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I think I’m starting to feel what I can only describe as digital fatigue. I believe this is the result of a combination of two main factors: I spend most of my time in front of a screen for work, coding sites for clients and friends (and sometimes for myself). My RSS feed h...

Today there is a new podcast, this one for members of the WordPress community. I was interviewed by the very capable Nathan Wrigley of WP Tavern. I thought it was a great conversation, we talked about the remarkable position WordPress is in to serve as the OS for a rebooted web. I love the introduction they wrote, I also figured out how to make content management work in the browser, which was the foundation for blogging and eventually WordPress, though it seems that legacy is a bit lost in all the other stuff I've had my fingers in over the years. I hope you listen to this podcast, and if you have questions or comments, here's a good place to post them.

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The album Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush turned 40 years old this month. It has really stood the test of time. It still sounds like nothing else. It’s kind of two albums in one. There’s the A side with all those perfect pop songs—Running Up That Hill, Hounds Of Love, Cloudbus...

I’ve added this handy little bit of CSS to my starting styles.

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I don’t think it’s controversial to suggest that LLMs haven’t measured up to any of the lofty promises made by their vendors. But in more concrete terms, consumers dislike “AI” when it shows up in products, and it makes them actively mistrust the brands that employ it. In other words, we’re some three years into the hype cycle, and LLMs haven’t met any markers of success we’d apply to, well, literally any other technology.

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Telex has launched a new design and a gallery of some interesting examples. It’s really cool to see what people are starting to do with Telex, it really gets back at the fun of hacking and coding at the beginning, when a computer does something for you that makes you gasp. My colleague Eduardo Villunendas … Continue reading Telex Remixes →

Wednesday session

Final trailer for Wicked: For Good. After the first movie, I have complete faith in them to finish strong. Can’t wait to see what they do with No Good Deed and For Good. 🍿

I own about a dozen domain names in the form micro.tld. Most for things not announced yet, some that won’t ever happen. For better or worse, it’s the brand. Too many fun domains out there. 🤪

I’m always juggling a lot of different tasks at the same time, from small bug fixes to major new features. When I keep hearing about the same thing over and over, I’ll jot down notes for how it might work in Micro.blog, or I’ll run experiments, but sometimes it stays in the ...

Favourite tree doing favourite tree things.

Facebook has had 3 billion users for a while, but I wasn’t expecting Instagram to already have 3 billion monthly active users. Insane scale.

The web has been asleep for 19 years, which is almost as long as Rip Van Winkle was.

In the future you will be able to chain social networks together. It's up to you to figure out what that means. Because each social network will specialize in certain things. How will that work? Left as an exercise for the reader. We'll build new kinds of brains built out of whatever you can dream up.

An invaluable resource. The Internet Archive is getting close to 1 trillion pages archived:

Since 1996, the Wayback Machine has been capturing the web—saving the voices, creativity, and communities that make up our shared digital history. Nearly one trillion pages later, we’re still archiving, so that future generations can look back and understand the world as we lived it online.

If you work at a clever company, then you should let them know about sponsoring Web Day Out.

All the details are in this PDF sponsorship pack. Basically there are three (and only three) spots available, at three different levels of sponsorship.

One of the best things about the venue for Web Day Out is that always having an excellent auditorium, the Studio Theatre has a really nice space for the breaks. It would be the perfect spot to set up a stand and chat with all the smart attendees.

All the attendees will, by definition, be smart because they got tickets for Web Day Out—a steal at just £225+VAT.

Here's a place to comment on yesterday's podcast with Mattias.

There are a lot of developers who think they understand WordPress but they don't. It has a REST api that you can build on. Everything WordPress does. It's the API the browser client is built on. I didn't know it was there until I added WordPress login to FeedLand a couple of years ago. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. What can I do with it? It snuck up on me because it is an API to the web, and it's also the easiest API to for ActivityPub. If you think you understand the programming model for the fediverse, you should take a look. This is as exciting as any web product I did before, because now, after being asleep for 19 years, the web can now wake up. It really feels that way.