People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Apparently I still don’t know how to join a Zoom call without being muted first. It’s always a surprise what is going to happen when I connect. Camera on? Audio? Who knows!
Vincent Ritter has launched Build with Micro.blog, a new unofficial site with API documentation, example apps, and much more. Our official documentation is so sparse that it’s not obvious how far-reaching the scope of the API actually is. This site really shows it.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
When open source becomes a bureaucracy, it stops being able to innovate. For a product, that can mean death.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
People love your work because of its impact, not how it works.
An update on Inkwell for iOS: still working through review problems with Apple, a week later. I’m trying to be patient. Anyone can install the app via TestFlight.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
How do you fund work people don't want to pay for?
Wednesday session
I’m still really impressed with computer use in Codex. Every couple of days there is a problem that is well suited to letting the agent just iterate. In this example screenshot, it clicks around in Inkwell to reproduce and then fix a bug. This is after I confirmed some assumptions in the debugger.
But this obsession with hard work as a virtue, as a good and righteous thing to do, the glorification of toil and sweat and labor… that’s a tool the wealthy who don’t work for a living use to oppress those who do.
The link rot is a symptom of the larger rot that is taking place on the web. This intentional hiding of our world’s past is intended to disorient us. If the big tech internet places are continuing to exert their control over us by making their online spaces more and more oppressive, by hiding history they can trick us into believing that what we’re experiencing now is Just How Things Have Always Been.
More thoughts on Automattic's new short-form blogging app. I wish I could use WordLand to post to it. That would make things so simple. But their limits are like Twitter’s limits. Tiny little textboxes. And the funny thing is the storage system behind it doesn’t have any of those limits. It’s like they want to be sure you still have to use the standard WordPress user interface? I wouldn’t be surprised if the thinking behind it was like that.
What's the opposite of locked-in? Locked-open. Mwhahaa.
