Really happy with the new full-screen post editor that we’ve been working on. It’ll ship on Monday. I think it solves multiple problems at once: sort of a distraction-free mode for writing, and more control over the accessory panes like categories and cross-posting.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Data center pause
Wired reporting on a proposed bill to pause building data centers in New York for three years:
Two New York lawmakers on Friday announced that they are introducing a bill that would impose a three-year moratorium on data center development. The announcement makes New York a...
I've now implemented a way to download mentions from Webmention.io and display them on...
I've now implemented a way to download mentions from Webmention.io and display them on my blog posts. My blog is a static site. So the way it works is that I download mentions via the Webmention.io API. Then I extract only the information that I need to display the mentions on my blog. I save that information in json files that I can read when the website is generated. Right now, they look like this: $ cat posts/2023/04/06/what-should-a-ci-server-do/mentions.json | jq { ...
The reboot that news needs
I would love to see a standard model for community news orgs, starting with the city of Washington DC, with some of the reporters who were recently laid off.
But the community would be very much a part of this. No more news without community involvement. Let's make it commun...
I’ve noticed over the last couple of years that my shorter posts are often too tightly edited to come across clearly. My short blog posts from twenty years ago might’ve been better. Going to try to write more slightly long-form posts… Not really full essays, just a couple paragraphs.
Read the code
I’ve seen a few posts recently about how developers will increasingly not even read the code that AI generates for them. Most famously, a blog post from Peter Steinberger:
These days I don’t read much code anymore. I watch the stream and sometimes look at key parts, but I g...
NetNewsWire for Mac was updated for Liquid Glass, and now the iOS update is out too. Nice work. 2026 is shaping up to be the year of feed readers.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
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Step aside, phone
I was chatting with Kevin earlier today, and since he’s unhappy with his mindless phone usage, I proposed a challenge to him: for the next 4 weeks, each Sunday, we’re gonna publish screenshots of our screen time usage as well as some reflections and notes on how the week wen...
Andrea Bocelli singing Nessun dorma at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics is really something. Got chills listening to it.
The new Muppets Show is fun. Hope they make some more episodes. 🍿
Doc has a idea how to stop teams from tanking. Get rid of the lottery. He's right of course. Think of the futility of tanking in the NBA when last year the #1 pick went to the Dallas Mavericks, who were not a lottery team and (probably) wasn't tanking, though trading their star young player for bupkis (it turns out) -- maybe they were. But the numbers didn't really entitle them to an early pick. And they got a player who looks to be a great star (you can't always tell if a #1 pick will turn out to be a star).
An increasingly high percentage of the videos on FB are fake. Some are entertaining, some are boobs (an amazing number) and some are pretty freaking dangerous, to the extent people believe they're real.
Greatest inventions and products
Om Malik says the internet is the greatest invention of his life, and since we're roughly the same age, that would be my life's greatest invention too. I think it would be if it weren't such a tragic invention, one whose growth was cut off by the very thing he quotes John Do...
Observed programming behavior. After getting something complicated working, you figure it's all downhill from there, only to realize there's another big hill you have to climb -- you know -- the thing that looked so easy.
Debug mode
One of the areas of the Artemis codebase that I update the most is the logic that relates to the list of posts published by authors to which a user is subscribed. Because Artemis works with so many different formats of information – web feeds like RSS or h-feed, Mastodon post...
Staging banners
When I run the Artemis codebase, one of the first things it does is look for an environment variable that indicates what “environment” the application is running in. There are two modes: development and production. If no mode is specified, development mode is set by default.
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Redirecting YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md to /YYYY/MM/DD/slug with Nginx
Earlier this week a reader pointed out that posts listed on my date archive pages were linking to the wrong URLs. For example, the link for /2026/01/25/kind-software would instead be /2026-01-25-kind-software.md. This was caused by my static site generator using the markdown ...
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.
What to grow
I’ve been building apps for the Mac and the web for 30 years. In all that time, especially as an indie developer hacking away on side projects at night, success was largely about how much could be coded. Everyone had good ideas, but not everyone could put them into shipping ...
This Week in the IndieWeb
January 30 through February 6, 2026
Recent Events
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1RG's Side Project Social
Thursday, February 5 at 6:00pm
TORONTO, Ontario: 1RG
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific
Wednesday, February 4 at 6:00pm
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London
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