard. Change was always coming, but now you can't turn away from it very long before it re-appears.
Wired and Harvard, big change still coming
I've been thinking a lot about Harvard lately, and a revealing podcast interview with the top editorial person at Wired.
Elon Musk wasn't over-exposed, he burned out. If he hadn't saluted like a Nazi, boasted about putting USAid in a wood chipper, pranced around on stage with a chainsaw, and done so much damage to the US government, we still don't know how much, he could have chilled out, sold a fleet of Teslas to Trump, and gone on to his next adventure. We would have all been glued to our sets.
Twitter elected a president in 2016. We looked the other way. Jan 6 failed, we went back to sleep for four years and woke up in a way we never have.
Big change was coming, and now it has arrived at the door of Harvard. A university that was home to the American Revolution.
Lots of ideas in this podcast.
Source OPML for July 2025 blog posts.
Welcome to August. More than half the summer is behind us. We're still here. The shelves in the supermarket are full of good stuff to eat. We've had about the normal amount of hot weather, and a good amount of rain but not too much. The Mets are doing OK, all things considered. They opened a Pho restaurant in Bearsville and it's good. Health, not too bad, all things considered. Still diggin!