People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
It’s wild what you can do with CSS these days!
Coco in the sun.
Reading Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield.
Under the guise of technological inevitability, companies are using the AI boom to rewrite the social contract — laying off employees, rehiring them at lower wages, intensifying workloads, and normalizing precarity. In short, these are political choices masquerading as technical necessities, AI is not the cause of the layoffs but their justification.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
The Atlantic November issue is lovely, focused on the American Revolution. I particularly enjoyed: So pick up a copy as you pass through an airport or by a newstand. I consider it a very worthwhile subscription. It might be better to read in print or through Apple News+ as their website a bit broken for … Continue reading November Atlantic →
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
A surfer said to me on Friday: “Finally!” I asked… “Finally?” “Winter’s Here” he said. Big waves, closeouts. Fun.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
It was big. Surfers could not get out. Waves too big and crashy. Windy. Not appealing to surfers because there’s no wave lip to ride, the waves just crash over into whitewater. I saw another bodysurfer out. I love being out in big chaotic surf. Keeps me on my toes.
Watching the Longhorns game with family today was a nice distraction from everything else going on for me right now. Great comeback win. Hopefully Arch Manning is okay. 🏈
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
