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This is the 107th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Jack Baty and his blog, baty.net To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every ...

It’s always fun to see someone pushing the limits of the web experience, as I reminisced about Flash and Dreamweaver the other day. The new website for Posthog is a delightful rabbit hole to explore, akin to a Meow Wolf, with meticulous care and craft applied to every corner of the product in a way … Continue reading PostHog →

When I studied economics, one of the concepts that struck me the most was the concept of externalities. This International Monetary Fund post explains it well. In short, externalities are costs or benefits of an economic activity that affect third parties who did not choose to incur them, leading to a divergence between private and … Continue reading Account for Externalities →

It’s been a busy (and tragic) week but one of the more interesting things to launch was the Really Simple Licensing standard. I have a lot of scars from the web standards wars, so I’m hesitant to dive back in, but this is from a lot of the early Web 2.0 people, as TechCrunch writes … Continue reading Really Simple Licensing →

This post by Nathan Witkin on the case against social media is long but very good. I’m going to have to go through this again in detail.

OpenAI and Microsoft have finally reached an agreement. OpenAI’s Bret Taylor also has a blog post on it, a $50 million grant for other nonprofits, and the OpenAI nonprofit + public benefit structure:

This structure reaffirms that our core mission remains ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity. Our PBC charter and governance will establish that safety decisions must always be guided by this mission.

Great article from New_ Public on indie blogs and websites:

The focus isn’t on personal branding, growth or monetization, or “content” creation, but on freedom from those things. Instead of polished, 10-second snippets optimized for mass-appeal, engagement, and profit, these are largely slow-cooked projects made just for fun.

Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, has a few new features. Below is a summary of the features now available to all users. Also, I have started a Discord server for the project in which I can both answer questions and will potentially share some stories of the behind-th...

I’ve never had a coherent answer when asked how big Micro.blog is, so I sometimes stumble and misspeak. The total number of users is inflated with inactive users and spam accounts. Active users are different for weekly, monthly, longer. I care most about paid subscriptions and whether we’re growing.

♫ Lucky by Radiohead

Played this in the car driving around Kent with Jon at the weekend, and now pleasantly stuck in my head.

In that moment just after recording a podcast where I’m second guessing everything I said. I have a lot of respect for people who stop and form their thoughts before answering a question. I tend to just wing it, so sometimes words tumble out in the wrong order. 🙂

Nice Fission update with a visual refresh and getting the app icon out of macOS Tahoe squircle jail.

At #IndieWeb HWC yesterday we ran VS Code w/”Live Share” plugin. In a few minutes 5 of us wrote a web page. Surveillance tech is an enshittified anti-labour mess but tools—the means of production—to pamphleteer and agitate and samizdat and protest are in our hands. Websites. James wrote about it in Collaborative web weaving

Are Mac developers actually adopting the menu item icons in macOS 26? I’m torn… I think this design change was unnecessary and adds clutter. But also, it feels incomplete if I don’t add my own icons.

In Developing an alt text button for images on my website, I wrote about how I made a button for visibly showing and hiding alt text on my website. I enjoy reading alt text. Alt text is great. My implementation method used a combination of a HTML checkbox and the CSS :has se...

Reminder: Sept 18, one week from today, is the 3rd anniversary of the 20th anniversary of the release of RSS 2.0. I often forget to mark that day. It's not an event that's marked by others very often, but in my humble opinion, it deserves more respect than it gets. I decide...

Realizing that we never officially documented the new support for passkeys, so a lot of people missed it. Just added a new help page with the basics.

At this week’s Homebrew Website Club, I was introduced to the Live Share extension developed by Microsoft for Visual Studio Code. The extension lets you start a collaborative editing session to which you can invite others. Excited to learn that this extension exists, and cur...