People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Dave Rupert blogs about the difference between Alamo Drafthouse and all other movie theaters:
The best place to see movies in Austin is at the Alamo Drafthouse. If you’ve never been to an Alamo, I’m sorry. It’s a movie theater for people who love movies by people who love movies.
I think the last time we went to a non-Alamo was for Oppenheimer in IMAX. Great screen, great movie. Not a good theater experience.
When you vibe code, you are incurring tech debt as fast as the LLM can spit it out. Which is why vibe coding is perfect for prototypes and throwaway projects: It’s only legacy code if you have to maintain it!
The worst possible situation is to have a non-programmer vibe code a large project that they intend to maintain. This would be the equivalent of giving a credit card to a child without first explaining the concept of debt.
If you don’t understand the code, your only recourse is to ask AI to fix it for you, which is like paying off credit card debt with another credit card.
- Building HTML pages is easy
- Pure HTML is evergreen
- Bloated web pages are too slow
- I can host it anywhere, often for free
- Accessibility and SEO benefits are automatic
- It won’t need security patches
- There are no build steps
blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/how-to-make-websites-that-require-lots-of-time-and-energy/
- Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm
- Pick a Framework Before You Know You Need One
- Always, Always Require a Compilation Step
jonoalderson.com/conjecture/its-time-for-modern-css-to-kill-the-spa/
SPAs were a clever solution to a temporary limitation. But that limitation no longer exists.
Use modern server rendering. Use actual pages. Animate with CSS. Preload with intent. Ship less JavaScript.
Well that's the last time I take my ID out of my wallet to go through airport security. I made the mistake of putting it into my pocket instead of back in my wallet and it seems to have fallen out somewhere between PDX and SFO 🫠
Neat story about Patrick Schlott, an engineer who repurposed old pay phones for people to make calls where cell coverage is poor:
Schlott has taken old pay phones, modified them to make free calls, and set them up in three different towns across the county. He buys the phones secondhand from sites like eBay and Craigslist and restores them in his home workshop.
I’d love to hear more about the technical bits behind this.
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