Finally catching up on WWDC sessions and documentation for Liquid Glass. Took me way too long to realize that hidesSharedBackground is what I wanted. And because this is React Native, I get to swizzle UIBarButtonItem to customize things. JavaScript plus a sprinkling of Obj-C.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Data from OB. Life goes on.
Revolution.Social is becoming one of my favorite new podcasts. Great episode with Chris Messina. Rabble is on a roll with this.
Stephanie Booth, an old school blogger, wanted to hook up my RSS feed to a new service that supports inbound RSS, which we appreciate. Apparently they can't handle HTTP, which of course we don't.
Interesting blog post about analytics. I think surveillance is too strong a word for simple referrer logging, but I do agree that most personal blogs don’t need this:
The other reason you might put analytics on your site is to know when someone links to your writing. Again, if the linker doesn’t intend to tell you, then you’re surveilling. You do not need to know every time your writing is mentioned.
The Invisibles
When I was talking about monitoring web performance yesterday, I linked to the CrUX data for The Session.
CrUX is a contraction of Chrome User Experience Report. CrUX just sounds better than CEAR.
It’s data gathered from actual Chrome users worldwide. It can be handy as pa...
You do not need “analytics” for your blog because you are neither a military surveillance unit nor a commodity trading company – This day’s portion
Sloppy
Stop the slop.
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...
Untitled
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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