just realized i've had the mollywhite.net domain for over 10 years(!!)
related sneak peek into an upcoming piece: i firmly believe that if you're going to spend money on one thing online it should be a domain, particularly as online identity gets more fragmented. as platforms come and go, you can always find me there.
Created this after reading conversation in comments below some tech article somewhere. Someone mentioned "surfing the #internet sewer" and I really liked that phrase.
Like Kitten itself, it’s a baby but will be evolving quickly as they approach API version 1 together.
Enjoy!
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PS. Of course it’s written in Kitten itself. It doesn’t do anything fancy but here’s the source code if you’re interested: https://codeberg.org/kitten/site
I'm trying to convince a company to use #PWA for their very simple app. The problem is that they want to see an example of a PWA that prompts an install.
I've found a ton of good PWAs (yummly, pinterest, uber) but they either prompt to install their app😱 or just sit there an make me pull down the menu to 'install app'.
Are there any examples that actually PROMPT the user to install? I realize this needs to be done gently. I'm just looking for any example to convince them.
> Be kind, be honest and engage on your own terms. Walk away from anything that doesn't serve you and don't be afraid to craft a browsing experience that best suits you. A healthier web is one that's slower, friendly and serves you. Eschew things that make demands of you, insist or impose upon your time and attention.
This article nicely sums up my suspicion about the state of 'Xwitter'…
"Twitter is now a siloed attention roulette machine just like TikTok. That was the plan when Elon took over and they succeeded. There's no going back."
"A billionaire got mad, bought your favourite social media site and ran it into the ground. A different billionaire got mad, bought the magazine site you liked to read on your lunchbreak and shut it down completely. "
There might be space for a few people from outside the university to attend so if you want to drop by, make some noise and I’ll have a chat with the university.
Thanking @mirela for organising this and looking forward to hopefully meeting some of you in the Netherlands soon.
By sunsetting Section 230, the US Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it
The proposal to Sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would eliminate the protections granted to internet platform providers from liability from users' actions
This legislation would deal a critical blow to the fundamentally American tradition of free speech and the internet as we know and love it
Quite a few years ago, one of us decided to check how many unique pages were in her browser history. To her surprise, she found that she was visiting a mere 10,000 pages a year. That is, even though the #Web as a whole may host billions of pages, her Web was extremely small. If you are an avid browser, your history may hold quite a few more documents, but the fact remains: individually, we only use a tiny proportion of the information on the Web.
Quick heads up: Kitten’s installer/downloads will be offline for a few minutes as I recreate kittens.small-web.org (the site that new Kittens are deployed to when they’re born) as it was originally on Ubuntu and sites deployed by Domain are now using AlmaLinux. Also, I am setting Kitten’s API version to 0 (it was initially set to 1) to signal that it is prerelease. When the version is back to 1 it will be because API version 1 is stable.
You can now create .page.md files and use front matter to specify a layout template as well as any other props you want to pass to your layout.
(I’m working on the Kitten web site with docs, etc., so I thought I’d bite the bullet and add this feature this morning to make my life easier. Should make it easier to make this sort of site with Kitten in the future for everyone.)
Heute ist wieder mal der Follower-Freitag und deswegen von mir nach längeren Zeit eine Liste von unterschiedlichen Fedivrse Accounts mit Geschichten und/oder Blogs, die ich entdeckte und gerne lese:
> Why didn't you make it easier for the non-technical to carve out their own spaces on the web rather than forcing them into the centralized digital fiefdom known as social media?
Est-ce que vous pouvez me dire si le lecteur audio s'affiche bien sur la page ci-après sur votre machine avec laquelle vous lisez ce message ? https://www.radiolarzac.org
Et repouetter ce message pour élargir le nombre de testeurs
A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies
"On Wednesday, Zhang opened her email to find a horrible shock: her bill for using Vercel, a web hosting company, would cost $96,280 for the last week."
OC Fun fact: Autoplaying animation on websites that you can't stop is disability discrimination in the US
It's time to know your rights!...