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#postroll | "We never hear about email service providers blocking other email service providers just because the company in question is objectively awful. [...] The idea sounds ridiculous because it is. So, then, why is that ridiculous idea somehow a good one when we’re talking about ActivityPub services?"

Today | View Shared by John

Fighting the lock-in - The Dent

#postroll | I’ve been experimenting a little recently, in my tech life, with some of the products and services I use. With the way big tech are bending the knee to Musk and...

Yesterday | View Shared by John

Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me - Mat Duggan

#postroll | I feel this frustration deeply in my core.

Friday | View Shared by John

The Easiest Way to Start Blogging - The 2025 Edition | Brandon's Journal

#postroll | There's no time like the present to take up blogging, and this post from @[email protected] highlights some of the easiest ways to get started.

Tuesday | View Shared by John

Your platform is a trap

#postroll | We're well past the platform where enshittification has become cliché and bandied about to death but every new "platform" I see now feels like a trap.

Sunday | View Shared by John

Be A Property Owner And Not A Renter On The Internet · Den Delimarsky

#postroll | The year is 2025. The internet in the shape that we've known it in the early 2000s is no longer there. Or, not quite in the shape that we've seen it before. This is not just plain nostalgia talking - the vibrant ecosystem of blogs, feeds, personal sites, and forums has been usurped by a few mega-concentrated players.

1 week ago | View Shared by John

📋 Good advice for somebody - annie's blog

#postroll | Annie's blog is packed with practical, easily-digestible advice like "practice saying no," "just do the thing", and "make some crap". This post collects a lot of that advice in one place.

1 week ago | View Shared by John

Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia

#postroll | The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.

1 week ago | View Shared by John

Rules for Writing Software Tutorials · Refactoring English

#postroll | Effective writing for software developers

1 week ago | View Shared by John

Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting

#postroll #privacy | Lukasz Olejnik writes about device fingerprinting, and why Google’s policy change to allow it in 2025 is a major privacy setback.

1 week ago | View Shared by John

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

#postroll | A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …

1 week ago | View Shared by John

Ghostty: Reflecting on Reaching 1.0 – Mitchell Hashimoto

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2 weeks ago | View Shared by John

Scrapers I block (and allow), with explanations - Seirdy

#postroll #web | "Here’s my thought process when deciding whether to block a scraper from seirdy.one, the scrapers I block, the scrapers I allow, and the ways I block them."

1 month ago | View Shared by John

Modern Work Fucking Sucks.

#postroll | "It’s Monday morning. The first thing you see (yes, before you see your kids, your partner, even your coffee) is a Slack notification. That Slack notification leads you to a Confluence document, which is supposed to prepare you for the upcoming Zoom meeting."

1 month ago | View Shared by John

The UX of LEGO Interface Panels - Interaction Magic

#postroll | LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.

1 month ago | View Shared by John

How I teach Eleventy from scratch : Juha-Matti Santala

#dev #postroll #web | I love how in Eleventy, you can build a site step-by-step and at each small step, have a functional website. In this post, I describe a workshop structure I’ve used lately to teach a few of my friends how to build a static site with Eleventy.

1 month ago | View Shared by John

How Tailscale's infrastructure team stays small

#postroll #tailscale | Tailscale’s secure, simplified networking solution helps DevOps teams eliminate infrastructure headaches. Learn how our infra team of just three engineers uses Tailscale to handle networking, secrets, and security with minimal effort.

1 month ago | View Shared by John

You’re the only one - annie's blog

#postroll | On taking time to stop and smell the grasshoppers.

1 month ago | View Shared by John

I'm Tired, Boss | Living Out Loud

#postroll | I'm tired, not from work, but from a world that seems designed for someone other than working people.

1 month ago | View Shared by John

In praise of creating crap - annie's blog

#postroll | "The value of creativity is not in the quality of what you create. The value is in the act of creativity itself."

1 month ago | View Shared by John

Apple is straight-up telling us to lie - HeyDingus

#postroll | AI tools can be genuinely helpful in certain applications, like adjusting the tone of an email or helping to get a better understanding of a complex topic. So why is all the marketing focused on using them for bullshit?

1 month ago | View Shared by John

Supporting coworkers, employees, and friends in this time | nicole@web

#postroll | "So, what do we do concretely right now to help each other? This has two parts: what folks need, and how best to help meet those needs. I hope this list helps everyone see that none of us is powerless, and each of us has things we can do, today, to make a difference."