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Even though he again misrepresented the point I made in a previous post and he also attributed me things I never said, I'm still going to share this post by Baldur Bjarnason, because he touches on many important topics worth thinking and talking about, especially at this spe...

"The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed."

A lot of online discourse is us vs them. If you find yourself doing that, that's a sure sign that you're not working on the web.

If you make a product for discourse, yet your own product can't be used for discourse because of some major limit, then you have a feature to add, and get busy. No product does everything everyone wants, but when there's a consensus among users, then you have something worth doing.

Growing the Open Social Web, an un-workshop from the FediForum folks with a new format:

Prior to the un-workshop, we invite participants to submit a short post or position paper that summarizes their own perspectives on the subject. […] In advance of the event, we distribute a (lightly curated) set of these position papers to other participants of the un-workshop for preparation.

I like this. I’m traveling that day so might miss it, but maybe some Micro.blog people would like to participate.

Bethany blogging about a GoFundMe in Minneapolis:

Many people have not been able to work for the past month or more, either because they are personally afraid to leave their homes, or their workplaces have closed (out of caution or because too many employees have been taken to continue operating), or because a wage-earner in their household has been taken. If you’re looking for a very specific, focused place to give, please consider this GoFundMe which is to give rent relief to some of these families in the Twin Cities, primarily South Minneapolis.

There’s a new meta tag on the block. This time it’s for allowing system-level text sizing to apply to your website.

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I’ve been working on a few blog post drafts that I can’t seem to finish. Sometimes editing makes a post better and sometimes worse. This is part of the appeal of microblogging… Less chance of overthinking simple ideas.

Laura’s classic book is now a web book that you can read for free online.

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Another good Jimmy Kimmel show last night. It says something about the time we are living in when a comedy monologue does not even attempt to be funny for like 10 minutes.

Jim Ray responded to my Saturday post about AT Proto. Thanks for that, most of the time I write about this stuff people involved don't respond. I think that's because I'm not actually missing anything -- and I would rather continue to develop on RSS because it's not a silo, ...

This episode of the Shop Talk Show is the dictionary definition of “rambling” but I had a lot of fun rambling with Chris and Dave!

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There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen No attribution, but fun Quote Investigator dive. Sorry for dropping off the daily blogging train; it just turned out to be a week of pleasant surprises and life-changing events. I’ll share with y’all the second-most exciting one.  I know I’ve been pushing … Continue reading What a Week →

Last week the weather was mild. It’s almost always mild here in San Diego. We were walking to the beach: Pacific Beach. We were headed to the spot on the south side of Crystal Pier. It was Sunday: game day. All the sports bars in San Diego are active that day. And it was MLK...

I'm interested in the movie Darkest Hour. Specifically the scene where Churchill is surprised by a visit from the king, who we learned earlier is pissed off, while Churchill is morose and undecided on what to do. The King wants Churchill to know that he wants to fight, and t...

Good morning. I am wiped out from the storm that just went through. Did a bunch of shoveling this morning, still have more to do. About two feet of snow, some drifts much higher. The snow is light, but it packs down from the weight of snow that falls on top, so shoveling is ...

Daniel Supernault had a series of posts over the weekend promoting Loops, his TikTok-inspired app focused on short-form video, but open source and connecting to the fediverse. This one sentence stood out to me: If it’s not open source, you’re not the user, you’re the produc...

Dave Rupert is swearing off APIs, frustrated with building on someone else’s platform:

That’s a hard stance, but I need a backstop at the idea phase to prevent me from wasting limited life force. If I don’t have the data, or can’t generate the data, or it’s not an open protocol… it’s not worth building or even thinking about.

I think some platforms are safe to build on. They should be permission-less and ad-free. (One of his abandoned apps is a historical marker app, which I’ve wanted to build for a long time too.)

I was tinkering around with Clawdbot but it’s a little overwhelming. What do you use an app for when it can do everything? Started to get worried that I was opening up a huge security risk, so decided to scrap it. Will watch how these tools evolve.

Panorama From today at Pacific Beach It was a quiet weekend. But a positive one. I have some interesting things coming up this week. I’m hoping for the best. The world… is frustrating. I keep adding new videos of me riding waves at /videos. They’re mostly for me. I can see some progress but mostly...