FeedCity: IndieWeb

I had a fantastic meeting today with Jonathan Desrosiers. I gave him a tour of all the software that makes up WordLand and FeedLand. It was the first time I had done that with anyone from the WordPress community. It started off with a simple story about how I knew I was on the right track when Matt announced they were porting Tumblr to run on top of WordPress as an OS. Which is exactly what I'm doing with my collection of software. Every bit of writing should be a WordPress post, and they should be linked together in arbitrary graphs. It was nice to do that with a serious developer, Jonathan is one of the lead developers of the open source WordPress. It helped me see all the different things we can do, and now hope we will do. I feel I understand this community, as a time-traveler from the past I think I understand what we should do next (and I have done it heh).

Manton Reece
13 Jan 22:54

When I switched to the iPhone Pro Max, I gave up my iPad Mini, thinking the larger iPhone is good enough most of the time, and I’ve got the Kindle for reading. With AI-assisted coding, maybe the iPad has a new role… Jotting down ideas or firing off coding tasks to run from anywhere without a Mac.

Ben Werdmuller
22:21 • Ben Werdmuller

The Zurich protocol

They came for the newsroom. It was ready.

Manton Reece
13 Jan 18:33

Meandering feature commits

Most features I work on are fairly small. I like to roll out improvements all the time, whenever they’re ready, rather than hold features for a big release. And I get nervous if there are Git branches sitting there, drifting away from the production code. Sometimes there rea...

Adactio
18:00

There should be a German word for the slightly smug warm feeling you get from using an obscure HTML element like `dfn` in your most recent blog post, like wot I did. Elementenrichtigkeitsgefühl

There should be a German word for the slightly smug warm feeling you get from using an obscure HTML element like dfn in your most recent blog post, like wot I did.

Elementenrichtigkeitsgefühl

Manton Reece
16:39

Another Micro.blog tool from @timapple, this one is for blogging from the command line. The year of micro apps.

Manton Reece
15:45

Pretty significant bundle of apps in Apple Creator Studio. I’ve been using an old license of Final Cut Pro to edit my short videos recently, even though it’s overkill. Probably will keep doing that for now, don’t really need a new subscription.

Adactio
15:03

RAMO

Stop me if this sounds familiar to you… There’s a conference you heard about it. It sounded really good but you never got ’round to getting a ticket. You were too busy thinking about work stuff. It was just one of those things that remained in the idle thought stage. Then ...

Ben Werdmuller
13:33 • Ben Werdmuller

Bari Weiss Is The Symptom

"The truth is that prestige journalism is lousy with Bari Weisses, up and down the line. Ask any journalist trying to cover the genocide in Gaza or the social death of gender nonconformists."

Adactio
12:51

The best film I saw in the cinema in 2025 was definitely…

Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
11:36 • Manuel Moreale

How You Read My Content

A week ago, after chatting with Kev about his own findings, I created a similar survey (which is still open if you want to answer it) to collect a second set of data because why the heck not. Kev’s data showed that 84.5% of responses picked RSS, Fediverse was second at 7.6%,...

Matt Mullenweg
07:48 • Matt

Shorter Speech

One of the great WordPress blogs is Quote Investigator. In their investigation into the original source of “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter,” I came across this great variation from Woodrow Wilson on the amount of time he spent preparing speeches. “That depends on the length of the speech,” … Continue reading Shorter Speech →

Chris Aldrich
06:17 • Chris Aldrich

Because I often buy index cards in tranches of 5,000 to 10,000 at a time, I’ve noticed that Oxford recently dropped their brick of 500 4×6″ index cards to $6.47, a new low for the past year when they’ve generally been hovering in the $8.50-9.50 range. As a competitive move, Amazon has dropped their competing brick … Continue reading

ArtLung
06:03 • Joe Crawford

At least the sunset was nice.

Ben Werdmuller
02:24 • Ben Werdmuller

How to know if that job will crush your soul

"But these questions are framed in this way to encourage us all to aspire towards roles that enable us to do our best work, to have the biggest impact, and to live according to our values."

Chris Aldrich
00:03 • Chris Aldrich

Golden Globes: Nominees for Best Typewriter in a Movie or Television Series?

Thing, a disembodied hand, types on a black portable Juwel 3 typewriter.

As I’m watching the Golden Globes, it’s painfully obvious that it is missing some important analog representation. In an effort to remedy the error, shall we collect the nominations for Best Typewriter in a Movie or Television Series? (The only requirement for nomination is that the movie or television show was released in the 2025 … Continue reading Golden Globes: Nominees for Best Typewriter in a Movie or Television Series?

Paul Robert Lloyd
12 Jan 23:30

♫ Change by Tears for Fears

I wasn’t blown away by Marty Supreme, but it has given me a new found appreciation of Tears for Fears.

Manton Reece
12 Jan 21:30

Southwest is still my preferred airline but the new changes do hurt the experience. Paying for checked bags encourages people to stuff more bags overhead where they don’t fit. Paying for assigned seats ruins the checkout flow with upsells.

Manton Reece
12 Jan 21:30

OpenAI acquires health startup Torch:

We started Torch to build a medical memory for AI, unifying scattered records into a context engine that helps you see the full picture, connect the dots, and make sure nothing important gets lost in the noise again.

This is pretty much exactly what I was blogging about last week.

Manton Reece
12 Jan 20:45

Anthropic has bundled Claude Code features into a more user-friendly interface called Cowork. Looks good. Requires a Max subscription (💰) for now so I can’t try it.

Pretty good name, though not as good as Copilot and Codex. Still, I like where Anthropic is going with this.