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I had it slighty worse: As a teenager I bought Holy Blood, Holy Grail on a whim (it were the 90s) in a bookstore because I was reading another Grail-focussed book series. HBHG is an utterly absurd book which could not even hoodwink a 14-yea
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May you live in interesting times. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti... )
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Back in 2000 there was a the Helma Object Publisher, a web application framework, written in Java, based on Netscape’s Rhino, afair, and enabling serverside Javascript including a form of ORM which mapped the db into JS objects. Antville, f
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A new, upmarket trend here in Europe is building carbonation, filtering, cooling and boiling water directly into the tap. Which is rather nice. https://watersystems.grohe.co.uk/en/ https://www.quooker.nl&#x2
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In the mid 2000s there was (and still is) CSS Naked Day, at 9. April, when you disable the CSS on your website to show of your semantic HTML markup: https://css-naked-day.github.io
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Yes. The trick is to find these channels early and then bear to unfollow them when they get to streamlined.
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There is a huge subculture of sailors on Youtube, which is part of my escapism entertainment. Of course Youtube’s algorithm being Youtube’s algorithm and capitalism being capitalism a large part of those sailing videos is bikini content. Bu
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Since 2015 I can’t remember Matthew Karnitschnig writing a neutral or even positive article on Germany. The sky is always immediately falling. Back then it was of course the refugee crisis and other assorted culture war nonsense, but now he
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Matthias Doepfner’s mails and chats including pressure to upsell the FDP in Springer’s papers leaked in April and were widely reported. That’s not a conspiracy theory. If it were, Doepfner could sue. He didn’t. https://www.zeit.d
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Back in the optimistic 2000s there was the idea of GRDDL – using XSLT stylesheets and XPath selectors for extracting stuff, e.g. microformats, HTML meta, FOAF, etc: https://www.w3.org/TR/grddl/
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Something Mastodon the software needs are theme-able templates, like Wordpress/CMS themes, I think. We see more and more specialised instances by institutions, but they all have the same default look. Themes could integrate theses inst
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In a way Lisp and S-Expressions would are tailor-made to define an abstract UI structure like JSX, SwiftUI and such, which then gets rendered into concrete UI widgets or a TUI. Something like defining a common editor layout this: (def-f
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You can delete the offending URLs from Safari’s history and they won’t show up in the suggestions anymore. I only found that out while experimenting after years of frustration. In a perfect world, of course, such features would have a small
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sh.reddit seems to be build ful on web components with lit, different than HTMX. Looking into the web inspector is certainly depressing if your tastes come from the era of “semantic” HTML and progressive enhancement. But well. The real sin
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That made me think about professions which enable one to be far from civilisation, but also alone as a singular person. Apollo Command Module Pilots are the obvious ones. But here on earth? Pilots, of course. But not on commercial aircraft,
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Counterpoint: There are far more XML parsers and other XML tooling than HTML(5) parsers in the world. There is a reason for that, namely the HTML5 parsing algorithm. I was always a fan of polyglot markup, a serialisation profile which is bo
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You may also be interested in the /now convention: https://sive.rs/now3 https://nownownow.com
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> How do you switch apps in full screen mode, you need to know trackpad gestures or keyboard shortcuts. The Dock also works, although you have to move the pointer downwars to show it. In a lot of ways Clicking on Icons is MacOS foundatio
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There was once the Salmon protocol for enabling replies and comments swimming upstream. Salmon was part of the OStatus protocol which evolved into ActivityPub today.
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ActivityPub has its deep origins in the feeds world. Originally people were extending feeds with the Atom ActivityStreams Extensions, in XML, for richer data structures which contain the social activities of persons. The protocol PubSubHubb
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There is an ActivityPub Plugin for Wordpress; I believe the author has recently been hired by Auttomatic. https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ The Indieweb Crew of course did this first. The principle POSSE
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For a feeling of the scene at the time, this blog post by the extremely mild mannered Tim Bray may be instructive: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/06/23/SamsPie
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> The craziest thing I see though is people importing the Atom namespace into RSS feeds to get some of the elements. Interestingly enough you can’t to do the reverse: because RSS never got a proper XML namespace, its elements can’t be em
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I have to assume with our recent years of advanced populism in politics, this wonderful book reads rather differently than in the 90s when I first read it. Still, it is one of those books, you’ll select almost as random as a teenager in you
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I can imagine that that is potentially a result of Apple’s dominant podcast directory. Podcasters submit their feeds to Apple’s Podcast Connect, which I think flags warnings and errors. Other forms of feed don’t have that big motivation to
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I was talking about the (X)HTML in that RSS feed and its well-formed-ness. In a perfect world people would construct their XML documents with an API which guarantees that the generated serialisation is a well-formed XML document. E.g. the A
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Prior art: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000574 http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss30 https://web.archive.org/web/20051025234617/http://www.syntax...
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If you want to expand even more, there are even more options: • RSS 1.0 – the RDF/XML serialisation. • JSON Feed • h-feed/hAtom – embedding the “feed“ as Microformats markup inside the HTML. • schema.org/Blog – embedding the
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I believe iTunes/Podcasts since its beginning also supported Atom podcasts until they deprecated it some years ago. But I believe they were some of the very few.
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> But I think it’s worth noting that a cultural tradition emerged that papered over the flawed spec. Back in 2013 a developer of a feed crawler wrote a selection of things people get wrong with their feeds. https://inessential

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