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Two videos every US resident should watch to prepare for what might be coming. 1. The Lives of Others. A drama set in the eastern part of post-war Germany before the wall came down. People lived their lives, but their relationship with the government and the military would s...

Of course I only notice the UI glitches while I’m recording a screencast demo. Will have to tweak a couple things for the next bug fix update.

With the acquisition by Atlassian, there’s a lot of talk about whether this is bad for Dia and Arc. But one thing I’m sure about: this is good for Atlassian. The Browser Company has a great attention to detail and thoughtful design that could benefit Atlassian’s culture.

From self-hosted WordPress to managed solutions

The Level Up is an indie improv showcase. Join us as we watch amazing New York indie improv talents gain XP on the Magnet stage, unlock new achievements, and reach new milestones. Or do comedy.

Come support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for three exciting indie teams!

• No Fomo
• Terrible Blessing
• Ventson

I’ll be playing in with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!

Looking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)

Saturday September 6th, 2025 @ 10:30pm
Magnet Theater
254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)
New York City, NY 10001
Tickets $10: https://magnettheater.com/show/tickets/59956/

Magnet Theater

Some nightmare fuel in the attic of the beach house.

Working on Mac code continues to be a kind of escape from closed mobile platforms. Still fun after all these years. I wrapped up a Micro.blog update today, will release it tomorrow.

On August 16, I attended Connect + Reflect: A CreativeMornings Mixer and I really enjoyed it. It was co-hosted by Head of Community at CreativeMornings, Exa Kutler and FieldTrips Team Member Lauren Deborah. I am usually on the… obstinate side when it comes to writing prompts. The structure was great. Rather than a single giant...

Chris Young, who is otherwise famous for being a co-author of the 2,438-page cookbook Modernist Cuisine or centrifuging steaks and drinking them, is one of the friends who, over the years, has told me I have to watch Breaking Bad, the TV show. When I was in Marrakech for a few weeks earlier this year, and it was a … Continue reading Breaking Ribs →

In San Clemente California TRUMP DON’T SURF is as spitting as insult as I can possibly imagine. 2018 2019 Vietnam draft dodger Trump ain’t no LTC Kilgore anyway.

Cat’s Paw Marina, Saint Augustine, Florida.

In AppKit, for some reason I always forget about content hugging priority. I usually fiddle with the constraint’s priority first, scratching my head why it’s not working. (Nope, never heard of SwiftUI…) 🤪

From the statement on better discourse between the ActivityPub and AT Protocol communities:

We do not build a better open social web for everyone by fighting and arguing about protocol superiority. That is not how we achieve a better open social web. Instead, we must work together, cross-pollinate and share ideas, and participate within each other’s communities with respect and mutual understanding.

Co-signing. This came out of the Social Web Community Group meeting yesterday, which I wish I was participating in more often.

Finished reading: The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown 📚

There's a new version of FeedLand, v0.7.0.

Here's the thread where we discussed the testing of the new release. It worked everywhere we installed it, so it seems fair to open it up to people running their own FeedLand instances.

You don't have to do this yet, the only features it has are ones that are needed to use it with the new version of WordLand, coming soon now. But if you have the time, it requires an update to the database, so it's not the usual thing. It explains at the beginning of the thread what the change is to the database.

Here are the instructions for doing the upgrade.

If you're installing a new instance, the instructions are the same as always.

If you have trouble, post a note on the thread.

Thanks to Scott Hanson for validating the new version. It's always important to have someone to check my work.

Yesterday's note on scripting.com about feedland.org was not the whole story. In the end I thought it made more sense to start the database over from the start. There were a lot of users who subscribed to feeds that were constantly updating, and they never came back to use...

While clicking through my RSS feeds, I found my way to Jay’s post titled “Do blogs need to be so lonely?”. It’s an interesting post, especially interesting for me since I love blogs. Betteridge's law of headlines tells us that the answer to the question Jay is posing is “no”...

Dr. Miller has tipped me off that the suggested text for his upcoming course An Introduction to Hilbert Spaces will be:  Berberian, Sterling Khazag. Introduction To Hilbert Space. Oxford University Press, 1961. Reprint Literary Licensing, 2012. He’s not happy that it ignores measure theory as a means to introduce the Lebesque integral, so he’ll be … Continue reading

August 29 through September 5, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Pacific Wednesday, September 3 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, September 3 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club Edinburgh Tuesday, Sept...