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Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

Insightful

I was curious about the 51 Franklin Street address in the GPLv2 license notice so I wrote to them as they said

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A more social look on the spec by diaspora*'s developer. Just as profound.

Diaspora*'s developer's thoughts on ActivityPub soon after it was released. It's like he foresaw every issue there is, without even implementing the protocol. Such insight. He foresaw that C2S won't get much use, he foresaw reply forwarding problems, he foresaw everything!

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Today in "our novel form of NIH," why does Bluesky use the richtext facets system instead of Markdown?

// slightly simplified
{
  text: "Hello @bob.com",
  facets: [
    {feature: "mention", index: {start: 6, end: 14}}
  ]
}

In this post, I talk about pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

I’ve spent the last 6 years teaching Free Software and Open Source at École Polytechnique de Louvain, being forced to investigate the subject and the history more than I anticipated in order to answer students’ questions. I’ve read many historical books on the subject, including RMS’s biography and many older writings.

And something struck me.

RMS was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not RMS or FSF. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.

Programming fonts are stuck in the past. Proportional typesetting is everywhere and
there is no reason why you can’t use it for code.

A Python library for handling microformats2. It parses Betula well.

Some people pull feeds way too often. Sometimes they do not get what they want.

A deconstruction of some of the more interesting bits we found hiding in the WorldWideWeb source code

The very interesting part for me is the CSS predecessor:

Normal <P> 0 Helvetica 12.0   1
	90 90	14.0 3.0  0  0 14	0

The author has many videos like that. A true piper.

A description of a fantasy device.

The rock phone accepts various types of input: speech, morse code tap/hold, written characters, bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth headsets. The rock phone produces various types of output: speech, morse code beeps, bluetooth serial console, console avilable by wifi, remote screen available via wifi. The rock phone has a bone conduction speaker inside so you can place the rock phone on your temple or behind your ear to privately hear rock phone speech output/sounds, phone calls, music, or any other sound the rock phone might make.