People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Beyond aggregated and summarized stats, in 2025 I met a few amazing people (you know who you are), and started a few projects. Most of these projects started with an idea, or recognizing a problem, that inspired invention.Sometimes the ideas came from observations, shared, q...
ChatGPT Health
I expect a lot of people to be bothered by ChatGPT Health. Of course you shouldn’t use AI as a replacement for a human doctor. And what about privacy?
AI for health questions has actually gotten really good in the last year. It’s better at explaining lab results. It’s better...
v0.8.6 released
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
A clever affordance of card index filing cabinet drawers
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Beeper & Day One
Pankil Shah writes I replaced WhatsApp, Telegram, and Messenger with this one app. (It’s Beeper.) And Wirecutter picks the 3 best journaling apps of 2026. (It’s Day One.)
Sessioning
Sessioning
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
Another incredible use-case for ChatGPT. When it first came out Font Awesome was a total godsend. It took something every developer of graphic apps had to struggle with, and said basically "I can do that." They had a growing set of standard icons. It got better and better wi...
Sending Webmentions with a Simple Shell Script
reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2026/01/sending-webmentions-with-a-simple-shell-script/
Remember when OG metadata was new? That was a long time ago. It's one of those things that's widely forgotten, but still widely in use.
The way twitter-like services deal with OG metadata could use a re-think.
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons @ tonsky.me
I’m avoiding Mac OS Tahoe because of the disgraceful liquid glass debacle, but it looks like the rot goes even deeper. Here’s a detailed look at the sad state of iconography in application menus.
I know that changes in an OS update can take time to get used to, but this isn’t a case of “one step forwards, two steps back”—it’s just a lot of steps back with no forwards.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
47 lessons
Things I've learned.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
The world continues to be a mess. Bad leaders in America doing bad and illegal things. Beach is a respite.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Find My Update
The best part about blogging is the comments, and after I posted “I wish that when you use Find My to find your iPhone, it would also flash the flashlight, which would be great for finding it in a bag or a dark room.” Michael Wender and David Artiss jumped in that it’s already there! … Continue reading Find My Update →
Final draft of Indie Microblogging
It has been an unbelievable nine years since I launched the Kickstarter for Micro.blog. Even after I finally published the book online, a few things still nagged at me about the structure and text. I had hoped in the last couple of years to address them.
Actually running Mic...
Problem with ChatGPT is that it thinks you always want to know everything about all the options, no matter how convoluted they are, based on incorrect assumptions about what you're doing. You ask a simple question with a simple answer and they write you a four page briefing on everything. At least they do seem to give you the correct answer up front. They ought to work on making these things manageable, and btw for these reasons I believe they must write the most shitty code when they're left to write the whole thing. If they have a different better mode, please let me talk to that one! :-)
Tuesday session
Tuesday session
I mentioned this on our bonus episode of Core Intuition last month, but I don’t think I’ve blogged about it… Sometimes AI will come up with something and I’ll think, “Damn, that is better than what I would have written myself.” Annoying! My only fix is to edit nearly everything to make it my own.