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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://berlin.social/@daseinslaborant/115465570169990476",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Just finished <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://w3c.social/@timbl\">@<span>timbl</span></a></span> 's great book <a href=\"https://berlin.social/tags/ThisIsForEveryone\">#<span>ThisIsForEveryone</span></a> and the chapter on 'Design Issues' really stuck with me. The <a href=\"https://berlin.social/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> has always been a network full of creativity, enjoyment and collaboration (just think of the <a href=\"https://berlin.social/tags/blogosphere\">#<span>blogosphere</span></a> in the 2000s), and it's on us to keep this spirit alive. Now I am curious to read some of the more detailed considerations at <a href=\"https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>w3.org/DesignIssues/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://berlin.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://berlin.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://w3c.social/@timbl\"></a>",
        "text": "Just finished @timbl 's great book #ThisIsForEveryone and the chapter on 'Design Issues' really stuck with me. The #web has always been a network full of creativity, enjoyment and collaboration (just think of the #blogosphere in the 2000s), and it's on us to keep this spirit alive. Now I am curious to read some of the more detailed considerations at https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/\n\n#smallweb #indieweb"
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    "published": "2025-10-30T22:52:59+00:00",
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Simplifying music playback

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        "name": "Peter Molnar",
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    "url": "https://petermolnar.net/article/music-center-no-cast/",
    "published": "2025-10-30T18:46:00+00:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I decided to throw complications away and use a tablet, and a tablet alone via it's headphone jack to the amplifier. Blasphemy, sacrilege - no separate DAC, no dedicated streamer, no NAS, no nothing.\n\n</p><p><em>In 2023, I wrote another entry: The quest for simple, high\nquality music and video playback in 2023<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn1\">1</a> My\nplan was to turn that entry into a digital garden<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn2\">2</a>\nentity, but I came to realise it'd be an overgrown garden if I only ever\njust add to it. So: new post it is.</em></p>\n<h2>No <del>capes</del> snowflakes!</h2>\n<p>In my previous entry I established the following:</p>\n<ul><li>things need to be able to run on their own, long term</li>\n<li>they need to be simple enough so any family members can use it,\nchildren included</li>\n<li>someone with a baseline IT knowledge can learn how to maintain\nit</li>\n</ul><p>But that second point... just because it's not snowflake, it can\nstill be too complex.</p>\n<h2>The 2025 Chromecast Audio\nTroubles</h2>\n<p>When 2025 started I had the setup of:</p>\n<ul><li>a streamer or renderer, in form of:\n<ul><li>a TV</li>\n<li>a Chromecast with Google TV</li>\n<li>a Chromecast Audio</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>tablet, phone, etc as controller and as data source</li>\n<li>amplifier</li>\n<li>speakers</li>\n</ul><p>So at this point I already got rid of the separate NAS.</p>\n<p>Early March in 2025 however, brought something unexpected: The\nChromecast Apocalypse - Reddit will tell you a lot about it<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn3\">3</a>. To keep it simple, the on-device\ncertificates expired after 10 years and Google took a week to fix it,\nbut I wasn't sure there will be a fix at all.</p>\n<p>I have been having troubles with the Chromecast Audio connectivity\nbefore, I decided to dust off the Rasbperry Pi approach once again.</p>\n<p>It was a pleasant surprise that Raspotify, MPD, and upmpdcli works\nperfectly, just as I left them 2 years ago. I bought a Hifiberry DAC+<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn4\">4</a> off ebay to boost the quality a bit,\nand it's so far pretty nice, and sold the CCA.</p>\n<p>And it was fun... until a Spotify API update, at which point it\nbroke, again. Or when it randomly stopped playing and refused to do\nanything until a reboot.</p>\n<h2>Source! Controller!\nRenderer! ... But... why?</h2>\n<p>After the both the Chromecast Audio and the Raspberry Pi failures I\ndecided to revisit the whole source - controller - renderer idea. Is it\npossible to merge them?</p>\n<p>There are fanastic all-in-one solutions now, but I'm sceptical how\nlong they'll last. Given how the CCA failed in 10 years, unless I go for\nsomething extendable, like a NAD C 3050<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn5\">5</a>,\nchances are it'll go bust as well in no time. The WiiM Ultra looks like\na fantastic option though<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn6\">6</a>.</p>\n<p>So I decided to run an experiment: to use a Samsung SM-T545, better\nknown as Galaxy Tab Active Pro<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn7\">7</a> tablet, with a 2TB\nmicroSD card, as the center of it all. It's 10.1\" tablet aimed at\nenterprise and light industrial use, as comes with a protective case by\ndefault, IP65 rating, so it's somewhat child-proof. Has a replaceable\nbattery (sic!) so there's a bit of longevity, and still has a 3.5mm\nheadphone jack.</p>\n<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/article/music-center-no-cast/Samsung_SM-T545_huge.jpg\">\n\n\n<img src=\"https://petermolnar.net/article/music-center-no-cast/Samsung_SM-T545.jpg\" title=\"Samsung_SM-T545.jpg\" alt=\"A single table as music/media center\" /></a>\n\nA single table as music/media center   PENTAX K-5 II s, 35.0 mm, f/4.5, 1/20\nsec, ISO 800   \u22c5\n<a href=\"https://www.pentaxforums.com/lensreviews/SMC-Pentax-DA-L-35mm-F2.4-AL.html\">smc\nPENTAX-DA 35mm F2.4 AL</a>   \u22c5\n<a href=\"https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0.html\">\nCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 </a>  \n<p>After some troubles I eventually got that microSD card - the envelope\narrived dirty, weeks later, after I kept chasing DHL, but at least it\ngot here. It can hold my whole media collection - yes, it fits on 2TB.\nAn easy feat when they are ripped CDs and DVDs, or flacs from\nbandcamp.</p>\n<p>Loaded with local data, and official apps for streaming, this setup\nis much closer to a physical media collection, then having a NAS, a\nrenderer/streamer, and a controller separately.</p>\n<h2>DAC? I already have one...</h2>\n<p>There's a lot of information out there. And a lot of opinions. And,\nin many cases, people confuse those two. One forum claims to be\nscientific, but limits their measurement by not taking the human ear and\nperceived hearing into account. Other base everything on human hearing,\nwithout relable scientific approach. There are good attempts, but they\nare rare<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn8\">8</a>.</p>\n<p>Among the many things these two camps can't agree on is if there's a\ndifference between DACs - as in the chips and devices that convert bits\nto sound. I was curious, so I bought a second hand Cambridge Audio\nDACmagic XS - a micro, portable DAC. It did sound nice, but I couldn't\nshake the feeling that (a) it's louder, than any other output I have\nand</p>\n<ol><li>it colours the sound.</li>\n</ol><p>Mainly though it's utter pain to have it with a tablet that has a\nsingle USB-C connection: I need to connect a hub that can do PD\ncharging; it's micro USB, and the last time I tried a USB-C to microUSB\ncable, it overheated the DACmagic.</p>\n<p>The tablet already has a jack output. At the level I can afford to\nlisten to music, which isn't only limited by wealth, but by space, time,\na young child, hearing, and so on, the built in jack of that tablet is\nalready crystal clear, and it's convenience is inquestionable.</p>\n<p>I checked my hearing. With good headphones I seem to hear up to 18kHz\nat the volume I'd listen music; 19kHz if I push the volume up, but\nbasically nothing abouve that. This is less, than the people who can\nhear the differences between DACs<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn9\">9</a>. I'm 40 years old, so\nit's most likely downhill from here.</p>\n<p>So at this point the stack has reduced to:</p>\n<ul><li>a 32\" gaming monitor with built-in speakers<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn10\">10</a> -\nmy previous TV died, and I didn't like a single one of the new TVs\npicture, hence the IPS gaming monitor that actually lets me see the dark\nparts in movies, unlike UltraSuperMegaHDR OLEDs</li>\n<li>a Chromecast with Google TV</li>\n<li>a tablet</li>\n<li>an amplifier</li>\n<li>speakers</li>\n</ul><p>And it lets me focus on the music without worrying about stuff\nbreaking every week.</p>\n\n\n<ol><li><p><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/article/music-center-chromecast-dlna/index.html\">https://petermolnar.net/article/music-center-chromecast-dlna/index.html</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref1\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/digital_garden\">https://indieweb.org/digital_garden</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref2\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://old.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/\">https://old.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref3\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://www.hifiberry.com/\">https://www.hifiberry.com/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref4\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://nadelectronics.com/product/c-3050-stereophonic-amplifier/\">https://nadelectronics.com/product/c-3050-stereophonic-amplifier/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref5\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://www.wiimhome.com/wiimultra/overview\">https://www.wiimhome.com/wiimultra/overview</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref6\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/model/SM-T545NZKAU07/\">https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/model/SM-T545NZKAU07/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref7\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://www.lttlabs.com/blog/2025/07/14/we-promise-these-lines-mean-something-new-audio-testing-method\">https://www.lttlabs.com/blog/2025/07/14/we-promise-these-lines-mean-something-new-audio-testing-method</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref8\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/UzECc522A1Y?si=PhinNQ919iAEXOi4&amp;t=899\">https://youtu.be/UzECc522A1Y?si=PhinNQ919iAEXOi4&amp;t=899</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref9\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://www.richersounds.com/benq-mobiuz-ex3210u/\">https://www.richersounds.com/benq-mobiuz-ex3210u/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref10\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n</ol>",
        "text": "I decided to throw complications away and use a tablet, and a tablet alone via it's headphone jack to the amplifier. Blasphemy, sacrilege - no separate DAC, no dedicated streamer, no NAS, no nothing.\n\n\n\nIn 2023, I wrote another entry: The quest for simple, high\nquality music and video playback in 20231 My\nplan was to turn that entry into a digital garden2\nentity, but I came to realise it'd be an overgrown garden if I only ever\njust add to it. So: new post it is.\nNo capes snowflakes!\nIn my previous entry I established the following:\nthings need to be able to run on their own, long term\nthey need to be simple enough so any family members can use it,\nchildren included\nsomeone with a baseline IT knowledge can learn how to maintain\nit\nBut that second point... just because it's not snowflake, it can\nstill be too complex.\nThe 2025 Chromecast Audio\nTroubles\nWhen 2025 started I had the setup of:\na streamer or renderer, in form of:\na TV\na Chromecast with Google TV\na Chromecast Audio\n\ntablet, phone, etc as controller and as data source\namplifier\nspeakers\nSo at this point I already got rid of the separate NAS.\nEarly March in 2025 however, brought something unexpected: The\nChromecast Apocalypse - Reddit will tell you a lot about it3. To keep it simple, the on-device\ncertificates expired after 10 years and Google took a week to fix it,\nbut I wasn't sure there will be a fix at all.\nI have been having troubles with the Chromecast Audio connectivity\nbefore, I decided to dust off the Rasbperry Pi approach once again.\nIt was a pleasant surprise that Raspotify, MPD, and upmpdcli works\nperfectly, just as I left them 2 years ago. I bought a Hifiberry DAC+4 off ebay to boost the quality a bit,\nand it's so far pretty nice, and sold the CCA.\nAnd it was fun... until a Spotify API update, at which point it\nbroke, again. Or when it randomly stopped playing and refused to do\nanything until a reboot.\nSource! Controller!\nRenderer! ... But... why?\nAfter the both the Chromecast Audio and the Raspberry Pi failures I\ndecided to revisit the whole source - controller - renderer idea. Is it\npossible to merge them?\nThere are fanastic all-in-one solutions now, but I'm sceptical how\nlong they'll last. Given how the CCA failed in 10 years, unless I go for\nsomething extendable, like a NAD C 30505,\nchances are it'll go bust as well in no time. The WiiM Ultra looks like\na fantastic option though6.\nSo I decided to run an experiment: to use a Samsung SM-T545, better\nknown as Galaxy Tab Active Pro7 tablet, with a 2TB\nmicroSD card, as the center of it all. It's 10.1\" tablet aimed at\nenterprise and light industrial use, as comes with a protective case by\ndefault, IP65 rating, so it's somewhat child-proof. Has a replaceable\nbattery (sic!) so there's a bit of longevity, and still has a 3.5mm\nheadphone jack.\n\n\n\n\n\nA single table as music/media center   PENTAX K-5 II s, 35.0 mm, f/4.5, 1/20\nsec, ISO 800   \u22c5\nsmc\nPENTAX-DA 35mm F2.4 AL   \u22c5\n\nCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0   \nAfter some troubles I eventually got that microSD card - the envelope\narrived dirty, weeks later, after I kept chasing DHL, but at least it\ngot here. It can hold my whole media collection - yes, it fits on 2TB.\nAn easy feat when they are ripped CDs and DVDs, or flacs from\nbandcamp.\nLoaded with local data, and official apps for streaming, this setup\nis much closer to a physical media collection, then having a NAS, a\nrenderer/streamer, and a controller separately.\nDAC? I already have one...\nThere's a lot of information out there. And a lot of opinions. And,\nin many cases, people confuse those two. One forum claims to be\nscientific, but limits their measurement by not taking the human ear and\nperceived hearing into account. Other base everything on human hearing,\nwithout relable scientific approach. There are good attempts, but they\nare rare8.\nAmong the many things these two camps can't agree on is if there's a\ndifference between DACs - as in the chips and devices that convert bits\nto sound. I was curious, so I bought a second hand Cambridge Audio\nDACmagic XS - a micro, portable DAC. It did sound nice, but I couldn't\nshake the feeling that (a) it's louder, than any other output I have\nand\nit colours the sound.\nMainly though it's utter pain to have it with a tablet that has a\nsingle USB-C connection: I need to connect a hub that can do PD\ncharging; it's micro USB, and the last time I tried a USB-C to microUSB\ncable, it overheated the DACmagic.\nThe tablet already has a jack output. At the level I can afford to\nlisten to music, which isn't only limited by wealth, but by space, time,\na young child, hearing, and so on, the built in jack of that tablet is\nalready crystal clear, and it's convenience is inquestionable.\nI checked my hearing. With good headphones I seem to hear up to 18kHz\nat the volume I'd listen music; 19kHz if I push the volume up, but\nbasically nothing abouve that. This is less, than the people who can\nhear the differences between DACs9. I'm 40 years old, so\nit's most likely downhill from here.\nSo at this point the stack has reduced to:\na 32\" gaming monitor with built-in speakers10 -\nmy previous TV died, and I didn't like a single one of the new TVs\npicture, hence the IPS gaming monitor that actually lets me see the dark\nparts in movies, unlike UltraSuperMegaHDR OLEDs\na Chromecast with Google TV\na tablet\nan amplifier\nspeakers\nAnd it lets me focus on the music without worrying about stuff\nbreaking every week.\n\n\nhttps://petermolnar.net/article/music-center-chromecast-dlna/index.html\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://indieweb.org/digital_garden\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://old.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://www.hifiberry.com/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://nadelectronics.com/product/c-3050-stereophonic-amplifier/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://www.wiimhome.com/wiimultra/overview\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://www.samsung.com/uk/support/model/SM-T545NZKAU07/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://www.lttlabs.com/blog/2025/07/14/we-promise-these-lines-mean-something-new-audio-testing-method\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://youtu.be/UzECc522A1Y?si=PhinNQ919iAEXOi4&t=899\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://www.richersounds.com/benq-mobiuz-ex3210u/\u21a9\ufe0e"
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
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    "url": "https://scicomm.xyz/@ratika/115464400534323308",
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        "html": "<p>Anyone here keep a list that's not on Goodreads or Storygraph or any other digital platform?</p><p><a href=\"https://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/the-book-list/\"><span>https://</span><span>chavanniclass.wordpress.com/20</span><span>25/10/30/the-book-list/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/books\">#<span>books</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/reading\">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Anyone here keep a list that's not on Goodreads or Storygraph or any other digital platform?\n\nhttps://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/the-book-list/\n\n#books #reading #blog #blogging #IndieWeb"
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    "published": "2025-10-30T17:55:31+00:00",
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        "name": "#indieweb",
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    "url": "https://mstdn.social/@11tyCMS/115463538576175373",
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        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/Zustand\">#<span>Zustand</span></a> integration? Complete. It\u2019s absolutely AMAZING. It will be such a game changer for development. </p><p>Now that code refactoring has happened, we can finally move on to doing the site dashboard, and adding support for nested post folders in collections.</p><p>Obviously, design refactoring needs to be a thing, but the design is OK enough for now to focus on getting features out the door. </p><p>By this rate we could have an alpha release by Christmas! <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/11tyCMS\">#<span>11tyCMS</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/11ty\">#<span>11ty</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "#Zustand integration? Complete. It\u2019s absolutely AMAZING. It will be such a game changer for development. \n\nNow that code refactoring has happened, we can finally move on to doing the site dashboard, and adding support for nested post folders in collections.\n\nObviously, design refactoring needs to be a thing, but the design is OK enough for now to focus on getting features out the door. \n\nBy this rate we could have an alpha release by Christmas! #11tyCMS #11ty #indieweb"
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    "published": "2025-10-30T14:16:19+00:00",
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    "author": {
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@CuppaRex/115462861223633062",
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        "html": "<p>I wrote this for the IndieWeb Carnival on the subject of ego and how it ties into the IndieWeb community. <a href=\"https://crystaltouchton.com/ego/\"><span>https://</span><span>crystaltouchton.com/ego/</span><span></span></a>  <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieauthor\">#<span>indieauthor</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/ego\">#<span>ego</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/onlineidentity\">#<span>onlineidentity</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/identity\">#<span>identity</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/self\">#<span>self</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/personalwebsite\">#<span>personalwebsite</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/ownyourdata\">#<span>ownyourdata</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/data\">#<span>data</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I wrote this for the IndieWeb Carnival on the subject of ego and how it ties into the IndieWeb community. https://crystaltouchton.com/ego/  #indieweb #indieauthor #ego #onlineidentity #identity #self #blogging #blog #personalwebsite #ownyourdata #data"
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    "_source": "8007",
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        "name": "#indieweb",
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    "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@eclecticpassions/115461177302918671",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Excited! I finally started to process of adding a new section to my Hugo site\u2014<a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/weeknotes\">#<span>weeknotes</span></a>!</p><p>Made a weeknote specific Atom feed, Hugo list and archetype templates. Can't wait to start writing those soon after the setup is done; just ironing out the last details...</p><p><a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/BurgeonLab\">#<span>BurgeonLab</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/hugo\">#<span>hugo</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/hugossg\">#<span>hugossg</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/cms\">#<span>cms</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/ssg\">#<span>ssg</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Excited! I finally started to process of adding a new section to my Hugo site\u2014#weeknotes!\n\nMade a weeknote specific Atom feed, Hugo list and archetype templates. Can't wait to start writing those soon after the setup is done; just ironing out the last details...\n\n#BurgeonLab #indieweb #blog #smallweb #hugo #hugossg #cms #ssg"
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mstdn.social/@11tyCMS/115460456720713628",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/Zustand\">#<span>Zustand</span></a> integration is almost fully complete. This is a HUGE deal for <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/11tyCMS\">#<span>11tyCMS</span></a> . Already things are so much easier to work with. I think by tomorrow? All of 11tyCMS will be migrated over to Zustand, and it\u2019ll be so much better for it. <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/11ty\">#<span>11ty</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "#Zustand integration is almost fully complete. This is a HUGE deal for #11tyCMS . Already things are so much easier to work with. I think by tomorrow? All of 11tyCMS will be migrated over to Zustand, and it\u2019ll be so much better for it. #11ty #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2025-10-30T01:12:34+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "46374119",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://urusai.social/@askDNA/115459756349578722",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Why get it for free when you can pay?</p><p><a href=\"https://urusai.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://urusai.social/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> <a href=\"https://urusai.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://urusai.social/tags/email\">#<span>email</span></a> <a href=\"https://urusai.social/tags/domains\">#<span>domains</span></a> <a href=\"https://urusai.social/tags/socialmedia\">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href=\"https://urusai.social/tags/vps\">#<span>vps</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://askdna.coffee/whypay/\"><span>https://</span><span>askdna.coffee/whypay/</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "Why get it for free when you can pay?\n\n#blog #web #indieweb #email #domains #socialmedia #vps \n\nhttps://askdna.coffee/whypay/"
    },
    "published": "2025-10-29T22:14:27+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "46373116",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.lol/@bixfrankonis/115459706258876050",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I wrote about the <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/SelfHosting\">#<span>SelfHosting</span></a> conversation making the rounds in <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/Blogging\">#<span>Blogging</span></a> circles.</p><p><a href=\"https://bix.blog/posts/2025-10-29-self-hosting-is-a-non-starter/\"><span>https://</span><span>bix.blog/posts/2025-10-29-self</span><span>-hosting-is-a-non-starter/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/BixDotBlog\">#<span>BixDotBlog</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I wrote about the #SelfHosting conversation making the rounds in #IndieWeb #Blogging circles.\n\nhttps://bix.blog/posts/2025-10-29-self-hosting-is-a-non-starter/\n\n#BixDotBlog"
    },
    "published": "2025-10-29T22:01:43+00:00",
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    "_id": "46373011",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@inneraxislab/115459678212531639",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I added a chat to my website thanks to <a href=\"https://www.cbox.ws/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>cbox.ws/</span><span></span></a> \ud83e\udd70 </p><p>I was considering comments, but chat seemed more fun and dynamic to me. </p><p>I hope it will work as it should; adding it was super easy.</p><p><a href=\"https://inneraxislab.neocities.org/\"><span>https://</span><span>inneraxislab.neocities.org/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/neocities\">#<span>neocities</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/html\">#<span>html</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I added a chat to my website thanks to https://www.cbox.ws/ \ud83e\udd70 \n\nI was considering comments, but chat seemed more fun and dynamic to me. \n\nI hope it will work as it should; adding it was super easy.\n\nhttps://inneraxislab.neocities.org/\n\n#neocities #indieweb #html #blog #blogging"
    },
    "published": "2025-10-29T21:54:35+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "46373012",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://toot.wales/@rhyswynne/115459408825871068",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>So on this day in 1991 Tim Bernes-Lee published a document proposing HTML tags.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Tags.html\"><span>https://www.</span><span>w3.org/History/19921103-hypert</span><span>ext/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Tags.html</span></a></p><p>Also, randomly the magazine that taught me HTML - ST Format - arrived today. </p><p>Weird old coincidence!</p><p><a href=\"https://toot.wales/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "So on this day in 1991 Tim Bernes-Lee published a document proposing HTML tags.\n\nhttps://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Tags.html\n\nAlso, randomly the magazine that taught me HTML - ST Format - arrived today. \n\nWeird old coincidence!\n\n#indieweb"
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    "published": "2025-10-29T20:46:04+00:00",
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    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://urusai.social/@askDNA/115458886313309560",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>My <a href=\"https://urusai.social/tags/kobo\">#<span>kobo</span></a> is dead. Time to catch up on my feeds and lurk around some blogs.</p><p><a href=\"https://urusai.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://urusai.social/tags/blogs\">#<span>blogs</span></a> <a href=\"https://urusai.social/tags/RSS\">#<span>RSS</span></a> <a href=\"https://urusai.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://urusai.social/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a></p>",
        "text": "My #kobo is dead. Time to catch up on my feeds and lurk around some blogs.\n\n#blog #blogs #RSS #indieweb #web"
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    "published": "2025-10-29T18:33:11+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "46371324",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@HisVirusness/115458678101139614",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Another night, another case. But, something's off this time around...</p><p><a href=\"https://HisVirusness.com/textbook-case-part-1\"><span>https://</span><span>HisVirusness.com/textbook-case</span><span>-part-1</span></a></p><p>Part 2 coming soon.</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/fiction\">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/noir\">#<span>noir</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/mysteryseries\">#<span>mysteryseries</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/noirfiction\">#<span>noirfiction</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/neonoir\">#<span>neonoir</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/writersofmastodon\">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/flatfile\">#<span>flatfile</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Another night, another case. But, something's off this time around...\n\nhttps://HisVirusness.com/textbook-case-part-1\n\nPart 2 coming soon.\n\n#fiction #noir #mysteryseries #noirfiction #neonoir #writersofmastodon #indieweb #flatfile"
    },
    "published": "2025-10-29T17:40:14+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "46370776",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://scicomm.xyz/@ratika/115458574671030886",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Today I'm grateful for these three videos in particular:</p><p><a href=\"https://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/three-videos-that-helped-me-recently/\"><span>https://</span><span>chavanniclass.wordpress.com/20</span><span>25/10/29/three-videos-that-helped-me-recently/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/YouTube\">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/video\">#<span>video</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/life\">#<span>life</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/philosophy\">#<span>philosophy</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Today I'm grateful for these three videos in particular:\n\nhttps://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/three-videos-that-helped-me-recently/\n\n#blog #blogging #YouTube #video #IndieWeb #life #philosophy"
    },
    "published": "2025-10-29T17:13:56+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "46370476",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.lol/@dominikhofer/115458454798187593",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>If you haven't come across it yet, you should definitely check out <a href=\"https://powrss.com/\"><span>https://</span><span>powrss.com/</span><span></span></a>.</p><p>A really great starting point to immerse yourself more in the <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>!</p>",
        "text": "If you haven't come across it yet, you should definitely check out https://powrss.com/.\n\nA really great starting point to immerse yourself more in the #indieweb!"
    },
    "published": "2025-10-29T16:43:27+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "46370261",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@inneraxislab/115458390592590868",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I discovered a nice app for editing code of my <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Neocities\">#<span>Neocities</span></a> website on my iPad: </p><p>Runestone. </p><p>It's free. It's pretty. And just works.</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/html\">#<span>html</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/css\">#<span>css</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/coding\">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/nekoweb\">#<span>nekoweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I discovered a nice app for editing code of my #Neocities website on my iPad: \n\nRunestone. \n\nIt's free. It's pretty. And just works.\n\n#indieweb #html #css #coding #nekoweb"
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    "published": "2025-10-29T16:27:07+00:00",
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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    "url": "https://adactio.com/links/22224",
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        "text": "Echoes of Connection \u00b7 Matthias Ott\n\n\n\nMatthias responds to my pondering about the point of \u201clikes\u201d and \u201cshares\u201d:\n\n\n  I like to think of Webmentions not as a measure of popularity. To me, they measure connection. Connection to individual people and connection to the community as a whole. Webmentions let you listen into the constant noise out there and, just like a radio telescope, pick up scarcely audible echoes of connection.",
        "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://matthiasott.com/notes/echoes-of-connection\">\nEchoes of Connection \u00b7 Matthias Ott\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<p>Matthias responds to <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/22213\">my pondering about the point of \u201clikes\u201d and \u201cshares\u201d</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>I like to think of Webmentions not as a measure of popularity. To me, they measure connection. Connection to individual people and connection to the community as a whole. Webmentions let you listen into the constant noise out there and, just like a radio telescope, pick up scarcely audible echoes of connection.</p>\n</blockquote>"
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        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@inneraxislab/115458052073733412",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>In <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/astrology\">#<span>astrology</span></a>, aspects don\u2019t force events. They show possibilities.</p><p>I looked at the birth chart of a woman with an artificial leg, and found how Mars-Pluto symbolism from Ebertin\u2019s CSI manifested, but only when the right conditions came.</p><p>That\u2019s both good and disappointing news - even good planetary aspects in your <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/horoscope\">#<span>horoscope</span></a> are not promises, just potentials waiting for the right moment.</p><p>My new blog post:</p><p><a href=\"https://inneraxislab.neocities.org/seeds-in-a-birtchart\"><span>https://</span><span>inneraxislab.neocities.org/see</span><span>ds-in-a-birtchart</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/neocities\">#<span>neocities</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/witchcraft\">#<span>witchcraft</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/occult\">#<span>occult</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/magic\">#<span>magic</span></a></p>",
        "text": "In #astrology, aspects don\u2019t force events. They show possibilities.\n\nI looked at the birth chart of a woman with an artificial leg, and found how Mars-Pluto symbolism from Ebertin\u2019s CSI manifested, but only when the right conditions came.\n\nThat\u2019s both good and disappointing news - even good planetary aspects in your #horoscope are not promises, just potentials waiting for the right moment.\n\nMy new blog post:\n\nhttps://inneraxislab.neocities.org/seeds-in-a-birtchart\n\n#blog #neocities #indieweb #witchcraft #occult #magic"
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    "published": "2025-10-29T15:01:02+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "46369216",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "author": {
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    },
    "url": "https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/115457743214005885",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Aggressive bots ruined my weekend <a href=\"https://herman.bearblog.dev/agressive-bots/\"><span>https://</span><span>herman.bearblog.dev/agressive-</span><span>bots/</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/WebDev\">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/AI\">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Aggressive bots ruined my weekend https://herman.bearblog.dev/agressive-bots/ #WebDev #AI #IndieWeb"
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    "published": "2025-10-29T13:42:29+00:00",
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    "_id": "46368470",
    "_source": "8007",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
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        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://gurupanguji.com/2025/10/29/atlas-vs-the-resonant-computing-manifesto/",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><strong>Atlas vs The Resonant Computing Manifesto</strong></p><blockquote><p>\u201cTabs were great, but we haven\u2019t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.\u201d These are brave words spoken by the CEO of a company that\u2019s using Chromium to power their new browser, which, at the time of writing this, they even failed to attribute correctly. I wish I could say I\u2019m shocked, but this is a company led by someone who thinks artists, creators, writers, etc should not be paid for their work.</p><p><a href=\"https://blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2025/10/chatgpt-atlas-isnt-competing-against-other-browsers/\">ChatGPT Atlas isn\u2019t competing against other browsers \u2013 Stephanie Stimac\u2019s Blog</a></p></blockquote><p>I shed a tear. The announcement of atlas is done by people I worked with and respect a lot \u2013 Ben Goodger, Darin Fisher. Heck, a whole lot of the firefox team, which then became the chrome team, which is now the atlas team. I <em>know</em> they care about the web, the platform and the openness of it. </p><p>In the long arc, maybe I am the anachronistic one, still retaining a sense of what the web should be and not fully accepting what it is? </p><p>This is also saddening because the web is in an era of renaissance. Almost every \u201cdesktop\u201d app you run is running on web technologies. And desktop has an entire renaissance thanks to AI technologies. </p><p>It\u2019s a moment to lean into what makes the web great.</p><p>I still retain hope. There are some amazing people coming together with the same ethos with which we approached the web platform in the heydays of chrome. </p><p><a href=\"https://resonantcomputing.org\">https://resonantcomputing.org</a></p><a href=\"https://i0.wp.com/gurupanguji.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot-2025-10-23-at-19.09.40.png?ssl=1\"></a><p>I am a signatory. This is a hopeful venture that I want to support and it deeply resonates with how I think and want computing to evolve. I believe that chrome will be supplanted someday by a better browser. However, it will be one that deeply wants the web to succeed. I am eagerly waiting for it and my suspicion right now is that it\u2019s not Atlas. ymmv</p><p><a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://gurupanguji.com/tag/ai/\">#ai</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://gurupanguji.com/tag/browser/\">#browser</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://gurupanguji.com/tag/indie-web/\">#indieWeb</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://gurupanguji.com/tag/open/\">#open</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://gurupanguji.com/tag/open-web/\">#openWeb</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://gurupanguji.com/tag/tech/\">#tech</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://gurupanguji.com/tag/web/\">#web</a></p>",
        "text": "Atlas vs The Resonant Computing Manifesto\u201cTabs were great, but we haven\u2019t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.\u201d These are brave words spoken by the CEO of a company that\u2019s using Chromium to power their new browser, which, at the time of writing this, they even failed to attribute correctly. I wish I could say I\u2019m shocked, but this is a company led by someone who thinks artists, creators, writers, etc should not be paid for their work.\n\nChatGPT Atlas isn\u2019t competing against other browsers \u2013 Stephanie Stimac\u2019s BlogI shed a tear. The announcement of atlas is done by people I worked with and respect a lot \u2013 Ben Goodger, Darin Fisher. Heck, a whole lot of the firefox team, which then became the chrome team, which is now the atlas team. I know they care about the web, the platform and the openness of it. \n\nIn the long arc, maybe I am the anachronistic one, still retaining a sense of what the web should be and not fully accepting what it is? \n\nThis is also saddening because the web is in an era of renaissance. Almost every \u201cdesktop\u201d app you run is running on web technologies. And desktop has an entire renaissance thanks to AI technologies. \n\nIt\u2019s a moment to lean into what makes the web great.\n\nI still retain hope. There are some amazing people coming together with the same ethos with which we approached the web platform in the heydays of chrome. \n\nhttps://resonantcomputing.orgI am a signatory. This is a hopeful venture that I want to support and it deeply resonates with how I think and want computing to evolve. I believe that chrome will be supplanted someday by a better browser. However, it will be one that deeply wants the web to succeed. I am eagerly waiting for it and my suspicion right now is that it\u2019s not Atlas. ymmv\n\n#ai #browser #indieWeb #open #openWeb #tech #web"
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