People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Listening to the Open AI podcast, of course it’s marketing, but something that Vinod Khosla said struck me. Essentially the AI bubble is in the stock market, not in real use. Some companies will fail, but usage is not going to go down, just as the internet kept growing through the dot-com bubble.
I usually give AI little coding tasks. Go off and fix this one thing, make this small tweak, add this one feature that I will review. Today I had it help with something bigger. I iterated on the plan, then it worked for 30 minutes. Pretty incredible.
Happy to say the Knicks won last night in convincing 2026 mode after I doubted them in Tuesday's post (perhaps they read my blog?). And after I asked if Greenland was the Sudetenland of our time, Trump did his famous TACO thing and said hey I was just kidding, so we don't have to ask if Canada will be this generation's Austria, or Poland? Now I have to say the Knicks beat the Nets, often referred to as the Knicks' "cross-town rivals" by sports announcers who know nothing about New York sports. The same team Kevin Durant said was the new cool NBA team from NYC (it wasn't and isn't and it turns out no one cared what KD said, certainly not basketball fans from the city).
The Case For Comments
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
The Forwardable Email
"A way to help others actually make that connection they said they would." I've used this for a decade, and it's probably useful for you, too.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
I’m bad at coming up with examples
Yesterday I wrote something. It was, as it often is, the result of reading something I didn’t agree with. If you have read anything on this blog before, you probably know I like to make stupid and extreme examples to illustrate the point I’m trying to make in a specific post...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Even closeouts can be fun.
Good discussion about the future of AI in this interview from Davos with Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei. Although they ended on a sort of cliffhanger right as Demis started talking about the likelihood of extraterrestrial life, which now I’m curious about.
Watched: The House. An anthology in three parts about the same house, directed and animated by different teams. The style and tone from first to second part was jarring. At times beautiful, at times bonkers and creepy. 🍿
Travis Knight in the press release for Laika’s next stop-motion feature, Wildwood:
Our movie is a celebration of artistry over algorithms, and of the belief that films made by hand, with enormous care, can still feel bold, surprising, dangerous, and alive.
I’m really looking forward to this.
Velocity and authenticity
When I read a blog post I love, I usually find my favorite part of it to quote in a short post on my own blog. Sometimes I can’t find a single excerpt that fits, so I turn it into a full blog post and add more commentary. Such is the case with this fantastic essay by Om Mali...
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
Powerful email shared by Brent Simmons from family members in Minnesota.
Share your website at events
This is a great extended ad for the new Volvo EX60. You can acknowledge the old hassle when you think you’ve solved it. 500-mile range.
Kagi has a blog post about the Google antitrust ruling and the need for a more open search index, including perhaps a government-backed service:
This layer would replace the role public libraries played for centuries - a role that effectively disappeared when commercial web search took over in the late 1990s. Our ancestors understood well the benefits that non-discriminatory, direct access to information brings to citizens, and ultimately society itself.
Isn't Greenland the Sudetenland of our time?
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Funding Open Source for Digital Sovereignty
"Open Source alone won't deliver digital sovereignty. Europe must fix procurement and fund those who actually build it."
Web Day Out × State Of The Browser
If you’re the kind of person who likes Web Day Out, you’re probably also the kind of person who likes State Of The Browser.
Web Day Out is all about what you can in web browsers right now, with an emphasis on immediately practical techniques and technologies. State Of The B...