Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Had a great meeting with @BonnieRue this week to catch up on a bunch of ideas for the Micro.blog community and long-form blog post discovery. Also learned about The Brautigan Library. I had missed that Dario Amodei’s Machines of Loving Grace essay title was surely inspired by Richard’s 1960s poem.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Lazy and Prompt
Chrome 148 shipped this week, and in the release notes you’ll find one of the best things to happen to web performance in a long time: loading="lazy" for <video> and <audio> elements.
Scott Jehl, tech lead of Squarespace’s Perfo...
Testing the next version of Micro.blog for iOS with Liquid Glass enabled. It’s looking good. Great work @vincent.
I tried not to overreact to Spurs vs. Timberwolves game 1, so not going to overreact to the game 2 blowout. But this is what I’ll say… This team has played seven playoff games so far. They’ve lost two games: by 3 points and by 2 points. None of the wins were close. 🏀
Why did Twitter win? Because the RSS developers wouldn't work with each other. Thus subscribing to a feed was complicated. In Twitter, it was one click to subscribe, and another to unsub. You could see who your friends subscribed to, again -- one click to subscribe. And even...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Plugging the gaps won't save news. It's time to redesign
"Journalists, cultural workers, content creators, and other trusted messengers are enabling better civic insight for communities. How do we economically support the civic information future that society needs?"
Affordances of a screenless writing interface
This post was written first with my screenless writing interface, and then edited in Ghost, which I use to publish blog posts to this website. The extent of my edits were fixing typos and reworking the introduction and conclusion a little bit.
My original concern when brains...
Integration of the Byline Feed Extension
Going to San Diego. brb
Going to San Diego. brb
Writing a blog post without a screen
This text below post is presented verbatim, as it was typed with only a keyboard: without a display or any assistive technology. Typos are left in. The "Notes after writing" and "My writing setup" sections were typed on my Mac as I prepared to publish the post.
This is my fi...
If you’re voting in local elections in England today, don’t forget to bring your photo ID. And when you get to the polling station, don’t forget to make a formal complaint about having to bring your photo ID.
If you’re voting in local elections in England today, don’t forget to bring your photo ID. And when you get to the polling station, don’t forget to make a formal complaint about having to bring your photo ID.
Google’s Prompt API
No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s “terms of use.”
I’m genuinely disheartened and angry that the Google Chrome team have done this. Never assume good faith from them again.
This is, hands-down, the most insultingly transparent attempt at web standards bullying I’ve ever seen, including past ones from Google, which is — and I cannot stress this point enough — a company that sells advertisements. This is miles more eyeroll-worthy than AMP, where you’ll recall that a legion of tight-smiling dorks wearing Alphabet lanyards tried to assure us that the only means of survival for the web itself was to funnel all of it through Google’s servers, and only use their very good advertisements instead of those bad other ones.
IndieWeb Fiction Carnival April 2026: Round Up for the Prompt of Platonic Soulmates
How To Join The IndieWeb Wiki
Wish I was in San Antonio tonight. Game 2, let’s go. 🏀
Build a website that lasts
Ideas for web readers
Every so often I have an idea for a feature that might be interesting in a web reader. I write down my ideas in my notes. Sometimes, an idea makes its way into Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. Other times, the idea stays in my notes where it can breathe, mature, and m...
Ideas for web readers
Amazing line from Helen Toner’s testimony while describing the ousting of Sam Altman, about Mira Murati:
She was waiting to see which way the wind would blow, and she didn’t realize that she was the wind.