Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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        "text": "The next decade of the web | James\u2019 Coffee Blog\n\n\n\n\n  After the last decade, where platforms have emerged as a core constituent of the web on which many rely, it may feel like things cannot change. That the giants are so big that there is no other way. Yet, to give into this feeling \u2013 that things can\u2019t change \u2013 is not necessary. It is the way it is is not true on the web. We can make change. It\u2019s your web.",
        "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://jamesg.blog/2024/05/19/next-web-decade/\">\nThe next decade of the web | James\u2019 Coffee Blog\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>After the last decade, where <em>platforms</em> have emerged as a core constituent of the web on which many rely, it may feel like things cannot change. That the giants are so big that there is no other way. Yet, to give into this feeling \u2013 that things can\u2019t change \u2013 is not necessary. <em>It is the way it is</em> is not true on the web. We can make change. It\u2019s your web.</p>\n</blockquote>"
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        "html": "<p>I gave up on selfhosting bc it's too hassle</p><p>I could use some suggestions for a solution to host my personal web site</p><p>it's gonna be striclty static, no php, python, no databases</p><p>I'd like to be able to sync through rsync over ssh</p><p>namecheap offers a service that seems interesting, it mentions ftp users, I don't uunderstand how I would sync</p><p><a href=\"https://babka.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <br /><a href=\"https://babka.social/tags/hosting\">#<span>hosting</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I gave up on selfhosting bc it's too hassle\n\nI could use some suggestions for a solution to host my personal web site\n\nit's gonna be striclty static, no php, python, no databases\n\nI'd like to be able to sync through rsync over ssh\n\nnamecheap offers a service that seems interesting, it mentions ftp users, I don't uunderstand how I would sync\n\n#indieweb \n#hosting"
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        "html": "<p>Seman\u00e1rio 31 (2024)</p><p><a href=\"https://curadoria.bearblog.dev/semanario-31-2024/\"><span>https://</span><span>curadoria.bearblog.dev/semanar</span><span>io-31-2024/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/Semanario\">#<span>Semanario</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/Semanario2024S31\">#<span>Semanario2024S31</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a>  <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/SurfandoWeb\">#<span>SurfandoWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/CuradoriaDaInternet\">#<span>CuradoriaDaInternet</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Seman\u00e1rio 31 (2024)\n\nhttps://curadoria.bearblog.dev/semanario-31-2024/\n\n#Semanario #Semanario2024S31 #IndieWeb #SmallWeb  #SurfandoWeb #CuradoriaDaInternet"
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        "html": "<p>hell yeah just got RSS working on my new blog! happy <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blaugust2024\">#<span>blaugust2024</span></a> everyone!</p><p><a href=\"https://vaettr.com\"><span>https://</span><span>vaettr.com</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/rss\">#<span>rss</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/eleventy\">#<span>eleventy</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "hell yeah just got RSS working on my new blog! happy #blaugust2024 everyone!\n\nhttps://vaettr.com\n\n#blogging #indieweb #rss #eleventy #smallweb"
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        "html": "<p><span>I don't normally post about my </span><a href=\"https://infosec.town/tags/art\">#art</a><span> stuff here, but since it has to do with my site, I figure I'd post here too: I just made an RSS feed for my art page!<br /><br /></span><a href=\"https://dakotamarshall.net/art/feed.xml\">dakotamarshall.net/art/feed.xml</a><span><br /><br />I usually post my art over on my Pixelfed account </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/BoneALisa\">@<span>BoneALisa</span></a></span><span>, but recently I've been trying to post my art on my main site and syndicate it out from there. A month or so ago, i main the main art page at </span><a href=\"https://dakotamarshall.net/content/art/\">dakotamarshall.net/content/art/</a><span> and only now got around to making a proper feed for it.<br /><br />Ive been having a blast building this site out, and have a lot of other projects I want to tackle in mind aswell :D<br /><br /></span><a href=\"https://infosec.town/tags/mastoart\">#mastoart</a><span> </span><a href=\"https://infosec.town/tags/indieweb\">#indieweb</a><span> </span><a href=\"https://infosec.town/tags/rss\">#rss</a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/BoneALisa\"></a>",
        "text": "I don't normally post about my #art stuff here, but since it has to do with my site, I figure I'd post here too: I just made an RSS feed for my art page!\n\ndakotamarshall.net/art/feed.xml\n\nI usually post my art over on my Pixelfed account @BoneALisa, but recently I've been trying to post my art on my main site and syndicate it out from there. A month or so ago, i main the main art page at dakotamarshall.net/content/art/ and only now got around to making a proper feed for it.\n\nIve been having a blast building this site out, and have a lot of other projects I want to tackle in mind aswell :D\n\n#mastoart #indieweb #rss"
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        "html": "<p>\ud83d\udd16 New bookmark: Don&amp;#39;t Lie To Me About Web 2.0 </p><p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https://bytemoth.tumblr.com/post/687896104857174016\"><span>https://</span><span>bytemoth.tumblr.com/post/68789</span><span>6104857174016</span></a></p><p>&gt; Web 2.0 was not social media! You\u2019re rewriting history that\u2019s less than 20 years old!</p><p>Should Web 2.0 be defined the rise of social media? Or should it be defined by the troves of individual websites that appeared across the web on individual hosts and servers?</p><p>\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/dont-lie-to-me-about-web-20/\"><span>https://</span><span>flamedfury.com/bookmarks/dont-</span><span>lie-to-me-about-web-20/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/webmastery\">#<span>webmastery</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\ud83d\udd16 New bookmark: Don&#39;t Lie To Me About Web 2.0 \n\n\ud83d\udd17 https://bytemoth.tumblr.com/post/687896104857174016\n\n> Web 2.0 was not social media! You\u2019re rewriting history that\u2019s less than 20 years old!\n\nShould Web 2.0 be defined the rise of social media? Or should it be defined by the troves of individual websites that appeared across the web on individual hosts and servers?\n\n\ud83d\udd25 https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/dont-lie-to-me-about-web-20/\n\n#web #indieweb #smallweb #webmastery"
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        "html": "<p>Wrote a new blog entry. It\u2019s about my week off from IT training and some retro gaming <img alt=\":blobcat:\" height=\"16\" src=\"https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/custom_emojis/images/000/427/130/original/7393695a3278591b.png\" title=\":blobcat:\" width=\"16\" /></p><p><a href=\"https://mdohr.space/blog/posts/2024-08-04_retraining-a-week-off/\"><span>https://</span><span>mdohr.space/blog/posts/2024-08</span><span>-04_retraining-a-week-off/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/personalBlog\">#<span>personalBlog</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/personalwebsite\">#<span>personalwebsite</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/retrogaming\">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/nintendo\">#<span>nintendo</span></a></p>",
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        "html": "<p>hey i\u2019m late to the <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blaugust2024\">#<span>blaugust2024</span></a> party but</p><p>here we go! cheers, to starting fresh!</p><p><a href=\"https://vaettr.com\"><span>https://</span><span>vaettr.com</span><span></span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/eleventy\">#<span>eleventy</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/11ty\">#<span>11ty</span></a></p>",
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        "html": "<p>non sono ancora pronto per self hostare il mio blog nascituro</p><p>sar\u00e0 interamente statico</p><p>no php, no python, nessun db</p><p>dove \u00e8 conveniente comprare l'hosting al giorno d'oggi ?</p><p>ovh ? Aruba ? Namecheap ?</p><p>posso usare qualche strumento di sincronizzazione comodo, non so rsync ?</p><p>Posso entrare in ssh sull'host ?</p><p><a href=\"https://livellosegreto.it/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <br /><a href=\"https://livellosegreto.it/tags/selfhosting\">#<span>selfhosting</span></a></p>",
        "text": "non sono ancora pronto per self hostare il mio blog nascituro\n\nsar\u00e0 interamente statico\n\nno php, no python, nessun db\n\ndove \u00e8 conveniente comprare l'hosting al giorno d'oggi ?\n\novh ? Aruba ? Namecheap ?\n\nposso usare qualche strumento di sincronizzazione comodo, non so rsync ?\n\nPosso entrare in ssh sull'host ?\n\n#indieweb \n#selfhosting"
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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        "text": "Good W3C SocialCG telcon yesterday morning.\n\nMinutes: https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG/2024-08-02\n\nAppreciate working with @evan@cosocial.ca @dmitriz@mastodon.mit.edu @TallTed@mastodon.social @snarfed.org Lisa a @AaronNGray@fosstodon.org @bobwyman@mastodon.social @by_caballero@mastodon.social @j12t@j12t.social @steve@social.technoetic.com @thisismissem@hachyderm.io\n\n#W3C #SocialCG #20240802 #2024_215 #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #relAuthor",
        "html": "Good W3C SocialCG telcon yesterday morning.<br /><br />Minutes: <a href=\"https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG/2024-08-02\">https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG/2024-08-02</a><br /><br />Appreciate working with <a href=\"https://cosocial.ca/@evan\">@evan@cosocial.ca</a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.mit.edu/@dmitriz\">@dmitriz@mastodon.mit.edu</a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@TallTed\">@TallTed@mastodon.social</a> <a href=\"https://snarfed.org\">@snarfed.org</a> Lisa a <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@AaronNGray\">@AaronNGray@fosstodon.org</a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@bobwyman\">@bobwyman@mastodon.social</a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@by_caballero\">@by_caballero@mastodon.social</a> <a href=\"https://j12t.social/@j12t\">@j12t@j12t.social</a> <a href=\"https://social.technoetic.com/@steve\">@steve@social.technoetic.com</a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem\">@thisismissem@hachyderm.io</a><br /><br />#<span class=\"p-category\">W3C</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">SocialCG</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">20240802</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">2024_215</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">ActivityPub</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">ActivityStreams</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">relAuthor</span>"
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    "url": "https://lordmatt.co.uk/technology/the-internet/blogs-and-blogging/how-to-find-blog-readers-the-indieweb-small-web-way/",
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        "html": "<p><strong>How to find blog readers the IndieWeb (small web) way</strong></p><p>You have an IndieWeb-ish blog. Great. Now what?</p><p>This post is my guide to connecting with readers in the IndieWeb way. I make no claims to completeness or dependableness but I think this is mostly right. Feel free to correct me with replies, mentions, or comments.</p><p>Table of contents</p><p>Am I qualified to write this?</p><p>Before you [\u2026]</p><p><a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://lordmatt.co.uk/tag/1/\">#1</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://lordmatt.co.uk/tag/blog/\">#blog</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://lordmatt.co.uk/tag/blogging/\">#blogging</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://lordmatt.co.uk/tag/blogs/\">#blogs</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://lordmatt.co.uk/tag/community/\">#community</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://lordmatt.co.uk/tag/indieweb/\">#IndieWeb</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://lordmatt.co.uk/tag/readers/\">#readers</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://lordmatt.co.uk/tag/small-web/\">#smallWeb</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://lordmatt.co.uk/tag/webmention/\">#Webmention</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://lordmatt.co.uk/cat/technology/the-internet/blogs-and-blogging/\">#BlogsAndBlogging</a></p>",
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        "html": "<p>New blog post: That time I wanted to \"extract\" three packages from monorepos, in two different repositories, all while maintaining the existing commit history for those files. Git hijinks ensue\u2026</p><p>Spoilers: I used git-filter-repo</p><p><a href=\"https://j.holmes.codes/20240803-adventures-in-monorepo-rewriting/\"><span>https://</span><span>j.holmes.codes/20240803-advent</span><span>ures-in-monorepo-rewriting/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/git\">#<span>git</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/development\">#<span>development</span></a></p>",
        "text": "New blog post: That time I wanted to \"extract\" three packages from monorepos, in two different repositories, all while maintaining the existing commit history for those files. Git hijinks ensue\u2026\n\nSpoilers: I used git-filter-repo\n\nhttps://j.holmes.codes/20240803-adventures-in-monorepo-rewriting/\n\n#indieweb #git #development"
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        "html": "<p>I've published the changelog for my website! </p><p>It uses the Conventional Commits specification. Also, it doesn't present all the changes made to the site but a curated list of notable changes worth noting. You may check out here: </p><p><a href=\"https://rm-o.dev/changelog/\"><span>https://</span><span>rm-o.dev/changelog/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/changelog\">#<span>changelog</span></a></p>",
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        "html": "<p>Imagine if <a href=\"https://phpc.social/tags/Firefox\">#<span>Firefox</span></a>, <a href=\"https://phpc.social/tags/Chrome\">#<span>Chrome</span></a>, and their derivatives could render Markdown, AsciiDoc, LaTeX, EPUB, and Gemtext as seamlessly as they handle PDFs. This could revolutionize the way we publish lightweight websites, making it as simple as dropping a text file into a directory.</p><p><a href=\"https://phpc.social/tags/smolweb\">#<span>smolweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://phpc.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://phpc.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Imagine if #Firefox, #Chrome, and their derivatives could render Markdown, AsciiDoc, LaTeX, EPUB, and Gemtext as seamlessly as they handle PDFs. This could revolutionize the way we publish lightweight websites, making it as simple as dropping a text file into a directory.\n\n#smolweb #smallweb #indieweb"
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Ben Werdmuller werd.io/profile/benwerd

Call for startups

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        "text": "I don\u2019t invest any more, but here are some areas I\u2019d be interested to see startups explore:\n\nThe hallway track for remote and hybrid teams. One reason many companies are enacting return to office policies is to re-establish cross-pollination across teams. Yes, a strong, intentional remote culture would render that moot, but not every company has that. So what does it look like to build scaffolding that goes beyond the water cooler and intentionally surfaces ideas and reactions across teams, including across timezones? Slack is a set of chatrooms at heart \u2014 what if you optimize for asynchronous reflection and building on ideas, not just real-time discussion?\n\nComposable, local AI made easy. There are lots of use cases for AI in the enterprise, but for many high-value use cases sharing data with centralized services owned by OpenAI, Microsoft, or Google isn\u2019t tenable. Sensitive data needs to be treated carefully, and protective contract terms often aren\u2019t enough (consider what happens when a provider is subpoenaed, for example). Let\u2019s make building AI tools that don\u2019t share data beyond your local computer incredibly easy, even for people who can\u2019t code.\n\nPro tools for the fediverse. The fediverse is going to continue to grow, in part because of the maturity of its underlying technology, and in part because countries across the world are tightening anti-monopoly rules, creating strong business reasons to adopt open standards and interoperability. Many fediverse platforms and services don\u2019t meet the needs of larger organizations or professional use cases, due to the wrong mix or features or a more technical user experience. How can startups remove friction from taking advantage of the fediverse, and add ecosystem tools that grow in value as more users onboard? (By the way, I still think an API service that helps people build tools on the fediverse has legs.)\n\nSubstack (or Ghost) for indie and open source developers. Substack and Ghost have paved the way for a kind of journalist entrepreneur who can launch a subscription and make a living by themselves. What if we could do the same thing for indie developers who wanted to support their work? Imagine built-in subscriptions connected to a social discovery mechanism where developers recommend other developers\u2019 work: a network that makes it far easier for developers to make a living from doing what they love independently. This is particularly important in a world where many developers have left big cities and are resisting return to office mandates: going it alone could be a viable alternative. Kickstarter et al let people support a project; this would allow you to support the creator, with more network effects and built-in software integrations than something like a Patreon.\n\nMetrics in a box. A tool that connects to your analytics, payment processor, newsletter tool, etc, and automatically gives you insights, generates actionable reports on your preferred cadence, and answers questions without you needing to deal with schemas, configure specific views, or make queries yourself. You could refine its outputs by giving it feedback in natural language, and ask questions using the same. Another way of putting this: what if your in-house data analyst was software that you didn\u2019t need to configure?\n\nRedefine the US rail experience. Private rail cars (or \u2014 more ambitiously \u2014 whole trains?) that operate a bit like a WeWork: luxury accommodations, high-bandwidth satellite wifi, phone call booths, desks, private rooms with comfortable beds. Make it easy to choose to take a long-distance train instead of a flight without sacrificing comfort or connectivity. High-speed rail is great and important, and such a business would expand to get there, but in the meantime this experience would make the longer travel time matter a great deal less, while helping business travelers to lower their carbon footprint. One can imagine this initially working best between destinations like Miami and New York, or San Francisco and LA, but the real goal would be nationwide. (Hey, dream big.)\n\nMagic for the elderly. A lot of people swear by services like Magic\u2019s executive assistant offering: a way for executives and entrepreneurs to get remote help with doing important work. But we all need help as we get older. What does it look like for older people to get their own executive assistants to help them with administration and life\u2019s daily chores?\n\nOpen bookkeeping and administration for distributed groups. There\u2019s plenty of bookkeeping and administration software out there. Most of it is understandably privacy-focused, allowing very few people to access your sensitive information. But what happens if you\u2019re part of a group \u2014 an extended family managing a house, say, or a loose co-operative \u2014 that needs to have a shared view of their finances and administration? There\u2019s very little for them beyond, say, Open Collective, which is for a very specific kind of organizational unit. What does it look like for a group to share and stream their finances and decisions?\n\n\u2014\n\nIt\u2019s been six years (gulp) since I last invested in a startup as part of any kind of fund, but I\u2019m still excited by the idea and the ethos of startups. While there are plenty of bad businesses out there (for any definition of \u201cbad\u201d), the idea of a group of people getting together and trying to build a new, useful product as part of a sustainable business engine really appeals to me. There\u2019s definitely a part of me that wishes I still could make financial bets into ventures. (Let\u2019s be clear: I could never have invested in an idea like reinventing rail travel. That wasn\u2019t my area. But wouldn\u2019t it be cool?)\n\nI really like Homebrew\u2019s investment process statement, which is very close to how I\u2019d want to do it too (commit the time and energy to help build an ethical, enduring, high-quality business). And this piece in particular stands out to me:We invest in mission-driven founders who embrace big \u2013 big ideas, big impact, big risk.The combination of real mission, impact, and risk is important. That\u2019s where the exciting stuff is.\n\nGreylock, the veteran Silicon Valley venture capital firm, recently put out a call for startups that was all AI, all the time. Long-time readers will know that I have a contrarian take on that \u2014 and that I worry AI is sucking oxygen away from other, genuinely useful products that could form the basis of great businesses. I also don\u2019t shy away from AI completely: there are real applications for the technology that will linger long after the hype cycle has died down. Still, their post was the inspiration for this one: I think there are more interesting, broader, longer-term trends that are worth paying attention to.\n\nWhat are you excited by? If you were an investor \u2014 or if you are \u2014 what would you be keeping your eye out for?",
        "html": "<p><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/66ae5659ec5999fbf003fdd2/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Two people working on a startup, probably.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" /></p><p>I don\u2019t invest any more, but here are some areas I\u2019d be interested to see startups explore:</p><p><strong>The hallway track for remote and hybrid teams.</strong> One reason many companies are enacting return to office policies is to re-establish cross-pollination across teams. Yes, a strong, intentional remote culture would render that moot, but not every company <em>has</em> that. So what does it look like to build scaffolding that goes beyond the water cooler and intentionally surfaces ideas and reactions across teams, including across timezones? Slack is a set of chatrooms at heart \u2014 what if you optimize for asynchronous reflection and building on ideas, not just real-time discussion?</p><p><strong>Composable, local AI made easy.</strong> There are lots of use cases for AI in the enterprise, but for many high-value use cases sharing data with centralized services owned by OpenAI, Microsoft, or Google isn\u2019t tenable. Sensitive data needs to be treated carefully, and protective contract terms often aren\u2019t enough (consider what happens when a provider is subpoenaed, for example). Let\u2019s make building AI tools that don\u2019t share data beyond your local computer incredibly easy, even for people who can\u2019t code.</p><p><strong>Pro tools for the fediverse.</strong> The fediverse is going to continue to grow, in part because of the maturity of its underlying technology, and in part because countries across the world are tightening anti-monopoly rules, creating strong business reasons to adopt open standards and interoperability. Many fediverse platforms and services don\u2019t meet the needs of larger organizations or professional use cases, due to the wrong mix or features or a more technical user experience. How can startups remove friction from taking advantage of the fediverse, and add ecosystem tools that grow in value as more users onboard? (By the way, I still think an API service that helps people build tools on the fediverse has legs.)</p><p><strong>Substack (or Ghost) for indie and open source developers.</strong> Substack and Ghost have paved the way for a kind of journalist entrepreneur who can launch a subscription and make a living by themselves. What if we could do the same thing for indie developers who wanted to support their work? Imagine built-in subscriptions connected to a social discovery mechanism where developers recommend other developers\u2019 work: a network that makes it far easier for developers to make a living from doing what they love independently. This is particularly important in a world where many developers have left big cities and are resisting return to office mandates: going it alone could be a viable alternative. Kickstarter et al let people support a <em>project</em>; this would allow you to support the creator, with more network effects and built-in software integrations than something like a Patreon.</p><p><strong>Metrics in a box.</strong> A tool that connects to your analytics, payment processor, newsletter tool, etc, and automatically gives you insights, generates actionable reports on your preferred cadence, and answers questions without you needing to deal with schemas, configure specific views, or make queries yourself. You could refine its outputs by giving it feedback in natural language, and ask questions using the same. Another way of putting this: what if your in-house data analyst was software that you didn\u2019t need to configure?</p><p><strong>Redefine the US rail experience.</strong> Private rail cars (or \u2014 more ambitiously \u2014 whole trains?) that operate a bit like a WeWork: luxury accommodations, high-bandwidth satellite wifi, phone call booths, desks, private rooms with comfortable beds. Make it easy to choose to take a long-distance train instead of a flight without sacrificing comfort or connectivity. High-speed rail is great and important, and such a business would expand to get there, but in the meantime this experience would make the longer travel time matter a great deal less, while helping business travelers to lower their carbon footprint. One can imagine this initially working best between destinations like Miami and New York, or San Francisco and LA, but the real goal would be nationwide. (Hey, dream big.)</p><p><strong>Magic for the elderly.</strong> A lot of people swear by services like Magic\u2019s executive assistant offering: a way for executives and entrepreneurs to get remote help with doing important work. But we all need help as we get older. What does it look like for older people to get their own executive assistants to help them with administration and life\u2019s daily chores?</p><p><strong>Open bookkeeping and administration for distributed groups.</strong> There\u2019s plenty of bookkeeping and administration software out there. Most of it is understandably privacy-focused, allowing very few people to access your sensitive information. But what happens if you\u2019re part of a group \u2014 an extended family managing a house, say, or a loose co-operative \u2014 that needs to have a shared view of their finances and administration? There\u2019s very little for them beyond, say, Open Collective, which is for a very specific kind of organizational unit. What does it look like for a group to share and stream their finances and decisions?</p><p>\u2014</p><p>It\u2019s been six years (gulp) since I last invested in a startup as part of any kind of fund, but I\u2019m still excited by the idea and the ethos of startups. While there are plenty of bad businesses out there (for any definition of \u201cbad\u201d), the idea of a group of people getting together and trying to build a new, useful product as part of a sustainable business engine really appeals to me. There\u2019s definitely a part of me that wishes I still could make financial bets into ventures. (Let\u2019s be clear: I could never have invested in an idea like reinventing rail travel. That wasn\u2019t my area. But wouldn\u2019t it be cool?)</p><p>I really like <a href=\"https://homebrew.co/philosophy\">Homebrew\u2019s investment process statement</a>, which is very close to how I\u2019d want to do it too (commit the time and energy to help build an ethical, enduring, high-quality business). And this piece in particular stands out to me:</p><blockquote><p>We invest in mission-driven founders who embrace big \u2013 big ideas, big impact, big risk.</p></blockquote><p>The combination of real mission, impact, and risk is important. That\u2019s where the exciting stuff is.</p><p><a href=\"https://greylock.com/\">Greylock</a>, the veteran Silicon Valley venture capital firm, recently put out <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/call-startups-greylock-partners-93fuc/\">a call for startups</a> that was all AI, all the time. Long-time readers will know that I have a contrarian take on that \u2014 and that I worry AI is sucking oxygen away from other, genuinely useful products that could form the basis of great businesses. I also don\u2019t shy away from AI completely: there are real applications for the technology that will linger long after the hype cycle has died down. Still, their post was the inspiration for this one: I think there are more interesting, broader, longer-term trends that are worth paying attention to.</p><p>What are you excited by? If you were an investor \u2014 or if you are \u2014 what would you be keeping your eye out for?</p>"
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        "html": "<p>I wasn\u2019t planning to this time around but accessories at times provide function. Picked up a case and headphone adapter for the Pixel 8a.</p><p><a href=\"https://basic.bearblog.dev/accessories-for-my-pixel-8a/\"><span>https://</span><span>basic.bearblog.dev/accessories</span><span>-for-my-pixel-8a/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/pixel\">#<span>pixel</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/tech\">#<span>tech</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I wasn\u2019t planning to this time around but accessories at times provide function. Picked up a case and headphone adapter for the Pixel 8a.\n\nhttps://basic.bearblog.dev/accessories-for-my-pixel-8a/\n\n#blog #blogging #indieweb #pixel #tech"
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Jonny Barnes jonnybarnes.uk

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        "text": "Have I got Quill working again? #IndieWeb #Micropub",
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        "html": "<p>Reposted https://jan.boddez.net/notes/caf4a42ad6 by Jan.<br />In reply to\u00a0https://indieweb.social/@janboddez/112874402254155473\u00a0by\u00a0@janboddez.</p><p>OK, so replying to Fediverse posts was already possible not just using ActivityPub\u2019s own Federated Reply block, but also using IndieBlocks\u2019 Reply block \u2026 on the condition you also had my [\u2026]</p><p><a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://sanguok.com/en/blog/tag/activitypub/\">#ActivityPub</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://sanguok.com/en/blog/tag/indieweb/\">#IndieWeb</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://sanguok.com/en/blog/tag/social-media/\">#socialMedia</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://sanguok.com/en/blog/tag/wordpress/\">#WordPress</a></p><p><a href=\"https://sanguok.com/en/notes/ed232cae0d/\">https://sanguok.com/en/notes/ed232cae0d/</a></p>",
        "text": "Reposted https://jan.boddez.net/notes/caf4a42ad6 by Jan.\nIn reply to\u00a0https://indieweb.social/@janboddez/112874402254155473\u00a0by\u00a0@janboddez.\n\nOK, so replying to Fediverse posts was already possible not just using ActivityPub\u2019s own Federated Reply block, but also using IndieBlocks\u2019 Reply block \u2026 on the condition you also had my [\u2026]\n\n#ActivityPub #IndieWeb #socialMedia #WordPress\n\nhttps://sanguok.com/en/notes/ed232cae0d/"
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        "html": "<p>Reposted https://jan.boddez.net/notes/f2eea50745 by Jan.<br />So, version 3.0 of the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress comes with a Reply block of its own. Like, I\u2019ll probably stick with my current implementation and continue to just use IndieBlocks\u2019 Reply block for all things microformats, Webmention,\u00a0and\u00a0ActivityPub, but: pretty cool [\u2026]</p><p><a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://sanguok.com/en/blog/tag/activitypub/\">#ActivityPub</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://sanguok.com/en/blog/tag/indieweb/\">#IndieWeb</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://sanguok.com/en/blog/tag/social-media/\">#socialMedia</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://sanguok.com/en/blog/tag/wordpress/\">#WordPress</a></p><p><a href=\"https://sanguok.com/en/notes/c9e15a2381/\">https://sanguok.com/en/notes/c9e15a2381/</a></p>",
        "text": "Reposted https://jan.boddez.net/notes/f2eea50745 by Jan.\nSo, version 3.0 of the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress comes with a Reply block of its own. Like, I\u2019ll probably stick with my current implementation and continue to just use IndieBlocks\u2019 Reply block for all things microformats, Webmention,\u00a0and\u00a0ActivityPub, but: pretty cool [\u2026]\n\n#ActivityPub #IndieWeb #socialMedia #WordPress\n\nhttps://sanguok.com/en/notes/c9e15a2381/"
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        "html": "<p>I posted to my blog!</p><p>AI Outside The Bubble<br /><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/ArtificialIntelligence\">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://mihobu.lol/2024/08/ai-outside-the-bubble\"><span>https://</span><span>mihobu.lol/2024/08/ai-outside-</span><span>the-bubble</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I posted to my blog!\n\nAI Outside The Bubble\n#ArtificialIntelligence #IndieWeb\nhttps://mihobu.lol/2024/08/ai-outside-the-bubble"
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