Just noticed this new Micro.blog theme: Bothy. Looks good!
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
I want the web to be like Harvard
Back in the beginning I wanted the web to be like Harvard.
It's one of the reasons I went there as a research fellow in 2003.
I wasn't satisfied with the web, the density of minds wasn't up to my expectations, so I thought if I brought the web to the minds, that might work ...
UI in AI is the next frontier
Yesterday I wrote a quick review of ChatGPT 5, after trying a simple programming exercise with it. It was an awful collaboration because it lied to me about its capabilities, leading me to develop a feature in my software to support the capability that it later admitted that...
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
P&B: Alexandra
This is the 102nd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Alexandra and her blog, xandra.cc
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I’m somewhat obsessed with CMAT’s Euro Country. An opening verse in Irish and a blistering bridge that might single-handedly scupper Bertie Ahern's presidential ambitions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SVNTv44C4g
I’m somewhat obsessed with CMAT’s Euro Country. An opening verse in Irish and a blistering bridge that might single-handedly scupper Bertie Ahern’s presidential ambitions.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Colors
Preamble I had been drawing for was long as I could remember. In the 8th grade I had earned an award as top artist in the class. But this was 9th grade. High school. I had chosen an elective: “Drawing.” I realize now, decades later, what the point of the class had been. I understand...
A very simple way to make a new web page (2025)
mat.tl/blog/2025/08/07/a-very-simple-way-to-make-a-new-web-page/
Thursday session
Thursday session
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Sticking with it
Contrary to what many people seem to be doing, especially in the digital world, I don’t often change the tools and services I use. When I find something that works, I’m happy to stick around for the long run. Well, at least unless something major happens that forces me to re...
That said, it got pretty far toward solving the problem I asked it to work on. Here's a demo of a page it put together for me of the top 25 articles in US news.
ChatGPT is even more of a bastard than 4.
New version of feedlandSocket. It's now an NPM package you can include in Node projects. The demo is more useful, and there's a video of what it looks like as it scrolls through the JavaScript console. WebSockets + feeds. A fairly important component of an open social web system.
A summary of recent work via my WordLand blog.
One of those mornings. Working from the hospital lobby, with the GPT-5 announcement video on in the background but I forgot my headphones at home, so just glancing at the subtitles every once in a while. Please see: Micro.blog free for nurses. Also just deployed a cross-posting checkbox fix.
Added a new reading goals bar to the top of Bookshelves in the Mac app. Love the way it turned out, with little progress indicators for the goal progress. Here’s a video:
Dia adds $20/month subscription, with plans for other tiers later. I like Dia even without the AI features. Most people are not going to pay for either ChatGPT or Claude and a web browser. Wishing them luck because it is a nice browser.
Odd to see a Tim Hortons in Texas. ☕️
Progressive web apps
There was a time when you needed to make a native app in order to take advantage of specific technologies. That time has passed.
Now you can do all of these things on the web:
push notifications,
offline storage,
camera access,
and more.
Take a look at the home screen o...
My uncle Ken
This is a picture of my dear departed Uncle Vava taken in the early 1970s in my parents' house in Flushing. It just showed up in my On This Day list on Facebook, thought it belongs on the blog too. .
Ken Kiesler, in the early 70s, hamming it up at a family event.
I recorded a good podcast yesterday about how I develop new stuff like podcasting, and how it only works if there isn't a huge dominant platform vendor to FUD the project. That's why RSS worked, sort of -- we did get FUDded by the RDF folk, who had a few famous people on thei...