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Who I am, what I'm up to:
https://dan.knauss.ca/
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Borges Bibliography Builder
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David Beard
7 months ago
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks
@littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
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Over the past 50 years, programming required a fluent coordination of the programmerās hands and mind. Now theyāre being separated again.
www.therepository.email/fluency-live...
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Fluency Lives in Your Fingers
Over the past 50 years, programming required a fluent coordination of the programmerās hands and mind. Now theyāre being separated again.
https://www.therepository.email/fluency-lives-in-your-fingers
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The Fediverse cares about Accessibility ā and/or it's full of nosy people reading all the code and markup. š
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Yehuda TurtleIsland.social (@
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Personally I think alt-text is valuable for everyone, not for just people with visual impairments. I read alt-text all the time. I'm curious if my theory that a wide swath of people read alt-text is t...
https://turtleisland.social/@Yehuda/116399558881299408
about 1 month ago
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I half-seriously kept waiting for social media to be identified as the culprit, but these chimp researchers actually have found the solution for polarized and divided humans: we just need a big slappy, run-around-shrieking, mutual grooming party.
www.404media.co/worlds-large...
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Worldās Largest Group of Chimps Waging Deadly āCivil War,ā Scientists Discover
At least 24 chimpanzees have been killed in a war that has split the Ngogo group of wild chimpanzees in two, turning former kin into enemies.
https://www.404media.co/worlds-largest-group-of-chimps-waging-deadly-civil-war-scientists-discover/
about 1 month ago
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Melapress
about 1 month ago
In Ep. 47 of The Melapress Show,
@danknauss.wtf
Ā breaks down what enterprises actually get wrong about WordPress security and where the real risk lives.Ā Join in 1 hour šĀ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbCJJrEsMPU
#MelapressShow
#WordPress
#WordPressSecurity
#WordPressEnterprise
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Melapress
How Enterprises & Businesses Approach WordPress Security | Dan Knauss (Multidots)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbCJJrEsMPU
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Manton Reece
2 months ago
Terry Godier has a new blog
in addition to his main site of longer essays. It looks great. Hosted by Micro.blog. š
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In the spirit of Mierle Laderman Ukeles ("After the revolution, who's going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?") and Stewart Brand ("When you take responsibility for something, you enter into a contract to take care of it"), let's support a future for the Open Web.
www.every.org/osendowment
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https://www.every.org/osendowment
about 2 months ago
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How to do diffs with printed books:
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
The Hinman Collator:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinman_...
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Hinman, Redux | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/hinman-redux/
3 months ago
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Max Novem
3 months ago
I talk often about breaking out of walled gardens, that you don't have to be on corporate-web in order to be on the web. This is a fantastic article about the problem and how to (pretty easily) fight it. Well worth reading. Also,
@strange.website
is a rad human being.
henry.codes/writing/a-we...
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A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/
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Nathan Wrigley
3 months ago
This Week in WordPress #366 This episode of TWiW covers the latest in WordPress, with a strong focus on AI advancements, new products, and features expected in WordPress 7. The discussion includes updates on community events, challenges with in-person meetups post-pan
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Baldur Bjarnason
3 months ago
this is fine
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116080909947754833
> So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, thereās over 2m of them and itās about 5% of all open source code this month. > I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.
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Kevin Beaumont (@
[email protected]
)
Today in InfoSec Job Security News: I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basic...
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116080909947754833
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Molly White
3 months ago
Their "more efficient" process than having writers write: ā¢Ā AI identifies possible stories ⢠Reporters do further reporting and produce notes ⢠Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks" ⢠Another person fact-checks/edits ⢠Reporter reviews
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Always fun and informative! We got killed at Wordly by
@michellefrechette.bsky.social
too. I think she got more points than all of us combined.
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3 months ago
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Long-awaited from
@stewartbrand.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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Michelle Frechette
4 months ago
We're looking for 15 women in tech from all over the world to interview live on International Women's Day in our livestream! Sign up on our site. Let me know if you have any questions.
www.underrepresentedintech.com/iwd26/
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International Womens Day 2026
https://www.underrepresentedintech.com/iwd26/
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"Shadow work" is a great concept, not just from Jung but also Ivan Illich, who used it to refer to a major source of Big Tech's Jungian shadow: requiring more and more free labour from the consumer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_...
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4 months ago
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Rebecca Williams
5 months ago
Subscribe to my new ~biweekly newsletter, Tech Shadow Work, where I will write about the unspoken "shadow" behind tech policy discourse:
rebeccawilliams.info/welcome-to-t...
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Welcome to Tech Shadow Work
Tech Shadow Work launches in 2026 as a biweekly newsletter. Each issue uses a recent moment in technology or tech policy to examine its shadow, asking what these decisions reveal about societal power ...
https://rebeccawilliams.info/welcome-to-tech-shadow-work/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
4 months ago
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
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And the latest edition of the Web Almanac is out again! Always a pleasure to help out with the highly
#WordPress
-focused CMS chapter.
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4 months ago
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
6 months ago
This is quite literally HER land. š¤¬
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Julia Evans
6 months ago
it's happening!!! from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if itās Friday anywhere, the saleās still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
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The problem with these definitions is they idealize the mythical single author and exclude paratexts or treat them all as metadata at best.
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7 months ago
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Open Channels FM Podcast Network
8 months ago
New in our Federated Flow series. Host
@pfefferle.org
chats with
@evanprodromou.threads.net.ap.brid.gy
openchannels.fm/how-decentra...
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How Decentralized Social Platforms Grew from Identica to Modern-Day Mastodon
Join Matthias Pfefferle and Evan Prodromou as they explore the evolution of decentralized social networks and the future of the Fediverse.
https://openchannels.fm/how-decentralized-social-platforms-grew-from-identica-to-modern-day-mastodon/
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Stefan Bohacek
7 months ago
Interesting. WordPress and Ghost now make up more than half of all fediverse servers. https://fedi.wrm.sr
#fediverse
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Dave Winer
8 months ago
Working on my slides for WordCamp Canada next week. I don't think I'll actually use the F-word in the slide. But I it makes me laugh when I see it. It's funny because it's true. ;-)
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Jeffrey B. Paul
7 months ago
WordCamp Canada 2025 conferenceĀ talk Leadership in open source isnāt just about code. At WordCamp Canada 2025, I shared how project and product managers can help lead WordPress releases through coordination, communication, and glue work that keeps contributors aligned and shipping on time. Hereāsā¦
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WordCamp Canada 2025 conferenceĀ talk
Leadership in open source isnāt just about code. At WordCamp Canada 2025, I shared how project and product managers can help lead WordPress releases through coordination, communication, and glue work that keeps contributors aligned and shipping on time. Hereās a look back at the talk, key lessons from the room, and why Ottawaās vibrant WordPress community made it one to remember, eh?
https://jeffpaul.com/b/94D?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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"Clouded Skies for Open Networks"
www.wrecka.ge/clouded-skie...
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Clouded Skies for Open Networks
Last week, I finished an essay about platform design affordances and content moderation expectations and community-level context collapse on Bluesky for Tech Policy Press and set it aside to cool befo...
https://www.wrecka.ge/clouded-skies-for-open-networks/
7 months ago
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This is the source of āthe wolfā
@scripting.com
7 months ago
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Back home in winterland hinterlands
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Itās a beautiful day for contributors at
#WordCampCanada
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7 months ago
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Ben Werdmuller
7 months ago
This is not a solicitation, but if someone had $2-5M to put into an organization to create and support open newsroom tools, there is an awful lot of good that could be done.
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On the Hill last night.
7 months ago
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Good morning
#WordCampCanada
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7 months ago
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Check this new Wapuu out ā
@joesimpsonjr.bsky.social
made it for
#WCEH
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7 months ago
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A balmy fall day in
#Ottawa
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#WordCampCanada
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7 months ago
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Ben Werdmuller
7 months ago
Last week I was delighted to give a keynote talk to open
#FediForum
, the conference about building the open social web. It's about the real threats we're facing, why open alternatives matter so much right now - and the questions we can ask ourselves to make our work really matter.
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Why the open social web matters now
The needs are real ā and you have so much power.
https://werd.io/why-the-open-social-web-matters-now/
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Reclaim Hosting
7 months ago
We are VERY excited to announce Dr Bonnie Stewart as the opening keynote for Reclaim Open 2025! Check out theĀ full scheduleĀ for Reclaim Open, learn more about our keynote speakers, presenters and bloggers.
reclaimopen.com/schedule/
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Manton Reece
8 months ago
Dave Winer
getting ready for his talk at WordCamp: "Twitter comes online, we try to work with it. Unless your ideas fit in 140 chars, donāt use links, or style, and you never make mistakes that need correction, it just doesnāt work. The ideal is to write in our blog space, and publish everywhere."
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This is my sense of how the world and its webs *should* work, written while reading Ćdouard Glissant's Archipelago Conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
#poeticsofrelation
#archipelagicthinking
8 months ago
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The Warburg Institute
10 months ago
Life in Progress: the coming of age memoir from Hans Ulrich Obrist The world-renowned curator reflects on how a near-death experience in his childhood catapulted him towards a life in art. 2 October 2025, 6 - 7:30pm | š Warburg Institute | Free Book:
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Life in Progress: the coming of age memoir from Hans Ulrich Obrist
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/life-in-progress-HUO-2025
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Ernie Smith
9 months ago
Now is a good time to invest in a Mastodon account and Bridgy Fed.
fed.brid.gy
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Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.
https://fed.brid.gy
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WP Accessibility Day
8 months ago
Community Spotlight:
@wordcampcanada.bsky.social
2025 is taking place from October 15-17 in Ottawa. Three days of learning, collaboration, and connection with the WordPress community ā including a focus on accessibility. More details:
canada.wordcamp.org/2025/
#WCEH
#WPAD2025
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WordCamp Canada 2025
Carleton University ⢠October 15-17, 2025
https://canada.wordcamp.org/2025/
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Wild! Pretty engrossing historical deep dive into the dangers of comix.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta has banned graphic books before. In the 1950s, 'salacious' comics were the target | CBC News
In 1954, the province established the Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications to investigate "crime comics" that supposedly inspired undesirable behaviour in kids.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-book-censorship-history-1.7571735
8 months ago
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WC'EH!
9 months ago
Get those tickets while they last, this train is moving!
#WCEH
#WordCampCanada
#WordPress
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zeldman
9 months ago
Federated Identity Management (FIM) lets you hop between apps and services using just one login, no password juggling required. Hereās how it works.
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What is Federated Identity Management and How Does it Work
Discover how federated identity management works, from authentication flows to implementation. Get practical steps for secure cross-domain access.
https://blog.gravatar.com/2025/07/11/federated-identity-management/
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Sarah Gooding
9 months ago
This should be interesting! š¤
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Andy Davies
10 months ago
Iām deeply suspicious of anything that tries to estimate how many kgs of carbon a website āemitsā There are so many factors and we donāt have strong data
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Everyone seems to agree that in an ideal WordPress world comments would be disabled by default. You can make comments better with webmentions and customizations to keep your feedback human, healthy,ā¦
https://wpyeg.org/2025/08/15/a-proper-comment-system/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
9 months ago
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