Apple responds to OpenAI’s motion to dismiss. Yawn. I think when OpenAI shows their new device later this year and it doesn’t resemble a HomePod at all, this lawsuit is going to feel pointless.
Watching video from WordCamp, Matt Mullenweg mentions they should be putting WordPress profiles on their badges:
Why are we putting like Twitter handles and other stuff. We are the WordPress people. We should be… you know our WordPress profiles and our blog URLs as the primary thing we’re promoting, not these random other walled garden social networks, right?
I didn’t realize that they owned w.org too. See also: “hello my URL is” name tags.
I don’t know if this has gotten worse with Liquid Glass, but I’m noticing that simple context popup menus are just too slow on iOS because of the fancy animation. I’m tempted to write my own that opens immediately when speed matters.
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• Joe Crawford
PB WEDNESDAY
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• Joe Crawford
Ch-Ch-Changes
James sent me this the other day. That’s Gwen, tired. I left my place of employment. The weight of the last job was unhealthy and so I took action. I don’t like it when something with promise turns rancid. I don’t know what’s next, but I can be hired to do any number of web...
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Why I wish people a happy day of the week
Zachary and I are trading blog post titles. Zachary has written a blog post in response to the suggested title “What everyone should know about Australia”. I have written my post in response to the title “Why I wish people a happy day of the week”.
For the last year or so, ...
Brainstorming site name changes in web readers
Recently, one of the websites I follow (not this one!) changed their name. Artemis, the web reader I maintain, was still using the old name for the feed. This makes sense in the case of Artemis because users can choose their own names for an author; if the author name were s...
Re: My perfect laptop
The Macbook Air in Carlos‘ response to Michael’s post “My perfect laptop” caught my eye as soon as I saw it. The Macbook (which I will refer to as a “Mac” going forward) in the blog post looks similar to my first Mac. I originally wanted a Mac because I had been following CS...
HTML Can Do That · Chris Burnell
HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.
Ebb, Meet Flow: Intrinsic Design in a Nutshell - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
zeldman.com/2026/08/18/ebb-meet-flow-intrinsic-design-in-a-nutshell/
Instead of chasing an ever-changing number of fixed breakpoints, utopian or intrinsic design follows the web’s intrinsic ebbs and flows via fluid type scales that are always in tune with the screen on which they’re viewed
Change; anchors
I look out the window. Every time I look I notice change: the ambering of leaves that are still green in my memory, the movement of clouds as they go from one end of the sky to the other, the movement of leaves as they sway to-and-fro with the light morning breeze; some morn...
📖 read “Holston” in “Wool” by @hughhowey.com https://tantek.com/isbn/0358447844#book #Holston #Wool #Silo#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
Continuing to improve the Logs page in Micro.blog. I think the color for different tasks helps. Still a little nerdy, but it’s a very useful page to understand what Micro.blog is doing.
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
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Finally ran out. But then I remembered that the 5.3 credits are tracked separately. I had also forgotten just how fast 5.3 Spark is! For simple changes, it’s not bad.
Did not finish: Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao. I loved the idea and it starts well, but 25% in the writing didn’t quite work for me. Decided to put it down, there’s too much else to read. 📚
The Tower of Babel by Bruegel the Elder
Thomas and I are doing a collaborative writing challenge where we each choose a painting for the other to write about. Thomas chose The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder for me to write about. You can read about the painting I chose for Thomas, Meindert Hobbema’s Wo...
Listening to Fireflies by U2 and Martin Garrix. Can’t wait for the new album. 🎶