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Was thinking of how a lot of the software I use and love lately has been built in very small teams, self funded, with genuine care for the product built. I think there's enough people that understand that making tech costs money, and prefer paying a small sum, to a very tran...

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I was into Ayn Rand when I was a teen until I realized that a Great Man theory was a lot of bunk written for teenagers who can't believe how stupid the adults are. The teens are right about that, the adults have no idea wtf they're doing. Never did. And yet somehow the world can support most of the humans born here on this planet. And the reason that works is we build systems iteratively to meet the needs for everyone, not just a few. We're a species-oriented animal. And that means unfortunately for the dreamers among us, we are socialists. All of us. Even the people who say they aren't.

This marks my 43rd post of the year, which is one more than the 42 I had in 2020. My next goal is to surpass the 64 posts I had in 2014. My best ever was 169 in 2011. In those days, though, it was more like a job. Now, writing has become one of the great pleasures of my life. You can see a graph of my progress on the Explore page.

2019: "This will be remembered as the time we all waited for someone else to take the risk, not wanting to disturb our lives. The spoiled citizens of a country that fought wars without a draft, that got tax cuts in time of war, inflated our economy as we inflicted chaos on others.”

Just use the website, Jonah Hill probably has truck nuts on his vehicle, spelunking on the moon, average individual intelligence, and a sick new voxel-based Pokémon red/blue/yellow hack

Site release b0b327c: Merge pull request #65 from TheBenMeadows/arch/poap-vault. Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

Ten years after its release, I revisit Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowell, an album about his late mother's mental illness, abandonment, and grief, that's held up a clear, honest mirror to my own life. I trace how Stevens' songwriting about Carrie evolved from anger on Michigan and Illinois to unconditional forgiveness, dig into the many alternate versions of 'Fourth of July,' and reproduce my very first attempt at music criticism: a Carrie and Lowell review I wrote as a teenager back in 2015.

In 1937, Karl Loewenstein, a German Lawyer published an essay in the American Political Science Review that can only be described as a blueprint for democracy to defend itself against fascism. You probably never heard of the essay entitled “Militant Democracy and Fundamental rights” and despite having a (highschool) degree in history, neither have I. […]

The question of where to post something has often kept me from posting anything at all. Should this super important thought go on Bluesky or Mastodon? No, best post it to micro.blog and then cross-post. But nah, maybe it would be better to include it as part of

TL;DR: What developers need. Enough examples, a validator, and decent docs that value explaining over mathematical elegance. We assume developers can read and think, and if there's doubt look to the examples for guidance. It's worth noting we did not take the RSS.chat proje...

Last week along with a lot of other stuff, we shipped a validator for lists and feeds that want to be compatible with RSS.chat. It works best for standards to stay strong and a validator helps that. So here are a few examples, validating one user's feed, validating the everyone feed for RSS.chat, which is interesting because this feed starts a lot of threads, so we navigate through that tree and check those feeds too. And validating the user list on RSS.chat, which is an OPML file. And a simple feed with a few interop isses.

Plume A browser extension to Post to your IndieWeb blog from any page — toolbar composer or right-click capture. Cross-browser, multi-account, no telemetry.

The White House Is Feeding Russia’s Information War Against Europe

How the Ceuta migrant crisis exposed a transatlantic propaganda pipeline flowing from the White House.

https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/the-white-house-is-feeding-russias

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Tuesday, 04 August 2026 The average temperature today is 20.67˚C, With highs of 20.93˚C and lows of 20.39˚C, It may feel like 20.33˚C with overcast clouds The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m The press...

A little bi pride, four leaf clover hack, you'll type better with haptics, colorful train passes, and blinding lights

So recently, against my best judgement, I’ve started working on a new project. The classic “how hard can it be?” kind of thing. What that actually is is not important right now. More important are the tech choices and how I shifted my opinion on generated code.

The tech stack I went with is what I usually pick; go for backend, pgx and sqlc for database access, htmx for frontend matters. I found managing Go’s template/html always a bit fiddly and wanted a better way of dealing with nested components and being able to render them individually. I have seen templ recommended many times and because it was a new project, I gave it a try. Initially I felt having yet another tool that generates go was weird, but after a few components I was sold.