Evan Prodromou had an important post a few days ago, arguing for backwards compatibility with future ActivityPub work and discouraging competing protocols. I found some things to agree with in his post, but I’m less certain that there is a single path forward. On Bluesky and …
A few months back, I wrote about how Google is breaking its social contract with the web, harvesting our content not in order to send search traffic to relevant results, but to feed a large language model that will spew auto-completed sentences instead.
I have made the extremely difficult decision to resign from the Processing Foundation. I am absolutely heartbroken, and have not slept well for months.Casey and I started the Foundation with Dan as a way to make the Processing project more sustainable. For years it had been just …
I updated my Mac to the newest operating system, Sonama. I did this to try out the new “add to Dock” feature in Safari. It’s like the “add to Homescreen” action on iOS.
A lightweight structural-only zero-dependency web component wrapper for <table> to render wide tables in small viewports. Automatically creates a two-column layout at small screens with table headers repeated throughout.
Over the years, I’ve seen lots of blog posts discussing what people could blog about (anything!), exploring philosophies of blogging, and explaining how to set up a blog on a variety of content management systems. I don’t think I’ve seen someone walk through their process for …
Credit: Shutterstock/Buravleva Stock I get that millions of people in the United States have grown a dislike for health insurance companies. After all, as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a government agency “dedicated to making sure you are …
Normally I wouldn’t waste my time reacting to churnalism – the adage about getting into a fight with a pig comes to mind – but the other day I saw an example of the genre which not only hit rock bottom, but then proceeded to dig. It related to UK internet regulation, which until …
