People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Amazing photo of astronaut Christina Koch in silhouette, hair floating in zero gravity, looking back at Earth. 🚀
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
"Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting “faulty” AI answers." Increasingly, incentive structures are asking them to.
In today’s update to Inkwell for Mac, there’s a new window for photos in blog posts. It’s particularly useful for Reading Recap thumbnails too, with a clickable permalink to visit the full post.
Simple, but I’m happy with how this turned out. Toolbar buttons, pinch to zoom, drag to scroll, etc.
Paris street from the Promenade plantée René-Dumont. 🚂
danielkossmann.com/homebrew-website-club-curitiba-meetings-2-through-7/
On the train, crossing into France.
There’s a fundamental problem with these tools beyond the capacity of any deployment strategy to solve: the tool requires expertise to validate, but its use diminishes expertise and stunts its growth. How does one become an expert? There are no shortcuts; there is only continuous hard work and dedication. I was once told of writing, great writers learn how to break the rules in new and ingenious ways by first learning the rules.
But how is a new developer meant to learn the rules if their day-to-day work is nothing but the babysitting of models? How will they gain the hard-won experience that allows a human in the loop to be a useful safeguard?
These models alter cognition in ways deleterious to human prosperity. In other words, for as much output as they provide, they take something important from us.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
If you’re looking for a good watch this weekend, I couldn’t recommend more the documentary Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. The craft of research, writing, and editing is presented in the most beautiful way possible. Around 400,000 words were removed from The Power Broker, which was ultimately published … Continue reading Turn Every Page →
Sometimes I put test posts on my blog. This is one of those times. Still diggin, amazingly -- in 2026. What makes this post different is that 1. It's a singular item, ie there is no title, and just one paragraph. It's a collection of sentences not paragraphs. 2. It has a right margin image. I have to test this specific case. It has to go on a certain length so that the image that appears in the right margin doesn't leak over to the next item, and the image should be small so it doesn't require so much text to keep it out of the next post. And now I believe I have entered enough text.
Finally I get to watch a Spurs game live even though I’m too many time zones away, because it’s an early afternoon game in Denver. Really good test for the Spurs. Couldn’t quite make it happen in OT. 🏀
Sound checking Salter Cane
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
