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Depressing anecdote from Gabe Kangas about going off into the weeds with Reddit’s algorithm:

Now I understand how men online can get indoctrinated so easily. You can go from reading about turntable slip mats to hating women in less than an hour.

Algorithmic timelines are designed to increase engagement for ads, not user happiness, not truth.

[Benedict Collins at TechRadar] This was always inevitable, but in the current environment it makes sense that it's accelerating: "Several major European tech companies are pushing for greater action from the European Union to reduce the bloc’s reliance on ...

Good update from Ben Thompson today linking the lack of Vision Pro content to the miss on AI:

…Apple is finding itself paralyzed by its need for control. The company can’t just stick a camera at a game and stream the video without any production or play-by-play commentary: what if people are bored? The company can’t just film a concert: what if people are underwhelmed?

I put out a call for Old School Bloggers, and got back a bunch of notes on Mastodon. Gettin' the band back together! :-)

Pradeep is using WordLand for some of his WordPress blog posts, and has given them a special category. Very smart, good use of categories.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig atá ann agus mar sin déanfaidh mé stobhach Gaelach inniu agus seinnfidh mé ceol traidisiúnta na hÉireann anocht!

Sunday. Day of rest, in theory. Started the day finishing up work on my new Mixtapes page. Here’s what that looks like right now. Mixtapes have been important for me for a long time. I intend to do more with it. I am thinking I’ll be adding mixtapes back as far as 1982 which I’ve...

Below is a summary of new features added to Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. Search your subscriptions You can now search all of the posts published in the feeds of websites to which you are subscribed. To search your feeds, go to your Account page and click “Search ...

Artemis Link Graph is a web extension that lists the web pages authored by people you follow that link to the page you are viewing. Here’s an example of the extension in action, showing the links to the Bear Blog home page from blogs I follow: The Bear Blog homepage with th...

rel= links describe the relationship between the web page a link is on and the resource the page is linking to. For example, rel=alternate is used to say that there is an alternate representation of a web page available at another URL. This may be an RSS or JSON feed, or some...

Now that the Webmention plugin is finally Craft 5 compatible after last week's update, I jumped at the chance and updated another plugin I had once written for my personal site. The Internet Archive plugin automates the archiving of your posts to the Wayback Machine. Each ti...

A lot has changed since the last time we took a serious look at blogging. A few items, as examples.

1. When RSS came along Markdown didn't exist. The two technologies belong together, imho.
2. Websockets have replaced long polling.
3. Servers got cheap! (and easy to deploy).
4. SQL is fast and the tools are much better.
5. The user interfaces of all the Web 2.0+ products didn't exist last time we created new blogging communities. We can borrow ideas from twitter-like systems, even huge products like Facebook and Spotify have innovations that come long after the initial wave of blogging.

But one thing stays the same -- all the components are replaceable. Absolutely zero lock-in. We use simple standard APIs where they exist, and create new minimal formats and protocols where they don't.

Blogging has a simple philosophy that remains constant.

[Om Malik] This is an ongoing trend. Om Malik has now moved to sharing on his blog first rather than posting directly to social media: "The inspiration for the newly rebooted “daily blog” comes from Dave Winer, who maintains a “Links” blog. I’ve been using h...

[Mike Monteiro] On whether it's always been this bad in America: "America was born in blood, genocide, kidnapping, and death. Behind every story we were told about America’s greatness, there is a secret second painting. A thing America doesn’t want you to se...

Adding and deleting categories are part of WordLand 0.50, released earlier today. These are the same categories you can edit in the WordPress user interface. But I learned that you need to be able to add categories when you're writing. You want this functionality to be close-by.

Two columns in the Categories dialog. More efficient use of space.

Context menu with two new commands.

Change notes are here.

Totoro. 🌳

Chilling with Coco. #NotMyCat

Adding and deleting categories coming to WordLand, probably later today. These are the same categories you can edit in the WordPress user interface. But I learned that you need to be able to add categories when you're writing. You want this functionality to be close-by.

dialog, details, datalist, progress, optgroup, and more:

If this article helps just a single developer avoid an unnecessary Javascript dependency, I’ll be happy. Native HTML can handle plenty of features that people typically jump straight to JS for (or otherwise over-complicate).

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This sums up my experience of companies and products trying to inject AI in to the products I use to communicate with other people. It’s always just in the way, making stupid suggestions.

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