FeedCity

Wednesday session

Yesterday I wrote a piece about a Markdown-only browser, that worked nicely with HTTP. Maximally minimal. I got interested in what it would take to do this, and asked ChatGPT for a plan. If you want to implement it, please do. Let me know if you have something to try.

There’s a bit of accidental gamification going on with my releases.md gist. Feels good to work on something and then see it reflected in that file.

"Every federal and gubernatorial race, by name and by state, read from what people are actually saying" - all powered by the open social web.

The people who can see journalism most clearly are the people who have the least time and space to solve its problems.

I like to hide tabs in GitHub projects that I don’t need. Finally figured out how to get rid of the Agents tab on the web. Go to your profile → Copilot settings → Visibility.

On 10/7/1994, I wrote my first blog post. I've been blogging ever since. In the first years when wifi wasn't in every hotel room and restaurant as it is today, before cell phones or even iPods, there were weekly lapses when I went on vacation or to a massage retreat in the...

Maybe I should’ve clarified in my post today that I stopped posting to Twitter ages ago, won’t be posting there again no matter what happens. Micro.blog supports several platforms that I don’t personally use. LinkedIn, for example.

Casey Newton plans to return to X in the coming days. He wrote in Platformer this week: The community of people working in and around artificial intelligence product and policy simply refuses to move away from X, no matter how bad it gets. And: I am among those who believ...

Ich habe bei Dave Winer gelesen, dass XSLT aus den Browsern entfernt werden soll. Ich habe gerade alle XML Formate die ich in WordPress finden konnte, mit XSLT aufgehübscht und jetzt beschließen Google & Co. ernsthaft den Support einzustellen!?!? Aber bevor ich weiter „rante“, hier ein kurzer Einschub was XSLT überhaupt ist: Mit XSLT lassen […]

Surely the problems with Christa Pike’s failed execution rise to the level of cruel and unusual punishment set in the constitution. Can’t believe in 2026 we are still even debating this.

If you squint, there are parallels this week between PhotoCraft, an AI re-implementation of Photoshop, and OpenAI dropping a GitHub repo with hundreds of solutions to open math problems. There are some professions that will need to be continuously rethought.

How about a Markdown web browser. No CSS, no frameworks, just Markdown files. That would be how you would restart the web in 2026. When you've had enough of Google, let me know. I start posting my blog in that space, right away.

Google will not be allowed into this web. Buh bye.

We need our own EFF to keep the Old Arthritic Corporate Excuse-makers for the Tech Industry EFF from fucking it up, same with the W3C. There won't be a WordPress there to own 81% of the websites. Just Markdown please, we don't need Gutenberg. The cool thing about it is you could always fork off your own New Web of Whatever. You don't like Markdown, that's cool. Maybe the web of SVG or The Web of Hypercard cards. Just make sure you support inbound and outbound RSS.

Rick Beato just published another one of his long-form interviews. This time, he interviewed Josh Homme. Josh is from Palm Desert, California, where there were no clubs, so his band Kyuss, which he founded when he was 14, played parties outside in the desert. Out there, as ...

As a newsletter hawker who uses Buttondown, I appreciate that Buttondown has controls to manage how newsletter archives get crawled – by search engines, LLM tools, etc: Crawling settings. And I was chatting with James the other day and he had a clever page which uses checkboxes to create some interesting, game-like effects. I went...

Google Chrome, nice browser, but it doesn’t support the web.

We just hit a milesone in Atlantis. We have WebSocket support, client and server. We made a client that listens to the FeedLand stream of new and updated posts. Still waiting to see if that works. But when I started to write the code for this test app last year, I realized a...