“Mario Fusco, a great software developer, once said: ‘The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don’t have to write makes you a great one.’ So maybe, for once, AI is on to something.”
Sitting outside on a rare sunny day at a lovely pub in Bray, refactoring Kitten* to pull out the settings page sections into their own pages (and use Kitten’s new Streaming HTML workflow**) and enjoying a yummy pint of Tundra IPA.
@aral So unfair! I used to be the same but my skin just got used to it somehow while I was living in southern Europe and Syria. Only the top half though - the rest of me looks like a milk bottle 😂
The Evergreen Web section in Kitten’s¹ settings now has its own page too (and uses Kitten’s new Streaming HTML² workflow).
If you have the previous version of your site up somewhere, you can use the 404-to-307 technique³ to forward missing pages to your old site so as not to break the Web.
Hey, I’m thinking of setting up a new song contest where you can vote as many times you want for the contestant of your choice (but only 20 votes per credit card, we don’t want it to appear like a money grab after all). I’m also thinking it should be a safe space for apartheid states committing genocide. Oh wait, sorry, Eurovision already exists.
@aral
Double apologies- this is from X and it will no doubt enrage you just as much as it enraged me - but have to share, in this context. A UK Labour organisation telling people to vote for Israel, 20 times.
If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that conflates people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.
Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.
And we can (and must) go beyond “static”. The Small Web vision is that people can have a dynamic site that can be (at least one of) their online identities. Protected by public-key encryption so that we can interact with each other privately (end-to-end encrypted) without Big Tech intermediaries and also be public as we please.
PS. It’s by no means perfect. But I thought, hey, screw it, why not? Meant I finally got to play with Bitwig Studio a bit. It’s just piano and vocals and some effects. Did three takes for the vocals (using shudder the Blue Yeti mic I use for streaming) and ended up layering them in places. But yeah, it’s rough and cut together in about an hour but it’s a start. Have been meaning to get back to recording stuff again. Maybe I’ll even treat myself to my beloved Beta 58 mic again at some point :)
Screenshot of post by verena elisabeth @verenalettmayer: @aral and i guess you think you are an anti-fascist. sorry,: excluding and bullying a person because of their affiliation to israel is not anti-fascist, but ... You know what. and for 1000 times: no governments participate in the #esc, but independent broadcasters (that's why russia was also suspended, because NOT independent).
@aral
she popped up in my mentions & insinuated that i'm antisemitic when i posted about falastinvision. really going hard for a genocidal apartheid state. odd.
@aral "You must understand that the contender that is representing Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 isn't representing Israel in any way, and it's antisemitic to suggest otherwise."
The pro-Israel people always sound like over the top gaslighting. And they wonder why they're losing the propaganda side of the war...
(When you enter Ireland a leprechaun greets all under 80s at the border and gives you a lucky charm with immunity to COVID so we only offer the booster to over 80s.)
If you want to understand how startups and venture capital work, go to 26:24 on the recording of my talk “Excuse Me, Your Unicorn Keeps Shitting In My Back Yard, Can He Please Not?” from 2016:
Lots to do yet but the new Kitten¹ settings section (that’s common to all Kitten apps / Small Web places) is coming along nicely. (With the general style/layout borrowed from Domain².)
(It’s currently a single page and I’m breaking it up into multiple ones because it’s time.)
Once I’m done with this I should really record a screencast of Kitten’s new backup and restore feature/data portability.