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April 24 through May 1, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: 1RG's Side Project Social Thursday, April 30 at 6:00pm TORONTO, Ontario: 1RG Homebrew Website Club - Pacific Wednesday, April 29 at 6:00pm 🎪 IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf April 25 - April 26 DÜ...

The day holds onto the light for as long as it can. The warm glow of the horizon reminds me of all of the bright adventures of the day, and makes me wonder “what will I do tomorrow?”. I can see the first star, which means that night will soon be here; the time for rest, processing, and preparing to imagine tomorrow. (Written a few days ago, and published on a rainy evening where the memories of the sunset on a clear evening warm my heart.)

Just when you think the OpenAI folks have refocused on their core business, the Codex team has added a Hatch Pet skill that creates a little virtual companion that can appear on screen while you work in the app. Silly! Or maybe ingenious because hatching a pet also demonstrates how sub-agents work.

Continuing to have some random errors in publishing today. I’m upgrading one of our servers now to address it.

The thing about having a blog for 24 years at the same domain name (and 17 years of podcasting) is that it should be clear what I believe in by now. I’ve never deleted or significantly edited a post. My life and work are either a very long con, plotted out half my life ago, ...

More good reporting from The Verge folks in the courtroom:

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers started asking Birchall questions herself, and it clearly was making Birchall nervous. Birchall said he doesn’t remember discussing the xAI bid with Musk or Shivon Zilis or any other principal of the Musk organization. It sure sounded like Musk’s lawyers hadn’t given OpenAI proper discovery on this topic in the depositions, and so we were doing a fast and dirty deposition with the judge right then.

Back when I launched Tweet Marker, it was originally called Tweetmarks, but I got spooked by a trademark and renamed it. While I don’t regret that necessarily, I think I overreacted. I mention this because there are similar issues with Inkwell, a very common name, and I’m trying to be careful.

Apparently Substack does not implement MCP, which is basically the XML-RPC of AI. According to ChatGPT they have a limited API that some independent developers have bridged to MCP. But as you would expect from a tight silo like Substack, the API lets you read but not write. They want you to use their editor, what they don't want is to be one of 20 distributors of your writing. They want an exclusive and they get it.

BTW, I pointed to the Wikipedia page for XML-RPC, and noticed that they point to an archive.org copy of a very old version of the website, instead of the updated site which has new reference code written in JavaScript. The old version of the site used Frontier, which is where XML-RPC was developed, but it's not in wide use these days, JavaScript is. Could someone update the Wikipedia page to change the link to the current XML-RPC site? I'm reluctant to do it myself because that's somewhat against the rules.

Every so often I think about the word “content.” It’s not my favourite word. Content feels relatively flat compared to the things to which it can refer. I have been meaning to write about my preference for something else for a while: I prefer to say “my words” or “my stories...

I don’t think I will need my jacket. The weather is warm enough that I can go outside without one. It always feels both special and jarring on the first days of the year when the world is so warm that you can go out without a jacket – the anticipation for the warmth clashes w...

"AI only needs 150 words to identify me. What does that mean for you?"

Welcome to May, the fairest month of all in the NYC area. Almost every day in May is delicious. And today is esp fair, the Knicks moved on to the next round of the playoffs with a record-setting decisive victory over the Hawks of Atlanta. The next opponent is either the Celt...

On this day in 2016 I wrote a screed on Facebook saying how I wanted to turn it into a blogging platform including the how and why. The arguments are roughly the same ones about how I want Bluesky to stop paying homage to the limits of Twitter and cozy up to the web and let's...

The backup of this blog for April in OPML format.

AI and society; and sustaining innovation has failed us.

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Hyde Stevenson, whose blog can be found at lazybea.rs. 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 members. ...

Log in, sign in 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...

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...