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The unique thing about neighbors is you can try to divorce them, but no matter what you do they will still be neighbors. There are few relationships as permanent as neighbor. They don't have to listen to you. But you should listen anyway, and try to figure out how they look at the neighborhood. Probably very differently from the way you view it.

Wonder if you noticed that the main difference between social media and chat is which way the new messages flow and where the tiny little text box is, at the top or the bottom.

📍 Checked in at Mozilla Berlin, Berlin, Berlin.

📍 Checked in at Il Pizzaiolo, Berlin, Berlin.

📍 Checked in at 19grams, Berlin, Berlin.

📍 Checked in at Mozilla Berlin, Berlin, Berlin.

Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and it’s a plugin I’d encourage you to install. As the plugin says: When a linked page disappears, the plugin helps preserve your user experience by redirecting visitors to a reliable archived version. It also works proactively by archiving … Continue reading Wayback Machine Joint →

A response, at the last minute, to IndieWeb Carnival: On Ego The first time I really remember my ego screwing me was when in high school. My response to Colors in August 2025 included that story. A teenager who was told for years he was good at drawing was confronted by a criticism. That teen–me–shut...

Zachary Kai restarted the IndieWeb Book Club in October 2025. The book in question was The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. I am in strong alignment with the ideas in this book. Creativity is the birthright of absolutely every human being. It is not the exclusive tool of Beyoncé and grade-schoolers and Itzhak Perlman. I...

October 24-31, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #039 Thursday, October 30 at 10:00am Online! Zoom! Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks of t...

Simon Willison blogs about doing research that leads into a new blog post:

…I poked around to answer my own questions and then wrote up what I learned as a short post. Curiosity-driven blogging if you like.

Great responses to my little survey about Micro.blog features. Thanks everyone! Really helpful. I’ll keep it open for another week.

October is almost over! For all us procrastinators, still time to write a post or two to participate in #October blogging challenges like:#Blogtober#IndieWebMovieClub on #Hackers#Inktober#Mathober#WeirdWebOctober+ coding challenges:#Hacktoberfest — https://blog.holopin.io/posts/hacktoberfest-2025Many more at:* https://indieweb.org/October* https://indieweb.org/blog_carnival🎃 And tomorrow is #Halloween so consider a holiday theme for your site as well! See #IndieWeb examples for inspiration:* https://indieweb.org/HalloweenLast but not least, perhaps we’ll see some of you at #IndieWebCamp Berlin this weekend!* https://indieweb.org/2025/BerlinThis is post 13 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts← https://tantek.com/2025/182/t1/movie-club-tomorrowland-submissions→ 🔮

Until today I had never tried the “best of N” feature in AI tools like Codex, where it generates multiple versions of the same feature. Fascinating shift in development. You would never ask a human assistant to code the same thing twice and pick the best one.

Good morning everyone. We're getting feedland.com back in shape. About a week ago we sorted out a long-standing performance issue. Once that was fixed, another problem cropped up, we weren't able to sign off and back on. We got that one too, this morning, and now it looks like feedland.com is finally performing well across the board. It's always been pretty stable, just churning away on feeds, reading lists, and pumping news over websockets, and all the other 3.0 type feed stuff. It feels like it's time to depend on it, even so we'll be careful, praise Murphy. The cool thing about feedland.com compared to all the other servers I've run stuff on over the years is that it scales automatically. It's on the VIP network run by Automattic.

Why organizations must evaluate values, not just features

Everywhere we look — people walking on the sidewalk, people stuck in traffic, people shopping at the grocery store. Everyone is going through something, worried about something, seeing joy in something, feeling heartbreak from something. Remembering this can help ground us in discussions online too.

This morning, I ended up on chsmc.org’s “Applying Pixar’s rules of storytelling to writing” post. At the bottom, he quotes: No work is ever wasted. If it’s not working, let go and move on – it’ll come back around to be useful later. I knew I had to come back to this point. No...

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Frank Chimero, whose blog can be found at frankchimero.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Jeremy Bassetti a...