Ayo Ayco
I know being fully dependent on US-based infrastructure is a bad idea. This is why I have been looking into alternative ways of work
The fediverse and Non-profit code forges
Put your energy & resources into those if you care about digital sovereignty
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Social Web FOSDEM video is out: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5049-elk-a-nimble-client-for-mastodon/
Audio still not synced, but it might get fixed after a reencode pass thingy
(just squint your eyes for now, or if you get annoyed check again later)
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Have you noticed that sometimes the 2nd best thing is better (cost:value) than the generally accepted best thing?
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My son (he doesn’t want to be called my “kid”) has been writing stick-figure episodic graphic comics.
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Trying Death Stranding in Xbox
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What if sorcery spells from fantasy stories are just prompts to very advanced AI. You know what they say, any advanced technology will look like sorcery
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amazing what you can achieve if you don't care who gets the credit
awful how much unnecessary mess it makes if you make getting credits the whole point of your existence
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My biggest “want” in GitHub is (still) the capability to organize repositories that are parts of the same project, without the need to create a new organization or go for a monorepo.
SourceHut does this well. See for example repos for my personal site: https://sr.ht/~ayoayco/personal-site
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Visiting websites in this 'modern' time is a paradox: standard Web technologies are better but most commercial websites are pretty terrible—not only because misinformation abounds online, but also because of Big Tech's personal data farming that puts us all at a disadvantage.
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...aaaaand Cozy is back: https://cozy.pub
(it's my little opensource Pocket alternative)
#webdev #frontend #reading #pocket #opensource #alternative #foss #hobbyProjects
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Today I encountered a problem for which the solution is nowhere in docs or repo issues, but buried in a Discord thread :) glad I know where to look
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A huge portion of traffic online does not come from humans; bots routinely scan exposed indexes for various purposes
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I'm hesitating from writing a <time-ago> web component for https://ayco.io/threads ... I know the ideal situation is to not calculate the relative time on the server (for more accurate html info, faster response, simpler), and instead I should progressively enhance this on the browser -- I have to do this at some point
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setting up some perf monitoring & error tracking for the personal-site umbrella of projects 😄