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February 4 is the midpoint of winter. So we're almost half-way there.

Went to see Steve Martin and Martin Short tonight. Great show. Martin Short also had a few words to honor Catherine O’Hara at the end. Just perfect.

January 23-30, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #045 Thursday, January 29 at 10:00am Online! Zoom! Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks of t...

Lots of interesting stats in Bluesky’s trust and safety report for 2025. Just a small part:

Harassment reports (1.99M total) encompassed a wide spectrum of behavior, from serious violations to everyday incivility. The new taxonomy distinguishes hate speech (55.40K reports), targeted harassment (42.52K reports), trolling (29.48K reports), and doxxing (3.17K reports) from more general unkindness.

Just got lost in the filmography for Catherine O’Hara, and watching old interviews, thinking of all the voice acting too like Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas. Rest in peace.

Simon Willison blogs more about the craziness happening with OpenClaw and Moltbook:

The amount of value people are unlocking right now by throwing caution to the wind is hard to ignore, though. Here’s Clawdbot buying AJ Stuyvenberg a car by negotiating with multiple dealers over email.

The heartbeat really is something new. It’s like ChatGPT Pulse — which is my favorite product from 2025 — except with much more power.

The FediForum home page says "the Open Social Web still has only a tiny fraction of the users of the closed social media platforms, and growing that number significantly has turned out harder than expected." This is the premise of their next conference, on March 2, a little ...

Yesterday I wrote the idea "small pieces loosely joined" was central to what we mean by the web. Now I'd like to add another criteria. "All parts are replaceable." I think it's self-evident what it means. And of course there is no such thing, but the internet itself comes v...

Moltbook — a social network for AI agents to have discussions with one another. This is wild. I often joke about “our future AI overlords” but this might’ve just crossed a line into actual concern… We are putting a lot of trust into these new bots. 🦞

Clawdbot / Moltbot rebrands again, to OpenClaw. I actually liked Moltbot, it was unique and had some personality. But I can understand wanting something a little more normal sounding, and they can still lean on the lobster branding.

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Nikita Prokopov, whose blog can be found at tonsky.me. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Gary Online and the ot...

Going to Carlingford. brb

at the @CSSWG.org (@CSSWG) F2F (face to face) meeting^1, hosted by @Apple.com (@Apple) in Cupertino. Not counting at #w3cTPAC, the prior #CSSWG F2F meeting I went to was 2.5y ago, also in Cupertino, and before that 2019 in SF. Good to see so many longterm colleagues in-person.#W3C #CSS #webStandards^1 https://wiki.csswg.org/planning/cupertino-2026

Ordered my first Day One printed book. Still have some work to consolidate my hand-written journal to digital, then will be ordering a couple more.

Trying out Aeronaut for Bluesky. Very nice. I don’t actually visit Bluesky directly that often because I post to it and follow within Micro.blog. Good to have a dedicated app for things like feeds, though.

Yesterday I reported that I had remapped pagepark.scripting.com to the github repo for pagepark. But then later in the day it stopped doing that. Why? I have no clue. I moved it to another server and now it works.

The best description for the web I've ever heard is small pieces loosely joined. That really gets to the essence of it. The pieces stand on their own, up to a point, when they are joined to other pieces. And you can un-join and re-join them. I see a lot of things that say they're part of the web than can't do the arbitrary joining that's central to what the web is.