keeping information unknown from some 3rd parties, contra Surveillance Capitalism and the Surveillance State (more)

GIMP Toolkit (more)

Aral Balkan: What is the Small Web? To understand what the Small Web is, let’s compare it to the Big Web. In other words, to the centralised Web we have today. The Big Web is the centralised web; it is a web in the sense of a spider’s web. The spiders that sit at its centre waiting to suck you dry are Big Tech people farmers like Facebook, Google, etc. (more)

I’m developing the Small Web at Small Technology Foundation. The tools I’m building are called Kitten and Domain. https://ar.al/ (more)

studied maths in Heidelberg and Glasgow; from 1981 to 2016 in the Computer Center of the University. Initially in network infrastructure. Since the early gopher days, I have drifted more and more towards content. https://x28newblog.wordpress.com aka x28

Jan Stepien: Branching Paths · Grazing the Web. The Web that we have right now is a curious evolution of the Web of the noughties (more)

The Kagi Small Web. As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative. (more)

writing as a group (more)

Personal Finance WebApp I've used for a long time. (more)

Dave Winer on building FeedHunter, which finds RSS feeds. We first look for feeds that are linked into the HTML source code. If we don't find a working feed there, we look in 27 common locations where feeds are often found... And btw, there's a new version of FeedLand that uses this package, so we do better at finding feeds.

2022 update: merged into My Digital Gardening Process (more)

Process of overlaying different pieces of unrelated music songs or webapps into a coherent mix (more)

Social Software for Audio/music listening (more)

I have 2 JavaScript widgets to inject TwinPages/SisterSites and VisibleBacklinks into my WikiFlux pages from my WikiGraph server. (more)

Suddenly I've noticed WikiGraph embeds not working on Firefox (android). Another stop on the WikiGraph JavaScript Widgets Vs Browser Security saga. (more)

TwinPages is delivered through a JavaScript widget, so once I add a site/space to my SisterSites db, it should be able to display TwinPages fine. (more)

Normally/historically (more)

classic Andy Grove book - Keith Bolte may have written chunks of it (more)

Greg Mankiw has an interesting Economic Stimulus proposal. Cut the Payroll Tax, let governors take that money for 2 years to close State/local budget gaps, compensate with scheduled Gas Tax. (more)

Richard Hofstadter: The Paranoid Style in American Politics. ...is a style of mind that is far from new and that is not necessarily right-wing. I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind. In using the expression “paranoid style” I am not speaking in a clinical sense, but borrowing a clinical term for other purposes (more)