“It doesn’t make any sense. That’s why I trust it.” — Rose 🍿
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Your App Should Have Been A Website (And Probably Your Game Too) - Rogue Engine
Remember when every company rushed to make an app? Airlines, restaurants, even your local coffee shop. Back then, it made some sense. Browsers weren’t as powerful, and apps had unique features like notifications and offline access. But fast-forward to today, and browsers can do all that. Yet businesses still push native apps as if it’s 2010, and we’re left downloading apps for things that should just work on the web.
This is all factually correct, but alas as Cory Doctorow points out, you can’t install an ad-blocker in a native app. To you and me, that’s a bug. To short-sighted businesses, it’s a feature.
(When I say “ad-blocker”, I mean “tracking-blocker”.)
2024
There goes 2024.
It was a year dominated by Ukraine and Gaza. Utterly horrific and unnecessary death courtesy of Putin and Netanyahu.
For me personally, 2024 was just fine. I was relatively healthy all year. The people I love were relatively healthy too. I don’t take that ...
2024 in numbers
Another year of counting things.
Good morning! Still fiddling with Micro.one, improving things, and updating the FAQ here. In some ways this launch is unlike anything we’ve done before.
Micro.one was effectively a soft-launch yesterday, haven’t officially announced it yet. I learned a few things. Making some tweaks today. Dialing back the custom themes support so that remains a unique part of Micro.blog.
The #indieweb is more than #independence. It’s also a web, of both personal sites and “third place” sites like aggregators, bridges, proxies, directories, indexes, and other community sites.Broadly speaking, such “third place” sites include places we collectively contribute t...
How I’m trying to use BlueSky without getting burned again - Welcome
BLK Vinyl.
Bit off a little more than I could chew today, so I’m scrambling. Not a great feeling.
Thursday session
Thursday session
Thinking again about disabling all support for .php requests in Micro.blog. It’s needless traffic, thousands and thousands of requests a day that go nowhere, looking for WordPress exploits. There’s legitimate use for redirecting old URLs, but it’s very rare that an old blog even exposes .php URLs.
There are always little coding details that are hard to predict before launch until things are mostly ready to go. This morning worked on our gift invites for Micro.one. Existing Micro.blog customers will be able to invite and pay for someone to get a year of blog hosting for $10.
Little Feed Reader on Bluesky
I just announced my little feed reader on Bluesky. If you're there I hope you'll follow it. Technically, this is how it works.
I'm using the OPML file for my blogroll category on feedland.social to determine what's posted on Bluesky. When I add or remove feeds from the cat...
January 2nd, 2025
Good to be beside the sea and soaking up the first sunny day of 2025
Bradshaw’s Guide: Three sections down, one to go
230 lines and branches, 89 railway companies, 966 towns and cities, 118 counties and regions. And counting.
A new Wonderella??!!! 💖 http://nonadventures.com/2025/01/01/unpack-to-the-future/
A new Wonderella??!!! 💖
What comes after Web 2.0?
When we say #ownYourData we mean whatever data is important to you, like the data services aggregate about you and present back to you. Owning that data means extracting it into a form you can hang onto regardless of what the service does in the future (or disappears), and pu...
The first of a new year seems like a good day to assemble, aggregate, summarize and publish various year in review posts for the prior year.When various online services create a year in review for you many weeks before the end of the year (whether #Spotify #Wrapped or #Strava...