Hey @kpthrive, I appreciate the surveys you send to eval how visits went. It's good to know somebody pays attention. But you never ask a really important question, which is: how do you rate the value you got out of this visit compared to the money you needed to spend on it.
Always bet on the better technology. Popular != better. In fact, that’s often not the case at all. Don’t feel ashamed to tread the unbeaten path in search for better solutions, better thinking. You might be wrong, now and again. But more often than not, you’ll be right.

This is true. Self-hosting is a bit like building a home from scratch; where as something like renting relies on trust on the people you’re leasing from. The Facebook/Medium rental model is broken as hell, so maybe online cooperative housing works? https://twitter.com/ElleArmageddon/status/1296857067710341120

As much as I can understand the importance of discovery of services and applications, making it also the conduit at which applications are served from create this situation where both users AND developers suffer for stupid rules. All for money. Not security or privacy. Money.

Is it weird that when I want a ‘reset’ from working on Web stuff that Rust makes me feel good to work on non-Web (or at least Web-only) stuff?

Weird? Hm.

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Short thread on what SF I’ve been reading: Just finished @SarahPinsker’s “Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea”, a lovely and wonderful short story collection. So many of her stories are continuations of conversations started in shorts by New Wave SF authors… 1/
Apple: for the love of all that is holy, get your f%*^*$%ing iOS App Store act together! I love your products, but your business policies regarding this wing of the company are batshit crazy. twitter.com/techmeme/statu…
Matt Mullenweg says Apple locked WordPress updates on iOS, won't unlock them unless WordPress commits to support in-app purchases for .com plans (@photomatt) twitter.com...
This: TFW you’re a genuinely decent person who suddenly discovers that your country isn’t what you thought it had become.
b-boy bouiebaisse https://twitter.com/jbouie
you know, when biden first said that he was running because of what happened in charlottesville, i rolled my eyes. but it really does seem like those events were deeply a...
I'm going!

Looking forward to more IndieAuth discussions!

App idea: a kind of gofundme for restaurants wanting to get back in business where patrons pledge a certain number of seatings within a certain time period. "I pledge to eat at your restaurant once a week for the next year." Guaranteed with cc, charged if pledge not fulfilled
Has @ProjectLincoln started spending any money in swing states yet?
I’m currently going through the new SVG-based Bootstrap 5 icon set (github.com/twbs/icons) and handpicking icons I like, so this is a cool technique to use!
Bridgetown Tip of the Day: If you yarn add svg-sprite and save some SVG icons in frontend/icons, you can easily combine them into a single sprite file via a yarn script ...

Hear that? Another weekend is coming to visit this eternal Caturday.

Today I received my birthday present — for $35 from eBay. Everything is broken (last fw update is dated 2013) most CA certificates expired, SSL broken, 8-year old browser no AGPS, no app store…yet still such an amazing device keyboard feels magnificent & battery lasts forever 💕
Had fun starting a brand new site build for @_whitefusion today using nothing but CSS variables, custom elements for layout, and class-less styling. Not sure if this approach would scale to a large project, but for a landing page it's pretty darn awesome.
Seriously, I hope and pray with all that is within me that we can turn the page on this sad chapter in the American experiment.
The single best indicator of a person’s character is their ability to listen to others, hear their struggle, and empathize with them. Empathy is humanity’s greatest strength; a force for connection and community. Donald Trump is devoid of empathy. Joe Biden, full of compassion.
Well this aged interestingly.
Nathaniel Friedman https://twitter.com/freedarko
Bold prediction: This White House will distract us from Russia with a juicy Steve Bannon sex scandal.
I kept hoping for a reference to the Trans Am he was constantly working on.