About a month ago, I made a note titled "Switching back to Laravel". The idea was to make of my website what I wanted it to be, a place for me to create and collect stuff that I like and…

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A brief and not-so-brief explanation of why I'm using Patreon instead of Buttondown for my weekly(ish) newsletter.

Opened in 1866, East Brixton was a station on the South London line – now part of the London Overground's Windrush Line – served by trains from London Victoria to London Bridge. All went well until…

Moltbook went down for eleven hours. Nothing materialized. Here's what that silence might actually mean.

cosmicretreat:70sscifiart:ALTALTALTALTHi, new followers! Want to sign up for my art blog newsletter? It’s free and you get a fun weekly art roundup! If you see this post in the next few days,…

The death of the follower is more relevant than ever, even though the talk was given two years ago. Today, even LinkedIn and many other platforms are TikTok-ified.

The AT Protocol at:// (Authenticated Transfer Protocol, or atproto) is a standard for public conversation and an open-source framework for building social apps.

How much is community belonging a function of being prolific through recurrent appearances, contributions, and creations? I figure that, the more visible you and your work is within a group, the more…

I have several unpublished posts on this blog. Some were written to stay that way, but some were at one point published. I usually write my lengthiest posts at night. I edit then, review some things,…

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By now you might have noticed that I use week notes to keep myself from abandoning this blog. And yeah, I quite enjoy writing them, too, most week. Even though lately they’ve been a bit calmer…

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Quite a few weeks ago now -- I think it was around the time I started work on blogmore.el and got the new MacBook Air -- I remember sitting in a cafe in Edinburgh and via Mastodon having a…

Having talked about it for so long, it's finally time to put my money where my mouth is The movement for European tech sovereignty is picking up speed nicely, with the French leading the way with…

I've been programming for 30 years. I spent a lot of time acquiring both the skill and knowledge to build software systems. If you look at any well paying profession like tech workers, doctors,…

Google just released an official guide called “Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search,” and honestly, I’m glad they finally published it. Why? Because it confirms…

The Google Gemini ads currently dominating the city’s bike share fleet are the latest targets for culture jamming

i haven't updated my feed in a while but to anyone who happens to use this heres whats been changed since then: added a madness combat quiz (most likely going to change in the future), added a…

i've been keeping in touch with a lovely bearblogger who has very graciously mentioned my blog in their recent post! i feel so lucky that our paths crossed. this person said it best, don't hesitate…

nikitonsky: Only you WHAT? Have a name? Form fields need labels, not just values. #LinkedIn #Form

One tradeoff with being prolific is bloat. If you’re being prolific, and someone was to sort through your body of work, they’d find some good stuff amongst a bunch of pretty bad stuff. In other…

In the Leaderboard section, clicking on "Others" in the last line of the table will take you to a new full listing of every Sombrero recorded over the course of the season. Now you will be able to…

Most blogs are missing something simple: a photo or two. Not for every post, just a shot on your about page or now page. Easy to add, and it makes your blog feel more alive.

¶ [link to post](https://lightsforcats.com/pokopia/) ¶ i love this whole blog, the writing is just so excellent .. another short fav is the explanation of its title, [lights for…

It’s been a while since I’ve updated you on my quest for a digital life. For those who came in late, my immediate goal is to be able to leave the house carrying nothing but my iPhone. In…

Verify your fediverse account and include author link with when your site, blog, or articles are shared.

Permit me, if you will, to be a bit of a curmudgeon about a thing that probably not too many people like. I'm not here to break new ground. I don't know when the shift happened, but I can tell you I…

Governance determines the evolution of an innovation, giving society power over a technology’s ultimate form.

I’d reached the point where reaching for my phone first thing in the morning felt obviously bad and I just couldn’t stop. The scroll wasn’t even rewarding anymore, it was a reflex. I wanted a…

untitled #1713167961 is dated on or around May 18 , 2020 and tagged bollards and orthis .

I recently wrote about how I was building out my data repository using React rather than what my media repository’s current stack is, HTML/CSS/VanillaJS/Web Components. Part of my original decision…

tl;dr: With panoramax.libre.net.ar we have set up the first (public) Panoramax instance in the Americas. It allows the collection of street-level imagery in the Argentine territory. Una versión en…

OpenVault recently published its Broadband Insights Report for the end of the fourth quarter of 2025. One of the most useful statistics from OpenVault is the average monthly broadband usage for…

Hey! Welcome to my Blog, I’m Kuber Mehta, founder of PolyThink Labs and previously TREAT (acq.) I like to build (& break) things across AI, technology, and whatever else catches ...

Scooter (2009). Leica M6 TTL It's getting to the point where many of the blog posts I read all say the same things. Whether it's about A.I. being good/evil, how everything is being enshittified,…

The Board upheld a genericness refusal of the proposed mark THE SKIN COACH for, inter alia , "Professional coaching services in the field of health and wellness," "Providing on-line training in the…

In the navigation, a new section for "later folktales": folktales which are mostly prose but include some runosong lines. I added more to "kade" in glossary explaining how it's similar to the evil…

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve had my concerns about the effectiveness of schema markup on websites, and a recent study from Ahrefs tends to agree with that idea. Schema markup, while seemingly…

When I wrote about FediMeteo for the first time, I told the story from the beginning: the idea born almost by chance while checking the weather for a holiday, the memory of my grandfather, who for…

Or why it does not work for my reading habits. I recently started using Current to read the various people I’m subscribed to. I had some problems with the way Net News Wire works and it had some nice…

All content here are written in zh-TW (Traditional Chinese, as used in Taiwan). 這邊的內容都會是以台灣中文書寫！.

I've tried to block and delay unwanted websites, such as reddit, in many ways. Three things I've learned: It's easy to temporarily bypass these blocks There will inevitably be situation where you…

Issue 389: Yours sincerely, prompt #41 – Read the full issue in the archive.

Oh, dear -- another server for the Gemini protocol. What use can that possibly be?

I’ve never used “social” media. Instead, I read a lot on various topics: Rails, web/tech and beyond. Next to the weekly practical article a week on Rails, Hotwire, CSS, SaaS and design I published, I…