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I’ve had an Amazon wishlist linked from my website for years. Many years. I had a few folks who I helped out with website help or other kinds of technical help buy me stuff from my Amazon Wishlist. It’s been a while, but up until today it’s been linked from my site for decades. Part...

February 20-27, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: 1RG's Side Project Social Thursday, February 26 at 6:00pm TORONTO, Ontario: 1RG Homebrew Website Club - Eastern Wednesday, February 25 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom! Front End Study Hall #047 Tuesday, F...

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Last day of early voting in Texas. Looking at my sample ballot and got super confused for a minute reading the propositions… A few of them are strange, then realized I was accidentally looking at the Republican side. 🤪

As before I asked Claude.ai to do a synopsis. I corrected one factual error (informing it, waiting for a new version, not correcting the writing). And I think it may have missed the big points of both, but I will respect its opinion. As always if you really want to know what...

I’ve been critical of Instagram forever, and stopped posting on principle 9 years ago, but still it’s good to see Meta’s new work on alerting parents to a teen’s search about self-harm. The way Meta is handling this seems reasonable. Might’ve saved lives if it was in place years ago.

When I write a comment on someone else's blog I want it to automatically be on my blog. It should just appear to be on theirs, the original and only copy of the writing appears on mine. A truly distributed system.

I bet Jeopardy champions would make great software developers. Their intelligence, ability to stay calm and their incredible memory, all are needed to squeeze the last bits of performance from software.

It's nice having Facebook around to show you your old posts. This one just came up and I thought it would be good to remind you all that I was once a young nerd creating Unix apps at UW-Madison.

Open letter from employees of Google and OpenAI in support of Anthropic:

They’re trying to divide each company with fear that the other will give in. That strategy only works if none of us know where the others stand. This letter serves to create shared understanding and solidarity in the face of this pressure from the Department of War.

The leadership of all the AI companies is fascinating to me. Dario Amodei perhaps the most so. I thought his essay Machines of Loving Grace was excellent, but I’ve watched many interviews with him and I sometimes come away kind of depressed about the future.

Catching up on Paul Frazee’s post comparing AT Proto’s decentralization to ActivityPub’s federation and Nostr’s “magical mesh” approach:

Our near-miss similarity to the two common models of decentralization is at least partially why we catch heat from them. We’re really similar, but we introduced changes that remove the legible markers of each technology: multiple app instances in the case of federation, and an absence of servers in the case of magical meshes.

It’s a good read. Most of the confusion in the fediverse about AT Proto is because people judge it based on Mastodon’s architecture.

Love that feeling when a new feature sort of actually works. All downhill from here to the release.

But the soul is a floor. It is there to bear us up and keep us standing, not merely to be clean.

— Patricia Lockwood, Will There Ever Be Another You

Maybe it's time to give awards for most our admired standards-makers. I would start with Jon Postel and Steve Wozniak.

Terry Godier posted on the aftermath of shipping Current:

To not let all of the feedback (both good and bad) alter your ability to think clearly and put one foot in front the other and make a thing that’s true to you again. There’s such a strong pull mentally/emotionally to do more of what people liked, or less of what people didn’t, on the next “thing”

The best products take feedback from everywhere but filter it through the original vision. Otherwise you’ll eventually get a watered down or bloated thing with no uniquely defining purpose.

One of the items in Rules for Standards-makers is don't design the format before you make the app. Instead, make an app, and when you're ready, make the file format public so people can interop (ie compete) so as not to lock users to in your software. If you do that you can say you are "of the web." If we all do that always, voila! -- no more silos. Another rule is that you must use an existing format if it exists, because then you will interop with apps that support that format. Gratuitous incompatibility is a sign of a silo-seeker. So, look first, if there are no usable formats, make your app and make your format public.

From my friend Zachary Kai: IndieWeb Carnival: Feb 2026 For this month’s carnival, write about where your interests intersect. That might be a single unexpected overlap, a whole ecosystem, or the thread that ties parts of your life together. I think my whole life has been unexpected overlaps. My parents met as an unexpected overlap:...