Om Malik–GigaOm founder, True Ventures partner, and one of the writers who, as the article I’m linking to puts it, taught Silicon Valley to read itself–died on June 24 after a long road with his…

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I wanted to jump in here quickly and assure folks who are looking for the next posts on ark that they are coming. A combination of events slowed me down temporarily. But I’ve got Part 4…

So Britain will soon wave off yet another prime minister; they’ve been dropping like flies ever since the 2016 Brexit vote. At the Guardian, John Crace snarks that come Remembrance Sunday…

The OSS/BSS company Innovative Systems recently released its eleventh annual survey about rural household broadband usage. As usual, it contains a number of interesting insights. The survey was…

Postcard: Kedara.eu is 2 years old today! :)On 26-06-(20)26 of all dates! This is one of my postcards: short, handwritten messages—from me to you. Thank you for reading this via RSS! View this…

This is going to sound like I'm one-hundred years old. To be fair, I practically am. But in any event, when I started in the business--and going back 25 years before that because my father was in the…

beorg supports a number of ways of syncing your files. One of these is WebDAV. WebDAV isn’t owned by a company, but is an open standard that anyone can build services around. Many of the…

After having been in touch online for many years, it felt like a special occasion to be able to finally meet my namesake Jonathan W. Gray IRL in London. Jonathan W. Gray is another of the research…

Reading Time: 39 minutes   Yes, it has been warm. Welcome to the rest of your lives, fcukos – to paraphrase the excellent song, “we were the generation which decided we needed everything…

There's new people that join my livestreams and get confused, they don't know why there are 2 livestreams and what's a weird voice that play in the background sometimes

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This recording features programming from Magic 103, the short-lived easy-listening and talk-based experiment launched by Radio Nova in April 1985. Up first is Chris Barry and George Long (Henry…

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Have you ever heard the argument that we use paper money because of how heavy metal is? You wouldn’t want to lug around all of that heavy gold would you? Well that argument is pretty silly because…

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A website full of fandom rambling and funni pages with weird ideas. Website https://bungle.online/ RSS Feed https://bungle.online/feed.xml Social Media N/A Button Is your website NSFW? No, my website…

In Spanish it would just be "escribir por escribir" which translates directly to "writing for writing", which is itself incomplete. In meaning, its more like "writing for the sake of writing". Which…

UsenetServer is a solid choice for a Usenet provider if you do you own automation and don’t care about bundled clients or extras. The post UsenetServer – Best for Automation and Power Users appeared…

I admired Om Malik and his writing for my entire adult life, then had the fortune of knowing him. A remembrance of a friend, mentor, critic, and guide.

Overview and history of browsers on head-mounted extended reality devices, such as those by Oculus/Meta, Google, Vive, and Apple. Covering browsers available on the devices and the functionality…

A list of features I'd personally like to see added to web platform standards or better implemented in browsers. Improvements to HTML, new CSS, other web systems, or wider parts of the web platform…

New design, new framework and new URL. With intact history!

I had my first encounter with a political spambot this week: a polite robot named Emma texted me wanting to talk about Israel.

brynet's donation page, buy me pizza, send me thinkpads, snacks, bitcoin I guess.

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More than 80% of Google searches now end without a click. The grief is over. The structural question is which content categories survive zero-click — and which were always going to be the training…

When you reblog a post on tumblr, you create a new post. It’s one of the weirder parts of how that hellsite is implemented. In programming terms, this is the difference between passing by reference…

You can build every house on the street to code and still hand someone a neighbourhood that seizes the first time everyone leaves at once.

Post: 26 June 2026New blog post on my website:Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council has released its Council Tax address list as open data

Yep I ain't sharing this one to the masses.

Om Malik’s family: Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. I’ve read Om’s writing since before…

I’ve been fortunate to be able to attend the UN Open Source Week event again this year at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City where they bring the open source community together with…

The killer use case for personal computers is text editing. Typesetting, typewriting, handwriting – these produce text, but they can't edit. Sure, computers can do a lot of things. Games, maths, file…

I recently learned about the Doorman Fallacy and couldn't help but connect it to an experience I had last weekend. The Doorman Fallacy is 'the mistake of assuming technology can replace a human…

Developers and nerds have seemed satisfied with Markdown as a plain text format for a long time.

Heya! So, James recently made a blogpost opensourcing the python script he used to generate his various personality quizzes! (Blogger Archetype quiz, what microformat are you, etc.) At the end of the…

If you have’t heard, Om Malik passed away. People are sharing stories of their graceful encounters with him. This one is mine. Back at the beginning of 2021, I set a goal to write 72 blog posts. I…

omg.lol membership price increases August 1 Not going to beat around the bush or bury the lede: omg.lol’s annual membership will increase to $50/year on August 1, 2026. I’ll go into more detail…

Tutto il pianeta sta adottando AI generative a caso, cagando sull’ambiente con intensità esponenziale, in cerca di allucinazioni sempre migliori. Grazie a questo, le allucinazioni organiche di…

How to build a fediverse community when bots are indistinguishable from humans on applications to join?

bigfoots-biggest-fan:due to popular demand you can now stream the Slur Song for free without Spotify, using my new streaming service slurify.co

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It hasn't quite been a full month and I'm already missing it here, which I think is a good sign. I've come to the conclusion that I really like treating this blog as a personal journal, and that's…

«First, one brief announcement. I just wanted to mention, for those who have asked, that absolutely nothing whatsoever happened today in sector 83/9/12. I repeat, [...]

Already??? I had one post which had a moment on the trending page and suddenly there is this unconscious need to make every post count . When I started the blog I just wanted to write whatever, and…