Maciej Cegłowski (idlewords.com)I love big websites packed with images. I love high-resolution video. I love sprawling Javascript experiments or well-designed web apps. This talk isn't about any of those. It's about mostly-text sites that, for unfathomable reasons, are growing bigger with every passing year.
I was pointed to this text version of this awesome talk at Web Directions in 2015 by Maciej Cegłowski and every paragraph is still spot on:
https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
I don’t care about bloat because it’s inefficient. I care about it because it makes the web inaccessible.
Maciej Cegłowski
That really hits a nerv.
Hat tip @data_shaman
James Muscat (muscatoxblog.blogspot.com)(Geek level: High - you have been warned!) I've been driving a Renault Zoe for over a year now. It's a great car, but the companion mobil...
That was fast. The new #RenaultZOE API explained in detail already:
https://muscatoxblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/delving-into-renaults-new-api.html
Chuckled at the API key paragraph xD
Ash Furrow (Ash Furrow)Running a Mastodon instance requires at least one thing: a server somewhere to run the code and store media uploads. Since media upload storage is a common burden for servers, many solutions exist for upload storage. Mastodon can optionally be configured to upload media somewhere else. I use an AWS S3 "bucket" for…
Mike Kuketz (Kuketz IT-Security Blog)Die Artikelserie »Messenger« wird insgesamt acht Messenger vorstellen und diese aus der Perspektive IT-Sicherheit und Datenschutz bewerten.
Aaron Parecki (aaronparecki.com)Over the last several months, I've been slowly putting the pieces in place to be able to build a solid indieweb reader. Today, I feel like I finally have enough in place to consider this functional enough that I am now using it every day! One of the major missing pieces of the IndieWeb ecosystem ha...
Tobias Diekershoff (blogs.fsfe.org)Vortrag über das Fediverse — Notizen eines Fellows
Blog post about Fediverse and Friendica talk with a nice protocol map:
https://blogs.fsfe.org/tobiasd/2019/08/23/salonabend-im-schatzchen-vortrag-uber-das-fediverse/
Hat tip @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk
Juvi Nerdine (juvis.space)Und dann ist es soweit: Du sitzt vor einer leeren Seite. 20190817_203421.jpg 20190817_203421.jpg Eine Menge Gedanken und Zweifel kommen auf, immerhin soll das Ding hier auch mal live gehen. Die Mutter aller Fragen: Wie interessant kann das, was ich zu sagen habe schon sein? Aber wir haben da auch no...
Huch, die @juvi hat ja ein neues Blog angefangen:
https://www.juvis.space/inner-zen-nerd/enter-a-post-title-als-wenn-das-so-einfach-wre/
Das ist irgendwie an mir vorbei gegangen =) *subbed
Jack Jamieson (jackjamieson.net)Below are slides and a rough transcript of a short talk I gave for the Civic Tech Toronto Hacknight on January 7, 2020. It was my first time to attend Civic Tech TO and I was impressed with the great projects they’re working on. If you’re in Toronto on a Tuesday night I can strongly recommend st...
Recreating the past with technology of the future. Works with 3D programs and Game Engines to create VR experiences of History and Art
So much awesome on this blog about artistic historical reconstructions:
Every once and while I see misconceptions on the various mobile on Linux distributions and projects out there, and I see the same incorrect facts over and over again. So I decided to write a bit to clarify the current state of mobile on Linux, and the differences between the various distributions and projects. Since I’m a postmarketOS developer, I might be a bit biased in some things although I’ll try to keep my opinions out of it.
