Caleb Hailey has announced socialspec.org, a suite of recommendations for making websites more social. Following lists, about pages, and contact info. “The future of social media is websites.”
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
48% of young people who use AI trust it more than the humans in their lives.
Love the great feedback about Micro.blog’s new Blog Audit feature. Today I updated it with a couple more improvements: an option to download and copy archived images instead of just fixing the img tag, and a better way for us to stop bot hits from showing up in the missing paths section.
Looking forward to this documentary about Don Bluth. From Cartoon Brew:
Directed by Dave LaMattina and Chad Walker of Copper Pot Pictures, the feature chronicles Bluth’s extraordinary career, from his early years at Disney and his dramatic 1979 departure to the creation of an independent animation empire that, for a time, rivaled the studio he left behind.
The idea that AI might be conscious falls apart pretty quickly when you consider ChatGPT Images. It’s also built on the same underlying AI technology, but no one would consider image generation to be conscious.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Speaking of sci-fi authors, Automattic is hosting Neal Stephenson for a livestream about his new book soon, please tune in! Neal was a big influence on WordPress! I got hip to him from Tantek. In the source code of billions of pages you’ll see this: GMPG is the Global Media Protocols Group, “an experiment in … Continue reading Neal Stephenson Live! →
I have a test blog on WordPress.com, so I temporarily upgraded it to test Jetpack in ChatGPT. Here’s a transcript. Do people want this? I’ve avoided building this because I don’t think we should encourage non-human writing on Micro.blog. It could be useful in some cases, though, for dictation.
Dan Moren blogging at Six Colors on the new Apple TV announcements:
In an announcement sure to shock the very foundations of the world, Apple rolled out a new Apple Siri Remote with support for Find My…
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HomeView is not available in the EU because Siri AI isn’t available there. I think Europe should hold the line on this, or find a compromise that will allow limited third-party voice assistants. Talking to my OpenAI dot on a HomeView is exactly what I want.
The video introducing HomeView isn’t making me feel the way Apple probably intended. Now I’m just sad for when my kids were all living at home. Note to parents with younger kids: try to appreciate even the crazy mornings.
I'm a recent convert to new versions of the MacOS, last version I was using was Yosemite or something like that (will check). In this version, Tahoe, it's entirely too easy to make a window go full screen with no obvious keystroke to undo the mistake. I learned if you move the mouse up to the top of the screen you get the menubar, but unfortunately there is no obvious command in the menu for undoing the mistake. I still don't know which gesture does this. And btw, the longtime Mac bug where some keystroke moves the dock to another window, that's still here. I can tell as I'm clicking the mouse, too late to stop, that this is one of those times. I've memorized a finger macro to get it back, but it used to piss me off a lot, but now it's kind of a gentle reassurance that someone is remembering how we got here.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Automattic is always 5–15 years ahead of other companies, but things happen faster now. I predict other companies will start scrambling to add great writers to their boards, because, well, look at the headlines in AI. United’s board already has Walter Isaacson. Authors are awesome, akin to founders in the startup/tech ecosystem. Public offer to … Continue reading Board Agent →
The twenty-third episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:
In Episode 23, I chat with Ben, the author of werd.io about, among other things, connection on the indie web, community building, growing the indie web, and more.
I hope you enjoy the episode!
Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
Jon Hays makes the case that not only will AI not wipe out software developers, in several years we might have more available jobs than people:
By then, I suspect we’ll have discovered that AI hasn’t eliminated the need for good software engineers. It’s simply changed what those engineers are capable of producing. We’ll also have spent years discouraging young people from entering the profession, leaving us with a much smaller pipeline of new talent just as the demand for software continues to grow.
Gruber is right. The only way for the others to compete with Twitter is to start innovating.
To make the web better, we need to move beyond this “Mastodon vs. X” debate. It has become a distraction, consuming all of our energy with fights that barely make a dent in open web progress.
Related to Blog Audit, I also wanted to give a quick shout-out to the plug-in Wayback Link Preserver by @g, which takes a different approach of using JavaScript to intercept link clicks and tries to resolve them to archived copies. You can find that in Micro.blog’s plug-in directory.
Today I’m rolling out a new feature in Micro.blog called Blog Audit. You can find it under Posts → “…” → Blog Audit. It will go through all of your blog posts looking for broken links, missing images, and other problems that tend to pop up after blogging for a while, especially if you’ve migrated from another platform.
I made this short video where I show the feature on my own blog:
Learn more about Blog Audit on the help page. Note that we do require a Micro.blog Premium subscription for this feature. There are new costs for us running the background work, and Blog Audit also pairs nicely with Premium’s other feature of saving a copy of every link you blog about.
Happy blogging!
