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Montserrat Monastery. It’s beautiful up here, but unfortunately this is as close as I’m going to get. Left late, then got off at the wrong stop so had lunch in a small town waiting for the next train, and then forgot it is Good Friday. Very long line with everyone on holiday. 🚡

A dystopian week, with a glimmer of hope: alternatives are available.

A little sneak peek of Inkwell for mobile in Vincent’s latest blog post.

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Anthony Nelzin-Santos, whose blog can be found at z1nz0l1n.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a Month" club m...

Plaça Espanya. 🚂

Matt Mullenweg has a great blog post with both positive things to say about Cloudflare and a critique of EmDash. So I was right yesterday that “spiritual successor” was the wrong way for Cloudflare to pitch this. From Matt, about why WordPress can be run anywhere:

It’s all built on open source and web standards. You can run it anywhere; there’s no lock-in.

That’s why we do what we do. It’s really hard. You can come after our users, but please don’t claim to be our spiritual successor without understanding our spirit.

AT Protocol standardizations is officially underway, with a new working group at the IETF:

For folks building in the Atmosphere ecosystem, and who care about how services interoperate and share data, this working group is a big opportunity to work out any ambiguities and unresolved issues.

Listening to U2’s new EP, Easter Lily. Bono:

We still look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance against all this awfulness on our small screens. These are for sure ‘wilderness years’ for so many of us looking at the mayhem out there in the world.

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Congrats to the Flipboard folks on launching the web version of Surf. It’s an interesting mashup of different social networks, which is what the open web is great at.

Julien Genestoux thinks the open web needs netizens. I agree – and in 2026, that's indistinguishable from citizenry.

So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security. (Is it nominative determinism or a simulation glitch that everyone trying to terraform the web has some variation of “Matthew” in their name? I was in a call set up by Matthew Prince, talking to Matt Taylor … Continue reading EmDash Feedback →

"Nota shut down its news sites after Axios and Poynter found dozens of plagiarized quotes, phrases and photos."

LinkedIn is using invasive techniques to fingerprint your browser. Together with its understanding of your identity and professional history, it has the ingredients for an incredibly detailed profile.

I say time and again there’s a lot of stuff on my site. I consider the site a message in a bottle, a diary, a hangout, a digital garden, a junk drawer. But it’s mine and I like it. There are things here I forgot were here. Today I reworked 3 holiday cards from decades...

Thursday session

Flipboard's browser for the open social web is out for web users today.

Looking over EmDash. I don’t like that they call it “the spiritual successor to WordPress”. Isn’t the spirit of WordPress from Matt Mullenweg’s vision of the project? Matt is very much still involved. Feels wrong for Cloudflare to frame it that way.

This Saturday night in The Hope And Ruin in Brighton…

https://saltercane.com/tickets

Please follow me at my new Twitter address: bullmancuso. Whatever anyone thinks of the company the product is still unique, there are people and communities there that I need to communicate with, and I just don't have that kind of network anywhere else.