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- If any of your communities use Slack, especially the “free” version, once in a while Slack seems to temporarily upgrade your “Slack team” to their “PRO” version (for 30 days). In the Slack mobile app, you may see a dismissible banner like: “PRO: Your team is on a free trial” This is your chance to g
- Today’s #WASSUP tip: Turn on DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in your Firefox Preferences. Advanced Settings. Custom: Always use secure DNS with control over your provider and fallback behavior. [x] Always warn me if secure DNS isn’t available. There are both security and privacy reasons to use DoH. Step-by-ste
- Happy #8bitday! And happy Progammer’s Day! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day) — one of the rare annual ordinal date observations, based on the day of the year, rather than day of a specific month of the year. Piano Day is another, celebrated on the 88th day of the year: * https://en.
- Today’s #WASSUP tip: a search shortcut for saving pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Yes this is a lot like yesterday’s tip, except for archiving a page, rather than looking it up. For example if you try looking up a page in the Internet Archive and it’s not there. Or if you find an “i
- Today’s #WASSUP tip: a search shortcut for looking up pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Ever click on a link for an article or photo and it’s not found (404), or redirects to a home page, or otherwise is not what you expect? The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archives webpages (th
- The #Blaugust 2026 blogging challenge had a nice set of awards this year based on reaching a certain number of posts published: * 1* — Newbie Blogger. *if it was your first time doing Blaugust * 5+ — Bronze * 15+ — Silver * 25+ — Gold * 31+ — Rainbow Diamond From https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2
- How to add MapQuest with a search shortcut to your Firefox: 1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item) 2. select "🔍 Search" from the left column 3. click the [ + Add search engine ] button 4. enter "MapQuest" into the Search engine name field (without quotes) 5. enter "https://
- If you find a wiki page seemingly from a MediaWiki, but without a "View History" link, here’s a tip for how to find it. Example: the old HTML Working Group (WG) wiki at W3C * https://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Main_Page Note the warning at the top: “This wiki has been archived and is now read-only.” As
- Welcome to September! Time for a new blogging challenge for the month. After some ideation, here’s my proposed September blogging challenge, on topics I find myself reading and posting about, with an emphasis on pragmatism: The Web And Standards September Useful Posts blogging challenge Or the #WASS
- There are many paths onto the #indieweb. Two of the most common: 1. an idea for a name and a website 2. a desire to create and express yourself, independently of social media If you start with (1), have an idea for a domain name, find one, and buy it, then you need a place to direct it to. The simpl
- What does it take to be on or be part of the #indieweb? As several have shared before me: * own your domain and publish some content on it That’s the foundation. If you have a personal website on a domain you own and control, you’re on the indieweb or part of the indieweb or however you would like t
- Due to recent reports about “AI”/LLM/“agent” tools and services, I have growing concerns that the #security properties of the open web are changing, or have already changed, in practice, to a degree that we haven’t seen in many years. This past week’s articles / reports on further investigations and
- The #indieweb is about making your own words translate to actions, especially actions like writing, editing, and publishing your words (or photos or other media) on your personal site. The IndieWeb community is a place to help and empower good faith folks to do so as well. People making what they ne
- TIL: “security by antiquity” from https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260821-why-older-tech-is-sometimes-safer-from-hackers Presumably a reference to (or a subset of) "security through obscurity". Best rationalization for old-tech-hoarding I have seen in a long time. Probably worth a longer cyberse
- Why are there two pentagons in the otherwise hex-tiled American continents displayed in TRON: Legacy’s Rectifier Globe computer graphics? I was watching the TRON: Legacy 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray remaster (only my second time watching the 4K remaster) in the background earlier today when I sensed somethin
- Lessons learned from the problem solving of “fixing” a recent “broken record”. In summary: 1. sometimes waiting can (partially) fix a problem or reduce its severity 2. applying reasoning and practical math & science (e.g. mechanics & acoustics) to diagnose and take actions can also repair something