People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Sometimes you have to just start with beauty. Listen to Jon Batiste’s Beethoven Blues, then relish this interview, where he plays and talks about it. I can’t wait for Black Mozart, which is already starting to trickle on Spotify. Forget all that Ferrari stuff, what Jony Ive did with his LoveFrom Sailing Lantern is divine. … Continue reading Assorted Links →
The first Day One journal turned out so well that I ordered another one. They make it so easy.
Brent Simmons blogs about what he’s been up to with NetNewsWire over the last year. I also created a PR for Inkwell sync in NNW, but the work stalled because I wasn’t confident enough in the codebase to definitely say it’s ready to ship. Need to dust that off and try to get it into an update.
If Claude were human it would learn from you even if they didn't record what it learned in a notebook, two or three times and they would remember. Not so with Claude. If it isn't written down it will not remember it. Its mind doesn't have memory. It remembers things by writing them in a markdown file. It's like the movie Memento, where the main character tatoos the info he needs on his body. And then proceeds to misunderstand it. Claude is just like that.
Animated feature The Violinist looks special. A couple moments in the trailer reminded me a bit of Grave of the Fireflies, although on balance it probably doesn’t go that far into tragedy. Hopefully gets an American release.
Dan Provost blogs about launching a custom guitar company. Looks really nice. The best products make me wish I was into the thing being made.
My thinking on Anthropic has been shaped most by Ben Thompson and Peter Steinberger. Peter created OpenClaw so is affected by closing models to third-party apps. Ben has an article today after the Fable fallout:
…given that they think only they should be developing leading edge AI, they by extension think that only they should have final say over AI generally. When you further combine this realization with the company’s pronouncements about AI’s ability to conduct all economic activity, you realize that Anthropic’s leadership effectively wants to have power over everything and everyone.
Just now, to Claude: "amazing how we get lost in the weeds, that's why you have cut way down on the verbiage. i am a human -- you can absorb all that info in an instant. my brain does not work that way."
Now that the basketball is over, can we ask why the San Antonio arena played the cartoon music while introducing the Knicks. I was surprised they did it again in Game 5 considering the butt-kicking they got in Game 4
I'm creating a new way to do messaging, a network that only understands RSS feeds for incoming and outgoing messages. The only API you'll need to subscribe is a feed reader. The idea is to show developers how to do it so a thousand flowers can bloom. It's a lot easier to create these things if you're modest in the features you support, at least at first, and you don't try to control the users. There is no business model here, other than the satisfaction of making sure everyone knows what a social system looks like made only out of the features of the web, and every part replaceable.
An example of the latest version of the library generator, which is of course just a script. Note that there's a disclosure at the bottom of the page where it says how and why it was created, and then lists the exact prompt that ChatGPT responded to. And I didn't write the prompt, Claude did. I think that pretty much assures I kept my own opinion to myself.
Often when I use the term RSS feeds it will link to this page.
In the coming weeks and months I'm going to talk a lot about RSS feeds. I want to be clear, that it is a short hand for RSS, Atom and RDF. It makes the writing flow better, and it gives me a place to provide the technical details for people who need them.
We use the Feedparser package to read the feeds, so basically we support the same feed formats they do.
Request for Claude, please add a close box to this message box. I wasn't using the new model. Once is enough for this message.
Good morning sports fans! Going to the Knicks parade in NYC on Thurs? Parade starts at 10AM at Battery Park, goes up Broadway through Canyon of Heroes, concluding at City Hall.
This is a great case study featuring a really useful HTML web component called validation-enhancer.
The results? When we launched, the number of people completing the form doubled. The analytics people didn’t even know where these users were coming from. Of course, your javascript-based analytics package doesn’t see the users you are bouncing because of javascript failures. It was a flood!
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
But maybe I do. When last I posted, I mentioned that I lost a fin in the big surf. That was on June 9, Tuesday. I've lost stuff before. A fin in 2025, which I got back. And 2021, which I didn't. And gotten them back before. So when I left early to take see...
I like this analogy from Alice Bartlett’s blog:
I think with AI you’ve got to be building the software equivalent of escalators if you’re going to do it for prod. That way if the AI goes away you still have stairs, unless you’ve gotten too out of shape to walk up them.
The Guardian reports on an upcoming social media ban for teens in the UK:
Keir Starmer is to ban under-16s from major social media apps such as TikTok, Instagram and X in sweeping restrictions described as “Australia plus”, the Guardian understands.
Eventually we’re going to need to figure out legislation that is a little more narrowly focused than this. But for now I’m fine with it.
