Yesterday I said there should be courtroom sketches from the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trail. I did find a few, by artist Vicki Behringer. They’re not all in one place — and I wish I could legally just post them on my blog — but you can find them on Reuters pages like this one, this one, and this one.
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
Nicola Losito
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Nicola Losito, whose blog can be found at nicolalosito.it.
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Pull-based real-time: Approximating WebSockets and Server-Sent Events with HTTP/2 and conditional requests
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Near sunset sesh
Fun video on YouTube from Steve Wallis trying to make a huge swamp cooler. Actual portable A/C units are getting a little smaller… I check Amazon every few months for the latest and will eventually get one.
Claude just astounded me
I say to Claude: btw, i would have been surprised if it was broken, that feature went in very quickly and i use it a fair amount. one of the two big pages in feedland is the Feed List page. here's a screen shot. maybe you can figure out what everything does??
Example of a...
Inkwell app review history
I was clicking around in App Store Connect as I wait for Inkwell to be approved. The long list of submissions and rejections is unusual for me, so thought I’d capture the table here as a blog post. Hopefully this is just about the end of it. 🤞
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I’m still listening to the OpenAI case, off and on as I work. It’s fascinating. I do wish there were courtroom sketches, though! So much money flowing through this trial — we just learned that the expert witness for Elon Musk is making 6 figures for his time — yet no one can hire an artist?
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
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.