it’s getting harder to engineer browser extensions well as web frontends become compiled artifacts that are ever further removed from their original source code
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- Jan 2023
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www.geoffreylitt.com www.geoffreylitt.com
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- Dec 2022
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www.sicpers.info www.sicpers.info
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Currently modes of software development, including free and open source software, are predicated on the division of society into three classes: “developers” who make software, “the business” who sponsor software making, and “users” who do whatever it is they do. An enabling free software movement would erase these distinctions, because it would give the ability (not merely the freedom) to study and change the software to anyone who wanted or needed it.
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pluralistic.net pluralistic.net
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Bellheads believed in "smart" networks. Netheads believed in what David Isenberg called "The Stupid Network," a "dumb pipe" whose only job was to let some people send signals to other people
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- Oct 2022
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vis.social vis.social
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This costs about $650 USD to operate
Crazy! This underscores how badly Mastodon—and ActivityPub, generally—need to be revved to enable network participation from low-cost (essentially free) static* sites.
* quasi-static, really—in the way that RSS-enabled blogs are generally considered static sites
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- Aug 2022
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brent-noorda.com brent-noorda.com
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Editorial: The real reason I wanted Cmm to succeed: to democratize programming. It wouldn’t belong in any business plan, and I seldom mentioned to anyone, but the real reason I wanted Cmm to succeed was not about making money (although paying the mortgage was always important). The real reason was because of the feeling I had when I programmed a computer to perform work for me
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