The Open Social Web is an ongoing debate about what open social networks should look like. New tools like Bounce change how we think about this space.
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The one where I try to add reason to riot
Large language models are big messy brushes, not scalpels.
I’m not rejecting large language models because they’re useless. They can absolutely be useful. I just don’t think the usefulness outweighs the ethical issues in how they’re trained.
Exactly. The tech may be cool and useful, but the businesses aren't
This week, Bluesky hid accounts in for users in Turkey after a government order. I take a closer look at government censorship and ATProto, how geographic moderation labelers work, and the impact on the future of decentralised social networks.
This question has been asked before and discussed before and I've always looked on from the sidelines, even though, as a conference organiser, I do in fact hav…
Politics belongs everywhere people are. Those who think politics should be kept out of communities are lucky enough to not be targeted by politics
It is not the job of browser makers to prop up business models, especially ones that don’t even work.
Now if only #Firefox would refocus on desktop PWAs
Boost of https://werd.io/2024/advertising-share-intents-with-microformats
A way to share with every website
This is a neat idea. It'd be cool to see it wrapped in a custom component so anyone can just drop it on their pages.
A place to read, to discuss, to share.
Dropdowns, menus, tooltips, comboboxes, toasts — the popover attribute will make building a large variety of UI components easier. The popover attribute can be used on any HTML element, so you have…