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New podcast episode where I explain how I lost my Twitter account and how this is exactly the kind of thing that AI can do economically, esp for people who pay actual money for your service. I can't buy anything from you if I can't use my account.

Earlier this week I started to feel something I haven’t felt in a while: I felt lost. I started to look ahead and feel disoriented. Where do I want to be in a few years? What do I want to work on? What is my dream? I have never looked too far ahead in time, as long as I have ...

This is a follow-up on my previous post. After talking to a few friends and getting feedback from the kind people who decided to email me and share their thoughts, I decided that I will stop once interview number 150 is out, on July 10th. 150 is a neat number because it mean...

Rediscovering drop shadows.

I managed to go Monday through Friday without any posts about AI. So now it’s time to catch up! The Verge:

OpenAI’s first hardware release will be a smart speaker with a camera that will probably cost between $200 and $300, according to The Information. The device will be able to recognize things like “items on a nearby table or conversations people are having in the vicinity”…

I think the key things to watch will be latency and memory. Building on ChatGPT, they don’t even need to innovate that much for the product to be better than the Echo and HomePod.

Poll: Do you have a blog?

Query: I have not done any vibe coding and have a question for those who have. Suppose you request a change in an app you've been working on with the AI for a while, adding features, changing things around based on learning and testing, which is generally what happens after you've been working on something new. Here's the question. What happens when you ask for a change that requires the codebase to be reorganized. How did that go? Do the AIs even know that's possible or do they just pile on special cases?

What happened to polling? I had a poll app for a while, then Twitter came out with one and I switched to that. I don't know if Twitter still has it, but it would be bad form to require something at Twitter to engage with me here. How do you do polling, or do you?

I just remembered why I love the United States of America.

I am going to try again to open up the editing side of OPML. It's gotten pretty famous in RSS-land, but people don't know there are editors for OPML, and some which work pretty well with subscription lists, and could be made to work even better. Drummer can run scripts in JavaScript, so users can customize. I'm going to make an effort myself to start using Drummer to edit subscription lists and see what comes up.

Are you sinking your teeth in during Eternal Caturday?

This is the first post I've seen on the IndieWeb that has multiple in-reply-to links. I guess that makes sense. Nice!

Yesterday I watched Peter Van Hardenberg - Local First: the secret master plan. I've come across Peter and Ink & Switch before. It caught my interest then, and it caught my interest now again. This time I saw similarities between the local first concept and IndieWeb. One of the requirements for local first (particularly in the context of collaboration) is the ability to diff different versions of a document and sync changes between different people. In the programming world, we have had ...

Yesterday I was on the WP-Tonic podcast, and my colleague Adrian Laboş did a great summary of the key points, which I’ll share here: AI security audit wave incoming: Expect AI tools to flood WordPress core and the 70,000+ plugin ecosystem with both improvements and newly discovered security vulnerabilities, requiring infrastructure to triage at scale. … Continue reading WordPress, AI, plugins, future of software engineering →

February 13-20, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Düsseldorf/Germany Thursday, February 19 at 6:00pm DÜSSELDORF, Nordrhein-Westfalen: Xafé im KAP1 Bibliothekscafé Homebrew Website Club (HWC) Düsseldorf is an in-person meeting for ...

Coming up for the next few weeks, the Dan Allosso Book Club will focus on Cesar Hidalgo’s new book, out this month in the United States: Hidalgo, César A. 2026. The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge. New York: Penguin.   The first session will be on Saturday, February 21, 2026, and will recur … Continue reading Book Club: César Hidalgo’s The Infinite Alphabet and the Laws of Knowledge

My website has been hobbling along for about two weeks now. Sadly I’ve either been away or too under the weather to clean things up. Hopefully a bit of work this morning has improved things. We’ll see how stable things are going forward.

Finished reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Parts of the future (particularly electricity) were distracting for me because they felt implausible. Still really enjoyed it. Wish I had read it before our actual pandemic. 📚