March 2024

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Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works.

You know all those “share to Facebook” / “share to Twitter” links you see all over peoples’ websites? They’re all out of date. Social media has evolved over the last year, yet nobody has “share to” links for Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, etc. There have been a few attempts to create “share to Mastodon” buttons, but they haven’t taken the larger breadth of the new social media landscape into account. So I’ve built a prototype, which I’ve called ShareOpenly. At the bottom of every article on my site, you’ll see a “share to social media” button

A REPL for SvelteKit projects: quickly spin up a SvelteKit project and share it with the world.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Lots of database management tools include some kind of schema diagram view, either automatically generated or manually editable so you can get the layout just right. But it's usually part of a much bigger suite of tools, and sometimes I don't want to install a tool, I just want to get a basic overview quickly.

I woke up this morning, sleep deprived after my cat woke me up repeatedly last night and discovered I needed to write something about writing. Perhaps it's because I'm reading "Bird by bird" again by Anne Lamott. So here is another post about writing as a software engineer. I love writing, I love the feel of knowing there's a seed of a story or an idea inside. With some writing projects I know something is there worth telling, but I don't always know enough about it yet to be sure. Sometimes it requires upfront research and sometimes I think I know enough to start writing and see the idea emerge as I type. The piece advances, in fits and starts, as I go back and research gaps, and often discarding the whole thing and rewriting it again... until it has formed itself into something worth while. Then I send it to people for review and I get more ideas and insights making the piece better again.

Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets a team of moderators or curators collaboratively review reports, create labels, and inspect content on the atproto network. Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent moderation services.

Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

The answer depends on your age and situation, but in general, most people are worried about the wrong nutrient.

Privacy is a fundamental human right; without it, we're just open books in a world where everyone's watching. Let's take control back. Migrating open-source applications which do not collect, sell or log your data is a great first step.Awesome Privacy is a directory of alternative privacy-respecting software and services.

The internet seems ripe for change, and millions of people seem poised to connect in new ways, as they reconsider their relationship to technology.

Tinkering with my website and getting inspired at Indie Web Camp Brighton.

A brief, perhaps unoriginal, plea to have fun sharing and building on the web.

A few months ago, I gave a talk on CSS performance at performance.now in Amsterdam. The recording is available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWcexTnvIKI (You can also read the slides.) This is one of my favorite talks I've ever given. It was the product of months (honestly, years) of research, prompted by a couple questions: What is the…

I’ve created some low fidelity demos of :has() snippets that I’ve been using in real-world client projects.

Free and Open Source Photo Libraries

Dave Winer has been talking a bit about blogrolls lately: lists of blogs you like to read that typically sit on a sidebar or separate

Forget death and taxes. The only certainty on the web is change. Ste Grainer takes a brief look at the history of the web and how it has been constantly reinvented. Then he explores where we are now, and how we can shape the future of the web for the better.

Popular git config options

An easy way to do more things you love.