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I'm working with a few organisations with different meeting cultures at the moment, and I really enjoyed this post about levels of note taking #linkTuesday Which level do you use?

Law of physics: corporate entities are incapable of writing any text containing the phrase 'we are increasing the price'

I can finally say I've had a small piece of the web that's all mine for a **decade** as of today 🥳
It's a little indulgent, but I decided to mark the occasion by piecing together a rough timeline for my personal site. It ended up being quite the fun thread to pull on 😁
An Ad Hoc Decade: #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalSites

At the risk of stating the obvious, please do state the obvious! In two separate meetings this week it seemed like someone was arguing against a proposed change and in both cases, they were actually very supportive of the idea, and had already moved on to talk about what else could be done. Stop. Express your support (you can thank the suggester if you like!) so that it's clear, and THEN you can build on the original suggestion.
In both cases, we nearly ended up not doing the original thing!

And this, people, is why Europe ABSOLUTELY NEEDS RIGHT FREAKING NOW its own human-graded space access system.
I'll never understand why nobody at #ESA thought of developping further the ATV in order to be also used to send people up instead of just cargo.
I know, the problem was mostly in bringing people down, as the ATV was designed to burn up in the atmosphere. But still. Now we…

rickf (@rickf@indieweb.social)
Attached: 1 image Dragon is what the US uses to resupply the ISS, for those that don't know...

This comes down to the cyberlibertarian roots of most digital movements (thing Archive.org, EFF, EDRI etc.): To them "open" is a value in itself and any political values are read as "restrictions" or "regulation" or "lack of freedom".
https://indieweb.social/@jaredw…

I added a link collection page to my website that's also subscribe-able via #RSS.
I thought that's a nice way to preserve them for myself (instead of hunting in the Mastodon search via in:library), while also surfacing them for others.
Let's see if I can build a habit to keep adding to it!
#indieweb
https://tzovar.as/links/

If I ever create a microblogging platform, I'd call it "The Void".
Posts would be "shouts". Comments would be permanently disabled. Likes would just add an ever increasing number of eyes around the edge, staring at what you wrote from every angle 👀

Intellectually, I know that ChatGPT is mostly reflecting my own tone and attitude back at me, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying some of the quips I get!
(today: a code snippet and an invitation to return with questions or "mysterious filepath errors (we've all been there)" - yes little robot, we have!)

Users don't understand what LLMs can and can't do. We should probably do something about that.
https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-07-02-users-arent-comprehending-llms/

I've just set up (again, didn't seem to 'take' last time) POSSE (https://indieweb.org/POSSE - Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) for this Mastodon account to my 'stub' account on BlueSky - if I understand it correctly, it should syndicate my posts here (in 'my ow…

I also want to recognise the wonderful luck of having family members both able and willing to “bother” me like this. My SIL lost her mum years ago and I know I’m lucky!

I complain about how often I find my parents in my house unexpectedly (they live fairly close) but I just came downstairs to discover one of them had left home grown strawberries and sweet peas in my house. They are temporarily forgiven!

Build your own learning tools: a small thought about how programming computers lets you take matters into your own hands.
https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-04-27-build-your-own-learning-tools/

Your open source needs docs - and to get you through this experience I have written a guide to creating minimal open source project documentation in a single afternoon. https://lornajane.net/posts/2025/just-enough-docs
Assemble the basics, immediately benefit your project, and also create a space for future documentation contributions to land!

I hadn't planned on migrating several sites away from Netlify over the bank holiday weekend, but nevertheless, here we are. They didn't leave me much choice...
https://theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/buh-bye-netlify

This is not fair…that food would make anyone love the editor too 🤣😇🤪 https://indieweb.social/@xenodium/114671523638724577

There's something immensely satisfying about putting the washing machine on at exactly the right time.

The return of web rings.
https://serverless.industries/2025/05/27/webring.en.html

I've always written short blog posts but now I'm doing a whole lot of post updates (the many syntax highlight plugins over the years eventually caught up with me), it's even more striking that there's content in a format that you rarely see these days (although yes I do read Seth Godin). 208 words in this post, I should try to go back to writing like this even if "the algorithm" doesn't like it :)

Writing documentation for something, I have no idea why I'm surprised that I suddenly understand this thing so much better now! #opensource #docs

It's so easy to navigate cities now that most have simple contactless payments for public transport.
Meanwhile, Paris:

The demise of Pocket is what started this thought process, so BIG shout out to @… and their hosted service at wallabag.it - I bookmark more things than I read so I'm creating new chaos there, but the experience is very good across all my devices. Again, you could self-host if you prefer that.

For RSS (because I really like only getting content I chose - just like happens here on Mastodon), I use @…. It's open source and theoretically self-hostable but I'm really happy with their hosted service.

This is your regular reminder that open source, self-hosting tools are great AND you don't actually have to host them yourself most of the time! Plenty of great companies offer these tools as a paid-for service - exactly like the subscriptions you have on those other platforms, except more ethical.
I'll share my favourites in the thread - please add yours!

First has to be @… which I have had for years as a hosted service from @…
Pretty sure I'm not using more than about 5% of the features of this one but my use case as a dropbox replacement and occasional file upload/download thing is brilliantly well served across my weird platform selection (iOS/Android/Linux).

New level of enshittification unlocked.
Now I get spam in my Gmail account from @google.com addresses, advertising conferences for a product that I don't use.

In this post "Consent-Based Computing", I think Heidi Waterhouse is articulating some my own feelings, reflections and choices about the tools around us today and the tradeoffs I'm prepared to make. #linkTuesday

Shameful. I can't see how they can continue to be a party to the ECHR after this.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/14/hungary-poised-to-adopt-constitutional-amendment-to-ban-lgbtq-gatherings

Reminder that this time tomorrow (noon London time, Wednesday 21st May), it's the digital OpenUK meetup. Our topic is "digital sovereignty" which seems ... timely - and we have two great speakers. Open to everyone, hope you can make it!
Details and sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/306642326

I'm not sure it's legal to have such a well-reasoned discussion of AI and tech employment, but in case it is: #linkTuesday

🚧 Just rebuilt my personal site from scratch!
⚙️ Powered by #Hugo
🌐 Hosted on #CloudflarePages (for free!)
📁 Code on #GitHub
💬 Thanks to #ChatGPT for squashing syntax bugs 😅
Felt great to jump back into #HTML, #CSS, and #Markdown!
👉 #WebDev #IndieWeb #DevLife #BuiltWithHugo #SelfHo

This morning’s #QConLondon keynote is John O’Hara; he’s supposed to be talking about AMQP but he’s actually telling us why standards are vital to our industry and I think my heart might burst. So delighted to see this content on this stage (also a great speaker)

Very impressed with DJI service: 45 EUR total (incl. labour, postage) to repair a damaged gimbal. With sub-week turnaround.

I’m a recovering frequent flier, and today I’m at the airport to take my first travel-for-work flight in TWO YEARS … after 3 days in my new role. Travel is a craft and I feel like I’ve lost a lot of skills!

From engineer to manager, told from both sides - this thoughtful article is your #linkTuesday this week as I’m reflecting on my own professional next steps https://leaddev.com/career-development/from-engineer-manager-told-from-both-sides

“These are hard times for anyone who cares about culture” truths from @clesleycode at #QConLondon this morning

It’s new job time! Yesterday was my first day with https://www.tmforum.org/ where I’ll be helping publish Open API standards (described by OpenAPI, I know it’s confusing!) that can be adopted across industries.
First impressions: Enterprise software tools are a very different world!

Them: you should probably use the keyboard layout that matches the actual labels on your keyboard
Me: …