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The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases • The Register
Google Chrome is about 40 million lines…Nobody can read the source code of Chrome. Not alone, not as a team.
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Currently reading: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann 📚
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Internet access is a human right. — Joan Westenberg
The concentration of access oversight in the hands of a few profit-driven entities poses grave threats to data privacy and consumer rights. Given these substantial risks, internet access demands robust government intervention, regulation, and direct public provision.
Agreed! I would like to see more community run ISP’s in the future!
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Happy 40th to the Macintosh!
If this is your sort of thing, check out the Mac 40th site put together by Jonathan Zufi of Iconic fame.
H/T 512 Pixels
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My first Mac was a white iBook G4, which I still have on a shelf in my home!
#MyFirstMac
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The top five RSS readers for keeping up with your news feeds - The Verge
I like that The Verge has been publishing more about the open Web and I hope it helps to spread awareness. Something I think about: what would it take to make RSS reading as ubiquitous and easy as podcast listening?
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ongoing by Tim Bray · Mourning Google
Let me quote myself from a little bit further into that piece, on the subject of Google: “I’m sure that tendrils of stupidity and evil are even now finding interstitial breeding grounds whence they will emerge to cause grief.” Well, yeah.
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Frost found in the back yard today.
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Hit a low of 13.3 today! 🥶 They promised me it wouldn’t be this cold in Atlanta!
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Where have all the websites gone?
So here’s the bad news— we are the ones who vanished, and I suspect what we really miss are the joys of discovery.
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Made Detroit style pizza last night and it turbed out great! Was not expecting this to be so good on the first shot at making it with a dough from scratch.
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Some important new ornaments just arrived and went up on the tree.
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Some interesting ideas for the web in here: The Cheap Web
cheap ≠ free cheap ≠ sleek cheap ≠ creep cheap ≠ deep cheap ≠ dark cheap = cheap
Also, first time I’ve come across the term solarpunk.
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I miss the internet.. A love letter to webmasters and… | by Joan Westenberg | Medium
I miss that internet too. When these feelings peaked earlier this year, I rewatched Halt and Catch Fire Season 4 which covers the dawn of the Web. This helped to restore some optimism. I think the web is slowly starting to go into a period of renewed interest and development.
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It's defaults time!
I’m jumping on the defaults bandwagon! Maybe as the last person?
🕸️ Website: Micro.blog and Squarespace 📨 Mail Client: Fastmail (app and web) 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail 📝 Notes: Obsidian, Apple Notes, Drafts (so many apps, but they have different use cases) ✅ To-Do: Todoist, Obsidian 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera.app 🟦 Photo Management: Apple Photos (rarely, Lightroom) 📆 Calendar: Google Calendar, Fastmail Calendar 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud, Google Drive 📖 RSS: Feedbin + ReadKit (I talk about this on my about page!) 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Gmail, Apple Contacts, Fastmail 🌐 Browser: Arc, Safari, Chrome (just at work) 💬 Chat: iMessage, Telegram, WhatsApp (rarely) 🔖 Bookmarks: I don’t really save bookmarks any more 📑 Read It Later: Omnivore, Matter (previously), Drafts (occasionally) 📜 Word Processing: Google Docs 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets 📊 Presentations: Google Slides 🛒 Shopping Lists: Apple Notes 🍴 Meal Planning: Mela (love this app!) 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: Google Sheets 📰 News: I tend to use RSS feeds/Mastodon, NYTimes app (occasionally), Apple News (occassionally) 🎵 Music: Apple Music, Spotify 🎤 Podcasts: Overcast 🔐 Password Management: 1Password 👨💻 Code Editor: IntelliJ (at work), VSCode (with VIM bindings!) 🐘 Mastodon: Ivory
