People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
I love getting comments like this. The issue I posted about yesterday turns out to be a bug, and apparently it's going to be fixed. So I can go ahead without worrying about a workaround. This is the best outcome. Usually with most vendors if there's a bug, they don't acknowledge, and then they might get around to looking at it someday. This is what I call working together. Scott Hanson found the thread where they were discussing the feature in question, starting in 2011. I added an update from 2025. This stuff feels like time travel, and it's also incredibly reassuring to find that solutions to issues that were relevant 14 years ago are still relevant today. That's the stability that platforms require in order for developers to build with confidence. This is something that many big tech companies (cough Apple cough) either don't understand or don't care about.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
I've never been a great notetaker. Winnie Lim suggests I might be overthinking it: it's not a second brain but a second subconscious mind.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Things quite hard right now. The sea remains a balm. Good things are afoot. And afield? Onward.
“He has a hundred ideas a day. Four of them are good, the other 96 downright dangerous.” — from Darkest Hour, although inspired by something FDR said 🍿
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon, boldly publishes his 2026 tech predictions. While you’re on his blog, take a moment to enjoy his essay, Development gets better with Age. Werner and I first crossed paths almost 20 years ago at tech conferences like GigaOm’s Structure, LeWeb, Future of Web Apps, O’Reilly Etech, and TheNextWeb. Though we … Continue reading Werner Predictions →
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
"Disagree and commit" is disingenuous. This is a better idea.
Got sidetracked looking at photos and satellite imagery of Hudson Yards, before and after the current redevelopment project covered half the tracks. Now I want to go back to New York. 🚂
I've assumed that all WordPress sites hosted on wordpress.com or running JetPack would have data about the site id, and for each item, the post id. It turns out it's not that simple?
A couple of examples:
I have of course asked ChatGPT, and got a lot of wrong answers.
It's important because this data is used to connect blog posts to the editor, for posts you can edit. It's really important that editing is accomplished by at most a single click, when you're viewing it in a reader app.
I should be able to click on an edit icon from the viewer to open it in the editor, assuming it's my post.
It also figures heavily in the discourse feature.
I've created a place on GitHub for comments.
Thinking longer for a better answer. ☕️
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
"We have created a system where the only way to survive is to be destitute enough to qualify for aid, or rich enough to ignore the cost. Everyone in the middle is being cannibalized."
