A Twitter Escape Hatch
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Bye-Bye, Fowl Place
After over a decade on the platform, the time has come to step away from Twitter, likely for good. What a shame.
Home invasion
Like many other folk, I've been dipping my toes back into the Fediverse and checking out Mastodon. It isn't my first rodeo in this particular ring, but somehow it does feel a little different this […]
Imperfectly indieweb
It feels like the broader web is currently rediscovering the impermanence of the siloed web (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, et al.). Ross's article does the best job of articulating how a lot […]
Trailing slashes on URLs
I saw Zach's poll on Twitter when they posted it, so I was intrigued to see what the results were. Most people agree with me, that URLs shouldn't have trailing slashes. It turns out that we're […]
Sexism, racism, toxic positivity, and TailwindCSS
Cher has written an excellent, concise, and extremely evenly-handed response to the current Tech Twitter™ nonsense. I wanted to save it (alongside Andy's) to refer to next time this happens […]
Frontend hype and dogmatism
Tech Twitter™ is bickering again and, as ever, Andy's take is the best take: use what works, understand that criticism is not an attack, and realise that what works for you may not work for […]
Syndicating content to Twitter from Eleventy
I feel like Max is about two years ahead of me on everything 😁 Here I am thinking about getting Twitter syndication working on Netlify, and he wrote a perfect tutorial back in 2019. Definitely […]
Bean Dad is Twitter's final form
I see Twitter as a sort of necessary evil: a mainstream communication channel that is universally accessible and therefore a generally positive concept on the micro level, that has been abused on the […]
Simpler Twitter threads
Cool (and free) service for quickly creating Twitter threads from a single writing panel. Definitely could be useful for […]
US election through the lens of Africa
A fascinating Twitter thread detailing the 2020 US elections in the style that Western journalists report on African political stories. Really interesting to see how much the language used changes […]
De-escalating social media
A quite frankly brilliant concept design for a "Mea Culpa feature" on Twitter. The idea: let users add a flag to their own tweets admitting […]
Tweet: prioritising exclusion
This work is hard, the constraints are real, and timelines are always tight. But a product team that “deprioritizes accessibility” is prioritizing […]
Open Graph tag generator
Useful website for generating meta tags, Open Graph tags, Twitter cards, and JSON-LD […]
Indieweb privacy challenges
The IndieWeb was designed to be a better option for privacy, users, content authorship, and the open web. I think it largely meets those goals, but Sebastian has put together some excellent points on […]
Making RSS more visible with slash feeds
A simple idea: collate all your feeds (RSS, ATOM, MF2, whatever) into one place. Marcus suggests a pattern of using the /feeds page (his is here). There have been some valid discussions on the […]
Super Tiny Icons
A collection of hyper-optimised SVG logos for social media, popular websites, and tech companies. Every logo, whether in PNG or SVG form, is less than 1kb in size and have a base scale of […]
The rise and demise of RSS
A fascinating dive into the history of RSS. From the initial duel-creation of RDFSS and Scripting News format, to the perceived pre-bubble-burst concept that syndication was the future, until the […]