Waiting at the 45th street crossing.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Thursday session
Thursday session
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Not sure I’ve ever seen Sam Altman as upset as in this long Twitter / X post:
Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that.
I get his frustration because OpenAI is trying to avoid what is shown in Anthropic’s ads. But again, the problem is perception. Anthropic is making an argument that ads will have a corrupting influence on ChatGPT. Whether that happens or not almost doesn’t matter.
Jatan Mehta on exploring where to host his fediverse presence, from Mastodon to Ghost to Micro.blog. Whenever I read something like this, it reaffirms our decision to take a quieter approach to the social web. Less counting, less noise.
Logan Land blogging about IndiePub, in the same spirit as IndieWeb and POSSE but expanding to self-published books and other things too:
Now we’re facing something new, with the rise of AI-generated content, these platforms are becoming saturated with noise. Human authenticity is at a premium.
Software Design Meetup [Feb. 11th]
On Wednesday, February 11th at 7pm - 8:30pm UK time I am hosting an event I’m calling the “Software Design Meetup” online.
This meetup is for anyone interested in the design of software and technology. In particular, if you are fascinated by the question "How do we design be...
I still love my Keurig coffee maker. The coffee is delicious and hot and it's truly a technology marvel. So simple and easy to learn.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Adblocking ≠ Piracy
I told Kevin I was going to write this post since we were discussing this topic the other day. This is my half of the argument; maybe he’ll write an “Adblocking = Piracy” post on his site if he finds the time between one meeting and the other.
I am not the first person to wr...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Warm today. Swell diminishing.
WordPress’s new Link Fixer is in some ways similar to the archiving features that we’ve had baked into Micro.blog for years. But I like their option to routinely fix broken links. I’ve been thinking maybe a report that makes it easier to do this, even if it’s not automatic.
Dave Rupert wants to see more writing about making things better:
It’s cheap and easy to complain and say “[Thing] is bad”, but it’s also free to share what you think would be better.
Good post. Complaining can sometimes be valuable, but also too often we target people instead of ideas and institutions, achieving nothing. The constant negativity can be overwhelming.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Here's a news page with stories from the most-quoted blogs on Hacker News. A brilliant idea. All I did was give each item a category, and shortened the URL. The brief writeup is here.
I'm going to WordCamp Europe in June in Poland. Can't wait.
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Sending my First Webmention
blog.rickardlindberg.me/2026/02/03/sending-my-first-webmention.html
IndieWebify.Me? Yes please!
blog.rickardlindberg.me/2026/02/04/indie-webify-me-yes-please.html
Wednesday session
Wednesday session