Aaron Parecki

resist the temptation to do critical thinking in response to people's ideas that they clearly didn't think about

Donut.js was a huge part of my life for four years, and I am really proud of it. I’m so grateful for everyone who made it so great and for the fun and perspective and donuts we brought to the community. We had 38 events, 125 talks, and donated $15K+ to local orgs. 🍩‿🍩

Hello friends! It’s been a while. It is with heavy, donut-laden hearts that we formally announce that Donut.js is winding down. Please see http://donutjs.club for a longer farewell note. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone for making Donut.js so wonderful. 🍩‿🍩

Because Other People’s Websites™ come and go.

https://indieweb.org/site-deaths

But my website/email/phone number stay the same after all these years.

Your website probably isn't a webapp, and almost definitely doesn't need half the complexity and gumpf you've shoehorned in because you read about a fancy company doing the same on Hacker News

In so far as I can tell, we’ve all come to the conclusion that the “inbox” isn’t working. Not for email, LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub notifications, Slack / Teams - all are just new metaphorical inboxes. I’m curious if any person (not product!) thinks they have this under control.

✿ home sweet homepage ✿, a comic about growing up online!

https://sailorhg.com/home_sweet_homepage/

tl;dr:

Win by doing these things with Gen X:

1) Say "Do it your way"
2) Use well-written emails
3) Say "I got it!"
4) Focus on the mission w/ them
5) Allow life balance
6) Bond as people
7) Be direct
8) Acknowledge they exist
9) Expect pessimism
10) Expect work-life separation

like the biggest problem is that mastodon is twitter but open source, so you have all of the same problems twitter has, but with the bonuses of everything being split across a billion unstable shards each with their own unique quirks/features/bugs

Modem sounds.

Forums, there's still some but I learned so much from random forums.

How novel and new and exciting it all felt. "OMG I'm talking to someone who lives in Brazil about Douglas Adams, this is so cool!"

It's amazing how much development, how many startups, and how much funding is going into rebuilding Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver as a web app. (Gutenberg included.)

One year ago I started an experiment. I moved my live YouTube shows to a whole new channel, on the theory that the live shows on the main channel, which get great views while live but then very poor views after (which is understandable), were hurting the main channel. 1/🧵

I know "Layered Semantic Markup" is like 2 decades out of date as the new hotness now, but IMO it's still the best way to build websites. Build something workable in plain old HTML with form posts and stuff. Add JS to improve functionality. Add CSS to make it stylish and pretty.

the days of usenet, irc, the web...even email (w PGP)...were amazing. centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet.

I realize I'm partially to blame, and regret it.

man what’s the point of “we’re putting ourselves on THE BLOCKCHAIN” as an april fools joke. it’s obviously a fucking joke the other 364 days of the year too

Today is Domain-Return-Day.

To prevent the global domain crisis and to alleviate the pressure on your wallet, today is the day to go through all the domain names you acquired over the years for projects you never started and never will.
Return these domains collecting dust.

Ah I can’t believe Facebook did something unethical

We are literally delaying a product launch because of it

Advice from my 8 year old: "Clock maths is not real maths"

I really think he's onto something

I’m between 3 and 4 now which means we’ll be close to success after a lil breakdown 😂 brb