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July 3-10, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Pacific Wednesday, July 8 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, July 8 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club - Nuremberg/Germany Wednesday, July 8 at 6:00pm NÜRNB...

A couple of the claims in the Apple vs. OpenAI lawsuit sound kind of serious, but a lot of it sounds like Apple wishes they could wipe the minds of departing employees. The only way to achieve true Apple product secrecy is Severance.

Victor Wembanyama in a post on X:

Spurs family, I’m here to stay.
Whatever it takes🖤

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Toni Schneider blogs an update on Bluesky and drops the “interim” from his CEO title:

Since March, we’ve shipped a slew of new features and products, another 2 million people have joined Bluesky, and close to 200 new apps have launched in the Atmosphere, the open ecosystem of social spaces connected by a single account. All of this tells us that the appetite for social experiences on the internet is vast; far broader than the handful of apps the major platforms offer today.

For the latest version of Epilogue, we’re experimenting with an updated design on the book details screen, with a background color or pattern that matches the book cover. I’ve been wanting to do something like this for a while, to make the app feel a little more alive. There...

A history of front-end development that culminates here:

The frontier of 2026, the stuff the sharpest people are most excited about, is render the HTML on the server, ship almost no JavaScript, and use the web platform instead of fighting it.

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With the 150th interview of People and Blogs now live, it’s officially time to downsize my online presence again. My digital life follows a somewhat regular rhythm and I alternate through phases of expansion, where I buy domain names, ship new projects, start newsletters, an...

A pink symmetry on the peaceful pond catches my eye. “It’s a lotus!” I have made lotuses with paper before, but cannot remember the last time I saw one (have I noticed one before in the way I did today?). The vivid colours are striking: pink petals define the shape of the flo...

Dave Winer announces rss.chat, a new Twitter-like service based on RSS:

We’re just getting started. This is Day 0 in a story that could last a while and spread out pretty far.

I’ve been poking around in the feeds to look for opportunities to integrate with Micro.blog. While it’s probably coincidence that TechCrunch featured HyperTexting today and Dave announced this, I think it’s significant as they are both different angles on “just use web stuff” for social networks.

Great to see this write-up of HyperTexting on TechCrunch! I feel like I’m indirectly featured because I’m in one of the screenshots. 🙂

Yesterday I asked if RSS can be a social network. The answer is yes -- introducing rss.chat! And here's a Day 0 screen shot. The site is read-only except for a few of my programming buddies who are helping me figure out how to work in this environment. I started this proje...

Omnibear v2.3.0 has been release with some improvements to the login flow. But more importantly, it is now available in the Chrome Web Store! If you have a website that supports Micropub, check it out.

Good discussion on Dithering today about the updated ChatGPT for Mac. I hope a few folks at OpenAI listen to this. As @gruber says, it’s all fairly obvious stuff… The UI is fixable.

“Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.” Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (Kelly and I saw it at the Old Globe yesterday)

Digital memory is fragile not because bits decay (though they do), but because someone else owns the shelf.

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Hmm. Had to verify my age before using Bluesky from the web this morning. Good news is the verification process was fast.

I thought the Texas law was to put the burden on the App Store and Google Play to centralize age verification. A little confused now about the scope.

In the face of declining trust in media, communities are part of the solution.

Sometimes even with the robots help, you take on more than you can manage. GPT-5.6 is great. Shipping the Mac app, Sites feature, and Work all at the same time was too much.

Sites is amazing… from the web. Chat on the Mac needs a redesign. Expecting lots of app updates until they get this right.

Shout-out to Google for the amazingly quick app approval times. Minutes. I assume it’s mostly automated… Which it should be for apps that have been shipping updates for years without malware or gimmicks.

Chicago Public Media is launching a region-wide social platform as a way to bolster its journalism. I believe it represents a path to the future.