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Now that Mastodon 4.5 is live on mastodon.social, I can resume work on receiving quote posts from the fediverse, i.e. FEP-044f. This spec is very complicated. Feeling some urgency to finish the implementation before I forget how it all works.

Busy day yesterday juggling lots of different things. This morning I get to try to catch up. Coffee at Medici in the Domain. ☕️

More leaves and trees are turning from green to orange. On a walk earlier today, I looked around with awe as I noticed more leaves are turning yellow and red and orange. I even saw one tree that is almost entirely red! In spring, the tree blossoms a delightful pink; in autumn...

In ways older people handle change better than younger ones, because we know change is here, every freaking day, and we know in a few years, at most, really big change is coming. So the attitude of the older person is often what the fuck, let's go. I'm not kidding. Maybe later in life I will get more conservative, it could happen.

They should make a ChatGPT that two or more people can chat in. I guess that's what Twitter is doing.

I'd like to see a mutual defense pact among the open source projects who depend on the stability each others' work. Not with the people, but the projects. Sort of like a NATO of open source. Where this comes from -- I'm tired of being treated like the proprietor of RSS 2.0. I transferred all my rights to Harvard in 2003. You have just as much interest in RSS 2.0 remaining stable as I do. The opposite of Embrace and Extend, rather Embrace and Preserve.

I've never been very interested in what Kimmel says but I am now.

Saturday session in the sun

Buenos días, Cáceres!

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. (The joke is the S in MCP stands for security, but that’s another post.) They say to think of it like “like a USB-C port for AI applications” because it allows interoperability between AI chatbots and other tools. Here’s some of the MCP stuff happening across the Automattic solar … Continue reading MCP Everywhere →

September 12-19, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #036 Thursday, September 18 at 10:00am Online! Zoom! Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks ...

Highly recommend today's Bill Simmons podcast where he talks about the Jimmy Kimmel situation. His perspective is very good, he says Kimmel doesn't need ABC. And I believe him.

There should be a ChatGPT "personality" for the chatbot. I'd like to start with a black lab. When I say "good work" that reinforces that what it did should be a priority. If I say that and give it a treat (by typing "treat") that should get double emphasis. I might like it better if I could train it. I don't mind a little enthusiasm, but I want it to respond to me with respect.

I'm going to call it social web not open social web. You don't need the "open" part. The web is open. It's like saying "wet water."

Cross-posted from my daveverse site. I hadn’t considered the point of view of people who worked at Netscape when it disappeared just as RSS 0.9.1 was being adopted by the blogosphere in 1999. We did try to get in touch with them, even when they didn’t work there, but no one...

Bluesky is spinning out the PLC directory:

After considering several jurisdictions, legal structures, and potential parent organizations, the new entity will form as a Swiss Association. In a period of international uncertainty around Internet governance, Switzerland provides a credibly neutral and stable global home.

I like this. They’ve always acknowledged that PLC wasn’t intended to be permanent. Now there’s progress that’s better without waiting for it to be perfect.