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This is a mirror of my tweets in an attempt to follow the indieweb movement.

May 23, 2025

๐Ÿ“น Starred First Update From Dianna (Physics Girl) by Physics Girl

๐Ÿ“น Starred ๐ŸŒน Eternal roses โ€“ because who says flowers have to wilt? by Ruth Amos

๐Ÿ“น Starred Iโ€™m not sure who this is going to help. by Unnecessary Inventions

๐Ÿ“– Starred Familiar by War and Peas

๐Ÿ“น Starred Why Are We Fascinated With Retro Tech? by Janus Cycle

๐Ÿ“น Starred FydeOS - a De-Googled Version of ChromeOS! by Michael MJD

๐Ÿ“น Starred Sometimes you have to take a risk and see where its goes by Ruth Amos

๐Ÿ“น Starred What happened to Shawn? by Kids Invent Stuff

๐Ÿ“น Starred I Built Accurate DOOM SLAYER ARMOR by Emily The Engineer

๐Ÿ“น Starred Rating things I found in my workshop to tie up my hair by Ruth Amos

๐Ÿ“– Starred Dr. Doggy Style by War and Peas

๐Ÿ“น Starred I traveled 8,000 miles to come up with this idea by Simone Giertz

๐Ÿ“น Starred $1 Robot vs $200,000 Robot by the Hacksmith

๐Ÿ“น Starred this is a huge problem for cybersecurity… by Low Level Learning

March 29, 2025

Discord is where the open web goes to die. Why do so many tech projects insist on hiding knowledge inside a walled garden? Discord is private by design.

To illustrate my annoyance, I was searching the web for an ArkType question and found a partial discussion on what appears to be either:

  1. a Discord scraping content farm
  2. an attempt at providing a solution to the Discord problem

Either way, there is clearly knowledge lost to the web inside the ArkType Discord. I donโ€™t mean to pick on ArkType here, it just happens to be my most recent example.

Open source projects are not required to provide โ€œtech supportโ€. Most rely on their users helping one another, sharing knowledge to common problems. Surely itโ€™s best for the project to keep that discussion on the open web?

From Vibe-free SvelteKit for Fun and Profit โ€“ David Bushell โ€“ Web Dev (UK)

March 15, 2025

However, these 3rd party tracking scripts were on the prescription pages. The pages that list what medication I’m on.

Facebook and TikTok had been given access to read what medication I’m on by the development team responsible for the Pharmacy2U web site.

If that’s you, sorry-not-sorry, but shame on you.

Take a stand, draw a line, and stick to it. Businesses and capitalism will want to move that line, give it some wiggle room, but fuck that. You’re not a bad person, you’re just doing your job, but as a developer, like I said, you have super powers. Use them. Stop enabling this gross misuse of software.

So, thankfully, I’m protected, but that’s only because I’ve got the super powers too. Mum and Dad aren’t protected in the same way. I’m fairly sure my siblings aren’t either.

It’s a weird situation we’ve gotten ourselves in that we’re having to actively fight to have a safe web.

From Devs: draw your line

March 15, 2025

I was thinking about how to respond to the latest message, too personal to relay here, when a suggested reply, animated in glowing colours to let me know it was โ€œintelligentโ€ popped up: Hang in there!

My thought process was immediately broken as I contemplated what an absolutely obscene thing it would be to send in that moment.

From In the way

March 15, 2025

๐Ÿ“– Starred Abandon all keyboards by Robin Rendle

๐Ÿ“– Starred Crop Circles by War and Peas

๐Ÿ“– Starred Devs: draw your line by Remy Sharp

๐Ÿ“– Starred Decade of blogging by pawelgrzybek.com

๐Ÿ“– Starred Where do you belong, system researchers? by Xuanwo’s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred In the way by Rach Smith’s digital garden

๐Ÿ“– Starred 11 March 2025, 2:52pm by Rach Smith’s digital garden

๐Ÿ“– Starred New App: Googly Eyes by ๐Ÿฆ„ Sindre Sorhusโ€™ blog - Medium

๐Ÿ“น Starred We calculated pi with colliding blocks by standupmaths