Brent Toderash

Web 3.0 is just the web rediscovering its roots. Web 2.0 is an aberration whose initial promise ultimately failed to deliver, creating Tech Bros instead.

I wanted a little note-taking app for my desktop to jot things down during meetings so they can go into the right place later. Claude published it for me in less than the time it would take for me to find and test an existing one. And that's the state of software in late 2026.

I just described something as "very blocky, in a Picasso's Cybertruck kind of way", which I think is a pretty good burn, but also, the Cybertruck just gained a whole new design context in my head.

The CMS of the Future: www.toderash.net/blog/the-cms... Encapsulates ideas from smart people like @marucchi.com @joost.blog @provenpudding.bsky.social @joedolson.bsky.social @dries.bsky.social @typo3.com @jazzsequence.com Benni Mack, David Steeb, Pat Ramsey, Matt Garrepy, et al. Thx for the insight!

Kayaking La Salle River today.

ICYMI, had a great time doing this interview with Chris Reynolds. We covered a lot of ground, including some of what I've been up to over the past 2 years worth open source supply chain security.

NGL, I'm somewhat disappointed in my wife's lack of enthusiasm about The Rockford Files now being available on Prime.

I think @libreoffice.bsky.social needs markdown support - paste-from & export-to, similar to what Google Docs does.

Well, that's been my experience. newsroom.heart.org/news/coffee-...

Uh, okay, thanks for nothing, Gemini.

I'm so old I remember when browsers had a setting to turn off image downloading to save bandwidth.

Anthropeum.com · Jun 14 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟥🟩🟩🟨🟩🟦🟩 62,719 · top 38% of players today!

matt mullenweg logging into drupal’s issue tracker to heckle a 22-year old filename cleanup issue is the kind of inexplicable pot-kettle-black pettiness that makes me love him so much

Agency has always been my leading argument for OSS (#FLOSS). Spend a half-hour with @joost.blog's joost.blog/open-source-... to learn why. (Disambiguaton: "agency" is used in the sense of "capacity" or liberty, libre, not for a consulting firm.)

"Given enough AIs, all bugs are shallow."

My daughter called me the Nick Fury of the Software Avengers, and I'm like ... 🤷‍♂️

In case anyone needs to know, if your wife tells you, "It would be nice to have a husband who could be relied upon to respond to text messages," the correct response is apparently not "How would you know?"

Not saying this coffee is too strong, just that it's not for amateurs.

Sometimes what happens #CloufFest follows you home from CloudFest.

MASSIVE WIN: no one wants to live in the united states anymore

AspireCloud is now serving TYPO3 packages with new version constraint filtering (upper and lower barriers). The Extension Manager inside TYPO3 can already list, install, and resolve dependencies from AspireCloud! #CFHack #CloudFest #FAIRxTYPO3

TYPO3 in FAIR Explorer TYPO3 support is now live in the FAIR Explorer! You can check it out at fairdemo.site! #CFHack #CloudFest #FAIRxTYPO3

Making progress & getting {stuff} done at #CFHack!

claude.ai just told me to go to the support site but gave me the wrong url for it, and what?? thanks @anthropic.com Headed over the the right one now to complain about tokens being eaten up on repeated failed responses.

Now here's some good news! news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Insightful warning piece from @joost.blog - this is seismic. joost.blog/deafening-si... #WooCommerce representation being absent at the table puts them on the menu. And not just them, but everyone who depends on its ecosystem.

Why even a US tech giant is launching 'sovereign support' for Europe now zdnet.com/article/why-... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Red Hat, an American company, is now backing the growing wave of European governments and companies moving to digital sovereignty.

It's clear Automattic's business model is shifting toward trademark rent-seeking while it "defends" open source. FLOSS no longer needs outside detractors, we've got our own now, thanks.

Farmer's Daughter on the local taps at D'Arcy McGee's

Arrived in Ottawa for #WCEH2025! #WordPress Contributor Day tomorrow, then #WCEH! I'll be speaking on software supply chain security in a decentralized federated ecosystem. Looking forward to @scripting.com @ma.tt @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy Jill Binder & others! canada.wordcamp.org/2025/about/s...

Overheard conspiracy theory of the day: CFL rule changes are a result of Trump wanting to attack (and annex) Canada from within, starting by Americanizing our football to be like the NFL.

Nobody goes the extra mile out of a passion for creating shareholder value.

I'll say this louder for those in the back: #WordPress "5 for the Future" **cannot** be reformed or rescued without tearing up its foundation: it exists for the wrong reasons. Stop trying to fix it--tear it down and re-evaluate completely. #wpdrama

The #wordpress ecosystem has lots of questions & potential pitfalls being pointed out for @fair.pm & @aspirepress.bsky.social but tbh, I haven't yet seen one that hasn't already been considered by those groups. Few people are even checking whether there is an answer already.

Some people did a thing for the #wordpress community coming out of the #wpdrama - I'm proud of the work they did and thankful for the privilege of working with this team! www.therepository.email/aspirepress-...

Just published: Reframing the Maker-Taker Problem on Philosophy https://yawp.foo/articles/2025/reframing-the-maker-taker-problem/

Matt: "Joost and Karim should go away and use open source to build a fork of WordPress with their ideals around governance." Joost & Karim: **Build something in 6 months that match their ideas of governance** Matt: "OMFG they built something in SECRET". #WCEU

AspirePress is announcing availability of its distributed WordPress repository architecture. aspirepress.org/everest-1-0-... - this work formed the starting point for FAIR package management. linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-... | www.fastcompany.com/91347003/wor...

As of 2020, 54% of U.S. adults aged 16–74 read below a sixth-grade level—about 130 million people with limited literacy, impacting jobs, health, and the economy. This finding comes from a Gallup report commissioned by the Barbara Bush Foundation and cited by Forbes.

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

History always has a lesson.

Almost 10% of the entire Canadian electorate voted on the VERY FIRST DAY of advance polls because we’ve spent the last 3 months watching what happens when you elect a populist windbag who vilifies journalists and shits all over people’s fundamental rights. Thanks America. You really did us a solid.

Today in a meeting I asked, "Are you sure that's the right document? It only says 'FINAL' once in the file name."