Reading Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Good, Standard Work: Creating the Commons
Jeffrey Zeldman blogs about taking time to edit now that text is free and abundant:
Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement. When everything around you is excessive by default, choosing fewer words takes courage. It says: I thought about this.
Thursday session
Thursday session
Threat models
People talk about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of large language models as though all tasks are comparable. But it strikes me that there are three broad categories of work that large language models are applied to:
Compression.
Transformation.
Expansion.
Compressi...
Updating version strings today, so here’s my official guide to acceptable version numbers:
❌ 0.1
❌ 1
❌ 1.0.0
✅ 1.0b1
✅ 1.0
✅ 1.0.1
❌ 2
✅ 2.0
✅ 2.0.1
✅ 2.1
✅ 2.1.1
❌ 2.1.10
❌ 2.123
❌ 2026.1.2
❌ 2026.123456789
I’ve been versioning apps like this for 30 years. It’s just how it is. 🙂
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.
"Google had already disclosed my data without telling me. There was no opportunity to contest it."
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
You Own Your Role, We Own The Outcome
"A mantra to clarify ownership while reinforcing shared responsibility." I agree with every word.
IWC DUS 2026 Feed List
Inkwell beta for Android is now in review over at Google. Feeling good about 1.0 on both mobile platforms, will ship fairly soon. All the client apps are open source too — web, mobile, Mac.
WordPress has remained mostly constant for its whole life, at least from the point of view of this outsider. But now the world its embedded in is turning upside down and WordPress must change, but no one really knows how that change will manifest.
WordPress is a monoculture
I've been designing and developing software like WordPress for over thirty years. I have stong opinions about where the product should have gone, but mostly I've not been talking about that, because I don't want to interfere with what Matt is doing.
I've known him since he ...
Time for a home screen update. A few recent changes: Inkwell beta, Duolingo, Orion. Dock row is Hey plus our Micro.blog suite of apps: Epilogue, Strata, and Micro.blog.
The opmlProjectEditor explainer needed a light edit. It should make a lot more sense now if you're a newcomer. Perhaps the most important thing is that it now includes an example that you can open in Drummer to see how it works in an outline editor. OPML has become a really important format for apps that use RSS, but it's far more broadly adaptable. It's a good package for a whole app, and you can teach your tools to use the common structure to make it easier to share it with others, including Claude, to keep a repo current, and to deploy the resulting code.
Announcing Nuchronic.uk
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Nuances
I realised that the thing that bothered me the most about that stupid tabs discussion was the shallowness. Vertical vs horizontal tabs in a browser is not a deep philosophical topic worth of major explorations, that goes without saying, but you can still approach it with som...
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Another sketchy opportunity
From a gmail address. Emphasis in original. I am pretty sure this would be violating the law and violating contractual agreements which might get made should an actual “job” get booked. Subject: To Joe Crawford Hi Joe, This is %REDACTED%, and I’ve found your contact from LinkedIn. I’ve been managing an outsourcing team for the...