Seeing old news archives (in my country) spanning multiple decades is a crazed deja vu experience. It’s creepy — pretty much every event from a few years ago feels like it could have happened just yesterday.

Progressive enhancement is the philosophy of stratification and graceful technological degradation with progression. Extremes but without extreme failure…

imo, this matters more irl than online. The Internet/computer is a sort of post scarcity black hole experiment. You better have a way of converting your belongings back into its analog or you might lose them completely :-)

It’s kinda odd being able to remember what things were like before Docker appeared. Docker is the software developer’s take on creating a Linux distribution. It’s useful, but the indirection of containers and pinning can be deadly. Avoiding unnecessary indirection is advantageous.

Spring Point Ledge Light in South Portland, Maine (© Haizhan Zheng/Getty Images)

My isp deprecated its email services recently. I’ve heard that unfortunately many people learned the hard way what a spof really entails. My isp’s recommendation? Create a free gmail.com or mail.com account, but “free” is a nebulous term…

Salt flats in San Francisco Bay (© Jeffrey Lewis/Tandem Stills + Motion)

dmitriid: After years of neglect Apple updated their Books.app on MacOS.

Edinburgh city skyline at night, Scotland (© Suranga Weeratuna/Alamy)

It’s quiet now, but the “One Thing Well” blog is where I discovered most of the programs I use today. I got my first personal computer roughly about two years before that blog started.

Farmers collecting water lilies in the Satla marshland near Bagdha, Barisal, Bangladesh (© Mustasinur Rahman Alvi/Future Publishing via Getty Images)