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Long-time readers will know that I’m a big fan of RSS feeds. An RSS reader has been essential to my web experience since I first came online, and I’ve doggedly stuck to using them even as the web has centralised onto a few platforms and much digital ink spilt about the “death of RSS”. Luckil…

When you subscribe to multiple feeds covering the same topic, it’s often the case to see duplicates or near-duplicates in your feed. Usually, it becomes immediately obvious when you read your feeds within a folder. Consider the following case with two feeds from Ars Technica posting the same story…

Mozilla must survive by Ben Werdmüller

Firefox matters. The other major browsers are all subject to a larger corporation’s business interests: Safari is built in the context of the App Store, Chrome must support Google’s ad targeting business, and Edge fills a gap in the Windows ecosystem. But Firefox is here to fight for the users: it s…

If you’re running WordPress and use the wonderful IndieAuth plugin to issue tokens for all of your IndieWeb services, here’s how you can automatically invalidate—destroy, in fact—these tokens.
Why? Some applications will automatically log you out after an hour or so, and request you again au…

Raising the alarm by Ben Werdmüller

It’s impossible to ignore.

Federal agents dressed in military gear have been bundling protesters into unmarked vehicles (allegedly rented from Enterprise) in Portland, with additional reports from Chicago and San Diego. The White House has announced that they’ll be rolling these troops out nationwi…