Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al

The Small Web isn’t about going back to the days of GeoCities. It’s about going forward differently, using modern tech in a non-colonial manner.

It’s not about building clones of Twitter, YouTube, etc. There’s no way anyone can self-host a dozen different services. Instead, it’s about having a single-tenant place on the Web that you own and control without technical knowhow; a place you can add Twitter, YouTube, etc., *features* to.

https://small-tech.org/research-and-development/

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #SingleTenant

In case you needed any further evidence that the rental market in Ireland is ludicrous, the most popular real estate site/app is called Daft.

npm init es6

Never have to manually type "type"="module" into your package.json files again.

You’re welcome :)

https://github.com/small-tech/npm-init-es6

#npm #esm #js #nodejs

Something they don’t tell you when you’re writing a create-* script for npx/npm init: you can’t use ES Modules.

Well that was some good time wasted.

(And stay tuned for a Vite-free – hehe, see what I did there? Right, more coffee… – tool that I’ve just started working on that I’m tentatively calling NodeKit) ;)

If you’re looking into server-side rendering with Vite, check out the TLS (https) and Svelte examples I whipped up recently for vite-plugin-ssr:

https://vite-plugin-ssr.com/https
https://vite-plugin-ssr.com/svelte

“I wish I could say speaking out or up is easy, but it’s not, especially when you find yourself the only one having a particular experience or understanding of an experience. It can be exhausting and often isolating, even (…actually…especially) if people support your message from a distance but do little to nothing to work alongside you; if they want you to be the ‘first domino’ but refuse to ever fall themselves.”

— Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa

https://blog.usejournal.com/i-was-invited-to-give-a-ted-talk-then-asked-to-cut-black-lives-matter-from-it-c37b73633a9d

“I’m often painted as someone who speaks out ‘naturally’ and unapologetically.

But, unapologetic doesn’t mean unafraid or inherently brave.

Unapologetic doesn’t mean I don’t question myself constantly.

Unapologetic doesn’t erase my shyness and anxiety after I say or do something that unsettles me, then have to follow up with people afterward with no time to check in with myself.”

— Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

https://blog.usejournal.com/i-was-invited-to-give-a-ted-talk-then-asked-to-cut-black-lives-matter-from-it-c37b73633a9d

They should call the Delta variant the “capitalism working as designed” variant.

#VaccinePatents

Of course a Swift web framework is called “Perfect.” But of course it is…

*smh* :)

The web framework benchmark results list is a great resource not just to compare performance but to learn about frameworks you might not have heard of before (and fuck me, there are a lot!)

https://web-frameworks-benchmark.netlify.app/result

Just read a post asking Eugen to resign from developing Mastodon and I really have to ask: what are you folks smoking?

It’s his project. It’s open source. Fork it if you want to. But what kind of mind-blowing sense of entitlement drives you to think you can tell someone they should stop working on something they’ve built?

*smh*