Cool update to the mnml theme for Micro.blog: pinning a blog post from a category to the top of the home page.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Whaddaya mean I’m not excited enough? It’s my day off, OK?
Whaddaya mean I’m not excited enough? It’s my day off, OK?
A motto for WordLand. "All the tools you need right where you write."
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Fact Checkers
The New Yorker is always good, but they’re having a bit of a victory lap as they celebrate their centennial. This article on the vaunted fact-checkers is such a delight, with so many in-jokes and back references it’s hard to keep track. When I started WordPress, I wrote down five publications that I hoped someday … Continue reading Fact Checkers →
Monday session
Monday session
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Mixtape Spruce-Ups
I spruced up my mixtape lists. The earliest dates to 1984. 14 yr old-me who cared a great deal about the levels, taped stuff from the radio and from my uncle’s record collection. I was only chewed out about messing with the tonearm balance once. I’m still making mixes. See them all at artlung dot...
Atlas of Space
A nifty interactive 3D map of our solar system
New Bear license
Herman Martinus blogs about changing the license for his Bear blogging platform from MIT to a license that disallows hosting, partly because it’s so easy for people to spin up competing services now:
We’re entering a new age of AI powered coding, where creating a competing ...
A new kind of spam or phishing email. Appears to be a challenge by Twitter of one of my posts there as a copyright infringement, which it most definitely is not. You have to look closely at the URL it takes you to, which is on this domain. assents-x.com. Hmm at first looks legit, but look more closely.
I like this post from Allen Pike about pivoting from an indie business to a more VC-inspired, ambitious project. That’s not my path, but he’s going in clear-eyed and purposeful.
I've been watching a lot of baseball recently. Over the years I've developed as a programmer, and they've radically changed the way baseball is played. Pitchers used to try to pitch a complete game, but now that never happens. Sometimes they take a pitcher out in the first in...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
OB this morning I got an early start and it was good. A surfer asked me if he had gotten under the lip of his wave. I told him he had. My new role: “tube ref.”
Announcing rainfall.scot
Earlier this year was drier than normal here in Scotland. If I recall, there was a period of about two weeks where barely any rain fell. That’s not right, I thought.
In May, I was curious how dry it was relative to previous years. I discovered that the Scottish Environmental...
I want my blog on the same network as my social media.
AI chatbots should drop the pretense of being human.
I can see why The Legend of Ochi didn’t get a wide theatrical release, but I loved it. Some really beautiful scenes. 🍿
Twice as nice: Introducing the NHS.UK Eleventy Plugin
With the NHS.UK Eleventy Plugin you can focus on writing content instead of writing code.
Decided against Liquid Glass-ifying Epilogue for now. It’s such a huge distraction, some developers spent the whole summer dealing with this. Luckily there’s a UIDesignRequiresCompatibility opt-out.
Today's song: Jambalaya on the Bayou.
Mea culpa: Unfortunately I misquoted Joni, she said "paved" not "took." I'm going to leave the mistake in the piece.