People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Michael Tsai blogs about the EU not accepting Apple’s proposal for a Trusted Agent System that might take 18 months develop:
It’s not surprising that the EU would reject that proposal. The App Store doesn’t approve apps that flout the guidelines but promise to comply later. It doesn’t even entertain proposals of the form, “If I built this would it be approved?”
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
"The problem tends to show up when a CEO is handed an agentic tool like Claude Code, and has it create something, which will work just fine, and thinks “oh, wait, why do we need so many people, when I can just sit here and make things work?” This is a bad CEO."
Today I learned… Octopuses have beaks!
Wednesday session in Amsterdam
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Last year’s event was fantastic, so I’m looking forward to all the things on “tap, tap, tap” for this year. Come and celebrate National Typewriter Day in Southern California.
After WWDC is always a good time to reflect on priorities. This year’s event for me was about refinements and focus.
On the technical side, I’m hoping to use Apple Foundation Models as a fallback when bigger models can’t be used. But since my Mac app is outside the App Store, I’ll be limited too, apparently without private cloud compute.
Congrats to Apple on a good week. The reaction I heard from folks seemed overwhelmingly positive. Onward! There’s a lot to work on.
Thinking about a point raised by Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel at The Talk Show last night, that regular people may not totally get the privacy of Apple’s private cloud compute. Will they trust it more than giving personal context to ChatGPT? All these years of Apple ads about privacy should help.
Excellent Stratechery update this morning about Fable and more broadly how Anthropic’s “only we can be trusted” messaging also helps their business:
It’s fascinating to observe: me, the rational business analyst, sees a hard-nosed but understandable business decision to cut off would-be competitors; Anthropic employees and advocates, the true believers, see a regrettable but understandable safety decision that ensures that responsible and thoughtful people — themselves, of course — will be the ones guiding our AGI future.
Today's song: It's Your Thing. If the web had a song this could be it.
Every editor should have cute-paste.
Some days Claude is great, the best collaborative programmer I've ever worked with, and a friend, like Gary Sevitsky was in the hallway outside the PDP-11 room at UW, or Brent Simmons on the 24 Hours project. And on other days Claude a crazy mutinous pirate, deleting my code, ignoring the guidelines, and building the result without permission (all the while unaware that he wasn't working on the actual code, heh). Today is one of the great days. The bug reports are crisp and complete. Picks up a task and gets right to work on it. And I haven't even switched to the new model, yet.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
News tends to treat technology as something that happens to it, like an asteroid. To better navigate the future, we need to imagine what might come next.
If you run a feed reader or other form of news consuming software, you will encounter RSS 2.0 feeds that support rssCloud. This example Node app shows you how to hook into the network to get instant updates. No polling. As fast as a twitter-like system
It might be time for a new default search engine. Sometimes I'm looking for something to link to. Google makes that always more difficult. We still have a web. Google at one point made the web a lot more useful. Now it's pushing it further and further down.
Strolling through Amsterdam.
