AI and society; and sustaining innovation has failed us.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Notable links: May 1, 2026
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
Hyde Stevenson
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Hyde Stevenson, whose blog can be found at lazybea.rs.
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Joyful web design
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I recently experimented with writing a new 401 page for the IndieWeb wiki to replace the default nginx page we have. My experiment is not live yet, but I wanted to document a few of the decisions I made while writing the page.
First, I chose the title “You ne...
Joyful web design
I think about joy when I make web pages. If you hover over the mascot on my blog, its eyes will open. The typeface of my blog title on my home page is the same one Taylor Swift used for her evermore album. If you explore my website for long enough, you will find an Easter egg...
Sunset, Düsseldorf
The moment when the sun crosses the horizon feels like it should last longer than it does. Within a few minutes, the sun has moved out of view; the red glow — a moment of transition (is all of life a moment, or moments, of transition?) — tells us where the sun once was. The g...
Of the night; a note
The joy of exploring a city with friends — of getting lost and finding your sense of place again, of laughing under the moon and discussing the rainbows we see when we look at light; of discussing the cuisine of Germany in a warmly lit bakery, a treat as the day came to an end; of looking forward to the next day — conversations and talks and futures.
Designing software with travel in mind
While I was away in Düsseldorf, and when I got back, I received a notification in Artemis asking whether I wanted to change the time zone in which the reader was set. It is important that the user’s timezone is correct so that Artemis can continue to update at midnight in the...
Reorganising the Artemis settings page
Since the release of Artemis, the settings page has been growing steadily in size. What was a few options has grown into over a dozen. With every added option, it was harder to find each individual option.
The new settings page
With that in mind, over the last few weeks I hav...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
IndieWeb Fiction Carnival: May 2026
This month's prompt is "sticks and stones will break my bones".
This Knicks fan is happy! ❤️
Walt Frazier interview after the game.
Good update on the progress in fediverse UX in this report by Tim Chambers and Sean Tilley. I like this intro to instance selection paralysis:
New users arrive ready to escape Big Tech, and we immediately hit them with 8,000 servers named like medieval taverns crossed with startup pitches.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
A longer walk today, then decided to get a few groceries and took a Waymo back. Eventually this isn’t going to be noteworthy. As humans we normalize so many things that once seemed insane.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Adventure!
This is a post in response to Pablo hosting of IndieWeb Carnival for April, 2026 on the theme of “Adventure.” My parents contextualized difficult times as “an adventure.” Moving day was an adventure. Broken down car while on a family trip? Adventure. Sunburn during the summer? Adventure. I think it’s a valid way to think...
Thursday session
Thursday session
Gentle thunderstorm rolling through Austin. 🌧️
Still following The Verge coverage from the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial. Lots of bizarre moments:
Judge Gonzalez Rogers asks Musk to sum up the plot of Terminator in one sentence. “Worst case situation is AI kills us all I suppose,” he says.