If you’ve browsed your Twitter or Facebook page feeds in the last week, you have probably noticed that we changed the presentation of the posts, so they are more coherent with how a microblog post should look like.
Initially, Inoreader started as a pure RSS reader and titles are an essential part …
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In Big Tech & people: a complicated relationship of convenience beschrijft Om Malik onze moeizame relatie met technologie. Op persoonlijk niveau maakt het ons leven een stuk makkelijker, maar tegelijkertijd versterkt het ontwikkelingen die op regionaal of (inter)nationaal niveau enorm onwenselijk zijn. In the past, when preparing to go to the airport from my parents …
I’ve been reading through a series of essays on Blogging Infrastructure that are part of CJ Eller’s Blogging Futures. There are some interesting ideas hiding in there including the idea of a
I go to lots of hack days and hackathons. Some are big corporate affairs, some are boutique community events. They all have one thing in common – Geeks suck at giving demos.
You have 3 minutes to convince the judges – or your peers – that you’ve built something brilliant. How do you do that?
One Hun…
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Tantek Çelik (tantek.com)Teach to what the hand can hold
Love to what the heart is open to receiving
The first of these was perhaps the most impactful summary saying from my teachers during my 2017 #ytt200 yoga teacher training @YogaFlowSF. The second is my abstracting & re-applying beyond.
The first was spoken in the c…
Last year, I fell in love with Diana Smith’s stunning CSS paintings: Francine, Vignes, and Zigario. (I loved them so much, I asked her to speak at XOXO’s Art+Code event last year.)
This stunning illustration by @cyanharlow is pure HTML/CSS. Every element was typed by hand, drawing with only a te…
I’ve been seeing more tweets lately—particularly from Google Chrome developer Alex Russell—that the web is dying.
I disagree.
The web is a mess. Modern “best practices” are creating a slow, obnoxious experience for users. There a few big, influential companies who have a vested interest in subverting the web or creating a walled garden.
But that’s to say nothing of the platform itself.
The web platform, this beautiful thing that we build sites and apps on, is alive and thriving.
Web communities started small, and many began with purpose. They radiated out from a single source, spread through close-knit circles and pre-viral word of mouth. We may have large social network behemoths that loom over the landscape and dominate the market these days, but they are a far more uniform and manufactured experience, one that’s …
Peter Rukavina (ruk.ca)You know those super-annoying websites–yes, Aeroplan, I’m talking about you–that hijack your ability to paste values into password?
In Firefox, at least, you can defeat this hijacking, for all sites, by: Enter about:config in your Firefox address bar. Search for dom.event.clipboardevents.enabl…
Wie zakelijk met social media bezig is – en dat zijn heel veel mensen – kan er niet onder uit: de social media trends 2020. Of liever gezegd, de social media ontwikkelingen die ons allemaal gaan raken. De dingen die belangrijk zijn om te weten, wil je met social media nog bereik hebben en resultaten …
Johan Bové (social.johanbove.info)A screenshot of Johan’s Gopherhole
I’ve been spending way too much time on #Gopher servers in the last couple of days.
The Gopher Web is intriguing and fascinating and I totally understand the attraction of an ad-free, cookie-free, not-for-profit, underground(-ish) alternative to today’s crowded and…
Neil Mather (doubleloop.net)I posted this Cluetrain retrospective at doc.blog last year. I’m putting it here now because it’s timely again. Dig: 1) The original site and book are online in full at 2) The 10th ann…
Think of creating a blog as you would think of writing on a page in a notepad.
This post is kind of secret, intended for RSS subscribers only. It’s a bit of a rant, too, mostly aimed at “non-coding WordPress developers.” Sorry!
I use WordPress, a lot. It helps me build accessible, good-looking sites really quickly.
In that sense, the different WordPress APIs (Meta Box, W…
Google’s Chrome is not a browser, it’s advertisement delivery software. Adtech after all is where their profit is. This is incompatible with Doc Searls‘ Castle doctrine of browsers, so Chrome isn’t fit for purpose.
Removing Chrome
image by Matthew Oliphant, license CC BY ND Read Chrome to li…
In de loop van de jaren heb al zoveel ideeën voor tools, producten en diensten gehad. Maar het komt er …
tl;dr: This is nerding out on Tetris scores, and quite frankly, I don’t think the conclusion holds. But there are nice tables along the way.
I’ve been watching Classic Tetris for a few months now, and as a result, I’m also playing it. I am noticeably better after I watched some pro’s scoring Tetris …
https://www.jwz.org/images/scaled/768/2019/ctyp_65699222328826997_fe5da4bde3.jpg Instagram’s most toxic contribution might be “Link in Bio”. In order to lock you in completely, they took the fundamental defining characteristic of The Web — the hyperlink — and destroyed it.
This dark pattern is the…
I’ve been working on explaining computer things I’m learning on this blog for 6 years. I wrote one of my first posts, what does a shell even do? on Sept 30, 2013. Since then, I’ve written 11 zines, 370,000 words on this blog, and given 20 or so talks. So it seems like I like explaining things …
