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The Autumn/Winter 2025 edition of the good internet magazine is out! I contributed a piece, Build the web you want to see, in which I reflect on the last five years of James' Coffee Blog and some of what I have learned in that time. I have been thinking about the question "how do we make the web better?" for the last few months, and perhaps the best answer I have right now is for us all to keep building the web we want to see. It is perhaps because of this that, when I asked Joe yesterday "How can we achieve a web renaissance?", he replied "I think we're already in it." Thank you to Xandra for all of the work that she puts into making the good internet magazine happen. I am delighted that this project exists and, especially after reading StartingAMagazine.psd, am more aware than ever that projects like this don't just happen: we make them happen.

This has been one of the most intense weeks of my life, both physically challenging and mentally exhausting. And it’s only Tuesday.

Spurs in Dallas. 🏀

Here is how I test microformats markup on my website. First I install mf2py: sudo dnf install python3-mf2py Then I define this one-liner Bash function: mf2test() { python -c 'import sys; import mf2py; import json; print(json.dumps(mf2py.parse(url=sys.argv[1])))' $1 | jq; } And then I can test a website like this: $ mf2test https://blog.rickardlindberg.me/2026/02/05/075110.html { "items": [ { "type": [ "h-entry" ...

Waiting at the 45th street crossing.

Thursday session

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.

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.

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...

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.

After my note earlier about progress on restoring my 1936 Royal KHM typewriter, a colleague reminded me that a KHM makes an appearance in the Taylor Swift song Fortnight. Then they asked if I was just collecting machines from her videos? While I fully expect to pick up a Royal Ten one day, it’s a … Continue reading

News from the most-quoted blogs on Hacker News. Writeup is here.

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.