This week marks the beginning of my very first client renewal season 😬 It was last fall I started moving to a flat annual pricing model that’s been working really well. Certainly for me, but I think for my clients as well. Much easier to have a conversation about what they need on a reasonable […]

Cafe near me I like switched coffee ice cubes in their cold brew with regular ice cubes 😒

Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people. And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off. Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts. Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public […]

“There’s no wiggle room here. No shades of gray. If you let your kids use either of these apps, you’ve failed the most basic test of guardianship: protecting the undeveloped mind of a child from a machine designed to liquefy attention and hardwire addiction.” —@Daojoan […]

This is not just about their hatred of DEI. Trump and Hegseth have explicitly told top military they should resign if they do not agree with all Trump and Hegseth say, which has included broadening the use of troops in U.S. cities. Go back and read the live blog in full. You need to know their […]

I know there's a lot going on right now, but the characterization by the president - to our top military leadership - of US cities as "battlefields" that should be used as "military training grounds" (and without "stupid rules of engagement") is a very big deal. Even by 2025 standards, this is […]

Tim Berners-Lee explains why he gave away the #www for free. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free "For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also […]

Buddy of mine is doing a charity stream today for Players vs Cancer, fundraising for the American Association for Cancer Research. Drop by and say hi - donation incentives, game giveaways and more all evening! https://www.twitch.tv/8bit_josh #TwitchStreamer […] [Original post on vickerson.me]

> If you can’t leave without losing something important, the platform has no incentives to respect you as a user. To the uninformed, this line in @danabra.mov's last article may seem like a dig at ActivityPub, but he actually nails it on the head: what we have now in the ActivityPub ecosystem […]

Recently bought a desk mat set with wrist-rests and damn… I shoulda bought these ages ago. What an upgrade!

That new vet clinic website I mentioned about a month ago? It's ready! Clinic is still getting off the ground and is looking for donations. Want to make a real difference for animals in El Salvador? Check out https://www.zontevet.com/ to find out how to donate. #animalwelfare #elsalvador […]

Exactly this 💯 #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

@cferdinandi just popping in to say thanks for sharing your DIY Netlify setup. I use Netlify for all my clients, but the new pricing model will absolutely screw me when they force me over to it (grandfathered for now, but I don’t trust it). The setup you’ve described sounds like my plan B.

[Autism Teacher Observations] I've been teaching for a long time and I'm pretty good at it, not to brag or anything. Over my career I have watched autism and learning disabilities (which aren't the same thing) become more discussed, in some cases better addressed and in other cases become more […]

I appreciate that some venues, like the Stork Club in Oakland, are getting ahead of this trend by requiring all fliers be human made. "We don't care if it's a screenshot of the Notes app with the show info or a picture of a hand with band names written in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

CNN's media critic, Brian Stelter, says Disney's CEO is in a "no-win" situation because he has to choose between Trump and his company's reputation. Think about that -- the notion that choosing integrity means losing. Think about what it says about American […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

this is fucked up and bullshit and one of my pet peeves: employers should not be demanding you use your personal communications equipment. https://oldbytes.space/@feoh/115215401541166467 if you do, you should be easily deducting that as a job expense, but then that would entail for workers to […]

Former Wondery exec is starting a podcast studio to create 5000 podcasts with AI. Thinks that anyone who is against this is a 'lazy luddite' https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/ai-podcast-start-up-plan-shows-1236361367/

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/

I'm convinced that in the history books we'll credit BitTorrent for having preserved a significant chunk of humanity's cultural production

https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/#fn:2 The free web will never die so long as we never give up

Tomorrow will be the first time I don’t install a new version of iOS on launch day. My iPad is one or two beta updates behind (been without it for a month), but I absolutely hate Liquid Glass. Every good idea in this UI overhaul is overshadowed by the fact it’s mostly unusable for me. I can’t […]

Stardew Valley on Switch 2 rules. Runs in full HD handheld, with none of the lag it had on the original Switch. Definitely my favorite way to play it now!

“Each bar of soap costs just around 50 cents to produce. The average cost in the U.S. for an operation for skin cancer starts at $40,000.” https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/teenager-soap-cancer-rep/ #science #healthcare #skincancer #medicine

Anyone have thoughts on reliability of external hard drives? I’m in need of a 16+ TB drive for backup. Will not be plugged in frequently. Definitely open to buying drive and USB enclosure separately, though the enclosure market is full of garbage products 😬 #askfedi #lazyweb

‘American soybean farmers are heading into harvest season without a single order from China, historically their largest customer, raising alarm bells about the agricultural sector’s stability and broader implications for the U.S. economy… “Right now, we’re in a very dire situation… China takes […]

Quoting posts has been (rightfully) hotly debated, but I’m excited for the feature. For better or worse, it’s a core feature of other mainstream social platforms. If we want Mastodon (or any Activity Pub software) to have broader mainstream appeal, this is a necessary feature. I’m optimistic […]

Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5 […]

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

[Gun Violence / Charlie Kirk] You might not hear about it today because of the Charlie Kirk shooting, but there were 4 children shot at a high school in Colorado today as well. Just in case you needed to be reminded where the media and this administration's priorities are […]

Another day, another CORS headache 🥴 #webdev

regardless of how you feel about EITHER "AI" or piracy, if they are successful in making it legal for facebook to pirate every book ever written to build an enormous company-stakes product, but illegal for me to pirate anything, that would be an unambiguous, unmistakable sign that everything in […]

Ars making the accessibility case for "AI” as a support tool for neurodivergent people, but fails to point out that none of these workplace accommodations require “AI”. Using "AI" just allows neurotypicals to "accommodate" us with no effort on their part. As the article notes, it breeds a […]

Some good reasons for starting a website, from @davatron5000. https://daverupert.com/2025/09/why-would-anybody-start-a-website/ #indieweb #personalwebsite

new science just dropped! https://www.livescience.com/health/keratin-extracted-from-sheeps-wool-repairs-teeth-in-breakthrough (h/t @kcarruthers)

Closing in on 500 unique beers on Untappd, and I’m headed to #seattle this week. Anyone have brewery recommendations for me to make that 500th something real good? #beer #craftbeer #untappd #askfedi #askfediverse

"[Substack] announced that all writers would be required to offer Apple’s in-app purchase (IAP) payment option. That means that Apple will be collecting a 30% fee for all subscriptions purchased on Substack via IAP." This is what happens when you depend on a walled garden inside a walled garden […]

Just for the record, Trump can’t do this. The Constitution is very clear that the “times, places, and manner“ of elections for federal office are determined by individual states (though can be altered by Congress). The president simply has no role in US […] [Original post on federate.social]

How decentralized are the deployments of the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc.) and the Atmopshere (Bluesky, etc.)? I'm starting a project to track this! https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/

Uh, Zoom... This seems like too many considering I have like, 3 calls a week 🤔

There is a reason hardcore nerds are often against tech like LLMs(AI) and cryptocurrency We know how the shit works-ish and what the real costs are 🤷 Same goes with "smart doorbell" this and "smart fridge" that, we do not want that stuff The ideas behind it at the start are sometimes good and […]

No YOU'RE downloading a Linux VM at 11pm so you can play Animal Crossing hourly theme music in proper time.

“Generative AI isn't transforming anything, AI isn't replacing anyone, enterprises are trying to adopt generative AI but it doesn't fucking work, and the thing holding back AI is the fact it doesn't fucking work.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/ #genai #ai #llm #fuckai

The greatest thing capitalism has ever done was convince you that your fatigue, depression, and other responses to the capitalist system are actually your personal failures.

Story time: A friend of mine has been providing essential veterinary care for stray dogs in a massively underserved community in El Salvador. She has done this heartbreaking, mentally and physically demanding work for years, saving animals from some of the most horrific conditions you could […]

Super smart visual tension and analogy.

Btw. about 6 months ago the Anthropic CEO said that by now 50% of all code would be written by LLMs. How does that prediction relate to the reality we all live in and what does that say about his ability to make predictions about the future? ( […]

This. Is. Brilliant!