Very happy to welcome my old friend, John Palfrey, back to the web. I added his feed to my blogroll on scripting.com. His first new piece is about his experience at the AI Action Summit in February, in Delhi. He was executive director at Berkman when I was there in the early 00s. It feels like the old band is getting back together. ;-)
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Good morning, Atlanta.
How are we preparing for the Long Web?
The state of State Of The Browser
I went to State Of The Browser in London on the weekend. It was great!
I mean, it’s always great but this year the standard felt really high. All the talks were top quality. I’ve been at events with ticket prices a literal order of magnitude greater but with quality nowhere...
Reading A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Reading A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin.
local.html: Social Discovery by Browser-Based Crawling
The nature of the job
Large language models help you build the thing faster, which is the primary end goal for your company but only sometimes for you. My primary goal might be to build the thing faster, but it also might be to learn something durably, to enjoy the work, to look forward to Monday.
I don’t like the mental fragility of not fully understanding how my own code works, where AI-generated code is “mine” in that it’s attributed to me in the git blame and I’m its maintainer going forward.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Replacing the Body Shell Rubber Bushings on an Olympia SG1 Typewriter
Steve Troughton-Smith blogged about the projects he worked on over the last month with Codex 5.3:
It didn’t just blow away my expectations, it showed me the world has changed: we’ve just undergone a permanent, irreversible abstraction level shift.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
The range of conditions I’ve been out in at OB is wide. Today was mild yet beautiful and a brief break from staying informed about the news of the day.
Blazers in Atlanta. 🏀
I cancelled my NYT subscription two years ago in part because it felt like they threw Joe Biden under the bus, but they really do have good reporting most of the time. Some background details on the Anthropic / OpenAI and Pentagon negotiations:
Mr. Michael, who was on a call with Anthropic executives, demanded that the company’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, get on the phone to hash out the language, the people said. But Mr. Michael was told that Dr. Amodei was in a meeting with his executive team and needed more time.
Sad to hear about this shooting in Austin. It’s also weird to be out of town when something like this happens:
Three people died, and at least 14 others were injured in a shooting on West Sixth Street overnight Saturday into Sunday, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.
East 6th is more crowded and generally a little crazier, although I wouldn’t consider it unsafe, so perhaps this could’ve been worse. Too many guns.
Centennial Olympic Park.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Sunday Links
Curse you, Betteridge’s Law! https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c1d6q1l5r6do
Curse you, Betteridge’s Law!
If you followed me on Twitter, follow me on Bluesky. As far as I'm concerned Twitter is gone. Not because I'm religious about this stuff, but my account got hijacked and I can't get it back, so let's close that book. It was a great innovative product that also held back progress on the web for 20 years, and it made some people I knew a long time ago fabulously rich, and it would have been nice of them to not do this to us, but what the fuck, it is what it is. One more thing, guys -- pay your taxes.
A bit of general advice about using ChatGPT et al, never let it rush you. You do the thinking, it does the stuff you ask it to do. If you're not careful it'll quickly start giving you orders.
opmlProjectEditor format
Some time in 2013 I started editing all my JavaScript projects in the Frontier outliner, and in doing so I designed a format that could contain a whole project. And it worked, I continued building it, and to this day edit all my projects in this format. It does a lot of work...
🗓️ The Level Up
The Level Up is an indie improv showcase. Join us as we watch amazing New York indie improv talents gain XP on the Magnet stage, unlock new achievements, and reach new milestones. Or do comedy.
Come support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for three exciting indie teams!
- HALALRIOUS
- GOOD TOWEL
- DJ SOGGY BOTTOM
I’ll be playing with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!
Looking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)
Saturday Feb 28th, 2026 @ 10:30pm
Magnet Theater
254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)
New York City, NY 10001
Tickets $10: https://magnettheater.com/show/tickets/60380/
