FeedCity

i’m writing this in amsterdam. i’ll be in the city for kubecon till friday. let me know if you want to meet! it’s been almost a month since i wrote that i’m yearning for a digital community that runs preferably on irc. guess what, there’s now the dealgorithmed irc server. ...

The developers who build this should be ashamed.

Free the web. RSS forever.

A whopping 37MB webpage on initial load. But that’s not the worst part. In the five minutes since I started writing this post the website has downloaded almost half a gigabyte of new ads.

We’re lucky to have so many good RSS readers that cut through this nonsense

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Was casually browsing the indie web clicking from link to link and came across a green slash page in the wild.

It made me smile, having been the creator of such on my site and getting it on to Slash Pages

Note: this is a secret rss only item.

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Andy Baio noted that it was 20 years ago today that Jack Dorsey posted his first tweet. He also noted it was the day that Ze Frank did his first YouTube video. It got me looking around my own world to see what happened on Mar 21, 2006. Nothing earth shaking but it was inter...

BTW one big advantage Claude has over ChatGPT is the brevity of its name. One syllable vs four.

Lady Laura "Pack of Dogs by John Littleboy"

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Tech Stuff

Infisical I'm trying this service as a replacement for Doppler. Seems to have more capabilities plus it's an open-source project you can self-host (if you so care). Does feel overwhelming at first with all

The text below as written by Claude. I didn't ask for it, but was blown away when I read it. There's a reason the original web worked: it was built on open formats that anyone could read, write, and extend. RSS was part of that story. So was OPML. When people ask why these...

I've written a bunch of pieces with this premise, what if I were CEO of Apple being the first, in January 1996, before Steve Jobs returned. This time I'm writing as if I were CEO of Bluesky, a company that just got a new interim CEO, Toni Schneider, formerly of Automattic, t...

I’ve been listening to this album, Loss by Gaerea. Every single song on this album has hit me hard. From Luminary to Stardust, every track is just… incredible. I favorited every single track one the album, and I even favorited the entire album. I can’t remember the last time I did that.

I have a few hobby projects that I tinker with in my spare time. One of them is a Rust-based RSS/Atom feed reader. It scans feeds, fetches content, and generates static HTML pages to create a simple website. It’s not revolutionary, but it’s a project I enjoy working on, and it’s given me a chance to learn and experiment with Rust.

I like to capture what resonates with me. So here are some of my favourite reads.

Abigail (2024)

Rated: 3/10

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S.W.A.T.: Under Siege (2017)

Rated: 2/10

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Around 1800 files make up the total of this website and is a total of 41.5 megabytes on disk. My homepage is a request that is a mere 0.559 megabytes and incredibly around 0.01 megabytes on second load, due to the caching of assets. This is according to Chromium dev tools. ...

I ended 2025 on a hopeful note, mentioning seasonal work that could hopefully be turned into something more permanent. Sadly, it ended up being very temporary after all. As such, I'm back on the market for employment. I'm also trying to branch out, so I'm back on Fiverr.

Quick note on Bluesky's disclosures. Yesterday they disclosed $100 million investment in April last year. It's good that they cleared it up, but bad that they were hiding it for so long. Everything about what they do is based on trust. New management probably is the reason this happened now. They should also clean up the promises they've made about Bluesky as a platform. I've done the homework, having developed a few apps using their API, some are still running. If I were their new CEO, I would announce that in addition to supporting AT Proto, they will also hook up Bluesky to the web. The web is already decentralized. Lots of developers know how to build web stuff. We can all breathe the same air.

Knight Foundation: "How did a private foundation with roots in local journalism and civic life find itself on a cap table with venture capital firms like Bain Capital Crypto and Bloomberg Beta to invest in a tech startup?" Imho because they misled you.

Enshittification comes for us all.

Why so much identity with the profession anyways?

Animism came to mind this morning, and I started thinking about something I wrote a while ago about locating agency in process based music. The question where do you place agency in process based music? ended up being mostly rhetorical. Diffusing the question by articulating real systems and situations placed in a perceptual context felt like a more naturally interesting project to me than trying to locate agency in any sense, really.

This morning I'm reframing that insinct to try to dismantle the question as a aspiration to the universality of agency, and asking myself: do I extend this instinct to software, too?

My language is harsher with software -- any anthropomorphising is disclaimered with a "so-called" or a follow-up explicit thinging of some sort.

I pick up a rock and I say "look at this little guy" not "look at this little so-called guy".