People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Homebrew San Diego 2026
I am sitting in LeStat’s on Park in San Diego drinking an iced Vietnamese coffee. It’s delicious. At one time I ran a mailing list called WebSanDiego. It was a OneList list, then it was an eGroups list, then it was a Yahoo!Groups list. But it was always a mailing list. It was what passed...
for developers who don't use ai -- here's the kind of question i ask chatgpt. "i have a div that contains icons that are either svg's or font-awesome i's. if it were text, i'd use font-size to control the size of the icons, which won't work here. what's the right way to do it?"
apple is a company, very good at selling itself as a lifestyle. but there's only one person, who's been gone for 15 years, who could keep that reality distortion field inflated.
Doing the math on the Cosmere books, with Mistborn era 3 locked in for releases in 2028, 2029, and 2030, maybe we’ll see Stormlight book 10 around 2043. Joking / not joking with my daughter to read a few chapters at my graveside if I don’t make it. 🪦
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
I love this train station photo in the snow.
Tuesday session
Tuesday session
Forbes has a profile of Sam Altman with some interesting quotes from him and others:
Altman knows his history. His itch to release products quickly is informed by studying Xerox PARC, the legendary Silicon Valley research lab known for inventing the modern graphical user interface, laser printers and computer mouse, yet failing to commercialize any of them. “You have to have an economic engine in the cycle,” Altman says. “I think there’s probably a lot of great innovation that has never gotten out of the lab because someone didn’t do the work to just get it into people’s hands.”
Linking to a post about Apple from Matt Gemmell, Michael Tsai blogs:
At times, the company seems like a cargo cult, repeating mantras from a previous era without actually following them and applying the same strategies as before even though they no longer make sense.
Going through items in my mom’s house, took a picture of this old painting of mine. 8th grade, maybe. Reminds me of the previous icon for our app Sunlit.
Om Malik has been on a roll with great blog posts lately, refocusing on creation:
You might have noticed an increase in the number of words I am publishing these days. I don’t know why. Or how. Somehow a lot of things have clicked in my head. I quietly switched from consumption to creation mode.
Codex for Mac does more than I realized on first glance. It’s one of the most complete version 1.0 releases I’ve seen in a long time. And by 1.0, of course I mean version 260202.0859. 🤪
SpaceX data centers
SpaceX acquires xAI. Elon Musk explains putting data centers in space in a fantastical, far-reaching update:
By directly harnessing near-constant solar power with little operating or maintenance costs, these satellites will transform our ability to scale compute. It’s alway...
1996: Nerd's Guide to Frontier.
Introducing Cornerstone: A WordPress Theme for the IndieWeb
Interesting post on Twitter by an OpenAI co-founder, Andrej Karpathy, about the value of RSS. I've it said elsewhere, that RSS and ChatGPT are particularly well-suited for each other. I don't understand the connection, other than RSS is always useful, as a way of formalizing...
Screen shot of system.verbs.apps as it appeared in my frontier.root frozen sometime in the early 00s.
An Island in the Net in 2030?
The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies
islandinthenet.com/the-indie-web-is-not-defined-by-its-enemies/