Yesterday I blogged about how Google and others ruined email. They act as gatekeeper, hamstring smaller email providers, and make self-hosting practically impossible. Email is not the only slice of the internet Google want control over. They’re after the web too using their searc … | Continue reading
I listened to Mostly Technical episode 42 — great podcast btw — Aaron Francis talks about the struggles of sending an email newsletter. Google are quick to rate limit new domains to prevent spam. Spam sucks, but it concerns me just how much authority big players like Google and M … | Continue reading
It’s quite amazing just how dead Twitter is in my follows. It’s a real ghost town over there. Now I get more engagement from a few on Mastodon and nothing from thousands on Twitter. Twitter is dead. Like super dead. I joined Mastodon with uncertainty last April. It’s taken me a w … | Continue reading
I’m blogging this quick tip because the old technique is so ingrained I keep forgetting there is a new way. You ever used that no-js class? The one that gets replaced by js as early as possible? Maybe not, it seems like few do nowadays. Maybe it’s just assumed that JavaScript is … | Continue reading