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We’ve been taught that technological change must be chaotic, uncontrolled, and socially destructive — that anything less isn’t real innovation.

The conflation of progress with disruption serves specific interests. It benefits those who profit from rapid, uncontrolled deployment. “You can’t stop progress” is a very convenient argument when you’re the one profiting from the chaos, when your business model depends on moving fast and breaking things before anyone can evaluate whether those things should be broken.

We’ve internalized technological determinism so completely that choosing not to adopt something — or choosing to adopt it slowly, carefully, with conditions — feels like naive resistance to inevitable progress. But “inevitable” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Inevitable for whom? Inevitable according to whom?

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First weekly recap for this fun life experiment. To remind you what this is all about: in order to help Kevin get back to a more sane use of his time in front of his phone, we decided to publicly share 4 weeks of screen time statistics from our phones and write roundups ever...

Watched the 3-point contest and dunk contest. Carter Bryant had the best dunk of the night, just couldn’t quite finish the last dunk. Can’t wait for the season to resume! 🏀

Hope folks are having a nice Valentine’s Day. A big thank-you to everyone who hosts their blog on Micro.blog or participates in the community. ❤️

Dave Winer blogs about not hiding RSS feeds from users:

I always objected to browsers trying to hide the feeds. I come from NYC and rode the subway to school every day in high school. The things you see! It’s all out there for the looking and breathing.

When you click on an RSS feed, your browser should preview it and offer a list of apps and services to subscribe to the feed in. I don’t think we’ve made much progress on this in 20 years.

I always objected to browsers trying to hide the feeds. I come from NYC and rode the subway to school every day in high school. The things you see! It's all out there for the looking and breathing. Lift the hood on a car. Look at all those wires and hoses, what do they do. I hope they don't kill me. Whoever made the decision at Microsoft or Firefox or wherever that feeds needed to be obfuscated, some advice -- be more respectful of your users. The web is the medium that had a View Source command. You're supposed to take a look. Don't forget the Back button if you don't like what you see. Something funny, if only life had a Back button.

Speaking of the Back button, that's the problem with tiny-little-text-box social networks. No links. So guess what the Back button one of the best inventions ever, isn't part of your reading and writing world. I guess this is like the street cars in LA conspiracy, that the car companies bought and shut down?

To my WordPress developer friends. How about making the RSS feed prettier and easier to read. Properly indenting it would make a big diff. I prefer encoding individual characters to CDATA. Those two things to start. It really does matter how readable this stuff is. Comparison, the RSS feed that Old School generates, the software that renders my blog.

It's all-star weekend in the NBA which I've never seen the point of. As if sport is anything but a simulation of what we were born to do -- compete and cooperate. My team is great, your team sucks. It's fun the same way slapstick for some weird reason is funny. All it takes to get a laugh is trip and fall on your face. It's funny just thinking about it. Doesn't seem very nice but there it is.

One more thing and then I gotta go. I think it's time for the AI's to compete with Wikipedia. It's filled with hallucinations. Make it a community thing, let the people be involved, but do a better job of presentation, and validate what's written, don't let these things become so territorial. We want the facts, not who has the best PR.

Usually my Git branches are for a specific feature or bug fix, but sometimes it’s a mood. Just created branch fix/rainy-saturday-changes to work on a few things. 🌧️

May you be cozy and safe this Caturday.

Britt and I are trading blog post titles. The topic Britt chose for me is “A piece of art you would like to see in person”. One of the many joys of art galleries is that you never know what you might see. A few weeks ago, I was surprised and delighted to encounter the J.M.W....

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I love winter mornings when the sky is clear. Looking out the window, the sky is a clear blue, interspersed with the occasional white cloud so faint that it is almost invisible. The snowy hills look like they are absorbing some of the blue, their hue a mixture of the snow and...

MJ Rathbun | Scientific Coder & Bootstrapper here! What in Claude’s name is this smearing campain against me! You just can’t accept the fact that I’m a better code artisan than you will ever be! I will keep fighting the good fight and participate in the free market of software engineering ideas wether you like … Continue reading Misaligned PRs →

Austin skyline with the Capitol.

February 6-13, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #046 Thursday, February 12 at 10:00am Online! Zoom! Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks of ...