Archive for category: Web & infrastructure

LinkedIn competitor as cancellation insurance    (2023.08.26)

A Twitter replacement for the LinkedIn could “become the natural home of refusé(e)s, the blacklisted, the cancelled”

Twitter accessibility politburo rightfully shitcanned    (2023.08.26)

Nearly two decades into its existence, Twitter does not and did not need an accessibility “team,” which was shitcanned by Elon Musk basically before he sat down for coffee. And rightly so

Teaching foreign languages via YouTubé    (2019.05.13)

Dōgen and Ruben Adery are two distinctive but effective practitioners

Musclegays sure love their tempeh and broccoli    (2019.02.04)

Musclegays (as on Instagram) poison the well with their narcissism and just are not a joy to look at

“same pic of” (sic)    (2018.11.26)

These kids are brilliant, posting the same picture every single day

Old-timers    (2018.09.05)

Web “pioneers,” all of whom are now above age 45, have a duty to be nice to each other, and not Anil Dash–level snide

Microsoft fixes something you can’t even explain to Windoids in the first place    (2018.05.09)

You can’t even explain to a Windows user what a text file is, let alone what line endings are. 33 years later, Microsoft fixed Notepad to display line endings correctly

Internet of Shit et al.    (2018.05.07)

Internet of Shit has a Web site, but see also Screenshots of Despair, Glitchr, et al.

“Making Friends”    (2018.03.10)

Old posting from Happy Magic Fun Time that needs not to be lost to the mists