Sometimes YouTube will show me Lara de Wit’s performance of The Land Before Time and it’ll take me to a completely different world for a few minutes. Beautiful. 🎶
John Gruber blogging about the weird iPhone 18 Pro Max + AT&T bug:
I’d love to understand how a software update can prevent existing devices from being affected, but a software update cannot restore service to existing devices that have already been affected.
Me too. And it says something about Apple quality control that nothing like this has ever really happened in the history of the iPhone that I can remember. Antennagate was overblown compared to actually bricked cell service.
OutPost for Mac — a full-featured Micropub editor that works with Micro.blog and other blog platforms — is out of beta. Feel like Micropub is seeing a lot of new activity and I love it.
Kindness (or, reflecting on TODOs)
For years I have kept a single running document where I take all my notes and write all my TODOs. I like knowing there is one place where I can write everything. I can always move and re-arrange what I need to. I often do. Over the last few weeks, though, I have been reflect...
Care
Elbow grease. Baking soda and water. Care.
The cup from which I drink most often, my IndieWeb mug, has been accruing stains at the joint that connects the interior walls to the bottom of the cup for several months. These stains are left by the occasional drop of tea that is...
Great thing about working with other people like Vincent is sometimes they go behind your back and do crazy things you wouldn’t have done like port Wavelength to the Mac. 🤪 I still need to figure out how best we can officially support and maintain this. Focus! But in the meantime it’s open source.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Amazon tries to placate data center protesters
Amazon's concessions indicate that data center protests are working. But the company is offering less than pocket change.
2001: "Like a boat, a human being has integrity if he or she is what he or she appears to be. That's why integrity commands us to disclose conflicts, so that what we say, and who we appear to be, are in synch. Change the appearance if necessary."
If you're psyched about what the polls say about the midterms, remember that Hillary Clinton was the overwhelming favorite to win in 2016, based on polling.
Sam Altman on X:
I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue.
My mind keeps returning to the article in The New York Times that I mentioned the other day. The future is going to be weird.
Another gloomy, rainy day in Austin. Perfect morning to get coffee and write some code, or settle in with a good book. I’m at Cherrywood for the first time in a while. ☕️
Noticing
Walking through the Royal Mile, I noticed the faint – then increasing – scent of coffee in the air coming from a popular bakery. It is morning. I continued walking for a little while, en route to one of my preferred coffee shops. There, the baristas were laughing, one exchan...
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Beginning at the end
For the past decade, every time I went up to the mountains here in my area, I got the chance to look at one particular mountain ridge standing there silently in the background.
It spans roughly 30km, east to west. On one side, the Slovenian one, there’s the town of Kobarid....
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Finished reading: The Fires of December by Brandon Sanderson. Starts strong, ends strong. Might be a little too much Hoid if that is possible, but overall I enjoyed it. 📚
This Week in the IndieWeb
September 25 through October 2, 2026
Recent Events
From events.indieweb.org/archive:
Front End Study Hall #059
Thursday, October 1 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 buil...
One of many similar photos taken this evening. Glorious!
Good point from John Voorhees about potential Full Disk Access restrictions:
On the one hand, it seems to suggest that users will simply have to jump through additional explicit hoops to grant Full Disk Access to their agents and other apps. On the other hand, claiming that Full Disk Access was designed solely for backup apps raises red flags that could signal that the company intends to restrict the kinds of apps that can use Full Disk Access.
I’ve been very bad about posting my recent machine knitting adventures, but rest assured...
I’ve been very bad about posting my recent machine knitting adventures, but rest assured that they continue! I’d love to do proper write-ups for these (and others) soon!
Untitled
📗 Want to read Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros ISBN: 9781739371753