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Sunday night session

This is really neat for fediverse devs: ActivityPub.Academy. Essentially a modified version of Mastodon that can show a log of activities being sent, to troubleshoot interoperability problems.

WNBA playoffs! Watching Aces vs. Fever. Only a quarter left and Aces might be falling too far behind. 🏀

New release of the feedlandSockets code. Still more work to do.

I’ve drafted some posts about current events, especially working through my thoughts on free speech and social platforms, but I think my blog needs to veer away from the political for a while. Also, watched Josh Shapiro on Meet the Press this morning and thought his answers were really good. 🇺🇸

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Here's a thought for WordPress users and developers. WordPress is huge, but it's just part of the web. That's what it means to be on the web, my friends. Everything connects to anything on the web. Once we build out a social network from WordPress, all the other systems will have no choice but to hook up too. All this talk of AT Proto and ActivityPub being the connecting glue is nonsense. The web is the connecting glue.

Last night I learned about headless WordPress installations from a tweet by Matt Mullenweg. I wrote a blog post on my WP site with what I've learned and the questions I still have. It's actually easier for me to write posts on that site when all I have is my iPad. I do all m...

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.

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

After reading – and enjoying a delicious coffee – I let my feet take me where they wanted to go. At the intersection of two roads on the Royal Mile – the heart of Old Town in Edinburgh – I turned my head right and thought about how long it had been since I had walked down the...

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.

My experience of the tool in which I write blog posts – Typora – is functionally the same as it was when I started using the tool several years ago. Typora starts as it always does since I set it up: as a blank page, ready for me to start writing. There have been many update...