Though micro.blog hosted blogs typically are a lot cleaner, I still prefer to read the long posts in a reader view. However, I do not think it is ever enabled for any such blogs — very similar to medium posts. @manton

★ Liked A Vision of Paradise by Jeremy Martin

Amy Hoy writes so effortlessly about the web and websites as the internet around was changing. With one plaint to end with.

There are no more quirky homepages.

There are no more amateur research librarians.

It is good premis to explore, but wit such a shitty, linkbaity headline - “How blogs broke the internet”.

All thanks to a quirky bit of software produced to alleviate the pain of a tiny subset of a very small audience.

Blogs didn’t break the internet, it made the internet mainstream.

Not every user is a tinkerer — early natives of the web may have liked the web controlled that way. But most users have stories to tell. Blogs, might be quirky for some, gave them voice. And that’s no “tiny subset”.

I would have liked a Shortcut invite getting into the weekend — but then now that I haven’t got it, better. I already have too much of experimenting planned for this week.

I’ve finally decided to give blot.im a try. I like the simplicity of posting. Couple of surprises the moment I got in though — I think blot does not like title-less posts much. May need some additional work to get it working.

Anyway always wanted to try this out, heard so much.

Whenever I read a book instead of Twitter for half an hour, I’m like: “Oh yeah! Words can make you feel good sometimes!”

♺ Repost from Federico Viticci

You can run arbitrary JavaScript in Safari with Shortcuts and I’m going to lose my goddamn mind with this app

Absolutely, Siri shortcuts is a game-changer.

‪At times, Musk behaves very similar to the president of his country. Goes after everyone who is critical and follow all his supporters. ‬

‪For that matter, this behaviour from celebrities of repudiating and attacking criticism via followers on social media looks to be on rise.

I think I might give up and start using the official Twitter app. Don’t think at this point I can stop using Twitter - it is a valuable platform.

But I don’t like how they keep screwing up with their dev ecosystem. Sigh!

There are days when you figure out things are broken with your site and you just can’t find why. It’s one such day today and it’s on days like this that I wonder is it really worth the effort of hosting a static site. Man I want simplicity - or may be that time again I guess. 😤