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For smart, enterprising hackers Beeper is offering bounties of up to $50,000 for people who create open source bridges.

Almost two months ago, I put out the call for speaker suggestions for Web Day Out. I got some good responses—thank you to everyone who took the time to get in touch.

The response that really piqued my interest was from Aleth Gueguen. She proposed a talk on progressive web apps, backed up with plenty of experience. The more I thought about it, the more I realised how perfect it would be for Web Day Out.

So I’m very pleased to announce that Aleth will be speaking at Web Day Out about progressive web apps from the trenches:

Find out about the most important capabilities in progressive web apps and how to put them to work.

I’m really excited about this line-up! This is going to be a day out that you won’t want to miss. Get your ticket for a mere £225+VAT if you haven’t already!

See you in Brighton on 12 March, 2026!

There’s not necessarily any new info in this article in The New Yorker about AI data centers, but it does illustrate the scale. Also enjoyed the anecdote about a farmer using Claude.

Behind a fence, and past several vehicle checkpoints, the campus was a spacious expanse of nothing, except for one corner, which was populated by a row of numbered sheds. The sheds were white, narrow, tall, and several football fields in length; they reminded me of the livestock barns I visited as a child at the Minnesota State Fair.

It’s been a rough year for a number of reasons, but I’ve bought a hundred postcards to try to catch up with people. Kindly send me your address if you haven’t heard from me in a bit and need proof of life.

I’m still using ChatGPT Pulse. It is remarkable how good it is sometimes. Some folks will find this too creepy, but this morning it delivered a mashup of one of my favorite book series (Stormlight Archive) and principles of Micro.blog. Here’s the transcript. To be clear, I did not prompt this.

We’ve been going through old photos this week. I always smile looking at this one of me and my mom, from around 1980. I look so funny.

Wouldn't it be great if there was a holiday once a year where each of us had a virtual awards show for people we know who have special qualities that make them excellent people or friends. We put all our focus on a few personalities who have obvious defects. And we don't exp...

Thanks everyone for the kind words on the blog post yesterday about my mom. Means a lot to me.

Numerous #w3cTPAC breakout sessions have been proposed. * https://github.com/w3c/tpac2025-breakouts/issues/?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20sort%3Acreated-ascIf you plan to participate in TPAC breakouts, whether in-person or remote, take a look and give the ones that look interesting to you thumbs-up 👍, heart ❤️, or rocket 🚀 reactions.For more information about TPAC 2025 Breakout sessions and how they work, see: * https://github.com/w3c/tpac2025-breakouts

Saturday was my 20th #Wikipedia editing anniversary.I have created:* over 25 content articles (that have survived), averaging just over 1 per year* over 100 redirects to make it easier to find pages, and to find topics which are only documented as sections of existing pages.T...

… speaking of badges (Wikipedia User: 20 year editor badge in my previous post) …I got the #Hacktoberfest 2025: Level 0 Registered badge from Hacktoberfest @hacktoberfest @digitalocean! https://www.holopin.io/hacktoberfest2025/userbadge/cmhas5f6h003bje041kcld1is via @holopin_

Matthias responds to my pondering about the point of “likes” and “shares”:

I like to think of Webmentions not as a measure of popularity. To me, they measure connection. Connection to individual people and connection to the community as a whole. Webmentions let you listen into the constant noise out there and, just like a radio telescope, pick up scarcely audible echoes of connection.

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Live oaks reach branchesSunlight graces every leafWith gentle wisdom Inspired by the not-haiku on my ITO EN tea. (BTW the Automattic home page is all haiku since 2009.)

56 years ago today:

Talked to SRI Host to Host

— IMP log, 1969-10-29 22:30, Charles S. Kline, Boelter Hall, UCLA

The message:

LO

The ARPANET was born.

Beyond Tellerrand has a new website and it’s beautiful!

And look! Past speakers like me get our own page.

In fact there’s a great big archive of all the past talks—that very much deserves your support as a friend of Beyond Tellerrand.

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Apparently last night's email didn't go out, so I re-sent them. Hopefully people didn't receive two emails.

Before it’s too late there should be a rule that AI chatbots should not be allowed in any way to impersonate humans. We will come to see that as our biggest mistake, not stopping this before it got out of control.

React exists as a profound perversion of the web platform. React has failed upwards to widespread adoption because it provides a “developer experience” that bypasses the hard parts. Like learning HTML, or CSS, or JavaScript. Even learning React itself is discouraged; that’s for adults, you should use meta-frameworks. React devs are burdened with multi-megabyte monstrosities before they’ve written a single line of code. You cannot fix “too much JavaScript” with more JavaScript and yet React devs are trained to npm install until their problems become their users’ problems.

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A very, very deep dive into like-for-like comparison of JavaScript frameworks. The takeaway:

Nuxt demonstrates that established “big three” frameworks can achieve next-gen performance when properly configured. Vue’s architecture allows competitive mobile web performance while maintaining a mature ecosystem. React and Angular show no path to similar results.

And the real takeaway:

Mobile is the web. These measurements matter because mobile web is the primary internet for billions of people. If your app is accessible via URL, people will use it on phones with cellular connections. Optimizing for desktop and hoping mobile is good enough is backwards. The web is mobile. Build for that reality.

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