Worked on core platform bug fixes and a new feature today, plus preparing a new version of Epilogue. I’ll probably submit to Apple tomorrow, Google later this week. Feeling pretty good about the recent improvements.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Cool update to the mnml theme for Micro.blog: pinning a blog post from a category to the top of the home page.
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.