Posts – This day’s portion
More or less developed 250-1500 word essays, mostly about the web and its politics. Some of it’s technical.| www.thisdaysportion.com
More or less developed 250-1500 word essays, mostly about the web and its politics. Some of it’s technical.| www.thisdaysportion.com
One of those this came to me in my half-sleep thoughts that I’m typing into a cheap, reconfigured laptop at 06:25. It’s a light-gray, cooler, summer morning. A photo of an Anduril ad at Westminster station came up on my fedi timeline yesterday, to which my response was something along the lines of “dystopia!” (It used a neo-grotesque typeface and a cut-off Union Jack – defence, right? – which put me in mind of Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy pill packets. There’s a business idea in fl...| This day’s portion – Posts
I’ve been looking at self-hosting (on managed servers rather than a Raspberry Pi beneath the stairs) an alternative to Feedbin. I always like the idea of self-hosting, and Feedbin costs $5 a month. It’s a great service, but $5 could get you two or three low-resource apps on Pika Pods, such as Miniflux, FreshRSS, Wallabag among other FOSS (free and open source software) options. There’s a real mix in terms of quality – finding a web-based RSS reader that can match Feedbin’s features ...| This day’s portion – Posts
Thom reviews Foto, a new Instagram alternative, noting you can’t add alt text to its images. Quite rightly, this makes it a non-starter, despite its no-ad, no-VC funding approach. This is frustrating as we want to support new, independent services that allow us to ditch the Instagrams of this world. Being the “unfortunately, this isn’t great” guy or the guy-who-doesn’t-need-alt-text-but-calls-you-out-for-it is no fun. While a few rough edges and a lack of comparable features in a ne...| This day’s portion – Posts
Blogging as we know it is a solitary process. What if we took a more collective approach?| www.thisdaysportion.com
