Interactive embed (play with it) Kitten Kawaii is a Kitten port of React Kawaii by Miuki Miu (Elizabet Oliveira) that you can play with in the interactive embed above (also try it out in its own window/tab so you can see its responsiveness and URL-based state). I stumbled on Muiki Miu’s (Elizabet Oliveira’s) adorable React Kawaii web site and wanted to use one of the characters in my Kitten app.| Aral Balkan
Fedora has an ableism problem but woe to you if you point it out.| Aral Balkan
Domain is a free and open Small Web hosting platform.| Codeberg.org
Only large corporations/US Big Tech firms can get waiting periods and pre-existing conditions waived.| Aral Balkan
Going forward, I will no longer be checking Twitter or responding on it … I plan to concentrate as much of my time and energy as possible on building the Small Web.| Aral Balkan
Laura and I will be mentoring teams at the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Online Hackathon for the next three weeks.| Aral Balkan
A neat little method for adding some more safety to your JavaScript functions.| Aral Balkan
Wherein Apple approves our macOS app and rejects our iOS app for metadata… the same metadata as in the macOS app.| Aral Balkan
Say “hello” to Small Technology Foundation. Today, Laura and I want to introduce you to Small Technology Foundation, where we will be continuing the work we started at Ind.ie five years ago. In those five years, we’ve developed a strong understanding of the problem (surveillance capitalism) and we’ve been iterating on solutions to it. Our work led us to leave the UK, move to Sweden, and finally, last year, to settle in Ireland.| Aral Balkan
I just released a little tool called Lipstick on a Pig that helps keep the visual appearance of supported command-line applications in sync with the current light/dark mode setting (colour scheme) of your system in GNOME. But why is this tool even necessary to begin with? Let’s start at the beginning… Getting to GNOME you The GNOME display environment1, since version 42, implements support for light and dark appearance styles (aka colour schemes).| Aral Balkan