Dave Winer on Bluesky

Another oldschool blogger is back. I see a trend. ;-)

The thing about the economy is that it's kind of in a holding pattern, but what happens if Trump and his cabinet do something even more lunatic than starting a war with Iran. It's easy to imagine things getting much worse. That's what I worry about most.

Why Notes will never let us edit Markdown.

One thing's for sure -- the web that was controlled by VCs has run out of things to make billions on. Now the question is do we want a web that works for writers and readers. Are we ready for the Big Undo??

Ben Thompson: The End of the Internet.

A Peacock, 1906 #jeanmetzinger #divisionism

Wow, never saw this one! Thanks @scripting.com!

I made John Palfrey get a blog. :-) I know him from Berkman in the 00s where we made some great mischief together resulting in podcasting and other cool stuff. And as it was in the 00s, having a blog now is a place of power.

Obama is doing the Old Obama campaign speech and it's something to see. He's got a few gray hairs, but he's still got the energy and chutzpah. I'd love to see him and Bernie Sanders on the same stage before this campaign is over.

Prebunking Election Myths Ten days out from a consequential midterms, let's prebunk the myths and outright lies that are being and will be spread after the election....

You lose the World Series at home you have to tear down the stadium.

Sounds to me like Marco would like a new web. marco.org

We need a new fresh start for the web, and at the same time for a new democracy. It seems one has a lot to do with the other.

Lake Powell has risen about three feet since September 15, when it touched its lowest level since the reservoir first filled in the 1960s. kiowacountypress.net

There is much to be said and done about climate change, but three essentials must guide us. 🧵

Yachting, 1937 #metzinger #neoclassicism

Wow! Make Amy Acton governor. “I am making a promise to Ohioans...that no one in my state will ever, ever be invisible to me."

The AI world has standardized on Markdown.

The AI world has standardized on Markdown.

v1.136 is live! Introducing: Profile links We want independent writers, artists, developers, and creators to be able to build and fund sustainable projects on Bluesky. Help your followers know how to support you by adding buttons for Patreon, Ko-fi, your newsletter or website, and more.

Frieda and Diego Rivera, 1931 #kahlo #naïveart

Amy Acton’s mom to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

Lake Superior Academy is a beautiful school that had offered an incredible outdoor learning experience — that is until this Bitcoin mining farm moved in…

Woman Putting on Her Stockings, 1895 #pissarro #camillepissarro

Be careful about indicting a whole gender. Division is killing us.

Subaru is killing off gas cars in Europe and will only sell EVs.

FEMA tells states to handle disasters on their own. www.politico.com

Inside the 33-hour failed boardroom coup to overthrow Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg.

The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs. arstechnica.com

Today’s web is a mess. Sometimes I feel like starting over.

I like the web for people, sites that live and grow, like people. 100 years from now you should feel the people who lived there.

I’m an outliner coder, so I don’t use tabs neither, but if I had to choose between blanks and tabs I’d go with tabs. I’m an oldtimer and remember when a byte was worth a byte and I don’t abide by wasting one, never know when you might need one esp in dawg gone char limited bogus social networks.

it's actually always been time, the question is when are the users or the leaders among the users, see the sense in not being dependent on the people who are dragging us to the bottom.

It’s time to start building comm systems that aren’t owned by oligarchs.

This is why we need to reboot the original web, as opposed to the VC ersatz version of the web.

I always read your blog and you know I made sure RSS was fully supported as I rebuilt. My license plate says WEBNERD for a reason and there are lots of us working on making the web excellent.

The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake was one of the Bay Area’s most damaging quakes in modern history. https://ow.ly/kOyL50ZYGoI

Louis Gray an old time blogger who went to Google, used their AI to resurrect his old blog which had disappeared from the web. Maybe he can convince Google to stop fucking with my blog.

Enough already about the former press secretary. Can we have more focus on Ukraine please? Who turned off Starlink. It’s far more important and consequential.

Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs.

Worth repeating: Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap togethe... https://dave.micro.blog/2026/10/16/worth-repeating-expect-an-avalanche.html

Worth repeating: Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap togethe... https://dave.micro.blog/2026/10/16/worth-repeating-expect-an-avalanche.html

Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs.

the only thing that matters in the ecosystem are the millions of users they've attracted, but the limits of bluesky prevent anything from happening there. i'm watching it too. they have to decide what their business is and get on with it.

I want us to make our own network. In the meantime they’re all the same junk including this one. They raised $100 million and the best they could come up with is copying twitter 20 years ago, which hasn’t done anything but lock users in.

If you're still puzzled about what Trump is doing, this clip from Goodfellas explains, and it's a great movie too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPtj...

Google thinks the web is like Android software where they can declare end-of-life because everyone who ever made Android software knew in advance that Google owned it, and this is what big tech companies do to their developers. You may not like it, but you have no cause to complain.