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🔗 There are no Original Ideas. But...
Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently.
And it’s that process that is the magic.That process, to me, feels like (how I imagine) making music. You get in a groove, riff with your teammates and you build something great. -
🔗 Sisyphus and the Impossible Dream
Casey at his best. -
🔗 Click Around, Find Out
Click around. Or tap around. Or do whatever you need to do in the browser of your choice. If we want the indie web to flourish, the very first thing people need to get used to is actually browsing the web again.
We call them web browsers for a reason. You're meant to browse.
My sense is that the recommendation engines for articles has the same flaw as music recommendation engines that gets people stuck in a loop. i.e. When given the option to pick between "everything" you mostly end up visiting the same 5 sites or listening to the same handful of albums because there's too much choice and we can't decide. They try to get you to explore a bit, the recommendation engines don't carry the authority or weight that a friend or blog you might follow, so you're back to the usual rotation in no time.
Want to browse more but not sure where to start? Visit to ooh.directory and start clicking. You're sure to find something of interest. -
🔗 2600's amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification
It turns out that Google and the other major mail providers don't like emails with the word "hacker" in them. The cartel that decides which email gets delivered, and which messages go to spam, or get blocked altogether, mass-blocked the HOPE 2024 announcement.
It's alarming how easily Google is managing to take control over email. It's the lifeblood of the internet. Just dropping all email from a list that you subscribe to, sent from a reputable domain, just because is completely unacceptable.
If you're using gmail, please stop. I switched to Fastmail years ago and recommend you do too. -
🔗 Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet
Online platforms allowed me to cultivate a freer version of myself. Then the digital world began to close off.
This tracks with my experience growing up online. AIM was good, but IRC was my gateway drug for the internet. Being able to interact with like-minded people my age across the world in real time was a real treat. Now it's the norm.
I find this move from the silos to smaller, distributed communities and platforms like Mastodon and the IndieWeb encouraging.