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cory

@cory@social.lol

Husband, dad, developer, music nerd.

Engineering, music, automation, general nerdery, #tattoos and rescue dogs.

I post about web development (typically front end, front of the front end, #Eleventy, #JavaScript and so forth), privacy and music (#DeathMetal, #BlackMetal, #Grindcore, #Emo, #Punk et al). I occasionally post about the #NBA (but only about the Lakers).

Pronouns: he/him/his

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Now: a personal assistant in your pocket.

Soon: a used car salesman in your pocket.

cory,
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@midknight pocket to pocket even

cory,
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@miclgael maybe it’s time to retreat to Nokia’s with swappable batteries

cory,
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@starbreaker give it some time

cory,
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@ry I see what you did there

cory,
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@ry hahaha 🫡

cory,
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@joesteel @ry that’s when tv was still good

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📝: Against the commercial internet https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/against-the-commercial-web/

cory,
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@wardgeene thank you! I love it and all of the branches of it so far — it and all the renewed interest in blogging has given me some real hope.

cory,
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@wardgeene that's fantastic to hear! I've blogged on and off for a while but this is the most consistently I've kept up with and enjoyed it.

Back to standards, RSS feeds and chronological feeds. 🤘🏻

cory,
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@jake4480 thanks dude! I really appreciate that! 🤘🏻

cory,
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@jake4480 🙌🏻 trying my best to keep harping on all the bullshit haha — it all feels like a sprint to make everything worse while they have folks held captive and it sucks.

cory,
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@jake4480 yeah, maybe I'm just shouting at clouds but man, the mainline platform on offer to most folks is garbage.

I hadn’t seen this before haha, but it is awesome!

cory,
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@jake4480 haha yeah — if you load up a phone with popular apps, no adblocker, all of that — the default experience is a hellscape. Everyone we get to not do that or run an adblocker or at least check out of some of it feels like a small win.

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@jake4480 haha yeah — and that's just website. Most apps are filled with trash too AND don't even show people the content in any sort of order that makes sense.

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This is pretty brutal https://how-i-experience-web-today.com

cory,
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@fabi oh interesting! Didn't think it was that aggressive, but perhaps that's not the worst thing. 😅

cory,
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@midknight I like to think of my address book as the most important social network. I love Mastodon, but I do my best to shoot off notes for birthdays and check in over chat (whichever one folks use — I wish that weren't all so unbearably fragmented).

You're right — IMHO — that that's the best and healthiest approach.

cory,
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@fabi yeah, I often find that sites that are that hostile or that poorly built are best closed and not revisited. If they're not interested in providing a decent experience they're not worth anyone's time.

cory,
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@csilverman @jake4480 @sarajw it's awful and I wonder how much of it is simply not knowing adblockers and such are an option. My parents have them installed and I've got nextDNS running on their home network but, to your point, it’ll have the greatest impact if and when it becomes a default.

cory,
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@nini oh certainly — the experience for the average user without one (or several) installed is horrific.

cory,
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@codefolio haha yeah, it used to be about getting to the first page and, in some ways it still is, but the results are pushed down by junk AI answers and the results are pretty worthless even when you get to them.

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anybody have thoughts on raindrop vs omnivore vs something else for bookmarks*?

currently i try to save links manually in obsidian, which means i often don't save links because of the energy it takes

(*bookmarks can also be temporary for the purpose of "read later", in the style of pocket)

cory,
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@superterrific @hi_mayank a positive mention from a16z feels like it should be radioactive at this stage 😕

cory,
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@hi_mayank @superterrific every time something I use announces an AI feature it makes me want to flee ASAP.

cory,
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@hi_mayank @superterrific if memory serves the dev behind Raindrop is/was based in Russia if that’s a concern 😕

cory,
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@hi_mayank @superterrific ah, right on! I wish Pocket was still a decent option, but Mozilla seems to be struggling to really steward it.

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