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One of these days, gonna need to sit down and come up with a more universal way to add sidebars to Micro.blog themes that works everywhere. There’s so much flexibility in Hugo, but every theme can have a completely different structure. Feel like microhooks are the way.

For Brandon Sanderson fans, he read the first two chapters of a new Cosmere novel last week. I finished listening to it last night. The livestream was very long, so here’s a link on YouTube to the reading spot. 📚

Sunday roast

A frequently asked question. How do we make this stuff work with Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, etc. Answer: we don't.

A place to ask questions about all this stuff I keep writing about.

I’ve tried to have a thoughtful approach to AI-based features in Micro.blog, like the opt-out checkbox to disable everything. I’m still open to reevaluating models too. I’ve tried my own servers, but it’s more expensive and would actually use more energy running 24/7 instead of on-demand.

Good morning, Austin. 🏙️

DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH, LANDO NORRIS! WORLD CHAMPION! 🏆

The core idea of the event is to get you up to speed on the most powerful web platform features that you can use right now. I love that because it aligns perfectly with what I’ve been working on over the last couple of years: finding ways to break old habits to get the most out of CSS.

Can’t wait!

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Spot-on observations from Terence linking the fundamental nature of parsing in web browsers with the completely wrong-headed takes of some technologists who have built on top of the web.

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AI has the Jeopardy Phenomenon too. If you use it to generate code that is outside your expertise, you are likely to think it’s all well and good, especially if it seems to work at first pop. But if you’re intimately familiar with the technology or the code around t...

Sometimes when I rewrite a blog post or email multiple times, it becomes hard to tell if it’s actually better, or if it lost whatever spark was in that first quick draft.

Micro.blog iPhone and iPad folks, the latest TestFlight beta has several bug fixes to text editing layout, keyboard, and the share sheet nav bar. Think I’ve finally got some of those glitches under control. If you’re not on the beta, you can join here.

There has been some lovely writing about self-driving this week, first in the New York Times where Jonathan Slotkin makes the medical case for autonomous vehicles. But I was really taken by The Economist’s look at how self-driving cars will transform urban economies. It’s behind a paywall. I enjoyed how they thought about the second-order … Continue reading Self-driving →

People using feedland.org -- may notice that some old items will appear in your timelines. I just installed a version of FeedLand on that server that does a better job of figuring out if a feed item has changed. There will be fewer false positives, which makes the software considerably more efficient, and means that you don't have to see things that didn't change. It should settle down fairly quickly, but it may be a little chatty for a while. Still diggin! (Also these changes will come to feedland.com as well.)

People seem to like Telex which makes developing WordPress user interfaces easier, via AI. Software is gradually adjusting this way, putting the AI where the problem is. For example I wanted to do a Google Form a few months ago and the best Gemini could do was tell me what commands to choose. But now if you go to make a form, using the Forms app, it offers to do it via AI.

If we really want tech to get back to basics we need pubs that function as product reviewers, like we have entertainment reviewers. There's so much software and so many isolated bubbles of developers, when there's a development that shakes the world less than ChatGPT, I might...

It’s Saturday morning, and I’m sitting here at my desk, working on client projects and sipping my coffee. While taking a break, I was clicking around the web, as one does, and found a post titled “Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?” by Ploum ...

James LePage has a great write-up, SOTW 2025:The Year WordPress Became AI-Native.

November 28 through December 5, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Eastern Wednesday, December 3 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom! Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, December 3 at 7:00pm IndieWeb Black Friday Create Day —...