thinking about mutual aid for open social data experimenting with consent-driven social archiving/hosting what are the foundations for collective communication when the company servers go dark? and can we start from that place? use businesses as needed after the fact? lots of questions.

some clustering around how the web is made (intentionally left out engine development)

a coffee shop nearby is quite good, but won't make an Americano because the owner is a purist. there's a fear in the eyes of the staff if i ask, caught between scary boss and telling the customer no. BUT if i ask to put a double shot in my mug... they put a small pitcher of hot water on the side.

🚨 cool job alert Solutions Technologist at Human Rights Watch job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...

is there a contemporary thing like SMIL? coordinated media on the web anything even close? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchro...

Hey friends! Reminder that for those of you who are passionate about DASL (and who isn't?), there's a DASLing Group meeting this coming Thursday: luma.com/zqo7ksph On the menu: @makeworld.space's Perceptual Fingerprints and Web Tiles.

is there a Joost mention feed yet

a friend made a homemade device in the Runcible direction, but single-purpose (remote family cam) and all off Adafruit-able parts. made me remember the heady days of imagining all the things a web-based OS could do and having lots of hardware to do it with. www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

tengo preguntas...

it's happening

UX is the biggest victim of hyper-componentization disease. Bluesky iOS still rocking the toast-blocks-the-back-button problem. perfectly and unnecessarily puts the user in a UX dead end. (follow button changed state, user was already notified)

i ❤️ Railway cloud infra for atproto going to start moving real fast when they realize it's mostly just discovery+replication of signed records possible to be ahead of the pack rn, but not for long.

Tested ~10 always-dark-mode extensions. Criteria: - Excellent conversion (not just inverting colors etc) - Ignores native dark mode sites - Always-on option - Open source Terrible icon / visual design, and detect-native-dark-mode is off by default, but the clear winner by far: darkreader.org

"A real humanist can be identified more by his trust in the people, which engages him in their struggle, than by a thousand actions in their favor without that trust." - Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

how i got Hooked on Interop 2001 on the SOAPBuilders list, a gotta-catch-em-all quest to get my implementation passing all tests with all others... for a protocol i wasn't even using. just thought it was SO cool/fun that computers were talking to each other. no exaggeration, it changed my life.

low key my fave part tho, someone (lovingly) asked why they made an app not a website and the Bristol Cable guy basically said "we asked our users and they said an app would make it easier for them to access the news" 🎉: user feedback loop 💀: web, we got work to do

the @newsmastfoundation.org x Bristol Cable collab that was showcased at @protocolsforpublishers.com London last night was an example of this pattern they just... did it.

good dialogue about risk/benefit trade-offs when bringing capabilities to the web. canonical read i point people to for understanding the pov of the non-implementing engines is The Tale of WebMidi/SysEx: github.com/mozilla/stan...

@robin.berjon.com wisely tells us when we post on X, it’s like writing for the Daily Stormer and when you engage with the platform even without posting you are lending it credibility and ad dollars. Here is his post on not feeding the trolls berjon.com/fascintern-m...

ethereal kickoff to @protocolsforpublishers.com London by @chadkoh.com

new favorite coffeeshop for working on web engine projects

ATProto is now in IETF standardization process. BOF stage passed at IETF 124 Dublin. Working group formation is next. datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atp/about/

small #fosdem sticker haul, but quality

best way for me to get unblocked on a project or come up with new ideas: attend a totally unrelated talk i really want to pay attention to 😐

"what's on the sandwich?" "bacon" plain, but safer that way i guess. what's actually on the sandwich: - bacon - tomato - lettuce - arugula - grated carrot - boiled egg slices - chili mayo - nacho cheese sauce - barbecue sauce (maybe?)

the talks today across decentralization and local first tracks at #fosdem are going to be really really good i haven't looked at the map yet to see if they're in opposite sides of the campus...

#fosdem stuff

kinda want to do the GoT version of this same talk...

a shout out to @openwebdocs.org in the Webviews talk at #fosdem

heroes over at r/datahoarders racing against time and sus mod fuckery as Epstein files were being selectively deleted from the dump, coordinating to ensure verified copies were collected and published tw: comments discuss the file contents reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...

camping out in the Browsers & Web devroom at #fosdem tomorrow while figuring out how to keep some websites alive (my homepage going offline in 24hrs b/c Fleek is stopping hosting services...)

help desk at a Dutch train station me: i'm going to Brussels but my train was canceled them: yes. do you have a question? *pause - switch to Dutchthink* me: what train can i take to Brussels? them: track 3, leaves in 10 minutes, have a nice day, duiiii!

i watch skate videos before bed and yt closed captioning is very consistent the sound of an ollie or landing or a board hitting basically anything is almost always HEAT

Emoji is neoliberal, not working class. We have 👮 police, 🏦 banks, 💹 stocks go up, 👔 office necktie, 🏛️ government, ⚖️ law, 🤴👸 royalty but no wages stub, no union card, no "on strike" sign, no pink slip. there's a levitating businessman emoji 🕴️ but no picket sign.

I didn’t realise just how US centric all of package management was until I made these tables 😅 The Dependency Layer in Digital Sovereignty: nesbitt.io/2026/01/28/t...

didn't take a photo of the 50 empanadas before the party, but here's hot chex mix cooling

got a job as an empanada taster

made xiao mian for more than 1/3 of the nights of 2026 so far

it's happening again, noticed a couple of accounts in the last few days that i've always followed... that somehow got unfollowed.

🚨 cool job alert Center for Democracy and Technology Research Director cdt.org/careers/#op-...

This is what success looks like, congrats everyone 🎉 The information asymmetry never goes away. It's a KPI of a healthy ecosystem!

posting from Asahi Linux Fedora Remix with KDE Plasma on a Macbook Air

the fact that watching GBs transfer over Thunderbolt makes me feel a little giddy says so much about how somethings haven't really come that far.

feels like winning, somehow

The Follies, holy shit letterboxd.com/film/the-fol...

is there a "in progress" convention for markdown checkboxes? - [-] looks more like a wontfix - [?] unclear it should be done at all - [+] kinda evokes "taken" i guess, but also done-ish - [🚧] no, needs to be simply type-able - [∞] sends the wrong message 😅

TIL, Netherlands edition if you *don't* clear the ice on the sidewalk in front of your house, the city is liable for accidents if you *do* clear the ice, *you're* liable for accidents and this is why the whole city was a hip-breaking deathtrap for a week

looks like WebSerial coming too bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

friday reflectings doesn't capture cycles, eg alone stuff feeds and is powered by compound outcomes of togethers or distraction as a necessary precursor to focus