First beta of Inkwell for Android was rejected by Google, re-submitted. But good news they’ve approved a round of bug fixes in the Micro.blog app for Android.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
The people who call themselves Mets fans who are sad when the Mets don't make the playoffs are really Yankees fans.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
This Week in the IndieWeb
April 10-17, 2026
Recent Events
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1RG's Side Project Social
Thursday, April 16 at 6:00pm
TORONTO, Ontario: 1RG
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific
Wednesday, April 15 at 6:00pm
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London
Wednesday, April 15 at ...
If I were running WordPress, my first priority would be to get something exciting out that even non-WordPress users would find exciting and worth talking about. Then do it again. Ideally it would be something that reporters would like, that they could see themselves using. As you know, my Big Idea is give people choice of editors, for writers. But I just thought of a technical thing they could do and might make no sense, but how about running Claude skills. So anything a Claude app can do a WordPress plugin can do. I just built my first skill, and they can be Node.js apps. That's a pretty broad range of features you can support inside WordPress. Also ask users to tell you what would turn them on. Couldn't hurt, sometimes they have ideas that you as a developer never would think of. I made a few million dollars from an idea a user gave me once. Not kidding.
Ben Thompson on the latest Dithering:
I do feel one of the challenges I have with people talking about how AI is making them so much more productive, is because these were some of the most unproductive people in the world previously.
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Codex and Sky polish
Federico Viticci blogs about the new Codex app from the perspective of his early preview of Sky last year:
It also helps that computer use in Codex is exquisitely designed – not a surprise given OpenAI’s design team and the pedigree of the team behind this feature. The flow...
@NASA.gov has lots of short Artemis videos on their YouTube channel (@NASA@YouTube.com), however this 10h10m video of the Artemis II lunar flyby appears to be the closest to a continuous long-form recording of the live stream during that period.https://youtu.be/z-j1uxBmis0 Af...
John Gruber commenting on a blog post from Terry Godier:
Imagine being in a restaurant, and in the middle of your entree, the server comes to your table and hands you an iPad and asks you to rate the joint on Yelp. That’s what using most apps is like.
We are pretty close to that restaurant reality already! Rating prompts are out of control.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
I write.
I moved another page which I’d brought into WordPress out of WordPress. And so, the new Writing page, which will continue to be a sort of work in progress. I really want to provide a bit more context, add more dates, and some nice summaries. Maybe even word counts? New job is going well. I...
Scott Hanson who works with me on all my projects is doing his WordPress development using Codex. Here's a plug-in they wrote. Loving this. So we're all turning this corner. There are so many things I want to do, but I keep hitting bumps. I recover and come back again, so far. And I go slowly. The bot wants to run at a breakneck pace, which I know from tons of experience gets you a worthless result. One of the byproducts of my current project is a /opml skill that reads and writes .opml files in a way that's compatible with all the apps that use OPML. Pretty sure of that since I published the first OPML file in 2000 or so. Not sure how I'm going to release the skill, but I want everyone to have it.
I’m bringing a new server online today to improve background queue performance. If you see Lilly in the logs, that’s it. Follows our train naming theme.
The new Codex for Mac update is really good. There are a bunch of new features, but computer use is particularly well done. Some great Mac-specific touches. Ari Weinstein worked on it — from the original Workflow team, and Shortcuts at Apple.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
JTR
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with JTR, whose blog can be found at taonaw.com.
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Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Notable links: April 17, 2026
How AI is affecting thinking and distribution – and why relationships are still at the heart of great teams.
Reading Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir.
Reading Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir.
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