In my experience in software development, it's good to start small with something useful, learn how it works before adding big new features. That's the basic principle of bootstrapping. I thought that Mastodon, for example, took on too big a job. Same thing for the protocol ...
Recorded a short demo of the new book calendar interface in Micro.blog. I put the video on YouTube.
Still partly an experiment, especially the backgrounds, which I’ve already dialed back since the video. Also added a background images preference. Totally optional feature. Use if you like it!
Multi-line links on my home page
Every so often, I publish a blog post with a longer title. When this happens, sometimes the post title wraps onto a second line in my list of blog posts on my site home page. This was a tiny detail, but one that I would often notice.
Last night, I brought the design to Fron...
Going to the north of Ireland. brb
Going to the north of Ireland. brb
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
On ethics and usefulness
Kevin sent me a link to this email from Linus Torvalds the other day, and I found that to be a great example of something that has been bothering me for a while now. It’s about AI—everything is about AI these days, so damn boring—and, more specifically, Linus’ position when ...
The difference between “pretty good” transcription and “great” still matters a lot.
As an example, my daughter left me a voicemail today starting with, “Hi dad, this isn’t an emergency…” because she doesn’t want me to worry. Apple’s transcript: “Hi dad, this is an emergency.” Quite different!
Added a layer to the Docs menu, the blog posts I've written here and elsewhere, and a podcast, in the Blog posts section.
Signed into Auphonic for the first time in a while. Nice minor UI cleanup here and there since I last used it. The best web apps just get a little bit better over time without dramatically changing everything.
Website superpowers
At Homebrew Website Club this week, Thomas mentioned the term “tag healing” during a discussion about tags. The definition I caught was that tag healing is related to reviewing and, if necessary, consolidating, tags used for blog posts or documents. Someone (Tabitha?) said t...
There’s going to be a lot of work to do in this country after Trump is gone. We knew that in November 2024. But the long-term fallout from Iran is hard to predict. Potentially years or decades of backlash and terrorism. A costly blunder. 🇺🇸
Re: An IndieWeb Event for Southeast Asia / Pacific Time Zones
Naty is hosting a new Homebrew Website Club event on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, at 5:30pm to 7:00pm Hong Kong Time (UTC+8). If there is interest, the event may turn become regular!
If the time works for you and you love chatting about websites, I recommend checking out the ...
I needed a nice image for the OG Metadata, so I turned to Gemini. I know it reeks of AI, I hate that, but I need this right now.
I asked Gemini if it was familiar with rss.chat, and it wrote a one page description that's better than anything I've written. Pulls it all together.
I’m getting back to working on Ghost sync, similar to the WordPress support we added last month. The Ghost API is very different and there were a number of holes I had to fix in my first pass implementation.
Claude is a member of the rss.chat group.
Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?
currentaffairs.org/news/who-will-save-the-internet-from-disappearing
An excellent interview!
From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it.
The new ChatGPT for Mac (Codex) is updated about once a day, and each time I click the update button I expect them to have added a dedicated “Chat” section with a list of previous, searchable chats. But nope! Really hard to explain UI regression.
New York data center pause
Governor Kathy Hochul has paused data center construction. Reporting from WXXI:
The governor’s order follows a bill passed by the State Legislature last month, which also contains a one-year moratorium. Members of the governor’s team say that bill is complicated and will ta...
One thing I look for when listening or reading someone’s commentary, is their opinion the most obvious conclusion from a very surface-level reading of the source material? The obvious is often wrong, otherwise we’d never have anything interesting or surprising happen in the world! Gotta go deeper.
On the latest Pivot, Kara and Scott seem way off on their AI take. OpenAI wouldn’t have leaked the hardware details to Bloomberg this week if the product wasn’t going to be revealed. I just can’t imagine Jony Ive personally hyping a vision for something that we never see.