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[Tim Chambers]

Dewey Digital founder Tim Chambers has spent a lot of time studying and digging into the open social web, including by creating the Twitter Migration Report. So his predictions are well-informed and worth paying attention to.

He’s split them up into safe, plausible, and risky…

I like using microdata within my HTML to provide semantic metadata. One of my pages had this scrap of code on it:

<time
   itemprop="datePublished"
   itemscope
   datetime="2025-06-09T11:27:06+01:00">9 June 2025 11:27</time>

The Google Search Console was throwing this error:

I was fairly sure that was a valid ISO 8601 string. It certainly…

What’s going on, Internet? This was a quieter year for beer. I checked in less, tried fewer new things, and enjoyed what I drank more. I leaned hard into IPAs, especially West Coast IPAs, spent more time with Bright IPAs, and reaffirmed my appreciation for the humble APA. 2025 wasn’t…

“It’s an interesting year,” is a line I’ve used many times over the last twelve months, at conferences and in conversations. It’s a useful euphemism, sometimes delivered with a wry smile: we all know what I mean.

But it’s also a cop-out.

It lets me hide. If I say it’s…

My friend Sal has written a book! I was lucky enough to get early access to it.

Code, Chips and Control is an in depth look at cyber security. And I do mean in depth - this literally starts at the silicon wafer level! It isn't just about the trivial…

In the 1980s, Minor Threat frontman Ian MacKaye discovered he was opening for The Damned at a show where tickets cost $13.50. His response was to voluntarily cut his band's pay in half. When MacKaye later formed Fugazi, he instituted a rule that became legendary in punk circles: a strict…

In 2030, my greatest hope for the indie web is that it is a place where people feel free to create, to experiment, and to always be able to ask – and act on the answers to – the question “what do I want this place to be?”

To enable…

[Paul Kunert at The Register]

Airbus wants to move its data outside US jurisdiction:

“I need a sovereign cloud because part of the information is extremely sensitive from a national and European perspective,” Catherine Jestin, Airbus's executive vice president of digital, told The Register. “We want to ensure…