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A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web

Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting.

Lapel pins have become immensely popular nowadays. Today, we’re going to back to the early days of its uses and see how custom lapel pins started and evolved.

The collapse of Twitter last year got me thinking about closed platforms and reducing the hold that privately-owned silos have over the Internet.

Can consumers at Costco really have their free sample and eat it too?

At Nozbe among all the apps we use to run our company, we also take advantage of Github’s implementation of Git - the version control system - because when many people work on code, things can quickly fall through the cracks if you’re not using a version control system.

We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.

No one's talking online anymore.

The Mac software ecosystem faces a plague. A plague of Everything Buckets. Indulge me. If you search for “productivity” or “organization” software for the Mac, you’ll find variations on a particular type of application. These applications claim to be “your outboard brain” or “your digital filing c

How to hack the iPhone Notes app to use Helvetica as the text font.

The most interesting product of Twitter’s popularity, to me, has been the explosion of Twitter API client software.

An acquisition gets weird.

The Fediverse, especially through Mastodon, has been acknowledged by the major players as a threat —to be eliminated.

I first went online in 1995, back when you paid by the hour for an extremely slow connection. At the time, my concept of the internet only went as far as what America Online would show me. Actual websites existed, of course, but between the slow speed and my unfamiliarity, I mostly stuck with chat rooms,span class="readmore"a href="https://dinosaurdracula.com/blog/old-internet-junk/"Read More/a/span

For some time I’ve been following an emerging subculture on Twitter. I have referred to it occasionally as “stoner Twitter poets”, but as it attains consciousness of itself as a p…

Today the book is already… an outdated mediation between two different filing systems. For everything that matters is to be found in the card box of the researcher who wrote it, and the scholar studying it assimilates it into his own card index. - Walter Benjamin

A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web

Calendars cover the entire spectrum of time. Past, present and future. They are the closest thing we have to a time machine. Calendars allow us to travel forward in time and see the future. More importantly, they allow us to change the future.

Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s. WordStar 4.0 As old as it seems, George R.R. Martin used it to write “A Song of Ice and Fire”. Why would someone use such an old piece of software to write over 5,000 pages? I love how he puts it: It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else.