I need to have my posts from scripting.com flow through the Daveverse site, because the WordPress view of my writing is becoming more important. Not surprising, I've been reaching out to that world for a while now, and there have been real responses. I find myself copy/pasting again, and I have to start viewing every one of those as a bug to fix.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Of what use are users?
Google tries to speak for me. Here's what it does. Reading a friend's email, I click the Reply button, and withouth me asking, it writes a reply for me. Thus, if I want to speak for myself first I have to delete the message it created in my name.
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I’ve seen the new Mac ad on TV several times now and really like it. There’s obviously something special about it. Didn’t realize at first that it was voiced by Jane Goodall.
Watched: Pluribus S1E1, We Is Us. Not sure what to think of this yet. Rhea Seehorn is good, but want to watch a little more to see where the story is going. 📺
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Kaycee Nicole
Mimi Lamarre at Switchboard Magazine has a delightful long read in The Curious Case of Kaycee Nicole, where, in the early days of online communities and blogging, a fake person claimed to have leukemia. The blogging community was relatively small back then, and I recall some of this happening contemporarily.
This Week in the IndieWeb
October 31 through November 7, 2025
Recent Events
From events.indieweb.org/archive:
Homebrew Website Club - Eastern
Wednesday, November 5 at 6:00pm
Online! Zoom!
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London (Bonfire Night edition 🎆)
Wednesday, November 5 at 7:00pm
Homebrew...
Not sure if this is fair or not, but I think of Bird Bird Biscuit as a hipster version of Chick-fil-a. And to be clear I love both.
If you are on the TestFlight beta for Micro.blog iOS, you will have seen our experiments to enable Liquid Glass. I’m admitting defeat today, going to opt out of the new UI for the next version. There are too many little glitches.
OpenAI continues to shoot for the moon. Based on a tweet by Sam Altman, they seem fairly clear-eyed about it. It’s a gamble that AI will be needed everywhere. OpenAI will either succeed or fail spectacularly.
I would bet on OpenAI long before the likes of Perplexity and startups riding only hype.
The kind of email I like to get. From Manton: "Just wanted to let you know that I added source:markdown to all Micro.blog-hosted RSS feeds by default this week. You can see it in my feed." That's one nice lookin RSS feed. He added: "NetNewsWire support was the last nudge I needed to add this." The Power of Brent. It's good to stay on Brent's good side. ;-)
Scott McNulty blogging about the new Star Trek LEGO set:
$400 is a lot of money for some pieces of plastic, but how can you put a price on happiness?
The minifigures look great. Wish I could just buy a few of them without the full set. We have no space for more LEGOs.
Trying something new! A short video to start my morning. Coffee at Cosmic. ☕️
Enjoyed this video with Matt Mullenweg and John Borthwick. I thought I was familiar with Betaworks, but I had never actually heard John speak. Some interesting thoughts here about the future.
Warum Webseiten einfacher sind, als du denkst
The previous post appeared on my daveverse blog which is something I'm especially proud of because it's the result of a fantastic collaboration between my codebase and Matt's codebase. Could not have happened without the wpcom api. That single bit of software imho is going to spark a rebirth of web applications and with that, the blogosphere. That is, if I have my way. Now one thing I still have to fix is the problem of posts appearing in more than one place without copy/paste. Have not conquered that yet.
Stephanie Booth asks about yesterday's post about dynamic OPML in Pocket Casts. I responded with a few comments, and a promise to write a post to show how this works in FeedLand, which already has the feature, but unfortunately is not a podcast client.
AI changed the basic capabilities of computers. Some technologies will do fine in the new world, like SQL databases. But the stuff we do — that's going to change radically. Will anything be left? No one knows, imho. Best thing we can do is keep going on the path we were on, and look for ways to involve AI tech in a way that will bring the power of AI to writers.
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Your URL Is Your State
How often do we, as frontend engineers, overlook the URL as a state management tool? We reach for all sorts of abstractions to manage state such as global stores, contexts, and caches while ignoring one of the web’s most elegant and oldest features: the humble URL.