Falling down a mountain strapped to two slender skis feels like an analogy for life.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Continvoucly Morged Value
You might have seen the diagram before. The one Vincent Driessen put up on his website a few years ago to explain the concept of a Git branching model.
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Really Simple Ravioli
"It's inexpensive and filling."
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Claude & Sonos
Tonight was one of my most surreal Claude Code Sundays. To make a long story short, I pointed Claude Code at my Sonos setup in Houston: “All 29 Sonos speakers were running on WiFi with SonosNet completely disabled. They had accumulated ~89 million dropped packets across the system. That packet loss is why groups kept … Continue reading Claude & Sonos →
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📗 Want to read The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games by David I Waddington ISBN: 9780228027881
Big snow day in the east. I thought it was going to be heavy snow but it's actually really light. The shoveling is easy. I'm getting good at it. Right now I think this storm was a lot less than they said it would be, but I also think to some extent, dealing with big snow is getting somewhat routine?
If you want to read something good, go with yesterday's piece about the web and evolution. A lot of things came together for me there.
And if you want to listen to something good, pick up the latest podcast. It has two purposes. 1. To tell the story of how I lost my Twitter/X account, hoping it makes its way to someone at the company who can turn my account back on. 2. To illustrate how we could use AI to make customer service work much better than it does. It's a real killer app. As if you thought of Craig's List when Craig did. This is not anything I can do, but I would love to use it. Right now the tech industry reputation is getting worse all the time. Do something that visibly makes people's lives better now. People are pretty nervous about AI. And so far you have to be a scientist of some kind to really appreciate it. But the internet as a place of business, education and health care is a big global mess.
A new philosophy for travelers called digital silence, to avoid sharing exactly where you were, via Kottke:
We have stopped traveling to feel. We now travel to prove we were there.
Only wish this was a blog post and not a series of Instagram photos.
Brainstorming search engine ranking introspection
Search is one of my favourite disciplines in computing. In 2024 I spent a lot of time working on a NoSQL engine that I called JameSQL. This tool now powers the search engine on my website.
Designing search engine ranking systems is tricky to say the least. When I use my blog...
Preserving calm in software over time
When I announced Artemis in 2024, I titled the announcement “Artemis, a calm web reader, is available (in beta)”. So central to the philosophy of how I build the software is the principle “calm” that, when I write about Artemis, I still use the phrase “a calm web reader” to d...
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Interviews, interviews, interviews
For some weird combination of factors, I ended up answering questions to three different people for three entirely unrelated projects, and all three interviews went live around the same time.
I answered a few questions for the Over/Under series run by Hyle. Love the concept,...
Artemis “via”
Recently, a feed a few users – including myself – were following with Artemis published a “bookmark”-like post. The markup in the corresponding feed was a bit different than expected, so Artemis ended up linking directly to the bookmarked post rather than to the author’s post...
Finding all sorts of things as I go through my mom’s house, especially old photos and books. But also a few favorite toys. I remember having to put Optimus Prime on layaway at the store in our neighborhood.
Brainstorming search engine ranking introspection
Search is one of my favourite disciplines in computing. In 2024 I spent a lot of time working on a NoSQL engine that I called JameSQL. This tool now powers the search engine on my website.
Designing search engine ranking systems is tricky to say the least. When I use my blog...
Preserving calm in software over time
When I announced Artemis in 2024, I titled the announcement “Artemis, a calm web reader, is available (in beta)”. So central to the philosophy of how I build the software is the principle “calm” that, when I write about Artemis, I still use the phrase “a calm web reader” to d...
Artemis “via”
Recently, a feed a few users – including myself – were following with Artemis published a “bookmark”-like post. The markup in the corresponding feed was a bit different than expected, so Artemis ended up linking directly to the bookmarked post rather than to the author’s post...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
WOCA: My second time showing
Showing art and giving away beach toys and and trading art sharing affirmations at @_woca_ and hanging out with pals like @chrisgreazel and @northone_art and new friends too. Much love to @radiantbeerco for hosting on this chilly night. (–IG) I had fun. Kelly came with me. Typically when I’ve gone up to WOCA I will...
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...
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...