Most software, framework, and programming debates online reduce to disputes over company or personal preferences — mindshare. Technical and architectural debates are rare — those fights are the most interesting because that’s the important part, at least imo.

I’ve noticed that ddos attacks are becoming commonplace on my domain hosting provider’s dns name servers (Porkbun).

Looks like they’ve migrated over to Cloudflare to remedy the situation, but the migration was wonky.

In the end, having full programmatic control over dns records, transfers, and zones is priceless. So… with a few glue records and zone files — my dns is now back under my control with bind.

There’s an old article from the developer of NetNewsWire (RSS reader) that questions the idea of the unread count. You can’t read all the unread — so why entertain a time consuming mythos around that number?

It applies everywhere — What narratives might people create around the programming language % numbers on GitHub? Do they waste time thinking/fretting about their mythos? Fun to think about.

Squint hard enough and it sure looks like a command line interface.

Follow a sufficiently diverse set of RSS feeds and you’ll eventually see filter bubbles in “real time”. Across countries, technology, corporate blogs, politics, news, food, entertainment, you name it — there’s selective information filtering. All of us are in our own distorted perception of reality.

I now think (lost a bet) that there’s a pathology that drives genres (tags) in content propagation. If you observe people “consuming” content then you’ll inevitably realize that there’s an overwhelming consensus for just more of the same, but not forever.

Diversity and homogeneity

Organizing content “strictly” into genres is a compromise. Auto–generating tags looks like a trap though. Is this even a muse?

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 :-)

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…

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.