As part of The 19th’s non-denominational end-of-year celebration, we were asked what we were leaving behind in 2022. I gave an answer about corporate social media and Instagram in particular, but on reflection, there’s a lot more I want to leave behind.Year ends are both …
Update (2022-12-13): Did some cleanup to the code so I'm feeling ok about making this public now.Code is available here: https://github.com/benjifs/sparkles
I read 25 books in 2022. I wish I had read more, but I’m not going to beat myself up about it. I think no matter how many books I read in any given year, I’ll always wish I had read more.
We released a new version of Epilogue for both iOS and Android. I’m finally getting these platforms in sync. I think our bet on React Native is paying off.
Since webmention is just a simplified version of pingback, it is just as susceptible to the same type of spam as pingback. With webmention, we have the advantage of it not being a huge spam target just yet, but it's only a matter of time. To help get a head start on fighting the …
I’ve decided to stop writing about Twitter as of tonight. I’ll pour one out if the site dies or if it changes hands to a stable, ethical custodian, but for now, my commitment to not posting on the platform extends to not posting about the platform.It’s clear that Musk is using …
Thinking through a “share with Mastodon” button that anyone could embed on a website. It’s a harder problem than a “share with Twitter” button, because there’s no one central host, and it would be ideal to avoid creating a central location to handle these requests. (Mastodon is …
