Folks that have been following along for a while will probably remember that over the last couple of years, I’ve been building up a music collection away from streaming services. You can see it over at https://music.andy-bell.co.uk. I’ve slowed down purchasing physical vinyl copies because I’ve got most of the ones I wanted — especially […]
I first joined Mastodon in 2018 (even though my old profile says 2016?), so I’d say I’ve seen a lot of its evolution. I’m on my second private instance now and would definitely consider myself invested in its success. Decentralised social media is so much more web than centralised social media networks ad networks like […]
I tell you what, with so-called “AI” getting better and better at slinging code, I’d certainly be concerned if I was all-in on UI frameworks, because you just know that design implementation is gonna be automated out because it’s “easy”. Same goes for easy-to-automate components built with React/Vue/Whatever. Yeh, it’s easy to bosh out a […]
After Coil decided to sunset, I got my “final balance” today: a whopping $0.01. I’m a bit disappointed that the interledger thing never really took off, but it never was gonna work because the payouts were so small. There wasn’t really an incentive for publishers to part ways with ads. I still get a mighty […]