Wednesday session
Wednesday session
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Today the work with Claude is much better, though when we got started it was even worse than yesterday. The key to getting on track was to figure out why it worked so well in previous projects and fell apart with this one. In each of the others, I passed off an existing proj...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
An innocuous iPhone notifications setting could put your Signal contacts at risk.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Zoomies
Yesterday the dog got zoomies. Zoomies are what Americans (others too?) call it when a dog runs around in circles in what looks either manic or fun or maybe both. Kelly had gone to work. And Gwen came back in from the walk, looked for her, and lacking Kelly in the apartment, the zoomies commenced....
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Stop Flock
Flock is building a national surveillance network. A protest movement is forming to tear it down.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
One size fits none: let communities build for themselves
How open protocols and agentic development could lead to a whole new generation of social applications.
Automating Sending Webmention Requests from a Static Site
danielpietzsch.com/articles/automating-webmention-requests-from-a-static-site
Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott
A thoughtful piece by Matthias that’s a must-read for both designers and developers.
A glitch in the matrix. The app that keeps daveverse.org in sync with scripting.com has been offline since Friday, so I'm republishing all the posts since then. They will all appear to have been posted today on daveverse. As they say -- still diggin!
I updated sally.scripting.com to support https, and updated it with posts from scripting.com in 2023-2026. I was using it as an example of prior art of user interface for Claude. I figured restoring this app on my own would be penance for believing that Claude was anywhere near as smart as I am. Not even close. Not today at least. Grrr.
I've come to the conclusion, perhaps temporarily, that Claude can't work on a programming project with an experienced developer. It doesn't check its work, it'll think it's found the problem, makes a change, or worse causes you to do a lot of work so it can make a change. It ...
No-stack web development – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
A stack is also technical debt, non-transferable knowledge, accelerated obsolescence, and vendor lock-in. That means fragility and overall unnecessary complication. Popular stacks inevitably turn into cargo cults that build in spite of the web, not for it.
The web platform does not require build toolchains. Always default to, and regress to, the fundamentals of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Those core standards are the web stack.
delphitools
A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools.
No logins, no registration, no data collection.
Untitled
📕 Finished reading Discovering Machine Knitting by Kandy Diamond ISBN: 9780719841996
Inkwell for iOS is now available as a beta! You can join TestFlight here. We’ll be improving a few things this week, getting it ready for an official release on both iOS and Android.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Vertical Tabs
The other day, as I was driving home, I had the bad idea of listening to the most recent Waveform podcast, where they were discussing vertical vs horizontal tabs in browsers (and many other things). The whole discussion was truly painful to listen to, you’d hope people who t...
Sam Altman profile misses the mark
This profile of Sam Altman in The New Yorker is extremely long. I read it on the train and while standing in line at Disneyland Paris. But for all the research the reporters did, it’s essentially just a rehashing of the “not consistently candid” argument against Sam from ove...
First coffee back in Austin in about a month! Glad to be home. Still miss Europe a little too.
Weeknote 2026-W15: Diagrams, Node.js, Pi Homelab & Link Dump
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Design and Engineering, As One
In the winter of 1898, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor arrived at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Pennsylvania with a stopwatch and a conviction. Taylor had been thinking for years about why industrial work was so inefficient, and he believed he had found...