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

Spend time on things that are enjoyable or important, ideally both

Generate an RSS feed from Telegram chats. You digital minimalism friend. - aigoncharov/telegram-to-rss

Стажёром я получал мало, джуном получаю нормально.

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}}
  ]
}

A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.

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

SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.

Self-hosted news, content, updates, launches, events, and more

Cartographist is an ‘experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing’ notable for its paned user interface. It is written in Node JS. I haven't tried it out yet.

See also blog announcement. The development seems stalled.

Yeah, sure.

An extremely minimal drawing language consisting of only 5 simple commands: C, F, R, [, and ].

Simple and fun.

Parses HTML responses and rewrites a simplified light weight version.

Rewrite rules are written in lua using standard CSS selectors.

Play Yume 2kki in multiplayer with your friends, no account or downloads required.

however, after having access to all three for more than two months now, i've really struggled to find situations where having those phones (or some similar hardware with modern internals) was actually useful. i regularly found myself reaching for my smartphone after being tired of typing out a long message on the tiny hardware keys, my thumbs hurting from the amount of force i had to apply to press them. i typed slower (even though i was touch-typing), i had more typos, and the typing experience in general was just worse. not to mention that all of the 3 phones had very different keyboards with different key sizes, different actuation forces, and different layouts. they all sucked.

i think that trying to converge the laptop/desktop and the smartphone into one device is a bad idea. the two have very different use-cases, different ergonomics, and different security models. i think that the best way to go is to have a smartphone and a laptop, and use them both for what they're good at. i also think that more people should learn to write mobile apps, as most of my discussions on this topic have boiled down to "i want a linux phone because i can only write desktop apps", which is kinda sad in my opinion.

Bitters is an open-source text editor. It's heavily inspired by the Canon Cat computer: it builds on the Cat's novel ideas, and adds some of it's own to the mix!