Interesting, I had never heard of T2 Pebble before now. I wonder if people truly want a Twitter clone, or if they just enjoyed Twitter because it was the most convenient way to interact with Internet People they liked. It will be interesting to see if Threads, Bluesky, or Pebble will ever be able to capture a similar userbase as Twitter did.

woah this is so cool! Would love to know how it works under the hood.

This is a super cool idea! Every time I try to make a new site theme I think what if I didn't and just used plain HTML. This event is a perfect fit for me.

Seeing that cohost is struggling financially is unfortunate. I hope they find a way forward to generate revenue, but they even acknowledge in this post that running social media at scale sustainably is very difficult, even for large platforms like Twitter and Reddit.

In general, it seems offering a service for free online then trying to monetize a small subset of the user base is a bad business model. It makes me wonder, what if they had just charged for access to begin with? It would have significantly fewer users, of course, but that would also reduced operating costs. It might be a hard sell these days but there was a time where it was normal for users to pay for the software they use, and maybe it's time to bring that back in some form.

That sounds like fun! It feels very empowering to be able to read and understand other's code. Don't stress too much about recursion and complex regex, they're excellent tools and certainly worth learning, but you can make plenty of clever and useful programs without them.

The part about the news stuck out to me

I stopped following the news, which doesn’t mean I ignore what’s happening in the world. A system based on creating anxiety, fake urgency and designed to keep people on their toes stays out of my life.

The news largely just states that the world is a messy place without any deeper thought as to why that is or how to improve it. Often, mainstream news publications are just messengers for corporate interests. For example, how many anti-WFH pieces have news outlets published recently? Of course, there is good, well researched journalism happening out there, it's just getting harder to find.

Wow, what an interesting article. This reminds me of the situation with content moderators on large social platforms, who are severely underpaid and forced to see some of the most horrendous images. A lot of tech innovation these days seems to be about how cheaply you can hide away crucial human work to make the product appear high tech to the end user.

This is awesome! I started missing them pretty quick :) One of the creators, Juila Evans, has an awesome blog here which I've learned a lot from

One feature I like that's come about recently is command palettes. It's kind of a mix of a command line and menu, where you can type vaguely what you're trying to do and it will find the command or menu option for you. I use it all the time in VS Code and Obsidian.

This is super cool! I want to try my hand at making a browser for it.

I can't help but think this will backfire. Reddit's core product is the communities that have collected there, communities that would not exist without all the moderators doing volunteer labor to make them worthwhile. Best case scenario, unnecessarily removing tools from moderators will make it more difficult to maintain their communities if they don't just leave and go somewhere else online. Either way, the quality of Reddit will be significantly worse.