People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
I bought a new wetsuit last week. It smelled like a new car when I tried it on. It will never smell like that again after wearing it in the ocean today. It was flat today. Not enough swell. And Santa Ana Winds built slowly over the session. There’s a song about the Santa Ana...
I can’t believe I’m only just now learning that Luke Kornet has a blog. Guess I need to officially offer everyone in the Spurs organization free Micro.blog subscriptions. 🏀
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Brilliant!
I designed this RSS app for the web first, and then added Mac afterwards (in beta soon). I think that worked out well. Helps push the web to be as feature-rich as possible, and lets me rethink what should be different for the Mac.
Reporter at the Guardian: "We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie." It's true. I was covering tech realistically starting in 1994, was writing for Wired, people thought I was being too hard on them, but I was actually like you too easy. But people didn’t want to believe tech was evil, they believed that the young people that were running tech were idealists and maybe they were when they started, but by the time the billions started flowing and they stopped caring about people and started only caring about money. A piece I wrote in 1996 after going to a tech industry conference."
If he were alive today he'd be busting silos.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Sunday morning kitchen session in B
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. 30 years a 1 month later, … Continue reading Declaration of the Independence →
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Started watching House of Guinness. Really like the look of the show. Good so far. 🍺
OpenAI delays adult mode:
We still believe in the principle of treating adults like adults, but getting the experience right will take more time.
A good and fairly obvious call, this was a distraction for a company that is pulled in too many different directions. GPT-5.4 released last week is a great model, but it’s lost in the noise.
OpenAI has an infrastructure advantage and so should be focusing almost everything on model thinking quality, background agents like Pulse that require enormous compute, and the upcoming device from Jony Ive. A new device with a good brand would help too.
Ratcheteer DX looks fun. I saw it was produced by Panic but didn’t realize until now that Shaun Inman worked on it. Very cool… Going to get it for Switch but feel like it should be played on a Game Boy Advance. 🕹️
Claude is not doing well today, seriously not working well, think it must be they're coping with a large influx of new users.
