People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
I’m still buzzing from an incredible WordCamp US this week, from contributor day to the closing party the vibes were right and it was amazing to connect with fellow travelers in the journey towards creating a more free and open source internet. Before our open town hall Q&A I was able to make some fun … Continue reading Summer WordPress Update →
I stopped for a minute to look at this sign, just as a flock of birds took to the sky.
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.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Revolution.Social is becoming one of my favorite new podcasts. Great episode with Chris Messina. Rabble is on a roll with this.
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.
Stop the slop.
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!
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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