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Flaky internet today, so just catching up on the new levels of chaos with Trump and Elon Musk. Trump will eventually turn against anyone who supported him, lashing out selfishly, no matter the cost to people or country. This devolved shockingly quickly. 🇺🇸

Vise Coffee in Alpine. I had just finished a cold brew I brought with me, so got a sticker and postcard instead of actual coffee.

I continue to doubt that Apple can roll back external payment links now that the genie is out of the bottle. The appeals court was not persuaded that they should block the order. So we’ll have months of users using external links and the world not ending.

Congrats to A New Social on announcing Bounce, a way to move followers between Bluesky and the fediverse. I like how they’re previewing what followers (and follows) will move. Migrating accounts currently feels very blind, as you cross your fingers and hope everything works across fediverse servers.

Next Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf is happening!

Just a tiny bit of reflection, outside Alpine.

[Cameron Faulkner at The Verge]

Bounce is a game-changer for the open social web:

"Bounce is built on the work of Bridgy Fed, which makes your Bluesky posts visible on Mastodon and vice versa. Using Bounce will bridge your accounts, in case you haven’t already set up

#identiverse

This court order is a wild overreach, undermining the privacy of OpenAI users and developers. This would do far more damage than whatever harm The New York Times is alleging about copyright.

Now a personal comment. What pisses me off most about Bluesky is the environment all this is happening in. We need an open social web. They've got a lot of people convinced they are it. They are not and they know it. And they keep leading people on. They should either deliver, now, or get out of the way.

Regular readers of my blog know that I've been calling out Bluesky and people associated with it for saying they're an open platform, and part of the web, when they are neither. Why don't people, esp journalists, call them out on this? We've been around this loop over and ove...

It’s literally three minutes into CSS Day and I’ve already learned about some CSS I didn’t know about.

At Homebrew Website Club last night we got onto the topic of chaos and websites. I asked What is the most chaotic page on your website? To my surprise, everyone had a slightly different answer: from pages with an “earthquake mode” to a web page whose background colour changes...

When I design web pages, I usually start with an idea or concept I want to explore. Here are a few examples of things I have wanted to play with: A two-column layout that uses black, white, and grey A site that only uses two colours A web page that uses text with unusual spa...

On my way to California, the slow route. 🚂

I can’t help myself. I’ve loved every moment of the rebooted Doctor Who on Disney+, but it appears to have hit a bit of a pause while Disney considers whether to renew its co-production. With its future unclear (although I’m certain it’s coming back before too long), I’ve b...

If I was Doctor Who showrunner ...