People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
It’s a bit of Automattic lore, but although I founded the company in June 2005, CNET asked me to stay on for a few more months to finish out some projects, which I did. Our HR systems have me as the second employee, after Donncha O Caoimh (still at the company!) So today is my … Continue reading Automattic 20 & Counter-claims →
Great to see Les Orchard reading my site again. We did some great stuff together a long time ago in Frontier. He converted code from Perl (I think) to Frontier so I could use S3 for storage for users. I still use his code to this day. He's been writing of his memories of great feed reading tools of 20+ years ago, and I keep trying to tell my friend Les that the system we have now makes those products look primitive, as it should because so many years have passed. In 2022, I decided to give RSS another try. First I did a top to bottom review of RSS, and then I built FeedLand. If you loved feeds and mourn the day the music died, I have good news, it didn't die, you all just stopped believing it could happen.
I tried Atlas again to go find something for me on the web, and it worked, but the UI doesn’t feel right to me. Dia is lighter, more streamlined. I think Atlas tries to do a lot and doesn’t quite have a vision for how all the pieces should fit together. It’s 1.0, though.
Automattic has filed counterclaims against WP Engine. I’ve read the first few pages of the PDF and I find it compelling, although I am biased to support Matt Mullenweg for everything he’s done for the open web. It’s just hard (but not impossible!) to earn back trust after you’ve lost the narrative.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Saturday morning tunes and tea
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
I don’t get sick very often, but when it catches up to me it hits like a freight train. Just trying to keep all the plates spinning while operating at 10% capacity, been sleeping a ton. Today was in some ways better, some ways worse than yesterday. I try to avoid hospitals and emergency care, … Continue reading Under the Weather →
Also after last week's conference we're starting to get help from the open source developer community around WordPress. Really friendly people, excited about what we can all do together.
I'm really happy with the way WordPress News is shaping up. Every community should have a news site like this.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
danielpietzsch.com/articles/feedcity-now-supports-relmeauth-web-sign-in
Great Spurs win last night in the season opener. I went to bed in the 3rd quarter and caught up on the rest of the game this morning. In other NBA news, craziness with Chauncey Billups arrested for a poker operation tied to the Mafia. 🏀
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
WooCommerce 10.3 is out, just in time for Black Friday / Cyber Monday, with some nice improvements to the checkout experience, tracking cost of goods sold, and a new beta MCP server, “This new feature enables AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or any other MCP-compatible client to interact directly with WooCommerce stores through … Continue reading New Woo →
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
