People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Parker Ortolani blogs about the Neo:
The MacBook Neo is the first Mac that is truly, in every sense of the word, a bicycle for the mind. It’s the first Mac that almost anyone can buy and it’s going to unleash a whole new era of creativity because of it.
Writing the app is easy. Configuring Sparkle to verify updated app signatures… Impossible! 🤪
Reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
The thing that we all missed is that WordPress is the best candidate for a standard for what an individual social network message is.
Patrick Rhone interviewed for the People and Blogs series:
…that’s exactly what a blog should be — a reflection of one’s interest and attention over time. A reflection of who one is right now and where they’ve been. Blogs are living things that should grow at the same rate we do.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Researchers who study online safety are being censored and denied entry to the United States. It's having an unconstitutional chilling effect on independent research and advocacy that a lawsuit aims to correct.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
AI use can lead to burnout - but how you use it really matters.
If I knew how AI would work with software, I would've done things differently to prepare for this. I find myself wanting to ask questions about my code that I don't have proper tools to answer. I have to get all my code managed with the new system, but not sure that's even the right way to go. Once I started using it to build full bits of deployed code, not to just answer questions about the work I'm doing one day at a time, I've become confused about planning my own work.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Buzzfeed pivoted to AI - and now finds itself circling the drain.
I picked up Rick Rubin’s book a couple years ago. It sat on my bedside table for months and one day I will actually finish it.
I just recently discovered his podcast Tetragrammaton. There are two episodes with Greg Brockman that are excellent. (Yes, I’m aware Greg gave a bunch of money to Trump and I’m disappointed by it.)
The full interview is 3 hours long. The first episode has the best insight into Sam Altman’s firing that I’ve heard yet, especially around letting internal drama brew instead of resolving conflicts early. Highly recommend both episodes whether you love or hate AI.
Kagi’s Small Web has added categories:
Finding great Small Web content that scratches your browsing itch can feel overwhelming, especially when the feed is a single stream that tumbles through over 30,000 featured sites. That’s why we’ve introduced categories, curated groups of topics that let you dive into the corners of the Small Web that interest you most.
The site list is available as a simple text file, but I haven’t seen if the categories are published anywhere yet.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
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Tea and tunes
At my mom’s house taking care of things. All the furniture is gone except the piano, so it’s now a sort of standing desk when I need to work.
I have a draft pull request for Inkwell sync in NetNewsWire. Not totally sure yet what more will be needed or any kind of timeline for merging it. I’ll test over the next few days, but at least the code is out there.
Code is a liquid now.
Movable, shapable, flowing. It’s the first time I haven’t felt trapped by the weight of old code.
David Smith developed a clever solution for letting the home screen wallpaper show through widgets:
In Widgetsmith 8.2 we added the ability to give your widgets a ‘clear’ background. This isn’t actually clear (since iOS doesn’t allow that without private API use), but instead just crops part of your home screen wallpaper and uses that as the background.
Very cool.
