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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.

Yesterday | 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.

Saturday | 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.

Friday | 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.

Friday | View Shared by John
Rules for Writing Software Tutorials · Refactoring English

#postroll | Effective writing for software developers

Friday | 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.

Thursday | 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 …

Thursday | View Shared by John
Ghostty: Reflecting on Reaching 1.0 – Mitchell Hashimoto

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1 week 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."

3 weeks 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."

1 month ago | View Shared by John
Wind the clock

#postroll | "Many of us have looked back on historic events where people have bravely stood up against powerful adversaries and wondered, “what would I have done?” Now is your chance to find out. It did not just start with this election; it has been that time for a long time. If you’re just realizing it now, get your ass in gear. Make yourself proud."

1 month ago | View Shared by John
Leading By Example - HeyDingus

#postroll | "But it hasn’t shaken my belief that it still matters to do what’s right, even when the odds are stacked against you. Because one person’s actions can indeed be a catalyst into a collective movement. It’s called leading by example, and it’s how I choose to live my life."

1 month ago | View Shared by John
Step-by-Step Guide to Show Webmention Interactions on Bear Blog | Yordi

#postroll | I've been curious about implementing webmentions on my site(s), but it seemed really tedious to do on a static site. Yordi's post on how to set it up with webmention.io and some JS makes it look pretty simple though. Maybe I'll give this a go!

2 months ago | View Shared by John
Just Breathe | Brandon's Journal

#postroll | Sage advice for (ahem) interesting times: take a beat, and just breathe.

2 months ago | View Shared by John
Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

#postroll | "My rule – I don't join a service that I can't leave without switching costs – is my Ulysses Pact, and it's keeping me safe from danger I've sailed into too many times before."

2 months ago | View Shared by John
delroth's homepage - One weird trick to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friend(s)

#infosec #postroll | This post describes a pretty devious tactic: spoofing the source IP of mass internet scans to try and generate abuse reports against your targets.

2 months ago | View Shared by John
The Silver Lining | Robert Birming

#postroll | 🎵 Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end...

2 months ago | View Shared by John
On Networking at Home & Building "Home" Labs | NOT ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST

#postroll #tailscale | Tailscale is such an integral part of my homelab setup, and I love seeing how others use it in theirs. I think Brandon's approach for making Tailscale'd resources available behind public domain names but only accessible within the tailnet is super slick - kind of like Tailscale Serve but with custom domains. Very cool!

2 months ago | View Shared by John
Ghostty 1.0 is Coming – Mitchell Hashimoto

#postroll | I cannot wait for the public release of Ghostty. It sounds like it's shaping up to be exactly the terminal emulator I want to use.

2 months ago | View Shared by John
On Not Selling Myself Short | Brandon's Journal

#postroll | It can be so easy to convince yourself that a situation isn't as bad as you think it is, or that it might get better if you just grit your teeth, or that leaving it may leave you in a worse spot. Brandon writes about recognizing and overcoming those feelings and doing what's best for you. Don't sell yourself short!

2 months ago | View Shared by John
The innovation vs. security paradox: Understanding security as a catalyst for faster innovation

#postroll | This post about not just balancing security versus innovation but how security can enable rapid (and safer) innovation really resonated with me.

2 months ago | View Shared by John
Requiem for Raghavan

#postroll | "The Man Who Killed Google Search" moves on with the meaningless title, Chief Technologist, as the ouroboros of enschittification continues to eat itself.

2 months ago | View Shared by John

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