People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
"The format credited with making books more accessible via low prices and widespread availability will all but vanish from the publishing scene in a few weeks." With it comes a generational loss.
Walking
Tesla robotaxis in Austin no longer need safety drivers. Worrisome. Elon Musk’s insistence that self-driving does not need radar or lidar is just needlessly dangerous. Waymos drive better than human drivers in part because they can see better.
Six years ago I blogged about my favorite Christmas movies. No changes needed yet. 🎄
Too many guns. I don’t have a lot of words beyond what has already been said for years. Sad for the victims and families from Brown University and Bondi Beach. We should watch what Australia does next and learn from it.
For the first day of the winter photo challenge, no actual frost anywhere near me, although it is nearly freezing in Austin, so I’m going with Frosty.
A Lady in Grey
IndieWeb Book Club: Understanding Comics
Words and making coffee
IndieWeb Book Club: Non-Designer’s Design Book
Music this year
Cleaning the Artemis database
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Nex Playground
The Wall Street Journal has a fun article about the Nex Playground, The Hottest Toy of the Year Is Made by a Tech Startup You’ve Never Heard Of. I think this is the first time one of Audrey Capital’s companies (we invested when it was the Homecourt app) is the hot Christmas item. Here’s it … Continue reading Nex Playground →
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Happy Chanukah from the IndieWeb Camp San Diego 2025, which I’ve been a co-organizer of for 3 years now. It was a great weekend of camaraderie, code, and ideas.
Announcing the IndieWeb Hackathon
LIFE HAPPENS (an incredible talk on open source maintaining)
Watched: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Another great one. 🍿
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
LIFE HAPPENS (an incredible talk on open source maintaining
For the last year I’ve been pointing people to click through to a talk by Juliette Reinders Folmer called “Resurrecting the Dead.” It was via this Mastodon Post from @lauchgott. The talk is online, and starts at 3:59:23, on YouTube, at the Neos Conference 2025. I’ve listened to it a few times and what’s wonderful...
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