I posted about GoToSocial, but another Mastodon-alternative and Fediverse software, TakahΔ, seems to make fast progress and has some unique features like support for multiple domains or multiple identities per user. I havenβt tried running it yet, but it looks promising!
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This is a collection of links I stumbled across and found worth sharing. Also see the blogroll for links to blogs I regularly read.
How many things do I own?
Even though starting my job has put me in a situation where I can sometimes afford stuff just like that, and maybe buy the occasional thing without thinking much when I should have before, I still make sure to keep the number of things I own low.
βThe unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTMLβ
Terence Eden has written memorably why it is important to write simple HTML. Especially for pages that might be important to some people.
hckr news
Half a year ago I introduced an alternative site that provides RSS feeds for Hacker News. However, I banned this feed from my feed reader some time ago and another alternative feed shows me the top links of the previous day the following day. Sometimes, though, I check the site manually.
A decentralized social network based on WordPress
I got a webmention from Alexander Kirk, mentioning one of my recent posts.
βThe Complete List of Trumpβs Twitter Insults (2015-2021)β
The New York Times has published a (very) long list of Trumpβs Twitter insults. Iβm curious to see if the internet becomes a little less toxic in the future, but I have little hope.
Maddy Mail Server
Itβs already been a while, but I once (successfully) ran my own mail server for some time. I did this using the open source Mailcow project, which does all the configuration work for you and wraps everything nicely in Docker containers. There are also a few posts about it here on the blog.
Generics in Go
As someone who properly learned to program using Java and still works with Java almost every day, I am used to generics. Flexible parameters whose constraints do not yet have to be set during definition. The fact that there are no generics in Go took some getting used to.
Simple.css and classless CSS frameworks
Kev Quirk recently released his new project Simple.css, a CSS stylesheet that focuses on vanilla HTML without classes.
βStart a blogβ
James Van Dyne reminds to start a blog: