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I think perhaps I should have one day every week where I never link to anything. Just to provide a demo of what the web would be like without linking. Which is most of the sites that say they are part of the web. I think that's a lie we should stop tolerating.

I'm working my way through Mr Robot, for the third time I think. If you want to know what I do, it's like what Elliot does, for about four hours pretty much every day. I used to work longer hours but I've found this amount of work is optimal. I make more mistakes after about 1PM. Anyway Mr Robot is a very good thing to watch for the times we live in. The technology is already a little outdated, but they thought of that, there are some settings where they use old PCs from the 80s, with total respect. I like that. And the utilities he uses are pretty much the same ones I use these days. And the context of a world in technological meltdown, I think that's a very realistic scenario. I don't see how our networks can't avoid breaking down. And our health care system, which these days is pretty much the same thing.

Tragic story in The New York Times of suicide and ChatGPT. This probably lines up with the “sycophantic” edition of 4o. As more people use chatbots as therapists, there are so many new potential problems. For minors perhaps there should be escalation to humans, even less privacy.

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.