I used to love web development. I mean, I wasn’t necessarily great at it. But I loved it. I even managed to pay my rent through my senior year of college mostly from subcontract work where I’d take some lowest-bidder web design from a guy and turn it into a responsive bootstrap …
A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests, database reads and writes, JSON objects, stack traces, etc. It’s an unusual UI feature, but it’s been an unqualified success, enough that when I built Bridgy Fed, I immediately …
Wow. I just got a GDPR troll shakedown email from Mustafa Sisic of “Europe Data Protection,” demanding €100 because they visited this web site, which uses Google Fonts, which violated their GDPR rights as an EU citizen. Wow. Just…wow. Full text below. So much to unpack here.
We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed seeing Channel4 interview ChatGPT, FTX’s Sam Bankman and the biggest hacks of 2022.
As sodding 2022 finally ticked over to 2023, I did not bother making policy predictions for the year ahead. Really, this year, I just couldn’t be bothered. But while the year is still young, I’m going to do something different.
In a recent piece for The Verge, Monique Judge made a pretty compelling argument on behalf of the personal blog. We’ve all been talking for years now about the cracks and rot forming in most/many social media platforms. But what if what’s next is what came before? Especially …
I have a brand new How to Follow Me page with several ways you can keep up with my posts. Some of this information was already scattered across the site or discoverable by the more geeky crowd, but now it’s accessible to all on a dedicated page.
I’d been having real trouble finding truly green web hosts: places to host a website that directly use 100% renewable energy. But they’re out there - so I decided to pull them together into a single-page guide following the style I built for Get Blogging.Please check out Get …
