In this guest post, Alexander Plaum, Innovation Manager at Deutsche Welle (DW), writes about his team's exceptionally positive experience with microblogging in the Fediverse. He also explains why all public broadcasting professionals should try out Mastodon.

In this AMA post, Nigel asks me about the about the federated web and whether I think there's a future for it. It's an interesting question as I'm heavily involved in the federated web by running this blog, as well as Fosstodon and 500.Social.

Terry Gene Bollea, better known as “Hulk” Hogan, was by all acounts a racist pig, a supporter of Fascism, and an all around asshole. He was also one of my childhood heroes, and I’m far from alone in that. He’s dead now, and I guess it is time to think about what it means to find out your heroes are monsters.

Social media timelines are designed to be an endless stream of, well, mostly garbage these days. Platforms are doing their absolute best (worst?) to …

Sometimes I get asked by newcomers how one can become a developer like me - specifically, with a job and career like mine.

a small life log

I've been using the fantastic Minimal theme Obsidian for months but I only recently discovered that it supports checkbox icons.

I've had my own Blogroll for a while now, but I'm seeing them start to popup all over the small web, and it's glorious.

Hyper-web-pop Pesca Oídos por el mundo Estrés irónico Cocina Hidratante Cara o cruz Descubrimientos No es vegana Tocar césped Cyberpunk Hambre Retrojapo Muchas pistas Lo que está arriba es, simplemente, una colección de enlaces de sitios que merecen ser visitados. Solo porque me parecen bonitos, o divertidos, o curiosos. Si tenéis vacaciones en agosto, os…

This is the story of how Lady Gaga music influenced my morning espresso, resulting in joy, a bad coffee, reminiscence, and humble lessons learned.

Salir de Wordpress a una solución de web sencilla es fácil técnicamente, pero reubicar los metadatos y fotos no tanto...

As-Easy-As was a popular spreadsheet for DOS and Windows. Here's how it all started.

Travel is a between space: the thing on which you want to focus is the future, but there are logistics in the moment that one must consider. I enjoy this liminality and the surprise moments of peace between the bustle.

The more I look around the web the more I’m convinced we should all treasure our own tiny corners of the web. My site is precious. Precious for me. …

My wife and I recently discovered a bum gun in one of our bathrooms at home. It gave me quite the shock!

'Después de tomar la decisión de contratar Kagi, hago un repaso a las cosas que más me gustan del buscador.'

Mai chim fan. Toothpick in Thai. It was one of the first words I made sure to learn when I came to Thailand. Partly because I knew I would have use for it...

Long Live Webpages over the past couple of weeks, i've been pleasantly surprised at discourse popping up on my feeds, surrounding creating your own blog, mak...

Olvídese por un momento de las hamburguesas con pan de patata, salsas coreanas y nombres imposibles. Al otro lado de la frontera, en cualquier café de barra metálica y ma

How I extracted all the words used in over 300 blog posts to make a word cloud

Un manifiesto personal con algunos principios que defiendo y mi opinión sobre ser genuino, buscar la sostenibilidad y más.