Meta Platform’s Metaverse (Internet ≈ Facebook in my country) might just succeed. Well… not because they deliver on the “metaverse” (whatever that means) but because it sets up a hardware distribution chain for software/browsers (the only thing that actually matters).

The problem of global discoverability (in this case mmorpgs) is partly technical and human. Habbo Hotel might just make a return :-)

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

Larnyx/Rhasspy is an excellent/fast offline text to speech program. There’s approximately 50 voice samples.

It would be trivial to turn this into an API that reads articles/posts, but it’s on Python so packaging it “directly” (there’s a docker container) is way harder than actually using it.

Apparently we were supposed to be entering the era of web4 right about now. “Intelligent personal agents” does sound like a nice marketing jingle. Also… I just learned that web5 is a thing?

Delta Chat is the premier waiting room to be in until the big boys end their chat app/protocol wars. What does it do? It turns your email into a full blown chat application. Yes… it’s an email messenger.

I was finally able to smoothly convert my last Signal contact. To persuade others, first prioritize email communication — ruthlessly. Then say: “Who in the world wants 10+ chat apps to talk to everyone?” If there’s agreement — you win ;-)

Supports: iOS macOS Windows Linux

HTML Sucks Completely (HSC) is a fitting name for what might be one of the first of many static site generators (SSG).

I’ve got so many feeds in my feed reader that selectively filtering terms is a necessity — it gets real meta huh? I know all I need to know about Next.js at this point, no more :-)

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 finally “get” why most social media web designs use a narrow 2/3 base column layout. There’s a lot of practicality involved. For example, it’s easier to control media delivery and responsiveness with narrower dimensions.

I’m not too fond of narrow holy grail layouts. If time allows, I’ll add options for swapping between a few “cool” base layouts.