People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
I have a few blog post drafts about recent AI controversy and advertising that I may post eventually, but for now I do want to note Dario Amodei’s blog post on the ongoing negotiations with the military. I thought his leaked internal post was in poor taste, overly personal, so I like his apology here to correct the record:
It was a difficult day for the company, and I apologize for the tone of the post. It does not reflect my careful or considered views. It was also written six days ago, and is an out-of-date assessment of the current situation.
Simon Carstensen has rebuilt Jottit, the web publishing tool he built with Aaron Swartz in 2007:
Aaron believed the web should be easy enough that anyone could participate. Not just people who know how to code or who can afford a platform’s cut.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Employees who are impressed with corporate jargon are less good at their jobs. News at 11.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
For the Japanese WordPress community, I have planted a special Wapuu at the coolest spot in Niseko, Bar Gyu, aka the refrigerator door bar. Now on the handle you’ll find a special surprise. Anyone recognize which WordCamp it’s from? Ioanna and Hisashi run one of the coolest bars in the world; it’s been on my … Continue reading Bar Gyu x Wapuu →
Watched: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Enjoyed this more than I was expecting. Good show. 📺
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Mountain laurel.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Replaced the old, crushed rubber body panel grommets on my 1956 Remington Standard typewriter with new ones.
On the other hand, it's hard to get Claude.ai to really apply itself to my own software. It likes to drive. Same with ChatGPT.
Thursday session
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
"A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI."
This is a low.
So nice to work on a brand new Mac app, Objective-C, not much code yet. Builds and runs practically instantly.
I’m continuing to tinker with OpenClaw to see how it could be useful to me. For the last week, I’ve had it wake up once an hour and pick a small change to make to a new, experimental project. It’ll track what it’s working on, fix something, then push the change to GitHub for me to review.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
The BBC is dying. It needs to be preserved - but doing so will require a radical reinvention.
