For real though, I’ve been thinking more and more about the stuff I do on the side and the usefulness of it. I half promised a competitor to a platform BY myself in less time (grossly overestimating the effort and care it takes to build these platforms) and now I sometimes feel like I’ve wasted two years of my life on this stuff. It’s not like I don’t believe in the open social Web, I just challenge my thoughts on its viability in the next decade as well as the active moves working to divest from things like it into more proprietary stacks.
One thing that trips me up a lot is how a lot of the stuff in the open social Web is stuck on text (barely anything around multimedia). Text seems easy but photos require a whole different level of care and thought that’s consistently an afterthought. I don’t see much nudging on it in the IndieWeb - some progress on handling them is made in mainline projects like Mastodon but again, it’s marginal. It’s not that people are playing to catch up - I don’t think this is an interest for most at all (and it’s a safe way to prevent any of the harm found in silos from leaking into our space) but I do think we should be aiming to ween people off these platforms. I see more and more asks for alternatives and I can’t even comfortably recommend most that meet feature parity.
I’m sad. And I’m hoping to use this as motivation to keep hammering on things.
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I’ve seen this a lot (that using static files uses less power) but with no evidence or stats (and tbh it just seems like another agenda item to do static only sites)
https://twitter.com/yaxu/status/1294040627441807360
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I’ve seen this inconsistent number of reactions on mobile and Web so this is definitely a server side issue but if it’s intended then it’s very weird.
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Hope you are resting up during eternal Caturday.
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Love this from r/programmerhumor on reddit.
My first program was on a Commodore PET in 1979 in basic.
10 print "booger";
20 goto 10
What's your first machine and language?
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PSA: The Tallinn Art Hall has its own, Estonian-optimized font and it's amazing. 💕
kunstihoone.ee
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Introducing @jkphl to Vanilla Honey Butter 😌 (@ Põhjala Tap Room - @pohjalabeer in Tallinn, Harju w/ @_phelan_) swarmapp.com/c/9oKBpfMPzWS
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It’s kinda wild how the @ubuntu account has just turned into a Microsoft dev channel about 40% of the time. My thoughts about Canonical being bought by Microsoft in 2023 doesn’t feel too loony now.
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Verdict on donut that looks and tastes like a bagel: “it does the idea well, but it was a bad idea”
Existential crisis of a donut
I am so excited to figure out how this is a DONUT
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Me yesterday: I'm going to get a bunch done to catch up on Saturday!
Me today: play games with kids, watch Caribbean Life on Hulu, eat snacks.
/lazy day 🥴
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Live in 2 minutes over on youtube to talk about payroll taxes and the mystery that is this vegan bagel donut.
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Going live in 30 minutes (5PM/8PM) and we'll coverer Vegan Everything Bagel DONUT?! 🍩, the Payroll Tax Holiday 💸 and
the downgraded GSCEs in the UK:
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Bridge Over the River Siuslaw
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I am so excited to figure out how this is a DONUT
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Live at 5PM Pacific today to discuss:
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"html": "Live at 5PM Pacific today to discuss:\n- Vegan Everything Bagel DONUT?! \ud83c\udf69\n- Payroll Tax Holiday \n- A-levels chaos in the UK\n<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgJl0HDu5R8&feature=youtu.be\">youtube.com/watch?v=NgJl0H\u2026</a>"
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"name": "Lillian Karabaic \ud83e\udd44\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 BLM",
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