Stuff I'm Reading

"Is an “AI” company offering to provide spoken versions of your pages for users? Is an overlay company promising to make your content more accessible by its overlay speaking it? Is some other vendor pitching you on some kind of thing that reads your web pages aloud to users? You don't need it."

On blogging and reading blogs as a response to the gamified algorithms of social media

"...many of my notes don't contain anything private. If they're useful to me, there is a good chance they might be useful to someone else too. "

"It’s cheap and easy to complain and say “[Thing] is bad”, but it’s also free to share what you think would be better."

"the pleasure I get from programming is mostly about learning the underlying truths about computation and applying what I’ve learned. Always improving the craft."

"I remember this feeling of the internet as being a place to escape TO."

I had no idea that there were trig functions in css. Now I know thanks to Alex!

New way to style headings is on theway and it looks really cool.

"Elementor had a good run. It solved a real problem when WordPress needed it. But the platform caught up. The page builder era is ending."

Blogging, RSS, and redefining how we think about being online

Lovely post about building our own sites

"How to win the war for the soul of the internet and build the web we want."

Nice post outlining a blogging workflow.

"the goal was simple: find a set of tools that were either open source, free, or affordable that also wouldn’t require compromising on quality, and allow for industry-standard output."