Bobbie says:
Craig actually has had a profound impact on my career, in a way he probably doesn’t remember and certainly didn’t expect. Maybe 15 years ago I bumped into him at a party in a back yard in Brighton…
That was my party!
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
bobbie.net/2026/03/06/craig-mod-were-probably-doing-a-lot-of-things-the-wrong-way/
Bobbie says:
Craig actually has had a profound impact on my career, in a way he probably doesn’t remember and certainly didn’t expect. Maybe 15 years ago I bumped into him at a party in a back yard in Brighton…
That was my party!
Miloš Miljković has written an Emacs client for Inkwell. Amazing. It supports bookmarking too.
I’ve been doing a lot of work in Codex for the upcoming Inkwell for Mac release. I’m weeks ahead of where I thought I’d be. One small tweak I’ve made to my workflow is to wire up ⌘-R to run the project while I’m in Codex.
Codex has its own run action button, which in theory could run xcodebuild or osascript command-line tools, but that didn’t work for me. So I reached for FastScripts instead. I wrote this tiny AppleScript:
tell application "Xcode"
activate
run workspace document 1
end tell
Here’s a screenshot of the config in FastScripts:
Now when I’m in Codex and it has finished a change, I review the transcript, then hit ⌘-R to run my Mac app and test the new thing. If I don’t like it, I’ll ask Codex for changes and run again. Then I can review the code diff and tweak or commit as needed. The keyboard shortcut makes this cycle just a little smoother.
Dave Winer writes in his blog post linking to Inkwell:
I love that creative people are using RSS in new ways.
This feels like a great time to experiment, maybe more so even than the early 2000s blogosphere. Ask people I worked with back then, I was putting RSS in everything. And now I am again. 🤪
whitep4nth3r.com/blog/i-am-in-an-abusive-relationship-with-the-technology-industry/
The cognitive overload of AI trying to Make You More Productive™️ whilst you’re actually trying to be productive is so shockingly absurd. And yet, we are being made to feel like we are stagnating, being left behind, not good enough, that we are luddites should we not adopt this imposing technology. We are being told we’re missing out, even though we’re probably doing just fine. The technology is gaslighting us.
Meta acquires Moltbook. From TechCrunch:
OpenClaw blew up among the tech community, but Moltbook broke containment, reaching people who had no idea what OpenClaw was, but who reacted viscerally to the idea that there was a social network where AI agents were talking about them.
Moltbook is still crazy and interesting, but not sure it fits at Meta in the way that OpenClaw might’ve. I’m just glad Peter Steinberger ended up at OpenAI.
Working on Inkwell is in some ways a little awkward because I’m competing in the same space as some of my friends for the first time. But I root for their success and find ways to collaborate. It’s similar to how MarsEdit and Micro.blog work together and also “compete” as blogging client apps.
Sneak peek of Inkwell for Mac. It’s coming along well. I was going to do a beta but might jump straight to 1.0 this week. Need to fix a few things and wire up version checking.
Android folks, @gregmorris is looking for beta testers for Micro Social.
If anyone else would like to test Micro Social on Android please let me know.
Apparently I cant open test or release until I have at least 12 closed testers for 14 days!
Micro Social https://microsocial.micro.blog/2026/03/10/if-anyone-else-would-like.html
I sort of collect “micro” domain names now, so using micro.ink for Inkwell felt right. All the HTML and JS is actually bundled in a Micro.blog plug-in and served just like any blog. I think it demonstrates how flexible Micro.blog hosting can be.
Jay Graber is stepping aside as CEO, staying at Bluesky to work on other things:
I’ve grown a lot as a leader and had the privilege of assembling the best team I’ve ever worked with. As we’ve grown, I’ve found that people thrive when they’re in a role where their passions overlap with their strengths. This is as true for me as it is for our team.
Toni Schneider will be CEO. I expect 2026 will be an important year for Bluesky, presumably with new ideas for increasing revenue beyond domain name registration.
John Brayton blogs about Unread 4.8, with syncing to Inkwell, faster link articles, and more.
Thanks @numericcitizen for creating a video of Inkwell with a closer look at everything! Lots of good details in here.
This is hard to believe, but I introduced a bug minutes before blogging about Inkwell. Sync was partially broken. Apologies to folks who tried it right away, it should be returning to normal now.
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