Wow, 22 years on and nothing's changed. This was only 4 months into my blogging journey. Pre-social networks and "microblogging". Pre-smartphone.
Handmade Miniature Library. Hit all my buttons, already!
"while some sheet of paper is lucky to carry–let's say–a Constitution, some other end up in the paper bin and the sewer"
"Our streets are thoroughly political and we are so f*king tired of people dying because car companies and drivers get their way, every time."
best summary of the car/self-driving situation tucked into the last 5 paragraphs of this update post by @tmcw
I really enjoyed @jomc 's book talk with the Internet Archive yesterday. It's now up on their site: archive.org/details/wrong-way
A French developer can create a CMS, abandon it, and move on to a humble career in software, and a college student in Houston can fork that CMS, convince another software developer to help him continue the project, turn that into a rather profitable business, and become a wealthy and (until very recently) well-regarded internet person.
daniel.industries/2024/02/29/to-find-an-alternative-to-wordpress-just-go-back-to-the-beginning/
Just added an update to this post: "...the original cafelog.com site is still up, however few, if any, of the links on it work. There is also a historical (but not officially archived) b2 repo on Github. There is also an entire book about WordPress on Github; see 2-b2-cafelog.md. It would seem many of the links in the book are broken; one working link is to this 2011 talk by Michel Valdrighi at WordCamp Paris 2011, however the video is no longer accessible."
daniel.industries/2024/02/29/to-find-an-alternative-to-wordpress-just-go-back-to-the-beginning/
Hopefully the last update to this post, but the WordPress spam / TextDrive connection was too great to not add:
