Hi! Candle expert here, this is not funny. Candles only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
I guess I kinda get why people hate AI
anthony.noided.media/blog/ai/programming/2026/02/14/i-guess-i-kinda-get-why-people-hate-ai.html
To be clear, I think AI will be ultimately extremely helpful. I still am using it on my projects. I am going to use it at my next job. I, personally, don’t hate AI.
But I can’t deny that the vibes right now are awful.
Not just bad, awful. It’s not just the “chat we’re cooked you’re the permanent underclass” stuff influencers say. It’s not just the “everybody is fucked” hyperbole CEOs sprout. It’s the actual, day-to-day experience with the technology. I’m a programmer—AI actually helps me a lot. But for normal people, their interactions are profoundly more negative, and none of the people behind this technology seem to care.
Graduating between mediums of communication
The IndieWeb community chat has a feature that lets you create a wiki page from a chat interaction. You can say “what is {term}?” in the chat and, if there is a definition on the community wiki, the definition will be returned by a bot. Otherwise, the bot, Loqi, will say that...
Miloš Miljković blogging about his blog manager for Emacs:
It took me less that two hours with Google Gemini to create microblog.el, a micro.blog manager for Emacs which can edit old posts, create new ones (even with images), auto-complete tags and perform lightning-fast full text search. What a time to be alive!
This isn’t only about AI. With open platforms you don’t need permission. Just build things.
blakewatson.com - I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I’ve always wanted
You know my thoughts on generative tools based on large language models, but this example of personal empowerment is undeniably liberating.
The Mythology Of Conscious AI
This superb essay by Anil Seth won the 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition.
The future history of AI is not yet written. There is no inevitability to the directions AI might yet take. To think otherwise is to be overly constrained by our conceptual inheritance, weighed down by the baggage of bad science fiction and submissive to the self-serving narrative of tech companies laboring to make it to the next financial quarter. Time is short, but collectively we can still decide which kinds of AI we really want and which we really don’t.
Streetwise
Streetwise
What Micro.blog traffic looks like when we see bots go crazy trying to find vulnerabilities. Very annoying.
I don’t watch much hockey but now really getting into this USA vs. Canada gold medal game. 🏒
The killer app of AI is customer service. A podcast about just that.
The web is where we belong
When I designed podcasting, I could have invented a better way to record and play radio shows, but MP3 already existed, as did recording and playback hardware and software, so it was the no-brainer choice. No one ever asked why we are using MP3.
TBL did it when he designed ...
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Step aside, phone: week 2
Halfway through this enjoyable life experiment, and overall, I’m very pleased with the results. As I mentioned last week, I was expecting week two usage to be a bit higher compared to week one, where I went full phone-rejection mode, but I’m still pleased with how low my usa...
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Spurs in Austin. 🏀
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
“To the greater glory of god”
I’m not really a theist. Like, there’s no fella with a beard. That dude is only in single panel cartoons. But I vibe with the notion of humility before the universe. One can’t help but know that there are forces greater than oneself. If you’ve been a debtor you know this. If you’ve been to...
Grouping threaded posts in Artemis
Artemis lets you subscribe to ActivityPub feeds (i.e. accounts on Mastodon). To do this, you can type in an ActivityPub handle like @jamesg.blog@jamesg.blog [1] on the “Add a website” page.
When you subscribe to a feed using an ActivityPub handle, Artemis can use the informa...
Graduating between mediums of communication
The IndieWeb community chat has a feature that lets you create a wiki page from a chat interaction. You can say “what is {term}?” in the chat and, if there is a definition on the community wiki, the definition will be returned by a bot. Otherwise, the bot, Loqi, will say that...
Artemis dense layout
This evening I added an idea I have had for a while to Artemis: a "dense" layout.
By default, the Artemis interface appears in a single-column layout. The dense layout creates several columns. Each column from left-to-right shows posts for a given day. You can scroll down to...
The killer app for AI
As with previous podcasts I asked Claude.ai to write the show notes based on a machine-generated transcript. It makes mistakes, so you have to listen to the podcast if you want to know what I really think. But it's pretty good, and will help search engines find this.
Dave W...