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Careless blunder while deploying a security improvement today, which caused posts created from the native apps to go into an outdated saved articles list for a short time. To minimize the fallout, I’ve restored them to drafts in your Posts list. You can post again or use the draft. Very sorry.

In 2030, my greatest hope for the indie web is that it is a place where people feel free to create, to experiment, and to always be able to ask – and act on the answers to – the question “what do I want this place to be?” To enable this, the indie web must be open both techn...

2019 on Facebook: People are too judgmental, which is a shame because in the end, which is coming soon enough for all of us, your opinion of other people doesn’t matter. Sorry if I’m telling you something you don’t already know. On the other hand, we can't help but be judgm...

When I was a kid we went to a bungalow colony in upstate NY, around where I live now. I was less than 10 years old, so were my friends. We used to do things together that the adults didn't know about. There was an abandoned house we used to hang out in, mostly open to the elements. We also played in a graveyard and talked about what the families whose names were on the headstones were doing. Having dinner maybe? Listening to the Mets on the radio? (No TV in the mountains.) So the thought had occurred to us at that point in life that behind doors there were things happening that we could only imagine. I guess what you learn later is that your imagination is almost certainly wrong.

I know where I was when I really understood this, not because I read it somewhere, or a teach told me about it. I was riding on the 4 train north in the Bronx, where the train runs as an elevated on Jerome Ave. I had ridden this train for three years as a high school student, and never thought about all the six story apartment buildings whose backs faced the train. As you went by, you passed by one family for every two or three windows. A whole set of people with relationships, problems, tragedy, joy, dreams, the whole thing. They don't come from where you come from, inside each house there's a story. You'll never know anything about any of them. I wasn't sad about this.

On the other hand, we can't help but be judgmental. It's programmed into our DNA at a very deep level. You have to form an instant opinion of other animals, any delay could cost your life. Better to assume the worst. Fight or flight. This happens esp if you don't know you're doing it, so don't know to watch out for it. It isn't until their 40s that most people understand that what they see isn't what everyone else sees. You may think you understand, but you don't. There's a moment when you realize hey I don't know everything.

People are too judgmental, which is a shame because in the end, which is coming soon enough for all of us, your opinion of other people doesn’t matter. Sorry if I’m telling you something you don’t already know.

The mission patch for the CHIS (child health information services) discovery features Mavis howling to notify all nearby polar bears about an unvaccinated cub. She does so by standing atop a block of nearby cheese (sounds like chis).

The mission patch for the release supporting seasonal flu vaccinations features Mavis and her 2 cubs getting their boosters; one with a doughnut, another with a diamond.

Waking up in an airport hotel room with a runway view.

"The Knight Foundation has edited its “About” page to remove its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) section."

"Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider."

Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, is relatively computationally intensive in that every hour, Artemis checks web feeds to which users are subscribed to see if there are new posts to save and show in a user’s feed. I have made several optimisations to make this process...

I was listening to a recent Vergecast episode the other day, and in there, there was a whole segment about MCP servers and AI-powered shopping. I’ll be honest, I’ve never been more confused about something tech-related. The more I read and listen about this whole topic, the ...

December 12-19, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Düsseldorf/Germany Thursday, December 18 at 6:00pm DÜSSELDORF, Nordrhein-Westfalen: Xafé im KAP1 Bibliothekscafé Homebrew Website Club (HWC) Düsseldorf is an in-person meeting for ...

When we complain about the App Store, it’s not just the fees. It’s the lack of control and fragmented billing. With our Micro.one $1 plan — cheap! — I’m actually paying more to Stripe (33 cents) because credit cards aren’t good for small transactions. But having everything in one place is worth it.

I’m tempted to just get all my political news from Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue. But I do watch CNN every morning during breakfast. I don’t expect to break this habit until at least after the midterms, if ever. And politics is pervasive, everywhere. 🇺🇸

The New Yorker has put their 100-year archive online in a really nice way. I’ve poked around on a few old issues.

Over the last year I’ve scaled back my news reading… Cancelled the NYT, Washington Post, Atlantic, everything. I read blogs, tech news, and for long-form The New Yorker. And novels.