People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Joshua Rothman writing at The New Yorker about living one day at a time, without strict to-do lists:
If you can start a day by asking what you feel like doing, and end it by asking what, in the end, you felt like doing and were able to do, then perhaps you can more easily experience that day as a wave to which you respond.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
When my father passed unexpectedly, I was despondent. One thing I remember was the Amazon lovebomb I got from my high school girlfriend Sunaina Sondhi, five books to help me deal with the pain. Even a decade after we dated, books were her love language; in fact, she had given me my very first book … Continue reading Books on Grieving →
Looking at Bluesky, for a moment my brain stopped working and I read the time “40m” as “40 months”.
I’ve never liked relative dates, so in Micro.blog for recent posts we show the time alone. There is a sort of stay engaged urgency to “5 minutes ago”. But it’s okay if nothing important just happened.
We’ll ship the initial support in Micro.blog for displaying Mastodon quote posts on Monday. I’m essentially converting the quotes to Quotebacks, because Quotebacks are already used within Micro.blog for the “embed” link. Still would like to do more with these in the future.
Saturday night late session
Serenaded at dinner by the Friel sisters and Polca4
My tip for fediverse devs trying to implement FEP-044f: first memorize who Alice and Bob are and what they’re posting. 🙂 Makes it easier to follow everything else. I’m done coding the basics, so now get to see how it interacts with real servers.
Saturday evening session
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Dose 6 administered on Sep 19, 2025 Name: COVID-19, mRNA, LNP-S, PF, 50 mcg/0.5 mL (12+ Spikevax) 22 hours ago got my sixth COVID shot. Today I’m taking it easy. Sia This morning I woke up with Sia’s Elastic Heart in my head. Sia’s interesting. There was an image of Sia on the screen a...
Today is a good day, I think, to make little guys.
Pattern from Machine Knitting Monthly Oct 2025, which calls for spider legs, but I think the “little guy”-ness is correct without them.
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. ☕️
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.
