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Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they’ve been over-hyped, the fact they’re being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value.

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This morning started as many this year have done: should I get up and explore, or stay in bed for one more hour. The warmth of bed, especially as the days get cooler, is comforting. But I know how great I feel when I get up on time and start the day. I am trying my best to ge...

Reading A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers.

Going to Cork (for real this time, I hope). brb

Long day. This was breakfast, feels like forever ago. Funny book at Phoebe’s Diner. 🥞

In the late 1960s, a young musician was recording the sounds he played on his synthesizer onto his Revox tape recorders, when he suddenly discovered: if you connect the two tape recorders together, so that the playback head is separated by several feet from the record head, ...

October 10-17, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, October 15 at 7:00pm Front End Study Hall #038 Tuesday, October 14 at 10:00am Online! Zoom! Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, h...

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.