People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Finished reading: Moonbound by Robin Sloan. Truly bizarre, and I mean that in a good way. 📚
Seriously underestimated how long this db migration was going to take, leading to a deployment blunder that introduced a temporary cross-posting glitch. I’ve been juggling too much this week, making careless mistakes. Getting a lot done, though!
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
It's not enough to be free. We also need to be in community
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I have the most followers on Twitter, Bluesky has never come close. I can't get anything to happen on Bluesky, but Twitter is great. Yesterday I had an idea, put it up on twitter and within a few hours I got the connection I was hoping for. It's a network, and it's more defined by who's there than who owns it. I can use it for idea distribution, the ideas find more minds and sometimes that results in benefits for the web. It's all about interop, and weirdly the pwned Twitter is much better for idea distribution than any of the other networks. In a sane world those smaller vendors would be fighting for interop, instead they're fighting against it.
Last week’s Sharp Tech about data centers is really good. Misinformation, the lost opportunity with nuclear power, and SpaceX craziness.
The most compelling point: it’s possible that the demand for intelligence has almost no limit. If so, a lot of the insane scale starts to sound reasonable.
Yesterday I applied to speak at WordCamp US in August. I got a really nice response from the main WordPress account. Thank you. I now have a platform to speak to the community, and I'll do my best to outline what I have in mind in August in Phoenix. How appropriate that the phoenix is the symbol of rebirth.
Finished watching Hacks season 5 this week. Great series. Each season had its own theme and arc, and they knew when to call it, not drag on past the story they set out to tell. 📺
Federico Viticci blogs about RemCTL, a command-line tool he built for Reminders:
So I decided to take matters into my own hands and build the Reminders CLI of my dreams with Codex. After about two months of work and everyday tests, the result is RemCTL (short for “Reminders Control”): to the best of my knowledge, it’s the only Reminders CLI that can read and write any kind of reminder and Reminders metadata…
Really impressive. I installed it to play with, even though I don’t really use Reminders. Works well.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Feels like a great, tight series even with a couple blowouts like tonight. As a Spurs fan, that run in the 3rd quarter was fun to watch. Expecting game 7 to be close, though, maybe more like OT in game 1. 🏀
Cross-domain access is everywhere in today's software landscape. Whether you look at enterprise SaaS applications, AI agents interacting with user data across multiple platforms, or "integrated experiences" pulling information from a calendar, a chat tool, and a wiki—everything eventually needs to talk across boundaries.
Anthropic released Opus 4.8 today. GPT-5.6 is probably soon. Which is better seems increasingly subjective. It’s hard to notice small steps forward when you’re already at really good.
People will stick to the tools they are comfortable with. The next big advance will be a new app, not a new model.
Jill Biden says she wondered if Joe Biden was having a stroke during the presidential debate. One of the great what ifs to think what would’ve happened if the debate had been a week earlier or a week later. 🇺🇸
Bluesky is now showing Standard.site info in the timeline:
Starting today, Standard.site links will have an enhanced render in the Bluesky app, with extra, actionable metadata about the post, including the publication and author.
Very cool. Support for Standard.site in Micro.blog coming soon.
Thursday session
Making good progress on Micro.blog 3.7 for iOS. You can follow along with the beta version on TestFlight. The blog post text editor has been rewritten. Getting rid of Obj-C hacks that I bolted on in previous versions.
