People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
I am trading blog post titles with James. He gave me a few suggestions for what to write about. I chose the title “A memory from a San Diego sunrise”. My itinerary for October 30, 2020. 9:45pm to 5:45am: Pre-Dawn Patrol Sleep 6:00am to 7:00am Drive to Trestles 7:08am to 7:10am Trestles Sunrise 8:30am to...
From an article in The New Yorker about a bookstore that only sells signed books:
Even before he learned to love to read, Reiss the retail genius recognized what every real reader knows: a book is not just its contents but also, and inseparably, a special kind of object, a portal of sorts between people and places and ideas.
frontendmasters.com/blog/performance-optimized-video-embeds-with-zero-javascript/
This is a clever technique for a CSS/HTML only way of just-in-time loading of iframes using details and summary.
I’m still surprised that Mozilla shut down Pocket. Lots of competition in the bookmarking / read-later space, but that’s because it’s such an important complement to a web browser. I think the organization should’ve refocused around 2-3 great web things that work with Firefox.
Good post by Victoria Song at The Verge about distrust of smart glasses:
Meta’s glasses are great because they’re discreet. That discretion is also unnerving because it means they’re perfect monitoring tools. I’ve written this many times, but wearing modern smart glasses often makes me feel like I’m a spy. It doesn’t matter if the Ray-Ban Meta glasses have a privacy indicator light.
I’m curious how Apple (without Meta’s poor reputation on privacy) is going to handle this. Not sure it can be solved. In the future, there might be places that have signs like “take your smart glasses off”.
Got a preview from @vincent of something new coming up for Micro.blog Studio subscribers. Can’t wait to share it. It looks so good. 🎙️
CNN: “Supreme Court rules that Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal.” A much-needed check on Trump’s power. Next up is the midterms. 🇺🇸
It’s wild to me that we parent our children to fit into society, then get together with our friends and talk about how broken society is. I’ve seen people rail against our broken educational system, then demand their children get straight As in school. I’ve seen people complain about not having any time to themselves and then schedule every minute of their kid’s life.
There is more we can learn from children than they can learn from us.
Mostly we need to support children and let them know that they are loved.
I’ve had a lot of people recently tell me AI is “inevitable.” That this is “the future” and “we all better get used to it.”
For the last decade, I’ve had a lot of people tell me the same thing about React.
And over that decade of React being “the future” and “inevitable,” I worked on many, many projects without it. I’ve built a thriving career.
AI feels like that in many ways. It also feels different in that non-technical people also won’t shut the fuck about it.
Here are some design princples I can get behind: long-term thinking, resilience, flexibility and seamfulness.
I'd like to have an OPML subscription list with feeds with news about specific feed-based products. I started a thread on the reallysimple repo for people to post links to such feeds. Once I have enough feeds, I'll publish the URL of the subscription list. We should, in this community, of all communities, a good way to communicate about developments. Too many good ideas get lost without this.
I've taught ChatGPT and Claude.ai how to properly indent code so I can paste it into my outliner, and it will represent the structure correctly. I just got it to do the same thing with HTML code I copied from the Chrome debugger. Pasted it into the outline. Have a look.
If you're using OPML for your blogroll, here's an unofficial place to let us know what you're doing.
I think the really big money in AI will be helping all the commerce sites get competitive again, their sites are breaking, and are anemic compared to what you can do with AI. I think the WordPress community is in great position to get a huge amount of business here because many of these people are your customers. If you're a WordPress developer I'd love to hear what you think.
A new updated version of FeedLand via Docker. It's now possible to run FeedLand on a local machine in a private network. Thanks to John Johnston and Frank McPherson for their help.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Why aren't newsrooms sharing and innovating? And more.
Yesterday was another Homebrew Website Club. Nina showed us her newly created Instagram-Archive site using Memento Mori. She also detailed how cumbersome it is to delete one’s Instagram account. We then talked about Dark Patterns for a while. AI has also always been a topic again. How it can for example be useful to get away from big tech and host services yourself. Jochen told us about how he does just that now. What he previously didn’t have the time for now became possible. He also ...
Downtown view from the Long Center. Just went to see Macbeth. 🎭
