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If I ran Bluesky, instead of trying to fork the web, I'd be trying to become the competitor of Twitter's that is 100% web top to bottom.

I walked through standard.site with ChatGPT. You can do it too if you want to find out what it is. I was interested in knowing how it compares to RSS 2.0 and FeedLand. I want a quick overview of standard.site with a simple example. Seems like RSS mostly. We have a firehous...

Rishabh emailed me the other day, asking me to answer the 7 questions of his new blog challenge, and who am I to say no to such a request? So here we go. How was your first experience with AI models? I assume by AI models we mean the current crop of LLMs, and not AI models i...

On sustainably building tech that serves humanity.

John Gruber coining the term dickover for the annoying modals that obscure content:

A webpage should show the webpage. An email should show the email. I should not have to explain this.

Couldn’t agree more. You will never see anything even remotely like this on Micro.blog or the blogs we host.

This is what I really accomplished in the years of work I did on the early web. I created something that could be built into a large successful company with millions of customers, and the web got a writing system, and because the people running it took the responsibility seriously, it has lasting value. As the say, still to this day, the systems I designed so many years ago work exactly as they did then. That's what the web was supposed to do. If my mom was still with us, I'd ask her to put this on the fridge. It's as good a review as I've ever gotten. My guess is that Matt wrote it, btw. He's really the only one in WordPress-land who can say something like this, imho.

May 22-29, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: 1RG’s Side Project Social Thursday, May 28 at 6:00pm TORONTO, Ontario: 1RG Side Project Socials happen bi-weekly on Thursday nights and are a chance to hang out with others while working on your side project, ...

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!

On May 29, 2024 I asked ChatGPT to: "draw a picture of a baseball game at Citifield in the style of an American master artist." Drawing from 2024. I asked the same question today. Drawing from 2026, patterned after the art of George Bellows (chosen by ChatGPT).

It's not enough to be free. We also need to be in community

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.

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