People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Not going to come close to hitting my reading goal this year. This year has been too much. Hoping to finish one or two more books before the end of the year, though… With the holidays approaching, great time to disconnect with a book.
When I was trying to simplify the Design page in Micro.blog earlier this year, I think I went too far, burying the CSS functionality inside of custom themes. I’ve reversed course today and elevated the button to a new section.
The real reason the Dems lost in 2024 is they ran the most inept campaign in history. You could argue about who was to blame, but that is, net-net what happened. They were so bad they made Trump look better! And that is hard to do. :-)
Watched the first half of Spurs/Lakers NBA cup game last night, too tired to stay up for the whole thing. West coast games always get me now. Caught up on the final quarter this morning. Spurs have such a complete team. Bench was great. 🏀
Usually when I think of something new to work on, I add a note in Micro.blog notes. Lately I’ve been trying something new: I’ll type the idea into Codex (cloud) and ask it to plan the basics, but to not write code yet. Then I can come back later to work on it and have some tips to keep in mind.
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Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Tumblr has a fun 2025 in review, and if you’re a Pocket Casts user open the app to see all your stats for your listening this year.
From a Bloomberg story about Tim Cook in Washington:
…Cook urged lawmakers not to require app store operators to check documentation of users’ ages and instead rely on parents to provide the age of their child when creating a child’s account…
While requiring Apple to check ages seems like an overreach, it’s better than requiring every app and website to do the same. I’ve lost faith in Tim’s leadership of the App Store, going back a few years to when he suggested in court that developers would have to pay Apple for sales outside the store, and continuing through his meetings with Trump.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
The paramedic thinks I’m clever ’cause I play guitar– I think she’s clever ’cause she stops people dying One of my favorite songs. That’s Avant Gardener by Courtney Barnett, which is on my mixtape 2021 faux pho foe. I first heard on Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (1976). Anaphylactictin’ and super hypochondriac– Should’ve stayed in...
I added a help page with an intro to using Pagefind in Micro.blog. Leon Mika also has a good post about it.
Andreas Deja has been sharing some drawings from the cancelled Disney feature My Peoples. Beautiful work. I would’ve loved to see this get made. There is more artwork over on this Disney wiki.
Submitted an iOS update to Apple for Micro.blog, hopefully will be approved in the next day. I think this is the best version of our app yet. Lots of little tweaks. Android will be submitted this week too.
Feed discovery 23 years later. "You can see how these things got ratified in the early 00s -- in the most web way imaginable, by individual users seeing the benefit, adding it to their sites, and quickly the entire feed world got an upgrade."
Sultans!
Every time I go to the supermarket I'm reminded of how scary the times are. People want to just live their lives, never has that been more understandable, but food prices are a constant reminder for everyone there's good reason to be scared. And if you want to really feel it, imagine what happens if we somehow let Trump flood the economy with dollars. Talk about a recipe for disruption, this time, of our lives, not just some kind of PC or network or game software.
