Bij de Open State Foundation (waar ik voorzitter ben) zoeken we een nieuwe directeur! Herken jij je in het profiel (PDF), en ben je net zo bevlogen als ons team om digitale transparantie bij de…

my entry for the june edition of the grizzly gazette bearblog carnival

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On why I use the web less

This TPS ruling will cause endless pain to good communities.

Listed below are some reasonably fast-loading alternative interfaces to Reddit. These sites often disappear or go down. When this happens you can switch to another instance. The post A List Of…

There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted — The RSS analogy is what makes the whole thing click. Counting Bluesky instances misses the point the same way counting RSS readers would have missed…

If you’ve ever been to a really good museum or botanical garden or an IKEA, they typically have a maze-like layout. Rather than a central hub with clear in-and-out spokes, they encourage you to…

Quando eu criei esse espaço, eu prometi que ele seria um experimento de escrita diária, uma coisa que eu não percebi é como é difícil escrever todos os dias, pra mim isso é um parto, cada parágrafo…

Using the Beta I’ve been using Stream for Mac in its default mode for quite a while now and I really love it. I can see things I need to tweak but the overall shape and stability of the app put…

Este sábado 27 de junio estaré participando en el VIII Festival de fanzines de Zaragoza, un evento organizado por la librería El Armadillo Ilustrado y la revista Adoquín con un montón de actividades…

Issues I see with it, and why I don't (often) contribute to it

I've seen a bunch of references to Standard.sitestandard. It's an approach to publishing long-form content with/in AT Protocolat. The same protocol that powers blueskybs. My first reaction was…

Just download it...

Here's another little update to the Qobuz Beta theme. Their use of Tailwind continues to be an obstacle, as there just aren't enough semantic classes to style things how I would like. In the vein,…

Let me ask you this: Do you absolutely, 100% need to be an influencer to succeed online? We recently had a debate about the big names of the online world in ​The Council​. We spoke about…

I really like this blog by Barry Prendergast. I’m getting quite into the AT protocol stuff and their writing is really helping with my broader understanding of how this stuff works. Barry does a…

I’ve been asked, “Hey, Sam, if you’re not interested in pursuing traditional publishing anymore, why not self-publish?” And I’ll tell you why not. It has nothing to do with looking down on…

W Social's tagline is "Trust Your Feed" but the company's landing page displays inflated engagement metrics - a misrepresentation that contradicts its own promise.

Post: 25 June 2026New blog post on my website:Middlesbrough Council has released its Council Tax address list as open dataNo UPRNs unfortunately, so no map

Why reducing cognitive load creates communities where more people can participate, connect, and thrive Accessibility is often treated like a technical requirement. Add captions. Upload a transcript.…

A veces saltarse el muro es un acto político, A veces es mal diseño. En otras palabras, Obediencia a una regla no declarada

The balloon Chicken Scratch has been released, for all your chicken-and-stationery needs!

The ghost Thoughtful Replies has been released! In the quietest hours of the night, a certain homebody writes heartfelt notes by candlelight.

The term “fedposting,” arose on 4chan’s /pol/ in the late 2010’s. Used to describe anonymous figures advocating violent illegal action, fedposting was an accusation that the original poster was a…

Roshan: [[File:{{#setmainimage:Astra_walking_through_the_Palms_courtyard.jpg}}|thumb|Astra walking through the courtyard of the building we live in]] One of the nice things about living in a modern…

When we were seventeen, we sent each other small fragments of social engagement across the public internet. Today the public internet is aggressively filled with other people's stuff. We've been…

in this one, i just talk about a few small things, that's all! :)

We scored the 50,074 most-visited websites for how well an AI agent can discover, parse, and comprehend them. The median scores 52 of 100, not one scored excellent, and roughly three in four haven't…

I remember reading “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” on a hot summer vacation in Palermo. We stayed in an AirBnB across from the Palazzo Butera…

When I announced that I was open-sourcing a quiz maker earlier this week, I noted that there were several limitations to what I had built. Most importantly, my quiz maker was a Python script, which…

Newsairy 1.07 adds support for another aggregator: Inoreader. Inoreader is a popular cloud RSS service. If you use it, you can now connect your account to Newsairy — your subscriptions, read state,…

This is my submission for the June 2026 IndieWeb Carnival. The theme is “No way!?”, hosted by Alex Hsu. It is widely known that people don’t remember the first 1-3 years of their childhood,…

Digital Dugnad Dump Big Tech Make the Switch Make the switch. The Digital Dugnad campaign highlights four actions you can take - Switch your browser. Switch your search engine. Move your email.…

I made an online quiz creator based off of jamesg's python script! Take a look at it maybe!

My house now has a public Internet Presence

A month ago I wrote about building outl on the Kleppmann move-op paper. That post ended with a working sync: a terminal client on macOS and an iOS app, converging over iCloud Drive, no server, no…

I asked Claude to do some work on Blogging Tools. I wanted a way to schedule the publication of a post. Well, in a manner of speaking. The scheduled post retains it’s original publication date.…

Heat and big changes

Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN (Like The Indie Bob Spot on Facebook and follow The Indie Bob Spot on X) Used book stores are a completely different animal from new books bookstores. Within that…

Plaintiff NetChoice, a trade association whose members operate many of the largest social media platforms, sued defendant Yost in his capacity as Ohio’s Attorney General. It challenged…

The modern JavaScript ecosystem is incredible. If you need a utility, library or framework for anything it’s probably out there in the npm registry. Things that used to take us a week are now…

You know RSS, right? Congratulations! You are officially a web power user. Many people don’t know what RSS is and have never used it. They… The post Once You Try… Ehm (but for RSS)…

A simple and reliable way to use CSS counters Have you ever discovered a tiny piece of code hiding in plain site that made your life a little bit easier? This post is about one of those. One web…

I was doomscrolling through social media today when I came across a post that symphatized with people who talk 'too much'. I can't remember the exact words, but it was somewhere along the lines of…

Yesterday I received a spam e-mail from superpower.com lying to me about having read one of my articles.

Hi there! I'm happy to announce version 3.26 of reader , a Python feed reader library. What's new? # Here are the highlights since reader 3.24 . Feed autodiscovery # reader now discovers feeds…

AT Protocol is public by default. Everything you write goes into a signed, archived, and rebroadcastable repository that anyone can read from and moves through relays. This core design decision makes…

I have wanted my own place online for a while. I had been tinkering with some self developed things, but recently just I wanted to jump in and start. So off I went looking for some hosted solutions.…