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This Week in the IndieWeb

April 17-24, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Eastern Wednesday, April 22 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom! Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, April 22 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club - Düsseldorf/Germany Tuesday, Apr...

Scripting News
24 Apr 21:48

I want writing to be as open as podcasting. The pattern is ridiculously easy to apply. If this were on a a high school math test, it would be too easy, everyone would get it right. How do you make text work like podcasting? 1. You look for a brain-dead obvious choice for tex...

Manton Reece
24 Apr 20:51

LLM prices

I’ve been trying to find the right balance of AI models to use in Micro.blog. Currently we use a few different flavors of GPT, including OpenAI’s cheaper “flex” version when speed doesn’t matter much, such as in the background work that powers Inkwell’s Reading Recap feature...

Adactio
24 Apr 20:48

Friday session

Manton Reece
24 Apr 19:51

Marked-up Mac minis on Ebay, going for almost $1k… Nutty. Better to just get a MacBook Neo.

Adactio
24 Apr 18:12

Afternoon tea and tunes

Manton Reece
24 Apr 15:06

Super short 8-second video of the new reply window in Inkwell 1.2 for Mac.

Scripting News
24 Apr 15:00

NBA playoffs, Knicks lose again

After last night's game I remember I now remember why I was so relieved last season when the Knicks were eliminated in the semifinals of the NBA playoffs. It’s a freaking exhausting sport. And the sad truth is the Knicks are getting beaten by Atlanta. Or maybe it's not so sa...

Ben Werdmuller
24 Apr 13:54 • Ben Werdmuller

Notable links: April 24, 2026

Data and electronic civil rights in wartime; building safer creativity at work.

Ben Werdmuller
24 Apr 13:54 • Ben Werdmuller

In wartime, megascale data centers may make way for distributed architectures

"To avoid collateral damage, countries consider ditching giant server hubs for smaller, distributed ones—especially now that military and civilian data live side-by-side."

IndieNews English
24 Apr 13:09 • joshblais.com

Using the internet like it’s 1999

joshblais.com/blog/using-the-internet-like-its-1999/

Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
24 Apr 10:57 • Manuel Moreale

Nicolas Solerieu

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Nicolas Solerieu, whose blog can be found at slrncl.com/blog. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a Month" club mem...

Matthias Ott
24 Apr 08:51 • Matthias Ott

At Machine Speed

Yesterday, I opened Discord to a message from my friend Bastian Allgeier that I had never quite seen in all the years I’ve been building sites with his Kirby CMS. “Today we are releasing our biggest security release in the last 14+ years,” Bastian wrote. “The last few weeks ...

IndieNews English
24 Apr 07:12 • danielpietzsch.com

HWC DUS April is behind us. Daniel told us about his (CSS) color palette...

danielpietzsch.com/notes/hwc-april-2026

HWC DUS April is behind us. Daniel told us about his (CSS) color palette and color spaces deep dive. And about emojis and the plain symbol version of those. So here’s some links to the things we talked about: Okabe-Ito Color Palette Paul Tol’s Color Schemes Dead Code podcast (RSS, FeedCity) font-variant-emoji Unicode Variation Selectors

Ben Werdmuller
24 Apr 02:06 • Ben Werdmuller

XOXO Explore is fitting showcase for a brilliant experiment

XOXO was completely wonderful. This site is a lovely showcase of why.

Scripting News
23 Apr 21:51

Let's say you're in Claude Code and you think of something you want to post on your blog. How many steps before you're ready to click the Post button and get back to work? I don't think there's a way to create something that works this way, you'd have to switch out of Claude or ChatGPT. Wouldn't it be nice if you could do it right there?

Scripting News
23 Apr 21:51

Why Firefox? There's a moment now when the web could benefit from leadership. There's a chance to rebuild text in the web around the use of AI systems. But almost every company that could be a leader in this space isn't thinking about what they can do for the web, instead ar...

Manton Reece
23 Apr 20:33

GPT-5.5

When it was teased this morning, I didn’t expect GPT-5.5 to actually ship today. Sounds like it’s a very good, efficient model: Across these domains, GPT‑5.5 is not just more intelligent; it is more efficient in how it works through problems, often reaching higher-quality o...

Manton Reece
23 Apr 15:45

This looks good. A new book from the Internet Archive called Vanishing Culture:

…brings together essays, research, and case studies that document a growing crisis: the erosion of access to the knowledge, media, and history that shape our collective memory.

Manton Reece
23 Apr 15:45

Still annoyed that Twitter / X remains so popular with some groups, like AI developers and NBA fans. New teasing post “NS41” from the OpenAI devs account this morning is “5.5” base64-encoded. Presumably GPT-5.5 is almost ready.