There was a discussion at Clearleft recently about browser support. Rich has more details but the gist of it is that, even though we were confident that we had a good approach to browser support, we hadnโt written it down anywhere. Time to fix that.
One of my biggest regrets is how the Known hosted service declined. The paid subscriptions came to an end, and eventually the hosting whimpered out. Behind the scenes, the database cluster was in need of more maintenance than I was able to provide.Known itself has required more โฆ
ContentsEngines of discoveryYet attention remains finiteThe rise of videoWhy TikTok worksVideo as a counter to text spamUnderground internetPrivacy softwareThereโs just so much to do
Look, I get that publications are hurting for revenue and AI companies are handing out cash but you're not *just* providing access to written and human-generated output โ you're giving up goodwill.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelinesโor WCAGโlooks very daunting. Itโs a lot to take in. Itโs kind of overwhelming. Itโs hard to know where to start.
Six years ago, we launched our $10/month plan with podcast hosting. Since then weโve added several big features to the plan, which is now called Micro.blog Premium:
I wasted around 300 words over the last day in back-and-forths discussions on the Fediverse about the ramifications of "voting blue no matter who", the ideology that voting for Democrats with no means of accountability for their failures, aggressive amnesia and weak โฆ
I donโt think itโs possible to morally support the ongoing bombardment of Gaza, but thatโs too weak a statement. Whatโs happening there seems to be โ based on what Iโve read through the news, what Iโve seen in video, the stories that have been sent back to us โ an atrocity. The โฆ
If I was a nefarious software company, hereโs how I might be thinking:AI functionality tends to require that data is sent to a centralized service for processing.This is often data that is not being shared online in any other way that is easily available for analysis: existential โฆ