That’s a lot of green Ws. Spurs have won their last 18 of 20 games. 🏀
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Suspension of Disbelief in Software
As before I asked Claude.ai to do a synopsis, from its point of view. I added a link to Brent's post and a postscript. As always if you really want to know what I said you have to listen. :-)
Dave opens by riffing on a post by Brent Simmons, who described feeling, for the fi...
Podcast: A one-line comment on Brent Simmons' blog got me started on a 10-minute ramble about suspension of disbelief, in software. Also a story about meeting Ted Nelson at the West Coast Computer Faire in SF in 1979. Skiing. And other miscellanea.
Really cool set of upcoming Micro.blog plug-ins from @rscottjones for putting different kinds of travel maps on your blog. I bet this’ll work great for my attempt to visit all Texas state parks.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Four things about Yahoo News that may surprise you
It's one of the most popular news sites in the country, and it's wildly profitable. It might be the right time for Yahoo to bounce back.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
The Last Quiet Thing
"That guilt was manufactured. It was placed inside you by an industry that profits from your participation and a wellness culture that profits from your shame."
The Timeless Way of Building
The book for this month’s IndieWeb Book Club, hosted by Nick, is Christopher Alexander’s book The Timeless Way of Building.
The book is about architecture, but its principles have broader application to any discipline involved with building something.
The idea of a “pattern...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
EOTD: “Hi Joe Crawford, let’s connect”
Another email offering would-be free money got through my spam filters. Previously: EOTD: “This is a legitimate arrangement—no risk to you.” Hi Joe Crawford, I’ve put a lot of thought into this email, and I hope that comes through. I’m %REDACTED%, a Senior Full Stack Engineer from %REDACTED_COUNTRY% with 8+ years of development experience. I...
Landscape by Moonlight
Whenever I visit an art gallery, there is inevitably a painting that sparks joy, or otherwise leaves me with an impression that sticks with me. Peter Paul Rubens’ Landscape by Moonlight was one such painting.
The painting depicts a landscape at night time. The ground and the...
Library memories
One of the ideas Frances shared when we exchanged blog post titles was to write about a memory from a library. While the prompt “Sparking joy” is the one I ended up writing about, as soon as I started to think about library memories a few ideas came to mind. One memory in par...
Space
Two years ago, I visited Greenwich in London. I had been to London before, but Greenwich was that bit further out so I hadn’t made the trip. What drew me to Greenwich was the Royal Observatory and the Prime Meridian line. The day I visited, I had great joy standing over the P...
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Exploiting brain flaws
In my “closing thoughts” post about the phone usage experiment, I mentioned I had deeper thoughts I wanted to share. Here I am, sharing those thoughts. I ran various month-long life experiments over the years, many of which I chronicled here on this blog. For that reason, th...
Weeknote 2026-W08: A11y, WCAG & KeepAndroidOpen
Second St. Patrick’s Day session
Second St. Patrick’s Day session
‘’Tis Saint Patrick himself!
‘’Tis Saint Patrick himself!
Interlude with dancers
Interlude with dancers
Ideas for managing post volume in web readers
As I subscribe to more web feeds, I am starting to think about whether there are features that a “calm” web reader should have that are designed specifically for managing the number of posts in one’s reader.
I recently introduced Artemis roll-up to “roll up” a week’s posts f...
Federico Viticci blogs about using Android foldables, thinking about the upcoming iPhone foldable:
Anyway, what every foldable has also taught me is that it’s just so nice to realize you can open your phone and be taken into a quasi-tablet environment without having to go grab a separate device. This happens to me all the time: I’m doing some research and realize I want to keep my browser next to, say, ChatGPT; without interrupting what I’m doing, I can open the Z Fold and continue the task, now with two apps shown on screen.
Also I love the name iPhone Duo.
First St. Patrick’s Day session
First St. Patrick’s Day session
Like the native Micro.blog client apps, Inkwell for web and macOS are open source. We aren’t great at incorporating contributions into the shipping versions, but it feels right. With AI-assisted development, the code itself is not as valuable as the whole package — design, infrastructure, etc.