{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Dan J", "icon": "https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2024/44/1485.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://feed.danj.ca/", "feed_url": "https://feed.danj.ca/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://danj.micro.blog/2026/05/05/the-experience-of-using-the.html", "content_html": "

The experience of using the world wide web in 2026, in a screenshot.

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BTW, awesome knock on effect of American tech companies carelessly abusing the web to power LLMs is yet another American tech company becoming the effective gatekeeper deciding who gets to look at a web page.

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Take me back to 2006.

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Every time my Mac tries to coerce me into upgrading to Tahoe, I get a little closer to selling it and buying a Linux laptop instead.

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Dead serious. Linux distros have gotten really good. Meanwhile, Apple insists on turning macOS into Windows as hard and fast as it can.

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Pour one out for the platform I used to love. 2007–2026. 😔

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Whatever happened to the man of tomorrow? and What do you get the man who has everything? seem like such similar questions, and yet. 🤔

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Someday I’ll automate stuff like this, but…

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Updated my Now page.

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And the quotes and subtitles that pop up in the header. I love my silly anachronistic website. 😌

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Books - Open Notes

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Co-signed. The web vanishes. Books endure.

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Slow-ow-ow-ly revamping my IndieWeb site. Not sure if it’s a web garden or what, but I think I want it to be more than a “blog” (a reverse-chronological list of posts). It’ll get there.

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On my todo list is hooking the site up properly to this…

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As I tumble down the do everything in plain text rabbit hole, I came back across todo.txt yesterday, and was reminded Gina Trapani1 created (co-created? popularized?) it. I looked her up, and came across her charming new blog. Added to the RSS reader! It’s also great inspiration for colour/design of my own ultra-minimal throwback website.

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  1. Is this the right way to link to a fediverse profile on Bluesky from here, or is there a better one? 🤔\n [return]
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Might be time to finally answer this question: how do I get micro posts back into my site, and how do I publish from my site to Micro.blog / the Fediverse?

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Just came across this, and learned Bill Atkinson was the creator of HyperCard. I’m glad he stayed at Apple to finish it, because you can trace a straight line from me playing with HyperCard at a computer summer camp to my 20-year career in software development. RIP, Mr. Atkinson. ❤️

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🎵Lana del Rey & The Weeknd are two of my favourite purveyors of melancholy melodrama. 🖤\nopen.spotify.com/track/1gZ…

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It’s that magical time of year: the leaves have fallen from the trees, you realize how many companies have your email address, you spend all day tapping Unsubscribe links. 😌🍂

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🎵 Hozier’s Work Song is both a sweet, slow love chant and also a terrifying premonition of undeath—it’s all there in the chorus. 🧟

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Hey, IndieWeb. It’s been a minute.

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As they say.

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When you pull out your phone like that, like a reflex

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What is it you’re hoping to see?

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Man, I never really got into Nick Cave, but I love The Red Hand Files.

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The trick to eating an ice cream cone is, you’ve gotta be a little undignified.

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I just heard the climax of Jurassic Park described as “Teus Rex Machina” and I’m so happy right now.

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Weird coincidences on the timeline. 👀🤔😁 @antonyjohnston@mastodon.social @cheribaker@writing.exchange

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When I play with blogging software, and find myself pondering taxonomies (tags and categories) real hard…

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I can’t help wondering if I’m misdirecting my energy to categorizing the work instead of making the work. 🧠

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Sometimes, when you’re walking home from a grocery run in the last of the daylight, you’ve just got to put on Lana del Rey’s Born To Die (The Paradise Edition) album and imagine your life is a grim, glamorous soap opera. 🖤🎶

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Hat tip to @patrickrhone and whomever else I saw mention Highlighted the other day — this is a very cool app for taking digital notes on physical books, it’s made an indie dev, and I can definitely see cool ways to fit this into my workflow.

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Thanks, fellow book nerds! ❤️🛠️🤓📚

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“Yeah, it’s efficient, but where are the unhinged Hunter S. Thompsons of the world?”

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is a good question for creators to keep in mind. 🔖💬

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By David Perell

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Bless this URL shortener. 😂❤️ spacekaren.sucks

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When I see posts about how folks have been blogging for 20 years, or have a decade’s worth of hard copy journals lined up on a shelf–

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One thing I always need to remind myself is, your life still counted even if you didn’t record it.

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That’s not to detract from others’ achievements, or the value they get from blogging or journaling. It’s to assuage my own guilt and envy that I haven’t produced such artifacts of my own existence.

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On the small scale, this is one reason I got rid of my Apple Watch: because I didn’t like the itchy feeling that even my exercise, the very steps I take, don’t “count”, aren’t real in some way, unless they’re recorded somewhere.

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That isn’t true. Recorded life is great… but it still happened to you, regardless.

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Another thing for which Micro.blog is giving me a renewed appreciation: my Keyboard Maestro shortcut for quickly turning a site’s title and URL into a Markdown link! ⌨️🤓

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