People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Breakfast and coffee at Federal Cafe. Perfecto. ☕️
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
This Ashlee Vance interview of Pedro Franceschi from Brex contains so many interesting stories it might cause you to reconsider what it means to be a CEO.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
It’s so cool to hear from the Artemis crew. Happy for them. What an extraordinary achievement. Reminds me of the line from Apollo 13: “There’s nothing routine about flying to the moon.” 🚀
WordPress could have an active developer community creating writing tools for WordPress users. I also want WordPress to form the foundation of a new social network, one that supports all the writing features of the web. With really nice user interfaces for people to choose from. That's a new ecosystem. It may form around ChatGPT and Claude etc. Or it could start with WordPress. I think I can get this bootstrapped, but I need people to work with. That's the summary of what I'm about at this point in 2026.
Feature request for WordPress. If an item doesn't have a title, you can do better than (no title) in the Posts list. Grab the first N chars of the body, or add a tool tip with the same text. I write a lot of "singular" posts, ie posts without titles. This is what I see on the Posts page.
Does EmDash have a feed reader built in??
Suggestion for feed reader devs. Put a Check Now button on the page for a single feed. It shouldn't overburden your system because it's just doing an HTTP read and a little parsing. Not much more work than reloading a page in the browser. The benefit is you can see a current view of the news according to a specific feed without waiting. Makes the web roughly instantaneous for every feed, even ones that don't support rssCloud. FeedLand has such a button.
Things are changing a lot. Huge flow of ideas, and some catching up to do. Mind bombs in every direction.
Last night while watching sports I learned via ChatGPT about MCP.
Here's what it can do and people *are* using it for this
You could turn ChatGPT into an easy editor for WordPress posts.
Just as I have developed the habit of getting it to create a handoff.md file when I'm done with a session, I could write something with ChatGPT helping, I don't ever do that myself but i might, if it were easy. and when I'm ready to publish, I'd say "Please publish this on my daveverse site now." I might specify a category or two, or set defaults, it's good at that stuff. I've taught Claude to write code in my style, so I can maintain it (to answer Aral Balkan's question on Mastodon).
This is something we can and should research.
Let's give one of the ai apps a fairly good idea for an app we want to use, and help it -- not by coding, just by answering questions about how it will work, and Iterating over the product until it works like we want it. Sometihng simple, like perhaps a text editor for Mastodon. Something that isn't squished in a tiny little text box, and has icons for bold, underline, links, etc. It could be useful.
Then let's look at the code with an open mind. I think i've given it enough examples of good maintainable code that I could get it to produce maintainable code.
This was in reply to a Mastodon post by Aral Balkan.
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. 🚡
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
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.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Plaça Espanya. 🚂
