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📍 Checked in at Mozilla Berlin, Berlin, Berlin.

This week, the Automattic Creed received its first-ever update, which I’ll describe as a minor point upgrade. This is the sentence before and after. I am in a marathon, not a sprint, and no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is by putting one foot in front of … Continue reading Creed Update →

Samhain or All Hallows Eve when the boundary between the living and the dead has been blurred seems the best time to pull out the Remington 666 with the blood red ribbon and brew up a similarly colored Boulevardier cocktail to write about our wishes for the coming new year. Sláinte! How are you celebrating?

I wrote a bit about Philippe Kahn the other day, and just remembered -- I forgot to write about Turbo Pascal. I had been using program compilers for C and Pascal for almost a decade when it came out, and it was shockingly different in a good way. Somehow it could compile a wh...

October blog posts in OPML. BTW, well-kept secret, I have a Node app that takes one of these outlines and publishes it to the web, in the format you see on Scripting News. If you can get your text to flow through OPML this way, you can have a replica of this site, with most ...

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→ 🔮