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I’m sitting on a rock, in the middle of a forest. On my right, not even 30cm away from me, a dog panting like crazy, because even though it’s almost 8pm, it’s still way too warm for his liking. To be fair, anything above freezing probably fits that description. Behind me, th...

To read scripting.com you need a browser that supports HTTP.

Why email newsletters made sense. Email has no character limits, can represent bold and italic, links, titles, enclosures, basically most features of the web, and social media places limits on what writers can write. That's where the literate social web went, and the bloggers too. Like how birds are really dinosaurs.

Dave Winer puts out a call for others building tools that support RSS and especially inbound RSS:

If you’re working on a social web app that supports inbound and outbound RSS, I’d like to help, so our products can interop beautifully. That’s the reason I’m doing this work, to establish a baseline for interop in the social web. RSS is the obvious candidate. If we didn’t have it, we’d have to invent it.

I’m actually not aware of any social platforms that support inbound RSS except Micro.blog. It would be great to have more.

Another beautiful remembrance of Om Malik, highlighting his photos on Glass:

It’s not lost on us that Om’s photography, often taken in frozen lands in or around the arctic circle, was the polar opposite of his personality. While he focused on subtle shapes and hidden landscapes, he was the sun of any group he was in.

If you're working on a social web app that supports inbound and outbound RSS, I'd like to help, so our products can interop beautifully. That's the reason I'm doing this work, to establish a baseline for interop in the social web. RSS is the obvious candidate. If we didn't have it, we'd have to invent it. I'd much prefer doing the work openly, so if you can, write a post and send me a link. I think it's time for us to go back to the way we built network systems before Google and the VCs took over. Put up an app and see who works with it. My email address is on the About page on my blog.

Programming tip. If your app has globals, create an object called globals, and put all of them in there. Someday you may want to swap in one set of globals for another, this makes it easy.

Watched the first episode of Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness. Funny. Great to have Larry David back on TV. 📺

I’m testing a Liquid Glass update for Epilogue, but I almost don’t want to ship it until iOS 27 because the translucency on the tab bar is so bad with book covers behind it. I’ll likely work around it, though, so it doesn’t hold up any other features.

Claude can understand code no human could. Ever, under any circumstances. Just like a compiler can understand any code we throw at it. Way beyond what code obfuscation tools can do.

Mark Gurman reporting for Bloomberg that Apple’s vice president of Vision Pro and smart glasses is leaving for OpenAI:

Paul Meade, a vice president, is set to leave Apple by next week and will then start at OpenAI’s hardware unit, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Meade will work on OpenAI’s upcoming family of AI-powered devices, said the people, who declined to be named discussing unannounced personnel moves.

Interesting that he’s leaving before the Apple smart glasses announcement. I’ll be a little surprised if we even hear about the glasses this year.

IndieWebCamp Nuremberg is happening this weekend. I’m looking over the notes for the books session.

There has been a lot of excitement about the OmFest idea. If you’d like to attend or contribute, please fill out this form as soon as possible so we can gauge the type of venue we need. It’s truly a testament to how Om lived life to see the outpouring of remembrances in comments on … Continue reading Om Links →

In our work we have arrived at the point where we read and study a piece I published in 1997, but was written in 1988 or so. Esp the part about LBBS. It's a really good thing I wrote that because I forgot how it worked, but reading that it all comes back. We're going to go far beyond where Twitter went with reading message structures on the web. I had already done a lot of the work in the 80s.

The other day Matt joked about how old I am, in public, and I am pretty old. But Matt, I was paying attention then as I am now, and connecting the dots. No one else working today, I'd venture, knows what it's like to create and run a modem-based dial-up Twitter-like system o...

To an increasingly authoritarian regime, the opportunity to shape how models describe the world may be too good to pass up on.

Screenshot of the default view of a new website on Neocities Note that it helps a newbie visualize a website as a set of files. Note that it includes a link to download the entire site. This came up because I’m listening in on a session at Nuremberg IndieWeb Camp 2026.

Semafor reports that Mythos can now be released to select companies. Also:

The letter is silent on Fable 5, a weaker version of Mythos that was briefly the most powerful AI model widely available to consumers. People close to the talks said they are moving toward releasing Fable as well, though that timeline is unclear.

Presumably the company list is the same for both Mythos and GPT-5.6 announced today. Whether intended or not, the way this was handled has effectively pulled back Anthropic’s perceived lead by a couple weeks, perhaps aligning the latest frontier releases.

June 19-26, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: 1RG’s Side Project Social Thursday, June 25 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...