Today was a good day, I think, for knitting together.
Today was a good day, I think, for knitting together.
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This Week in the IndieWeb
January 2-9, 2026
Recent Events
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Homebrew Website Club - Pacific
Wednesday, January 7 at 6:00pm
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London
Wednesday, January 7 at 7:00pm
Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia
Sunday, January 4 at 6:00pm
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I made a no‑build CMS for Neocities
crowdersoup.com/blog/post/i-made-a-no-build-cms-for-neocities/
Maman coffee. ☕️
In New York City for a few days with family. Amazing time. Got to see Maybe Happy Ending last night which I loved.
Trump is president the same way people who do vibe coding are developers. I always thought he'd be much happier playing president on TV instead of actually being president. And people would think about this stuff more rationally if it were a TV show like Pluribus or Severance. Why did really do what they did? Or the way we talk about the Mets or the Knicks and their various trades. It's funny people have a clarity about fictional stuff that they don't have for real-world things like war and gestapo tactics.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Waveride
This morning, at Ocean Beach My wave-riding is improving. I try to ride the leading edge of breaking waves. Most waves break so fast there’s little leading edge to ride. It feels good that I am made to feel welcome in the water by “surfers.” You will likely know what I mean by the term...
A little fix that would make social web a lot more useful and less hate-filled and abusive... Make replies visible only to the person being replied to. If they feel the reply should be public, they can RT it.
I get ideas when I go for a walk or drive somewhere in my car. This was one of those times, and it was not a comforting idea. I live in the mountains on the west side of the Hudson River near Kingston. On my drive to town yesterday I went through the small town of Woodstock,...
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Bix Frankonis
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Bix Frankonis, whose blog can be found at bix.blog.
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Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Small Hit
The NY Times has a profile of John Ternus as a possible successor to Tim Cook that has a number of ridiculous lines; it’s quite bad, but this is one of my favorites: Apple has had many small hits under Mr. Cook and continues to be one of the most profitable companies in the world. … Continue reading Small Hit →
New Approach on Sending Webmentions
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
On Purchasing Typewriters: Condition is King; Context is Queen
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Publishing my citation preferences
Building an IndieAuth Comment System for Your Static Site
brennan.day/building-an-indieauth-comment-system-for-your-static-site/
dead framework theory | AI Focus
This is depressing.
It’s hard to believe, but Bridgy is 14 years old today. I launched the...
It’s hard to believe, but Bridgy is 14 years old today. I launched the first version of it way back in 2012. Happy birthday, little project buddy! 🎂🎈🎉
Was the ICE murder pre-calculated?
When there's breaking news these days I check Fox News in addition to CNN, MSNOW, BBC, PBS. The best are the last two. But last night night when everyone was fixated on the story of Renee Nicole Good, the woman who was killed in cold blood, on video, by a masked ICE thug, I ...
The Main Thread Is Not Yours — Den Odell
Every millisecond you spend executing JavaScript is a millisecond the browser can’t spend responding to a click, updating a scroll position, or acknowledging that the user did just try to type something. When your code runs long, you’re not causing “jank” in some abstract technical sense; you’re ignoring someone who’s trying to talk to you.
This is a great way to think about client-side JavaScript!
Also:
Before your application code runs a single line, your framework has already spent some of the user’s main thread budget on initialization, hydration, and virtual DOM reconciliation.