People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
This is about something that’s already happening, that doesn’t show up in employment figures: the quiet destruction of the feedback loop that turns inexperienced people into competent ones. The process by which you get something wrong, feel it, understand why, and become slightly less wrong next time. It’s unglamorous and it’s slow and it’s the only way it’s ever worked.
AI short-circuits that learning completely. Not maliciously. Just structurally. When you can generate something that looks right without doing the thinking, you will (most people, most people being me, will, most of the time, under pressure, with a deadline) and the muscle that thinking would have built never develops.
Mutually assured Mechanical Turk.
This is genuinely much more interesting and wholesome than a chat interface powered by a large language model.
From reviews, sounds like the MacBook Neo is a great little laptop. It has been a while since I’ve thought an Apple product actually followed that “a thousand no’s for every yes” video from WWDC a decade ago… This laptop makes the right trade-offs.
I found out recently that my blog is in of the default startup set for NetNewsWire. What an honor to be included. Thanks Brent! ;-)
Thomas Ricouard is joining OpenAI. Thomas worked on the Medium iOS app, Ice Cubes for Mastodon (written in SwiftUI), and Codex Monitor. From a thread on Twitter / X:
I also can’t wait to bring my iOS and macOS expertise to help shape the Codex experience around those platforms.
He appears to have stopped posting to the fediverse. It’s too bad the AI community is so entrenched on Twitter / X.
Bookmarked Manton Reece – Introducing Inkwell
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.