FeedCity

Na een Claude Code sessie met @frank@indieweb.social vrijdag, waarin ik mijn bestaande persoonlijke feedreader wat oppoetste, wilde ik wel meer. Maar dan lokaal, en dat blijkt te kunnen. Claude Code kan lokaal Ollama / LM Studio gebruiken.

Next year I have to go to FOSDEM. This year's conference going on right now, in Brussels. If you're there and reading this -- say a hello for me. I realize the piece I wrote yesterday about the future of the social web is equally relevant now for FOSDEM. My prescription: car...

Added a note to the storage docs page for wpIdentity, explaining that while most files we serve are private, there are examples of files we manage that are public. It had been a while since I reviewed this page. I also see now that we have to have a way to identify the app that created an object, and for that we'll need a way to identify apps. I knew that was coming sooner or later.

February 4 is the midpoint of winter. So we're almost half-way there.

Apple (transcript, MacRumors, CNBC, Hacker News): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $143.8 billion, up 16 percent year over year. Diluted earnings per share was $2.84, up 19 percent year over year. […] “iPhone had its best-ever quarter driven by unprecedented demand, with all-time records across every geographic segment, and Services also achieved an all-time […]

Richard Lawler (MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple’s biggest acquisition ever is still its $3 billion Beats buy in 2014, but now the second biggest deal is bringing in Q.ai, a four-year-old AI audio startup. Apple did not disclose the terms, but Financial Times reports that Apple is spending $2 billion on the company. It also […]

Sebastiaan de With (Bluesky, MacRumors, The Verge): Some big personal news: I’ve joined the Design Team at Apple. So excited to work with the very best team in the world on my favorite products. ✌️ Great news. I wish they’d also hire Mario Guzmán. Anna Washenko: Prior to Halide, de With had done other work […]

Ben Sandofsky: Typical photo-preset apps simply swap a photo’s color palette. Halide’s Looks are capable of much more, virtue of being part of the camera itself. When you select a look, it changes the way the camera captures a photo and interprets the results. For the best results, you should pick the final look at […]

Peter Steinberger (Hacker News): Two months ago, I hacked together a weekend project. What started as “WhatsApp Relay” now has over 100,000 GitHub stars and drew 2 million visitors in a single week. Today, I’m excited to announce our new name: OpenClaw. […] I’d like to thank all security folks for their hard work in […]

Sarah Perez (MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot): Creator platform Patreon is taking issue with Apple’s new mandate that forces all creators to move to a subscription billing model, which now has a new transition deadline of November 1, 2026. […] The company said it would switch creators to subscription billing in November 2024, and creators could […]

Apple Newsroom, yesterday: “Today, Apple is proud to report a remarkable, record-breaking quarter, with revenue of $143.8 billion, up 16 percent from a year ago and well above our expectations,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “iPhone had its best-ever quarter driven by unpr...

Death Valley, California, November 2025.

From the video Caught in a rainstorm in Death Valley.

The FediForum home page says "the Open Social Web still has only a tiny fraction of the users of the closed social media platforms, and growing that number significantly has turned out harder than expected." This is the premise of their next conference, on March 2, a little ...

Yesterday I wrote the idea "small pieces loosely joined" was central to what we mean by the web. Now I'd like to add another criteria. "All parts are replaceable." I think it's self-evident what it means. And of course there is no such thing, but the internet itself comes v...

Maybe Trump is right and we should go to war against Denmark.

Mike Swanson: What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks: “How are you enjoying your drive so far?” Annoyed by the int...

When I wrote last week about the false narrative that iOS 26 is seeing bizarrely low adoption rates compared to previous years, I neglected one source: Apple itself. Apple’s Developer site publishes a page with iOS and iPadOS usage for devices that “transacted on the App Sto...

Indiana, December 2025.

Yesterday I reported that I had remapped pagepark.scripting.com to the github repo for pagepark. But then later in the day it stopped doing that. Why? I have no clue. I moved it to another server and now it works.

The best description for the web I've ever heard is small pieces loosely joined. That really gets to the essence of it. The pieces stand on their own, up to a point, when they are joined to other pieces. And you can un-join and re-join them. I see a lot of things that say they're part of the web than can't do the arbitrary joining that's central to what the web is.