People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Substack willingly platforms and allows bad actors to monetize, hate speech and misinformation.
Says who?
Here are some well-reasoned pieces on the subject for you to educate yourself and decide.
Finished reading: Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas. Apparently the thing to do is read this and the next book at the same time, but I have other things to read so just took this one straight through. Easily the best in the series so far, seemed much better structured. 📚
What if we all wore ICE-style masks as we went around doing our business.
If a baseball player's uniform didn't have a number or name.
Let's all be anonymous. It's very practical, we don't want to get doxxed either!
A model illustrating the new baseball uniform style. A little thing I wrote in my notes recently: To push for things to stay the same means you miss out on all the richness that can come from novelty — to miss out on all the stories one could have lived. This very post is pushing to try something new; to share a note as yet undeveloped, with only the knowledge that I feel I will be reflecting on it for many years. As the years pass I appreciate the beauty of the changing seasons more, and all of the new-to-me things I see within each.
Really happy with the response to our new discount to make Micro.blog free for teachers and nurses. We’ve had some people take us up on the offer already.
Mark Gurman reports on a new team inside Apple developing a search engine and world knowledge model:
While still in early stages, the team is building what it calls an “answer engine” — a system capable of crawling the web to respond to general-knowledge questions. A standalone app is currently under exploration, alongside new back-end infrastructure meant to power search capabilities in future versions of Siri, Spotlight and Safari.
Catching up on some posts from FediCon, which was held over the last couple of days in Vancouver. @bmann.ca has his talk slides and notes online.
A podcast about a podcast users' API.
Reminder that we are improving things with Micro.blog all the time. You can see recent changes on news.micro.blog. If there’s a bug that needs attention, send us an email. The best way for us to prioritize what to work on is what we hear about.
It's always a good idea to get a second opinion with AI stuff. ChatGPT may give you a convoluted answer where Claude.ai gives you a concise one.
Created a new plug-in “Photos with months” that adds some date grouping to the default Photos page. May need additional changes, because it will conflict with some other photos page plug-ins. You can see it on my photos page.
