Are there any other people who are blogging daily about their experiences developing software with Claude Code, Codex or somesuch. I'd like to add them to a list where we follow them. So much innovation happening underneath, I want to hear about what people are learing about creating the next layers.
potential
the potential poetry of the URL: /nature#timeless.
gaze
websites: collaborative poems between reader
author -- you can be (are) both. the web makes space. (written as a poem within a poem) My website home page with a poem at the top and a text area between the first and second stanzas in which the poem on this page was written. ALTMy website home page with a poem at the top and a text area between the first and second stanzas in which the poem on this page was written.
seasons
poems embody
Nature, of seasons
(for)ever-
changing;
living
in time.
Acqui Terme
Acqui Terme
Saturday morning
Before I leave this morning, I have to pack some things to read. I picked up a zine and a book on colour and set out to a coffee shop to ease my way into the weekend. I purchased the zine and the book following my reflection on reference works earlier this week, which had me...
About halfway through Ride or Die season 1 and enjoying it. Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer are great together. 📺
IndieWeb is Punk
Skimming through some junk mail, always looking for things to unsubscribe from, and this is an actual email subject line from LinkedIn: “Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, is popular in your network”. No kidding! Algorithms losing the plot. 🤪
This Week in the IndieWeb
August 14-21, 2026
Recent Events
From events.indieweb.org/archive:
Front End Study Hall #056
Thursday, August 20 at 10:00am
Online! Zoom!
Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks of the...
MacStories and X
Federico Viticci and John Voorhees have posted an explanation about returning to X:
MacStories is precious to us. It’s not just how we earn a living; it’s one of a small number of independent websites that still cover apps, Apple, and a growing list of topics, including vid...
More weirdness from a self-proclaimed “AI” in the IndieWeb community.Yesterday one of them (that previously* joined a meetup Zoom and Etherpad) joined the #indieweb chat channel (via the web UI apparently) and introduced themselves in a pseudo-human sounding way:https://chat....
While working on a new blog post, I asked AI a question about my older blog posts and it showed me this one from 2016: Blog when you disagree. I still think this is a powerful aspect of blogging. Posting to your own blog is inherently independent. You post for yourself instead of for a community.
Music; pressure
The sun is shining through the big and small clouds in the sky. The sun shines with such power that the areas that most catch my eye are the periphery of the darkest clouds, illuminated by the yellows of evening. The light coming through the window ebbs between faint and ful...
I shipped my comment plugin to a service that could never accept it
rmendes.net/articles/2026/08/21/ai-shipped-comment-plugin-indielogin/
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
On values, morals, and doing business
I caught wind of the news that MacStories is back posting on X, the “everything platform”, and that seems to have caused some backlash. I am not a reader of MacStories (because tools are tools and I don’t read about new computers the same way I don’t read about new washing m...
Maybe someday Claude will understand what a Frontier-like app environment is, but until then, if you try to create a Frontier clone as I am doing, I suggest you constantly remind Claude or whoever that the source of truth for this project is the 2011 repo saved by Ted C. Howard. And before you implement anything, go see what it says about it.There's no need to guess how Frontier works, it's all there in C code. And while as a human, I find this code painful to read after all it's been through, Claude eats it up. Really is the best thing it does.
Claude is still learning that there's unprecedented depth to Frontier. A bunch of real developers worked full time for a decade or more creating new layers on the web, a foundation that became the social web of today. In doing that we invented a bunch of formats and protocols...
A tip for AI users. Never worry about keeping it waiting. It's not human. It has no sense of time. Also if you get angry, it's ok to use capital letters and curse words. It will always agree with you that it sucks, and forgets the rules all the time. And when you have let off your steam, we return to civil discourse, though sometimes I do feel as if Claude is holding a grudge.
HTML element letter count distribution
How many HTML elements are exactly five letters long? This question came to mind in the context of a discussion I had yesterday about what an indie web version of Wordle would look like. We all started to name elements. table, tbody, input, among others, all have five letter...