free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people

Hm, did something happen over at Discord?

Google calendar does not have a list of special dates and then shows illustrations for them, it checks every event title for strings, so if you make a Christmas planning reminder 1 month before that day will show up with Christma illustrations.

looking forward to when we go to ai looking design galleries like we go now to see geocities.

The crystal towers of software are melting. New streams have to carve new riverbeds and lay down fresh sediment. Swamps aren’t great for human settlement.

Just got some german paperwork from 2021 and 2022. This is just business as usual there. I guess i have stop celebrating my this time really totally last contact with german bureaucracy.

I know, i know, everyone has vibe-coded this exact same app, but the firehose is just so cool to watch. clockwork-blue.ntr.io #ATproto

frogs are cool

"Bad Metaphors: Close to the Metal" by Emma Rae Norton (2019) reallifemag.com/bad-metaphor...

"The Social Meaning of the Personal Computer: Or, Why the Personal Computer Revolution Was No Revolution" by Bryan Pfaffenberger (1988)

I've built a new library that provides a local-first like experience but without the complexity. Count Cachula takes a different approach; it uses the Cache API, the stale-while-revalidate pattern, server-sent events and cache tags to give you the same full-sync experience.

Im in Brussels at FOSDEM for the first time lets mingle!

it has taken a long time, with many circuitous routes, but it looks like we are almost there 9to5google.com/2026/01/27/a...

Chrome scrolling perf issue in Chrome 145, 146 + MacOS 26.2 (26.1 seems ok) spotted by @jan.ntr.io Please help us reproduce and +1 the issue. issues.chromium.org/issues/47802...

I cancelled my cursor subscription and so should you. Kilo and Amp are so much better and can run in open source containerised vscode. More security, more control, better results, less lock-in and less toxic companies.

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Clawdbot is everything that is wrong with vibecoding. How can anyone see those docs and not get an instant taste of vomit in their mouth?

I think about this post a lot

i loooove this section

I wonder if we're about to see a splinter in the European far right between MAGA worshippers who serve as the fifth column of tech monopolies and nationalists who have to reject fealty. There's precedent: the French Résistance had fascists and hard conservatives fighting the Nazi occupation.

Ok but now one step further: every post IS just a text file on my hard drive. local clients work offline and the files are synced to a pds out of band. the same way a service indexes PDSs, there is an sqlite with indexes for the files locally.

we need to stop allowing model and platform providers forcing their clients on us. we need separation of powers for the digital realm. no facebook can be allowed to have an exclusive client with internal apis, no anthropic can be allowed to force their shitty cli and agent ui on their subscription,

In XR light, mode is not a matter of taste, it just does not work. Now is the time to default to dark mode and add light mode optional later.

Because everyone (except OS vendors) is getting this wrong, even component libraries, THIS is how a menu works, memorise it, put it into your component libraries, put it into your rules and prompts. Lets make good menus everywhere: gist.github.com/lucidNTR/363...

We are deeply flawed individuals, most of us trying our very best.

The fact that apple calendar is constantly silently failing to move entries, just resetting them where they were or fails to even set event names, leaving me with multiple "new event" entries" which i have no idea what they were and no way to see what happened, should make you anxious.

Soon reality: People do cheap looking ai upscaling and i have to run downscaling to restore original look of all the pictures and videos

If faced with the decision to deal with the UX of *nix or giving untrusted agents dangerous access to fix that shit for them, most people will chose the latter and its hard to blame them.

I like to imagine that is today, somwhere in the world.

@signal.org s ccc talk has some ok statements but it sounds again like they want to empower app developers to belittle the user and applications being able to opt out of things even if the user consents, which is exactly the kind of android and ios bullshit that crashes automation and interop.

Well hydrated and ready to fuck up some shit

if you watch one talk, make it this: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-pos...

Why do all the HID UIs limit the maximum acceleration and speed to ridiculous slow values? Are integers expensive to add to a slider? Is everyone afraid dumb users set it up so fast they cannot undo it and so decide to accept 10% of users will never be able to setup their ideal cursor speeds?

The best way to #pauseAI is to just cap the energy consumption per company. Its easy to measure and has positive externalities besides giving us time for security and tooling research.

Things that will be possible: - maintain a fork of a project in another language or ui framework - maintain a for with complex changes while keeping upstream syncing in - revive your favourite unmaintained projects - clone any software locked in evil corp

annas archive rules

i have received several e-mails

Me at 11 PM since I stopped caffeine. https://on.soundcloud.com/GMko6fqDVWl5pjBU3v

if the usa would just enforce the anti monopoly laws they have and the eu the data portability laws we have, the world would be a very different place. The problem is not policy but much deeper

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE

brexit was our 9/11 from within, ukraine from the outside. both were announced and we did nothing to stop it and had nothing in response. its arguably better than a war under false pretense but we surrendered our last bit of optimism for growing together to the grim chaos of post globalization.

Its obvious we will need drastic ai taxes, if done right they will also push open models. better to do before ai controls even more of public discourse. as with my calls for advertising bans, this should only apply to companies with z millions revenue.

It's not only in the US that the far right and tech monopolies have a strongly aligned agenda. We're watching a direct replay of the cartel playbook leading up to WWII.

Are we not ready to make boarding passes the size of a freaking passport?

I would put not regularly staying in the bay area on the list of life regrets.

It's launch day, I pulled the trigger!!! There's still *so* much to do, but I think it's in a reasonable enoigh state for yall to try :) Would love to hear your feedback!!