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The concourse at Euston station is now a festival of Rail Alphabet 2. Yet move beyond that and… well, God knows what font has been chosen for the gantries above the approaches to platforms (which themselves still use NR Brunel). One day there might be some visual coherence on the railway, but today is not that day.

There’s quite a crossover between resilence and longevity:

1. Understand the requirements
2. Keep scope small and fixed
3. Reduce dependencies
4. Produce static output
5. Increase Quality Assurance

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Wouldn't it be great if there were a list of WordPress users who have turned on their ActivityPub plugin, so we know who to subscribe to on our favorite ActivityPub service.

Evan Prodromou explains all that's happening in the WordPressOSphere in the realm of ActivityPub.

MEP Alexandra Geese argues that Europe needs its own infrastructure, social networks, and software. Rising US authoritarianism means the clock is ticking.

Reporter Andy Kroll explains Vought’s rise from a congressional staffer to the man piloting everything from Trump's layoffs and agency closings to his shutdown strategy, controlling the fate of trillions of dollars and millions of federal workers.

Howdy and bonjour! First, thank you so much, merci beaucoup,  for having me at your WordCamp. I love the spirit of local communities gathering and helping each other learn and grow together. I wasn’t planning to speak; I was just going to attend this WordCamp, but since the organizers have given me a bit of … Continue reading WordCamp Canada →

I'm back at WordCamp in a big room waiting for Matt Mullenweg to answer questions for the people here. Yesterday's presentation went really well, lots of smart people really interested, fantastic discussion after. A very nice web culture. I went with three slides to get started, and then talked, demo'd, answered questions, and listened to ideas. Told a few jokes. Got a few laughs. It got the job done, help feed the word of mouth on WordLand.

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Alice, whose blog can be found at thewallflowerdigest.co.uk. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Neil Gorman and ...

TL;DR: I have rebooted my From the Summit newsletter. It’s gonna be all about life outdoors, and there’s gonna be a lot of pretty pictures. If this sounds appealing, go sign up for it. If you were previously a subscriber, you’ll have to sign up again since I deleted the whol...

There are a few writers who I follow religiously, and one is Matt Levine of Bloomberg’s Money Stuff. For business and finance it’s one of the smartest and funniest things you can read. Yesterday, I think for the first time, he mentioned WordPress! In the context of his quote on this great X thread about … Continue reading On Money Stuff →

Some really good thoughts in this post by Paul Frazee about Bluesky’s approach to open protocols and platform bias:

On the one level, we created a neutral protocol to solve the systemic absence of neutrality and choice. On another level, we created a platform to drive an opinionated take on social. They go hand in hand: the killer app of a neutral protocol is an opinionated but interchangeable platform.

I should update my chapter on open gardens to quote this.

I still remember that moment. Do You? ...

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I’m the guest on the latest Software Defined Interviews! We cover so many things on this episode, from journaling to Micro.blog’s philosophy and features. Might be the longest interview I’ve ever done, actually.

Blogging was a different medium - and there's still a need for it more than ever.

I had some great conversations via email over the past couple of weeks with a bunch of different people, discussing all sorts of things that I’ll for sure end up writing about. Today I wanted to briefly touch on the topic of examples, which was part of the lovely conversatio...

This is a wonderfully evocative description of what it was like to go online 30 years ago.

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Here's the link to the slides promised below. I've been going back and forth on slides. I always do this. In the end I hate slides because I digress while going through them and skip ahead, end up wishing I hadn't used them. So I decided to compromise. I'll do the first thr...

When I set about writing this article, I intended it to be a strong argument for progressive rendering. But after digging into it, my feelings are less certain.

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