Bookmarked All the concerns that make you a boring developer by .
I was thinking this morning about how once you understand that your technology choices have security, performance, and accessibility considerations you become a much more boring developer. Acknowledging those obligations can sort of strips the fun out of programming, but we’re better for it.
Bookmarked Democratising publishing by John O’Nolan.
I remember I was just getting my feet wet as a professional using WordPress when the Ghost crowdfunding campaign launched. More than a decade later, it is impressive to see how successful Ghost has become under it’s distributed non-profit foundation model.
Stay small, and avoid benevolent dictators for life.
Nov 3, 2024 02:11 AMLikes Kyle Explains “Legacy Software” to the Aliens by Taylor Troesh.
May 25, 2024 09:59 PMYeah, the general public has just kind of accepted that all the operating systems are broken. And nobody can make them much better because they’re constrained by decades of bad architecture decisions and continuous hardware variations.
No, the browsers are almost worse than the operating systems. But that’s what we use for most of the important stuff nowadays.
Likes Neatnik Notes · Neato.
I’ve been working on content management and publishing systems for nearly three decades, both personally and professionally, and this feels like the right time to finally take what I’ve learned and direct it into a single awesome thing. Neato will be a standalone service, but it’ll also be available as part of Web 1 Land and omg.lol (where it will power just about everything from profile pages to statuslog entries). I am really excited about it.
Does the world need another blogging engine? Absolutely. It is awesome to watch Adam make the web fun again with omg.lol and other fine products.
Mar 18, 2024 01:59 PMLikes Building our own private Discord knockoff by Blake Watson.
Jan 28, 2024 08:01 PMWe were inspired by home-cooked apps and small web ideas. It’s fine to make your own thing just for you. And you can absolutely build software without pulling in a ton of dependencies and wiring up complex infrastructure. We’re so used to reading about the software practices of large companies that it’s easy to forget that a lot of (most?) software projects don’t need to be built at that scale.
Bookmarked How I Use Obsidian by Matt Stein.
I appreciate Matt’s deep dive into how his digital brain works. I just may have to give Obsidian a try, especially since it prioritizes personal file ownership. I’ve been keeping notes in Notion for about a year, and still have stuff trapped in Evernote from nearly a decade before that.
Dec 19, 2023 06:38 PMAlso, I have too many 2-factor authentication apps on my phone, and I often end up using the wrong one when trying to sign in to something.
Nov 19, 2023 07:43 PMSomething about the updated Font Book in MacOS is not clicking with my brain. What should I be using instead?
Nov 19, 2023 07:42 PM