Marco Arment posted to Reddit with details on the first Overcast beta that includes transcripts. Very nicely done. The transcripts UI feels cleaner and less finicky than Apple Podcasts.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
I’m bringing everything back to my website (ROOTS)
lisacharlottemuth.com/bringing-everything-back-to-my-website
Today's song: You Never Can Tell.
Small update to the source namespace. source:localTime is a channel-level element. It was incorrectly stated that it is item-level.
I have a hard and fast rule about phone calls that solicit private information. I hang up. The worst are insurance companies. They expect you to enter all kinds of confidential info on a phone from a number that doesn't even verify as belonging to the company. Caller ID has nothing to say about them. Yet at least some of these are legit and unless you do what they want, you don't get your meds.
These assholes https://www.openui.com/ did not do any due diligence before choosing a name. The only Open UI that counts is https://open-ui.org/
These assholes https://www.openui.com/ did not do any due diligence before choosing a name.
The only Open UI that counts is https://open-ui.org/
ZIP Code First
I mean, I would ask for the country first (because not all countries have zip/postal codes), but the point stands…
Web of State of the Browser Day Out
remysharp.com/2026/03/18/web-of-state-of-the-browser-day-out
A lovely post from Remy about State Of The Browser and Web Day Out.
Working with agents doesn’t feel like flow — Bill de hÓra
dehora.net/journal/2026/working-with-agents-doesnt-feel-like-flow
Related to Matt’s thoughts:
…working with agents feels much less like classic deep work, and much more like playing a game. Not to say the work is frivolous—it’s just because it feels like I’m in a game loop.
Flow, at least in the usual sense for me, feels smooth and continuous. The work and your attention starts to line up so cleanly that the experience becomes frictionless. You disappear into the work and meld with it. One notable aspect of flow has been I lose track of time. Working with agents on the other hand, is not like that at all. It’s highly engaging, but in a more jagged, reactive way. I’m focused, but not settled. I’m absorbed, but not merged with the task. I’m paying close attention the whole time, but the attention is dynamic and tactical rather than continuous. I don’t lose track of time at all.
The Last Quiet Thing | Terry Godier
Most of your screen time isn’t leisure. It isn’t addiction. It isn’t even a choice.
It’s maintenance.
That’s a lot of green Ws. Spurs have won their last 18 of 20 games. 🏀
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...