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This Week in the IndieWeb
August 22-29, 2025
Recent Events
From events.indieweb.org/archive:
Front End Study Hall #035
Thursday, August 28 at 10:00am
Online! Zoom!
Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks of the...
Mural at Waterloo Park.
What more needs to be said about assault weapons? They need to be banned. Most of the worst mass shootings — including this latest at the church in Minnesota — would’ve been less terrible if the shooters could not fire off 100+ rounds quickly. I’ve blogged about this many times, including last year.
Rolling out a few improvements to Micro.blog today, including a new “trash” for deleted posts, an “x” button to hide the publish pane, Typepad import, and other tweaks. More to come!
Databasing
A few years back, Craig wrote a great piece called Fast Software, the Best Software:
Speed in software is probably the most valuable, least valued asset. To me, speedy software is the difference between an application smoothly integrating into your life, and one called u...
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Rough morning for the Micro.blog servers. Woke up to a major problem with hung connections tripping up a few things. I have a few nice feature improvements ready to go, though.
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Bookmark: zephnet.biz/posts/phillyhw...
Bronx Science, in retrospect
Story. I'm on a mail list for Berkman, where I spent two years at Harvard. Alumnae of all generations are on this list, and it's interesting.
Just got an email that someone was proud of having their picture taken with Susan Landau. I didn't know who she was, so I looked her ...
Thanks to Matt Mullenweg for the boost to yesterday's post. Glad to finally get the whole plan down in one place. Each piece of the puzzle took a while to come together in concept and then in implementation. I'm still working on all levels, last week I added a feature to Fee...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
GregoryAI aims to improve the lives of researchers and patients alike
An open source project aimed at making medical research easier.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
P&B: Courtney
This is the 105th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Courtney and his blog, netigen.com
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Working on the Artemis demo video (and captions)
This week I have been making several small improvements to Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. First: the website now has a footer that links to important pages, from the privacy policy to the API documentation. Many of these pages have been added over time and, until no...
Early morning tease
Everyone has heard of WordPress, right? I'm going to be introducing a very weird idea about WordPress, one that's going to bend your mind a lot, especially if you're a member of the WordPress community, but also if you're a developer who has used WordPress in an application s...
It’s been real nice chatting with ya, kiddo! That’s the best part about camping…...
It’s been real nice chatting with ya, kiddo! That’s the best part about camping… Makin’ new friends!
My current concern with iOS 26 is not any of the developer stuff, it’s the Phone app! I consistently see caching problems where the UI is out of sync with the notification badge, and missing voicemails until I force quit. Never seen this many problems in a core Apple app before.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Think Different
Pretty heads down at WordCamp US, which has had amazing energy and talks so far. I wanted to take a moment to note two things, first being a great essay from Dave Winer asking people to Think Different about WordPress. I’ve done this before — asked people to think differently about things, like public writing, … Continue reading Think Different →
Thursday session
Thursday session
Brent Simmons reminiscing about Frontier and why modern development environments aren’t as good:
I’m not saying apps these days need to be Frontier-like in any details. But it seems absolutely bizarre to me that we — we who write Mac and iOS apps — still have to build and run the app, make changes, build and run the app, and so on, all day long. In the year 2025.
I also used Frontier a lot during that time. It was great. Personally, instead of Swift, I would’ve loved to see RubyCocoa taken to the next level. And with React Native we do have some of the quick iteration Brent blogs about.