People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Om Malik blogs about the greatest invention of his lifetime, the internet:
Like all great inventions of the past—the wheel, the steam engine, and the internal combustion engine—it has compressed time and distance. It is like a time machine. It has essentially made us question every premise.
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ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
In 2024 I wrote about loathing and fearing web video (Unfrozen Caveman Web Video). And while video does often cause me unhappiness, I do enjoy playing with it. I’ve got videos of bodysurfing and my reels. It’s got me using stuff like ffmpeg and Procreate Dreams to do fun stuff. This short animated AVIF file...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
And the end of this video of the band Blusher coverings Kesha’s “Your Love is my Drug” they start to cover ABBA’s “S.O.S.” and I find myself really wanting to hear more of that. I’ll be seeking out other work by Blusher. Triple J is Australian public radio of a sort and does fine work....
A beta is starting for Terry Godier’s feed reader Current. I love his thinking behind this, but I’m going to resist trying the beta so I don’t get distracted or influenced on building my own RSS thing.
If you look at the news blog, we have shipped new features or bug fixes nearly every day until the last couple of weeks. It’s been unusually quiet because so much is going on in separate branches that aren’t quite ready. Two big things coming: the RSS reader and a redesigned full-screen web editor.
Another example of ChatGPT utility. Asked this question: "I have a function named viewFeedItem. Inside it has an icon that when you click it, it calls viewFeedItem to view the parent of the item. But I don't want it to call viewFeedItem directly because that leaves the previous instance of viewFeedItem around. In javascript what's the best way to defer the call to divFeedItem so that the two instances are unrelated, and the first instance goes away." I was pretty sure as I wrote this that setTimeout was the answer, but ChatGPT offered it as the first choice, and explained why it was the best. It's like having a code consulant, you're the surgeon and it's ready to help. And it really does help to know it parsed it the same way I did.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
