FeedCity

I maintain a web page that lists notes from IndieWeb events. Entries are added to the page when notes from meet-ups are archived to the community wiki. This web page contains several h-feeds. h-feed is the microformats markup that says that the tagged area represents a feed....

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with David Cain, whose blog can be found at raptitude.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Neil Gorman and the oth...

Ava and I are trading blog post titles. The topic Ava chose for me to write about was “What I associate with my name”. When I was young, I remember distinctly looking through a kids’ encyclopaedia and finding “James” written in there a few times [1]. I don’t know why that me...

Om Malik:

Some of us are hopeful. Some of us are terrified. Most of us are both, often in the same hour. And into that vacuum of uncertainty there is a torrent of speculation dressed up as prophecy.

Austin sunset behind buildings, from 26 floors up, at Clawstin. 🦞

Anthropic has another funding round and highlights their growing revenue for Claude Code. Not surprised. Claude Code was first, people like it, and Opus 4.6 is really expensive. I think Codex 5.3 will continue to slowly peel developers away.

This was such a nice read. I especially resonated with "posting versus publishing" and that a blog can be an "archive and long memory".

Claude just said this: "And going forward, whatever post the user lands on first, that's what you seed it with. The stack just starts wherever they start." The thing that caught my eye was the user lands on first. UserLand was the name of my last company, the one that did Frontier, blogging, podcasting, RSS, XML-RPC, OPML, etc. And here we are again in the land of lands. The User Lands. ;-)

I understood the web because I understood Unix and missed it.

Leo Laporte:

It’s so unsettling watching our 250 year-old democracy decay into dictatorship while the most disruptive technology since steam power is evolving at superhuman speed. It’s like watching a locomotive barrel headlong into a tornado. I have a bad feeling about this.

Zachary’s website introduced me to “Proust’s questionnaire”, a series of questions by Marcel Proust. I thought it would be fun to try and respond to them! I am writing this blog post as the snow falls outside. I wasn’t expecting snow today, but here it is. Some of the most w...

Reading Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood.

Every culture has its myths and legends. Greece has its gods and warriors. England has its stories of Arthur. Ireland has the Tuatha Dé Danann, The Ulster Cycle, and more. But while the Arthurian legends and the Greek myths have been retold many times, the stories of ancien...

Holy wow!!

https://www.thingiverse.com/blog?p=thingiverse-joins-the-myminifactory-family

Thanks Michael for the heads up!

Michael https://www.thingiverse.com/blog?p=thingiverse-joins-the-myminifactory-family

Ruben, after responding to the sandwich questionnaire that Zachary blogged about, added a few more questions. When I saw the blog post, I thought: these questions are exactly what I need today. Below I have responded to the delightfully-named “second helping” questions that R...

Matt Shumer writes that something big is happening. It’s a long post. Some good points and some things that might be framed a little too dramatically. If you are firmly an AI skeptic, I doubt you will be convinced by Matt, but his post is comprehensive and got me thinking. I...

I like this post from Justin Jackson about the impact on RSS if browsers remove XSLT support, which some bloggers use to make RSS more accessible. There has never been a good answer to “what do normal people do with an RSS link?”… We really need to solve this.

Daniel Jalkut blogging a story about getting a job at Apple in the 1990s:

The moment I got my foot in the door, I let management know that I was really after an engineering job. “I’m going to be the best QA engineer you’ve ever seen, but I really want to write code for the Mac.” Or something like that. Having the gall to say something affected things.

We’ve talked about Daniel’s time at Apple a bunch over the years on Core Intuition, but there are fun details here I didn’t know about.

If you're a FeedLand user and have the technical ability to install a Docker app, even just on a local computer not on the net, you could help the project by trying the new Docker version. Think of FeedLand as something like Mastodon or WordPress. I want people to have an excellent experience installing and sharing their own instances. I am doing that now, with the blogroll on Scripting News and various news sites. That's all running on an instance of FeedLand I installed myself. Scott worked really hard to make that easier. It's an open source project, so you can feel good by helping. And if you have a few hours to give it a try, maybe much less, you would be doing a good thing.