A look at the design, content, and development decisions behind A Better Lou, a healthcare platform built to reduce complexity and improve clarity. Read more ›
Further thoughts on photography in latent space, now with agents! Read more ›
This week we have a lot of posts about technology — the kind of tech that analog people might be interested in like a university professor making students type papers on typewriters so they can’t use AI, a flip phone from Commodore (as in 64) and 40 rage-inducing problems in tech which made me laugh… Read more ›
i.webthings - an independent, noncommercial web initiative. Read more ›
Named slots are one of web components’ biggest . Imagine a Button component with an optional icon; in Web Components we don’t need a separate Button and IconButton, a single Button component with will do. Or a card component with a handful of predefined slots for image, title, description, price, metadata, etc. Not 100 different cards… one card. Slots are a wonderful way to declaratively compose UI, but one shadow styling challenge that has vexed my team over the years is h... Read more ›
It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #187 sponsored by the great folks at DebugBear. Read more ›
The WordPress community likes to say that WordPress powers a certain percentage of the web. This always bothered me, couldn’t figure out why, until just now. WordPress is part of the web, that’s the nature of the web. There should be no difference between how you connect via UI or API to writing on WordPress […] Read more ›
When I started building PenPage — a privacy-first note app that stores everything in IndexedDB — I made one assumption that cost me three weeks of debugging: "Google Drive sync will be the easy part." It wasn't. Here's what I learned building a sync engine entirely in the browser, with no backend server. ## The core idea: one file to rule them all Instead of syncing every note file individually, I built around a single sync.json that stores all metadata: ppage-app/ ├── sync.json ← the source ... Read more ›
Directory of useful sites that work reasonably well on Dillo with a focus on human crafted content. Typically with no JavaScript and modest use of CSS. No affiliation. Read more ›
It’s been a year since I retired — my was June 6, 2025 — and I like being able to say that I’ve spent the year adding nothing, not one penny, to shareholder value. 🌴 * * * My hope for retirement was to get a lot of work done on NetNewsWire. A year ago it was in sore need of modernization, tech debt pay-off, and bug fixes. People were asking for features, but the foundation needed a ton of work before I could get on to adding new rooms. Here are some highlights of what we’ve done with 2,188 co... Read more ›
Ubuntu 26.04’s GNOME 50 desktop will get attention, but its quiet Rust utility upgrades could matter more for long-term security. Read more ›
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Univention team have published a new version of the project's Debian-based Univention Corporate Server. The latest release updates handling of group mailboxes and makes it easier to identify objects in the management interface. "When analyzing configuration issues or end-user incidents, it is often necessary to access technical.... Read more ›
The European Commission has responded to the Stop Killing Games petition, saying that it is unable to "propose a legal obligation" to keep games playable after they are no longer available commercially. Read more ›
Convert PDF to Markdown online for free. Use local PDF to Markdown conversion for text PDFs or OCR for scans, then preview and download clean .md files. Read more ›
Several months ago I blogged that we wanted to have more integration with WordPress and Ghost in Micro.blog. I’ve now rolled out the first part of that, with an option to add a WordPress blog to Micro.blog’s web interface. New posts and edits sync back and forth between Micro.blog and WordPress. Read more ›
Hi, I'm Akshay Bhawar, a Full Stack Developer from Maharashtra, India. Recently, I decided to completely redesign my portfolio. Instead of going with a traditional, minimalist layout, I wanted something bold, immersive, and interactive—something that feels like a high-tech Sci-Fi Heads-Up Display (HUD). You can see the live result here: In this article, I'll explain how I used framer-motion and React to bring this cinematic experience to life, the challenges I faced, and the key tech stack be... Read more ›