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I didn’t know about subway surfing. Tragic. From a story in The New Yorker:

We blame the digital platforms, and deride these kids as idiot stuntmen, addicts—even as the savviest adults among us exhibit a similar dependence on platforms to tell them who to be.

I’m traveling but that doesn’t mean I’m not machine knitting! I am so grateful to Cristina Talpa for her make-a-scarf workshop. Amy found it via the Makery and we thought it seemed too good to pass up. And it was! While the workshop is geared for total beginners to machine knitting, Cristina smoothly adjusted to work around things I already knew. She taught me some great new techniques and helped me improve some less-than-optimal techniques I came to the workshop with. Plus, this scarf! I love it! Amy enjoyed posing me on an outing in Berlin today to snap a few photos. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to meet an expert (and experimental!) machine knitter, work on a garment together, and chat about the state of the craft. Thanks so much, Cristina!

Working on video improvements ahead of tomorrow’s launch. One thing I like about the automatic cross-posting is that for videos less than 3 minutes, Micro.blog copies them natively to Bluesky, reassembling from HLS to a single file. You can see this in this Bluesky post.

Lily Allen’s West End Girl feels like a complete album, meant to be listened to in track order. Really good. (Not safe for work!) Queued it up this morning on my walk to find coffee and wi-fi. 🎶

WordLand is one of the few products that works hard to make sure that it has effective competition. My goal is Working Together. That means, here, laying out a welcome mat for WordLand's competitors.

Dan, Sue, and Jessica on Brighton beach.

Check out Ben Thompson of Stratechery (one of the most valuable subscriptions) on The Benefits of Bubbles.

Watched: Little Amélie or the Character of Rain. Glad I was able to see this in the theater today. Beautiful. 🍿

IndieWebCamp Berlin was great! Participants facilitated inspiring sessions, and everyone made something on or for their personal site on our Create Day #Hackathon.Session notes are up from day 1, recordings to follow:* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin/ScheduleDemos notes also up, recording to follow:* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin/DemosWant to keep up with #IndieWebCamp #Berlin participants? Volunteer Daniel has updated the IndieWebCamp Berlin feed:* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin#Feeds_Lists_Starter_Packs_Oh_MyQuestions about sessions or demos? Ask in #IndieWeb chat!* https://chat.indieweb.org/This is post 15 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts← https://tantek.com/2025/304/t1/night-before-indiewebcamp-berlin→ https://tantek.com/2025/311/t2/indieweb-sessions-btconf-berlin

Great #indieweb sessions at #btconf #Berlin!Yesterday, Sacha Judd (@sachajudd.com) reminded us to “teach someone …. something about building for the web”, and to “take back control of your feeds, your attention, and … go exploring again”. She encouraged us to “build healthy o...

Sometimes I forget about the way Micro.blog archives any web page you link to or bookmark, including images and styling. I just checked the database and there are hundreds of thousands of web pages and millions of resources. Slowly turning into a personal, miniature Internet Archive.

I think Sandbar is on to something with their ring. I’ve wanted a faster way to record notes and post drafts for a while. But the Apple Watch should really be able to do this.

Thinking about how much code is written by AI is becoming less interesting to me. We didn’t used to care how much code was written by literal copy and pasting. Although maybe we should have? 🤪

Screen shot of DemoLand a new thing I'm doing that shows a developer how to hook up to WordPress using the same server I'm using for WordLand. If they do that, our products will work on the same data, in Markdown of course. The user will get to use two different editors to work on the text. This is important because in the social network I'm imagining every part is replaceable. It takes work to make that real, but I have done the work. In this network the user will have choice of writing tools. Unlike products like Substack, for example, where you're forced to use their editor.

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.

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. I don't yet have words to d...

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.