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How a flock of organizations can find each other on the open web — with no one in charge.

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We could call it fuckity cockwomble for all I care, won’t make me feel better, won’t be any closer to a cure. Without fail, a support forum or community for ME/CFS or long covid will have a new post every week or so bemoaning the naming of this horrible thing. Thinking some...

It's remarkable that some people fondly miss Googles RSS reader app, already gone for over a decade. Remarkable because they captured the market, wiped out all competition (they deserved it, the products were awful) and then shut their own product down, leaving a toxic karmic bomb crater in its place.

As a writer I've stolen lots of ideas. All writers do it. How do you think we get our ideas.

Which is why it's so weird that they object to having their ideas stolen en masse.

We go through this regularly, basically you make a living doing something, and you aren't paid enough.

So every subject in every context arrives at the same place. Why aren't they paying me. I must be paid.

It is a permanent obsession with writers.

I try to be honest and admit that I steal from other writers, but I only steal from the best! :-)

BTW, I was just contacted by a developer who's implementing all the protocols I mentioned yesterday. And I should mention that Manton Reece, developer of micro.blog and a longtime friend, going back to the Frontier days on the Mac, has inbound and outbound RSS and he covers ...

I've never given a commencement speech, but if I did, I'd run through my mottos and explain what they mean and who I stole them from, and how they are a distillation of what I've learned in life. The one I'd mention first, which isn't even on the freaking list, is this one --...

Claude Code is a Dave-amplifier.

Just had a great idea for the Democratic Party. It's time to review past governing decisions made by Democrats that resulted in the collapse of democracy in the US in 2025-26. Can't do anything about the Repubs, but we sure as hell can whip the Dems into shape. My first contribution, Obama should have installed his Supreme Court choice after waiting three months for the Senate to advise and consent. If the Repubs can invent a new practice so can the Dems. That would make the Supreme Court a lot more funcitonal now, just that one thing. Democrats must not be so freaking afraid of stirring things up. We would have all respected that, esp the Repubs. This would be an incredible campaign process, would allow us to say that this is what the Democrats, going forward, will always/never do.

Of course I read Josh Marshall's piece about how the web is dead. Now let's go back to when it started and do it again, using everything we know from experience, and try not to make the same mistakes. Josh was there.

I noted a few weeks ago that Markdown has a format for outlines.

I wrote a while back about framing problems with proposed solutions - the idea that "this is broken and here's what I think we could try" lands better than "this is broken" on its own. I still think that's mostly right. It builds trust, it shows you've thought past the compl...

A breakdown of Wolfgang Munchau’s piece on Burnhamomics, exposing the analytical errors that follow inevitably from viewing sterling monetary operations through a mainstream europhile lens.

Twenty-four new posts to hitch your mind to

My weekly blog post. Links this week include there's something alive in the fog, the dirt that wouldn't die and a shrine to stuffed (plushy) animals. I went to a play and got more postcard club mail. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Monday, 29 June 2026 The average temperature today is 16.38˚C, With highs of 16.65˚C and lows of 15.94˚C, It may feel like 15.93˚C with clear sky The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure is 1...

The shoes were really hurting my feet now. We had swapped them at the third pub, the whole group but me swept up in Misha's enthusiasm for her crazy fun idea. Misha had the biggest smile and the smallest feet and nothing in life ever seemed difficult for

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You can use eBPF in conjunction with OTel! Don't forget to filter out what you don't need, otherwise the storage would balloon up, and there will be too much noise.

https://karnwong.me/posts/2026/03/observability-with-ebpf-and-otel/

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ถ้าเหนื่อยกับการใส่ OTel ให้กับทุกสิ่งอย่างที่มีอยู่ในมือ eBPF ช่วยได้ แล้วถ้าอยากลงละเอียดกว่านี้ ค่อยติด OTel อีกที แต่อย่าลืม filter อันที่ไม่จำเป็นออก ไม่งั้น disk บวม (ไม่ก็ตังไหล เพราะ storage พุ่ง)

https://karnwong.me/posts/2026/03/observability-with-ebpf-and-otel/

I have a new page in the main navigation, but it took me three tries to give it a name that seemed right. It’s basically a list of links to feeds that allow you to explore and discover blog posts from independent, personal websites. In my opinion, you’ll find lots more inter...