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Dogfooding was one of RDF’s biggest challenges prior to the arrival of LLMs as powerful general-purpose clients. Why? Because transforming and presenting RDF specifications in RDF form was difficult. Today, that problem is gone. Here’s an example of the new RDF 1.2 primer, deployed as a knowledge graph that uses Linked Data principles to manifest a Semantic Web.
#RDF

Gefühl jedes Mal wenn ich ein Problem mit #Nextcloud habe, hatte es der @… einen Tick früher schon: ht…

Unable to update from 32.0.3.2 to 32.0.8
The Basics Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x): 33.0.3.2 Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04): Gentoo 2.18 Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25): 2.4.66 Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2) * PHP version (e.g, 8.3): 8.3.29 Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No): Yes When did this problem seem to first start? After restoring Nextcloud from Backup Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.) Bare Metal A…

Dogfooding was one of RDF’s biggest challenges prior to the arrival of LLMs as powerful general-purpose clients. Why? Because transforming and presenting RDF specifications in RDF form was difficult. Today, that problem is gone. Here’s an example of the new RDF 1.2 primer, deployed as a knowledge graph that uses Linked Data principles to manifest a Semantic Web.
#RDF

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 31 May - 7 June
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Not my field at all, but a very interesting and potentially controversial one.
By sheer chance 2 contrasting podcasts on the "wood wide web" hypothesis crossed my @… this week...
Science Fictions: Episode 91: Entangled Life and the wood wide web
https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-91-entangled-life-and-the

The World, the Universe and Us: The Wood Wide Web: The Forest Discovery That Sparked a Backlash on @…
Media file: https://tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/ARML1134826042.mp3?updated=1777040556

#ARVO2026 today, May 6, 2:30-2:45pm room 403 talk 4493 in Emerging technologies for low vision: Comparing tactile & auditory sensory substitution on visual cortex recruitment in the early and late blind https://

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JavaScript addition using the new and upcoming Math.sumPrecise():
❌ 1 0.1 - 1 = 0.10000000000000009
✅ Math.sumPrecise([1,.1,-1]) = 0.1
❌ 1e20 0.1 - 1e20 = 0
✅ Math.sumPrecise([1e20,.1,-1e20]) = 0.1
❌ 0.1 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004
❌ Math.sumPrecise([.1,.2]) = 0.30000000000000004
Read more on MDN:

ChatGPT erhält neue Bild-KI, die mitdenkt und im Web recherchiert
OpenAIs neues Bildmodell „ChatGPT Images 2.0“ plant und strukturiert visuelle Aufgaben, nutzt die Websuche und erstellt auf Wunsch zusammenhängende Bildserien.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Diplo: 31 May - 7 June
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Found a new example of a crappy carousel in the wild for a talk!
At first it seems fine, but it’s death by paper cuts.
• Horizontal scroll, offset from edge of viewport;
• clipped text;
• poor CSS `grid` use;
• scroll snap;
• `alt`-less images;
• `aria-label` on the links;
• and more!
Oh. It’s just Wix.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Archers of Loaf:
🎵 Web in Front
#ArchersofLoaf
https://archersofloaf.bandcamp.com/track/web-in-front-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/33cSQbSL7Hxg1xeYGkj9gt

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWT1uWRuoS5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Levi Penell on Instagram: "Doppelhaushälften"
456K likes, 2,347 comments - levipenell on March 25, 2026: "Doppelhaushälften".

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Important post about the Semantic Web vision, history, and reincarnation in the age of AI.
I have a raw chat with Robert Scoble about the journey.
Links:
[1] https://youtu.be/4OQEXG5JukU?si=Y_xn5tuVv7f0vZm2 -- YouTube edition
[2]

Mein Rabbit Hole der letzten Tage war ein kleines Layoutprojekt / Wühlen in meinem Blog. Texte aus den Jahren 2006 bis 2011 wieder zu lesen, ruft einiges an Erinnerungen wach - die Debatten um Web 2.0 und social media in der Politik, der sich abzeichnende Politikwechsel in Baden-Württemberg (und Stuttgart 21 ist immer noch nicht fertig gebaut), aber auch biografische Pfade, die ich nicht eingeschlagen habe.

Blog ins Buch, die Dritte, oder: biografische Wühlarbeiten
Eine gewisse Faszination für bedrucktes Papier kann ich nicht verhehlen. Weswegen ich auch in regelmäßigen Abständen auf die Idee komme, dass so ein Blog sich doch wunderbar eignen müsste, in Buchform gebracht zu werden. Also nicht, dass ich glaube, dass das außer mir irgendwen interessiert. Aber tr

I never thought I would get so excited for documents about replacing roads in the city next to the city I live in...
https://hdp-us-prod-app-wauwatosa-engage-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/8017/5398/474…

‼️ BlueSky-Bridging von @… beibehalten? ‼️
Seit > 2 Jahren bridge ich die Inhalte von Mastodon zu Bluesky mithilfe des Dienstes https://bsky.brid.gy.
Ich bin mir unsicher,…

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

Quick strategy discussion, for those who understand Google indexing and SEO:
If I want to yank a web site out of Google’s now-fully-extractive search, should I (1) disallow googlebot in robots.txt or (2) add `<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">` to all the page headers?
The goal here is not just to remove my contributions to the commons from Google’s results, but to •make Google aware• that sites are pulling consent. What will best do that?
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Important post about the Semantic Web vision, history, and reincarnation in the age of AI.
I have a raw chat with Robert Scoble about the journey.
Links:
[1] https://youtu.be/4OQEXG5JukU?si=Y_xn5tuVv7f0vZm2 -- YouTube edition
[2]

from my link log —
Dorking: how to find anything on the web.
https://www.alec.fyi/dorking-how-to-find-anything-on-the-internet.html
saved 2020-08-11

Found: the 2009 announcement.
Official Google Blog: Relevance meets the real-time web
<https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/relevance-meets-real-time-web.html>
"… new partners that we're announcing today: Facebook, MySpace,…

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Public holiday today but only in NSW/ACT and WA. Although I'm in Canberra I still had a few commitments. Managed to squeeze in a coffee walk with husband between web work and a zoom meeting. Now to watch a couple more episodes of The Pitt season 2 before bed.
#SuburbanLife #Canberra

Bluesky thanks you for giving them the benefit of the doubt. That was all they needed. You may now get fucked.
#iToldYouSo

Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web - Bluesky
In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto. Since our Series A, we've grown from 13 million to over 43 million global users.

If you're looking for another thing to thank #LLM techbros for: #OpenAI is now acquiring #Cirrus Labs, and #CirrusCI is going to shut down in <2 months.
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

Coming up at #ARVO2026, May 6: Comparing tactile and auditory sensory substitution on visual cortex recruitment in the early and late blind https://eppro02.ativ.me/web/pag…

Do you know what happens when you write C Qt code with web dev experience? Your mental model for memory management (which is non-existent because JS has GC), leads to memory leaks.
It's so bad I had to:
1. rewrite most of the init code for member variables in almost all widgets so the expectation of "WidgetA" from "child C" of MainWindow is available when "WidgetB" emits a signal.
2. currently debugging memory leak when MainWindow is clos…

What comes next is the next stage of enshittification: monetization
Has anyone seen any hint of a real revenue source for BSky? I know that at one point they had a domain registrar partnership deal, but that can’t pay for a billion-user social network. @…

Jay 🦋 (@jay.bsky.team)
I raised a Series B last year for Bluesky to build the open social web. I want to thank our investors who share our vision, our users who light up the network (2.4B posts and counting), and the developers bringing the Atmosphere to life. Can’t wait to show you all what comes next! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

The North Dakota State University Press publishes books on the "plains of North America ... and comparable regions of other continents."
We* just held our Press Party, celebrating recent releases - check them out! Order from the web site
*I'm on the advisory board
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ndsupress.org/books/

Wo gibt's die geringsten Einkommen in D?
(Spoiler: Spritpreis spielt keine Rolle)
3 von 5 im Ruhrgebiet beim Ranking der niedrigsten realen Einkommen:
2. Gelsenkirchen
3. Duisburg
5. Herne
23.000€ und weniger pro Jahr.
Basis ist eine Datenauswertung des IW Köln zu regionalen Preisen in kreisfreien Städten, Kreisen sowie Stadt- und Landkreisen in Deutschland, die mit Einkommensdaten des Statistischen Bundesamtes verknüpft wurden (aus 2023).

In dieser Stadt leben die wohlhabendsten Deutschen
Wo sind die Menschen in Deutschland am wohlhabendsten? Will man dabei nicht nur wissen, wie viel die Menschen verdienen, sondern auch, was das Einkommen vor Ort wert ist, wird es kompliziert. Das Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) Köln hat das nun berechnet - und kommt auf einen Sieger.

Added Steve’s “AI effluent never stops” at https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/04/23/ai-effluent-never-stops/ to my post “OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse” at

I find myself in want of an affordable way of doing regular cybersecurity scans. Anyone have anything good or bad to say about https://barrion.io/?

Found this terrible picture of my computers circa 2000 (shot on a 640x480 Vivitar digicam). The janky-ass PC is a dual PPro Linux box. The other one is an SGI Indigo² Solid Impact.

Heute habe ich einen 2. Versuch mit #Fontcrafter von @… gemacht. Diesmal ist das Ergebnis schon ziemlich gut! Nur das ß (Esszett) vermisse ich noch schmerzlich.
Und echte DE-Anführungszeichen („66/99“) wären mehr als ein netter Zusatz.
Trotzdem…

FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free
Turn your handwriting into an installable font — free, no account, no uploads. Works on every platform and the web. Print, write, scan, download.

My web site (blog) has been around since 1997, and every now and then some company gets in touch and wants to have me add a link to their site or whatever and I always offer this:
Send me your product (to keep) and I will review it and write at least one blog post about it, with links to your site. There's a good chance I will write multiple blog posts about it, and each will link to your site.
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One last example:
The first LLM code example that really made my eyes pop was early after the release of GPT, when somebody got it to combine Breakout with Conway’s Game of Life (a truly delightful idea). It worked!
Funny thing: the Breakout code and the Life code had a •completely• different style and flavor. Red flag. In about 15 minutes of web searching, I was able to find one of the projects (can’t remember if it was the Breakout or the Life half) which it had copied wholesale, with just a few variable renames. And the other half? It was in Python, but it used dictionaries where it really should have used objects — tons of `thing["prop"]` where it should have said `thing.prop`, and lots of other un-Pythonic stuff besides. It was a machine translate of code from another language, very likely Javascript.
The entire thing was a plagiarized Breakout and a plagiarized Game of Life, one transpiled, and all stuck together in a single run loop. To be fair, figuring out how to (1) run both halves of the logic from a single loop and (2) count the Life cells as Breakout bricks is work I'd cheer on from a second-semester intro CS student! It's not, however, quite what's being sold by these companies.
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There's a new piece explaining "The Slow Collapse of #MkDocs": "How personality clashes, an absent founder, and a controversial redesign fractured one of Python's most popular projects."
#httpx?
Well, turns out no, not at all. It looks like encode has already crumbled and became immensely toxic.
httpx is not allowing bug reports anymore, apparently because of "absurdly skewed gender representation", whatever that means.
#OpenSource.
#FreeSoftware #Python