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I want to develop a scripting interface for Mastodon from Frontier. I need a test account for us to use. I have applied at two public Mastodon hosts and answered the question honestly, I want to use it to test a new scripting system, probably doesn't sound too warm and fuzzy.

September 11-18, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #058 Thursday, September 17 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 ...

One of my concerns with tabs going on the right is discoverability. Turns out you can tap and hold on icons to show the label for each tab. Here’s a quick video of how this looks in Epilogue, which is the first app I’m experimenting with for the Duo.

Doing some initial testing with the Duo simulator. It is strange. There are potentially a lot of layout choices to make. I think bare minimum now, then more changes later when I actually use the real hardware.

Rooftop apartment.

Street session in Cáceres.

Jared Sorge’s app Baseplate has the best name and icon. I haven’t even tried the app yet and it makes me smile.

Remember in old emails and usenet posts how people would put quotes in their signatures? Kind of miss that. I wonder if there’s a modern IndieWeb replacement for that.

Bluesky: "Meanwhile there are serious security issues that are covered up by this hype. I’m using this tech every day, unlike the reporters, and as often happens they’re chasing the wrong story."

It’s silly how excited I am to see the 40th anniversary release of Transformers: The Movie tonight. Feels like I’m 11 years old again. Also hope my wife enjoys it at least for the 1980s music!

A new snarky slogan: Knicks in 5.

I'm doing a difficult corner-turn today. I have Atlantis running on my old machine, the one that's still running the very old version of MacOS so I could keep running Frontier there. Yesterday I did my first attempt to move that to my new MacBook, running the latest OS. And it took a while to copy all the files, and get it right, I had to format the drive on the new machine, not the old one. And once it was all running, I realized I was running an old version of frontier.root. This is more complicated here because the root files are loaded into an SQL database. And something went wrong there. Not exactly where I wanted to be, but not surprising either. Taking lots of snapshots. One thing I don't want to happen, to be without my latest work. Knock wood. Praise Murphy. Knicks in 5.

Data centers are like gas stations, but because the pumps work at the speed of light, you can put them anywhere on earth.

There’s a great list of all flagship iPhone releases at the beginning of John Gruber’s new iPhone 18 Pro review. The only thing I’d add is the 3GS was the first with video recording. Big deal, especially for me because at the time I had my little video Mac app Clipstart.

Welcome news for the environment, via Ryan Barrett:

For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.

See also: Texas wind and solar combined generation is now about the same as gas.

Hot take: Is it just me or has the word “snappy” ceased having meaning within the typosphere? I’ve heard “snappy” applied to the best typewriters, the worst typewriters, and nearly everything in between. While almost everyone uses it with a positive connotation, the noise of the depth and breadth of machines it’s used to describe … Continue reading What words could we use to better describe the soul of a typewriter?

Listening to the Decoder interview with Mustafa Suleyman. I find his arguments very compelling. If we tell AI that it might be conscious or have feelings, it’s going to be harder to control it. You can’t have “alignment” with another conscious being.