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Tim Bray did an analysis of how the Sarah Kendzior suspension on Bluesky would have played out in the Mastodon world. The thing I keep thinking of is this -- why not reconceive the whole discourse system on the social web to factor out moderation. Something a lot less contentious. That's what I hope to be using soon. That's, finally, what I am working on now.

This is one of those days I am pretty sure I have nothing to write about but as I get going I'll remember stuff to write about.

angry skies, glassy conditions the view from the water and this is me I went to Ocean Beach Today. A storm, and rain, coming to San Diego. I am more adept at riding a breaking wave with my body than ever. The waves were good today. And I had fun. I feel sad there will...

November 7-14, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #040 Thursday, November 13 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 ...

Nikita Prokopov blogs about the neediness of apps. I can especially relate to the notifications part:

Notifications are like email: to-do items that are forced on you by another party. Hey, it’s not my job to dismiss your notifications!

Now I have the other half of the bridge working. This post is full of the testing I did on this, and yes it all worked. I'm going to post something new and see if it makes it through to the other side. And you get to see if it works or not. And now I'm going to make a change. Having made the change I want to see if it made it through. It's kind of remarkable to me that I got this much done in one day. That's what happens when you invested in good tools. And this is where the changes have been visible, on a scratch site used just for these occasions. Tomorrow, the third day of this project, I clean up the loose ends and then we should be good to go with the posts I make on scripting showing up in daveverse. Then I can get started with the next project that depends on this.

I absolutely love Pluribus, but it has the hardest freaking name to remember. I love stories like this, with new assumptions about what is, and people coping with what may or may not be great, or boring, or who knows what. I know they've got me thinking about it all the time, and that is what I like in a good televised story.

Closing out #ffconf with Erika’s chickens.

I still can’t wrap my head around the Apple developer news about so-called mini apps. Is this to capture 15% from web apps instead of the 0% Apple currently gets? Or is this an actual discount that will encourage more developers to turn native apps into mini apps?

It's kind of weird for me to be hanging out around WordPress, but I like it. They've been very welcoming. It's kind of like I imagine it would be for Ward Cunningham to be working with Wikipedia. It may not have been everything he wanted from wiki's but it might be the best ...

Reviewing EU servers. Can’t believe it has been over half a year since we set those up. Adding a new server today. 🇪🇺

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Nic Chan, whose blog can be found at nicchan.me. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Robert Birming and the other...

Always nice to get emails from people sharing their thoughts on this topic. Looks like I’m not the only one feeling this way, and a few weeks back Jeremy wrote a post touching a very similar topic. It also made me smile seeing him mention Henry David Thoreau in his post beca...

Kicking off #ffconf!

In case you missed it, Kanye has started apologizing for the event he went through. I didn’t comment on it publicly when it happened because it seemed so strange to me that such a beautiful soul, who had created so much life-changing music with so much love, could express such hate. I’ve had close friends … Continue reading Kanye’s Back →

From earlier today, McKenna Park in Denton. 🌳

Some pre-dinner testing. That was correctly recognized as a new item.

All I’ve ever wanted from life is a genuinely great SVG vector illustration of a pelican riding a bicycle.

— Simon Willison, What happens if AI labs train for pelicans riding bicycles?

Technology isn’t destiny, no matter how inexorable its evolution may seem; the way its capabilities are used is as much a matter of cultural choice and historical accident as politics is, or fashion.

— M. Mitchell Waldrop