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Guess I won’t be deploying this bug fix right away. 🙁 When deploying to the app servers, I roll each server out of the load balancer to avoid downtime. Can’t do that when Linode’s management interface and API are down.

Congrats to the Iconfactory on the Tot 2.0 release. Looks like a good update.

In July my cousin had an accident that landed her in an ICU. Her parents and husband have coordinated family to be present for her 24/7. We are a large enough family that we can do this. I have been present for her for several sessions now. At the beginning, she did not recognize me....

Ethan tagged me in a post. I didn’t feel a thing. “I’d love to invite a few other folks to share their favorite newsletters”, he wrote. My immediate thought was that I don’t actually subscribe to many newsletters. But then I remembered that most newsletters are available a...

I haven’t forgotten about holding a small Micro.camp this year. The summer has been full of distractions. I think it’s important that we do an event each year, even if it has to be scaled down a little. It’s a time to mark the progress and hear from people.

I like the idea of adding this to personal websites:

Mastodon shows an “Alt” button in the bottom right of images that have associated alt text. This button, when clicked, shows the alt text the author has written for the image.

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The consensus among the people who responded to my what does "on the web" mean query is this. Something is on the web if it has a URL you can use to view it in a web browser. That means, in 2025, that the URL begins with HTTP or HTTPS. Every "page" on a site must have a URL so they can be pointed to independently, otherwise known as deep linking. It's not enough to just have a home page that's on the web. So for example, an iPhone app isn't on the web just because it has an information page that is.

ChatGPT is the Lotus 1-2-3 of search. Google is Visicalc.

The presentations for WordCamp US are just a few days away! We have some really exciting keynotes including Danny Sullivan from Google, John Maeda from Microsoft AI, and Adam Gazzaley (one of the top neuroscientists in the world) from UCSF. I think being in the room and able to meet the speakers and ask questions … Continue reading The Future of WordPress and AI at WCUS →

Thursday is the 35th instance of IndieWeb Front End Study Hall. In a time of trouble gathering with others to learn to make better websites with HTML and CSS with folk of all skill levels is terrific. Bring www wishes & confusions and let’s learn together. Front End Study Hall #035 See also: Front End...

I’ve really got to stop taking my work with me on vacation…

Trump is a comedian. He makes people laugh the way Joan Rivers or Don Rickles did. It's verbal slapstick, which is for some reason I don't understand immensely funny and entertaining. Newsom is making us laugh by imitating Trump imitating Joan and Don. It's working. He must...

Bounce from A New Social is now live. Another big step to account portability between platforms. The more tools like this we get, the more it encourages developers to support migration APIs.

With a new iOS beta dropping today, we’re nearing the end, and I’m still not sure it’s a good idea to update Micro.blog on day one. Liquid Glass introduces lots of weirdness with nav button sizes and tap areas. Not going to rush it.

feedland.org is going to be down for a while.

There's a problem with feedland.org, running a script to upgrade it to the latest version, should take a bit of time to run.

In the 1990s, I had an internship at Apple here in Austin, in a building they were leasing off 183, just east of I-35. They’ve long since expanded to a new campus in northwest Austin, much fancier, reflecting what a massive company Apple has become. I still often drive by th...

The key to managing a large code base is extreme minimalism wherever possible. Less code. Simpler names for things. Fewer dependencies. It’s hard to convey with a list of rules, but I know it when I see an unmanageable, cluttered project.

Haven’t quite figured out the best UX for passkeys yet. I’ve been slow switching to them for my accounts, but now that it has been a couple years, hopefully the quirks have been worked out.