People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
I just released a new version of Silverleaf, my new RSS reader that’s built around Inkwell syncing. It’s free, so check it out!
Available in the App Store.
The first Rivian R2 off the assembly line will be the higher-priced $60k model. I’m not in the market for a car, still love my old Honda Element that I’ve put way too much money into. But maybe 5-10 years from now when the price is a bit lower, this will probably be my car.
Just added Daring Fireball to my blogroll. What a huge oversight. Glad to get this fixed.
Tim Cook writing on Apple’s 50th anniversary:
From the first Apple computer to the Mac, from iPod to iPhone, iPad to Apple Watch and AirPods, as well as the services we use every day — the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV — we’ve spent five decades rethinking what’s possible and putting powerful tools into people’s hands.
What strikes me about this list is that it’s dominated by products in Apple’s very recent history. All of the products except the Apple and Macintosh were created in the last 25 years. Even the iPod is not quite 25 years old.
Bluesky is actually pretty close to being on the web. The biggest missing piece is inbound RSS. They already support outbound, it could use a review and tuneup, but that half is mostly there.
Why doesn't Substack have inbound RSS? Every time I look at their home page I think what a freaking waste. They are the web's printer. But you have to use their editor.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
A WordPress instance that's entirely hosted in your browser opens up interesting possibilities for self-hosted personal apps.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
It’s fine. Many people do it, and you decided to do the same. That’s ok. But don’t attempt to use some wishy-washy argument to justify your actions. You either believe in something and you’re willing to power through, or you don’t, and you do what everybody else is doing. It’s fine to pick option B, but at least have the courage to admit it and don't use some bullshit argument to justify your actions.
Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome.
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Lo-fi selfie with Manu
Generative AI vegetarianism, simply put, is avoiding generative AI tools as much as you can in your day-to-day life.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Previously: I wore my old wetsuit today. It’s had more wear and tear than the one I got in January. But the zipper works better. It’s the same model, but the new one has this comedic attribute: in a big wave, or even a strong wave, the zipper tends to open from my neck down...
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
As we announced and TechCrunch covered, my.wordpress.net has soft-launched. What this means is you need to fundamentally shift how you think about WordPress. From the beginning, WordPress has always been open source, giving you freedom, liberty, autonomy, and digital sovereignty. Open source is the most powerful idea of our generation. For the past few decades, … Continue reading WordPress Everywhere →
Trump’s naive attacks or threats against Iran, Venezuela, Canada, Greenland, Cuba and lack of support for Ukraine guarantee that every country that doesn’t have nukes is going to be working overtime to get them. Assuming they don’t already have the equiv of the Strait of Hormuz. Assuming the world survives Trump do you really think they’re going to let the US have as much power as it has up until Trump? They and we have to limit the power of all countries big and small. Trump is the warning that you can’t assume things will always be as they always have been.
Thanks to everyone who has tried our new feed reader Inkwell, and especially folks who have upgraded to Micro.blog Premium for the Reading Recap feature. Now that I’ve had a few days to evaluate how the launch is going, we’re going to need to add more servers, so the upgrades help a lot.
Beto Dealmeida blogs about a human.json file and browser extension that lets other bloggers vouch for who is writing their own posts, not AI-generated:
This JSON document not only says, “all my content under https://robida.net is human-generated”, but it also indicates other people who I trust are doing the same.
I wonder if we all have the same definition of human-generated now? For me, it’s okay if people use an LLM as an advanced grammar checker. Human drafts a post, AI suggests how to polish it.
It is incredibly stubborn at insisting on giving you orders or deciding for itself what it will do. According to these AI's the human will isn't important, I couldn't possibly have arrived in the chat with a goal. I am blown away by what I can do, but I absolutely hate how these bots try to dominate, always, and never remembers. There should be a macro for: "I will tell you what to do."
I put another couple of hours in my from-scratch right-sized Claude project. I decided we should switch from a browser-based app with no server component to a Node.js app with a browser-based UI. I felt it would be substantially easier to develop as a server app, and would more easily be enhanced with a SQL database running behind it. So I learned how to do that with Claude Code. had to slap its wrist when it tried, twice, to look at and change code outside of the freaking sandbox. I was promised it never would do that. I have the server running in PagePark, which has a built-in Heroku-like system I wrote a few years ago so I could manage all my apps from a CLI app, on Unix at Digital Ocean. Then we created a nice UI running in the browser. Two hours. And how did it make me feel? Mind bomb!
